The Bridgewater Hall What's On Guide - Spring 2022

The Bridgewater Hall

SPRING 2022

The Bridgewater Hall SPRING 2022 Welcome We are delighted to present our Spring 2022 What's On guide in it's more usual format, after what has been a long absence.

It has been gratifying to have so many of our patrons return to the Hall since we reopened in September.

As you browse through the following pages you will see that we are looking forward to a busy year – in fact we are planning on presenting over 300 performances on the main stage, including the return of our own International Concert Series, and many more events taking place in the foyer spaces. No doubt there will be further challenges as the world comes to grips with the Covid-19 pandemic, yet for our part we will continue to bring to the Greater Manchester community a diverse range of wonderful ensembles and artists who will be sure to delight and entertain – exactly what we all need in these times!

As I mentioned in our August newsletter our team has been busy readying the venue for the return of our audiences with special emphasis on keeping everyone safe, in line with government directives. It’s particularly important that prior to attending the Hall you visit the ‘Your Visit’ page of our website for the most recent updates regarding the required protocols for the mitigation of Covid-19 and how we are working to keep you, and our artists and colleagues, safe.

From all of us at The Bridgewater Hall we wish you safety and health for the coming year. Welcome back to The Bridgewater Hall – we’ve missed you!

Dining & Drinking Charles Hallé Restaurant The Charles Hallé Restaurant is open for evening shows and some afternoon shows, offering seasonal menus that change regularly. Booking is essential and can be done through the Box Office on 0161 907 9000.

A-List | The Corporate Members' Bar

You can now enhance your concert experience by upgrading to A-List at The Corporate Members' Bar. For just £10 per person, concert ticket holders can enjoy access to The Corporate Members' Bar on Choir Circle Level including one complimentary drink.

Available for most concerts – book online with your tickets or contact the Box Office on 0161 907 9000.

Andrew Bolt Chief Executive Officer The Bridgewater Hall Booking Fees Please note all prices featured in this brochure include a booking fee of either £2.50 or £3.50.

Box Office: 0161 907 9000 www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Cover Artists From the top: Kodo; Isata Kanneh-Mason; Anton and Erin

The Hallé - Symphonie Fantastique

Maxime Pascal conductor | Alena Baeva violin Thursday 3 February 7.30pm

Fisherman's Friends Unlocked & Unleashed

Friday 4 February Doors 7.00pm

Beethoven Violin Concerto Berlioz Symphonie fantastique The French conductor Maxime Pascal greatly impressed when he made his Hallé debut conducting Berlioz at the 2019 Proms. He now makes his first appearance in Manchester, as does the young Russian violinist Alena Baeva, whose playing has been described by The Strad as ‘heroic and full of personality’. She plays Beethoven’s noble and spacious Violin Concerto. Appropriately, Pascal conducts more Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, conceived in the wake of his ardent love for the actress Harriet Smithson. Each movement portrays his strange opium-induced dreams such as the famous ‘March to the Scaffold’. 192 years since its premiere, the sheer originality of this great masterwork never fails to astonish.

Sponsored by Towergate Thursday Series sponsored by Siemens Tuning Up 6.30pm: Maxime Pascal and Alena Baeva in conversation with Hallé Chief Executive, David Butcher.

Tickets from £14.50 OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Students – Stalls £5.50 | Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices | Claimants/Students – 10% discount Our Pass free ticket offer – www.ourpass.co.uk

Britain’s oldest boy band emerged from lockdown and hit the road, The Fisherman’s Friends – combined age 401 – return to The Bridgewater Hall with their Unlocked & Unleashed tour. Thanks to the small film with a big heart that shares their name, the story of the original Cornish ‘buoy band’ is known around the world – bound by shared experience, for 40 years they have met on the Platt on the harbour in their native Port Isaac to sing the songs of the sea.

Tickets £28.50 to £37 Book Tickets

Alena Baeva

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BBC Philharmonic

The Musical Box The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Anja Bihlmaier conductor Leonard Elschenbroich cello Saturday 5 February 7.30pm

Monday 7 February Doors 7.00pm (Rescheduled from 16 February 2021)

Ustvolskaya Suite Shostakovich No.9 in E flat major Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor Antonin Dvořák’s only Cello Concerto is an intensely personal work, inspired in part by the fading health of his first love – and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, will bring his trademark flair to this towering tour de force. Also tonight, conductor Anja Bihlmaier takes us to Russia: first with a witty set of sports-inspired miniatures by Galina Ustvolskaya, a pupil of Shostakovich when the Second World War began; and then with Shostakovich’s own brilliantly irreverent Ninth Symphony, written in 1945 but far from a victory march.

Tickets £12.50 to £26.50 Disabled patrons – 50% discount Seniors & Claimants – 20% discount Under 26s & Students – Stalls £5.50

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The greatest rock opera ever created, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, the final collaborative effort between the legendary Peter Gabriel and Genesis, is to be revived one last time. The Musical Box, the only group in the world granted a licence from Peter Gabriel and Genesis, will recreate in its entirety, the original 1975 performance in painstaking details right down to the original slide show.

One final chance to witness this unique live experience.

Tickets £33.50 to £53.50

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Transatlantic Sessions

Paul Brady, Dirk Powell, Sarah Jarosz, Leyla McCalla, Siobhan Miller, Aly Bain & Jerry Douglas Tuesday 8 February 7.30pm

Jimmy Carr Terribly Funny

Sunday 6 February 8.00pm

The back-porch session to beat all others hits the road stage once again in February 2022, reaching hands across the water between Scotland, Ireland and the USA with the customary lavish all-star cast of singers, songwriters and instrumentalists.

