Liverpool Acoustic is the only website of its kind in the UK. It was founded by Graham Holland in April 2008 as a central resource for the vibrant and exciting acoustic music scene in Liverpool and the Greater Merseyside area. The website publishes news from the local acoustic music scene, previews of upcoming events, and reviews of music releases and gigs. This content is available for free via email subscription. Liverpool Acoustic also hosts its own shows at venues including the Music Room and LEAF on Bold Street.
The fifth national Sea Shanty Festival returns to the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port over the Easter weekend (3-5 April 2015). A major sea shanty festival returns to the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port and is expecting to see over 3,000 visitors come along to three full days of maritimeContinue Reading
Liverpool Acoustic Afternoon returns for Threshold V this Saturday Threshold, Liverpool’s annual festival of music and arts, returns to the Baltic Triangle for the fifth time this weekend, and Liverpool Acoustic will once again be taking part. Liverpool Acoustic Afternoon @ Threshold takes place on Saturday 28th March 2015 at its regular venue The Baltic Social.AsContinue Reading
Academy award-winner to headline Liverpool Acoustic Festival 2015 Multi award-winner (Academy, Grammy, Tony, Olivier, LA Film Critics, Critics Choice awards) and star of Academy award-winning and critically acclaimed 2006 film Once, Marketa Irglova is set to headline and close this year’s Liverpool Acoustic Festival at Unity Theatre. Having co-starred with the award-winning GlenContinue Reading
March is here and it’s going to be quite a ride! Liverpool Acoustic will be hosting ten (yes, that’s right, TEN!) events this month – that’s five open mics at Sound Food and Drink, a Liverpool Acoustic eXtra on 13th at the View Two, a stage for the second year ofContinue Reading
Hailing from a small town in Alabama, Lionel Richie is now a household name across the world thanks to the consistently popular music he has made throughout his career which has spanned decades. You can now see him live in concert for an evening which promises to be extraordinary and memorable. With moreContinue Reading
UPDATE 2ND MARCH – THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT Following his sold-out gig in 2013, guitar virtuoso and Internet music sensation JON GOMM returns to Liverpool’s LEAF on Bold Street as part of his 2015 UK tour. The gig on Thursday 26th March is already set to be one of theContinue Reading
You don’t have to work for an event agency to know there’s a huge amount of talent out there on the local music scene. We’ve got superb singers, sensational songwriters, and marvellous musicians of all kinds. And guitarists. Merseyside is never short of guitarists! But how good a guitarist are you?Continue Reading
Merseyside has a brand new folk festival, and we’re rather excited about it! Love Folk Festival takes place over two days from Friday 13th to Saturday 14th February 2015 at The Atkinson, Southport. The aim of the festival is to celebrate new, upcoming and traditional folk and roots music. AlongsideContinue Reading
It may be a chilly start to February but there’s no need to hibernate with so many fantastic music events taking place. We try to fit as much as possible into our monthly newsletters and online diary but we’re not able to cover everything so we often tweet and retweet newsContinue Reading
There’s another course starting this month that goes hand in hand with the songwriting course we told you about last week (click here to read all about it). Gerry Murphy’s The Art and Craft of the Acoustic Guitar is a 10 week course that introduces students to the history and developmentContinue Reading