Jimmy’s brand new show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things. Terrible things that might have affected you or people you know and love. But they’re just jokes – they are not the terrible things. Having political correctness at a comedy show is like having health and safety at a rodeo.

Now you’ve been warned, buy a ticket.

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Tickets £29 to £33.50

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The Hallé Mahler’s Titan

BBC Philharmonic

Omer Meir Wellber conductor Eliso Virsaladze piano Saturday 12 February 7.30pm

Carlo Rizzi conductor Heejae Kim piano Gareth Small trumpet Wednesday 9 February 2.15pm Thursday 10 February 7.30pm Sunday 13 February 4.00pm Stravinsky Funeral Song Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 Mahler Symphony No.1, ‘Titan’ Concerts directed by Carlo Rizzi, Conductor Laureate of Welsh National Opera, are keenly anticipated by Hallé audiences. His programme begins with a piece new to the Hallé – Stravinsky’s tribute to his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov, which after its premiere was lost for over a century. Heejae Kim, winner of the Terence Judd–Hallé Award at the 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition, makes a welcome return playing Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, in which she’s joined by the Hallé’s Principal Trumpet, Gareth Small.

Replete with sardonic wit and quotes including Beethoven, Haydn and Shostakovich himself, it’s capped with an uproarious finale. The concert concludes with Mahler’s bold calling card for his symphonic ambitions. Also known by its epithet, ‘Titan’, its music reflects his view that a symphony must embrace the world.

Tickets from £14.50 OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Students – Stalls £5.50 Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices Claimants/Students – 10% discount Our Pass free ticket offer – www.ourpass.co.uk

Hindemith Kammermusik No.1 Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Aziza Sadikova Marionnettes Tippett The Midsummer Marriage – Ritual Dances The BBC celebrates its centenary in 2022, and the BBC Philharmonic is coming to the party with this Saturday-night special – part of a weekend-long, UK-wide showcase of the BBC’s orchestras and choirs. Hindemith’s dizzily thrilling Kammermusik No.1 dates from 1922, the year the BBC was founded. By contrast, the UK premiere of Marionettes

by Uzbek composer Aziza Sadikova, a work that looks back to the baroque and forward to the future, stands as testament to the BBC’s continued commitment to new music. Eliso Virsaladze takes centre stage for the joyful romanticism of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, before Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber transports us to mythical climes with Tippett’s sparkling Ritual Dances.

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Kodo One Earth Tour - Tsuzumi 2022

Tickets £12.50 to £26.50 Disabled patrons – 50% discount Seniors & Claimants – 20% discount Under 26s & Students – Stalls £5.50

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Friday 11 February 7.30pm

Now celebrating their 40th anniversary, Kodo return to The Bridgewater Hall with their spectacular Taiko drumming performance. A breathtaking, highly choreographed and dynamic exploration of the limitless possibilities of the traditional Japanese drum.

Tickets £31.50 - £37.50

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The Hallé & Hallé Youth Orchestra Side By Side Showcase Delyana Lazarova conductor Sunday 13 February 7.30pm

Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Delyana Lazarova, winner of the inaugural Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition and Hallé Youth Orchestra Music Director, takes to the podium to introduce and direct the combined forces of the Hallé and Hallé Youth Orchestra in an all-Russian programme that combines youth and experience.

The Hallé is very grateful to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Oglesby Charitable Trust, The Radcliffe Trust, The Zochonis Charitable Trust, the Kirby Laing Foundation, 29 May 1961 Charity and many individual benefactors for their continued support of the Hallé Youth Orchestra.

Yann Tiersen

Tuesday 15 February Doors 7.00pm Yann Tiersen performs at The Bridgewater Hall in support of his latest album Kerber, released in 2021. This exploration of the micro and the macro has permeated through much of Tiersen’s career, as an artist capable of vast expansiveness as often as he is intricate detail. This multifaceted approach can be heard in the stirring piano minimalism of 2016’s EUSA, to the full band intensity of albums such as Infinity and Skyline – not to mention earlier albums such as Le Phare, filled with idiosyncratic compositions and a variety of textures.

Tickets £28.50 to £38.50

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Sasha Velour Smoke & Mirrors

Wednesday 16 February 8.00pm (Rescheduled from 26 January 2021)

The Hallé Youth Orchestra is supported by PZ Cussons and the Siemens-Hallé International Conductors Competition.

Tickets £12.50 Concessions £10 | Students and under 5s £5.50 (inc fees) Our Pass free ticket offer – www.ourpass.co.uk Book Tickets

Burn The Floor with Kevin Clifton Monday 14 February 7.30pm (Rescheduled from 5 May 2020) Kevin Clifton and the sensational worldwide Ballroom dance company Burn the Floor return with a bang in 2022!

This fiery, energetic and revolutionary Ballroom production will, once again, set stages alight and show audiences why it is still the world’s leading Ballroom show after more than two decades. A mix of eclectic live music, jaw-dropping choreography and ground-breaking moves, this show has an abundance of infectious, rebellious energy and passion.

Feel the intensity of the passionate Tango, be swept away by the romance of the Waltz and be captivated by the sensual, alluring Rhumba.

Tickets £29 to £47.50 | VIP Package £96.50 Book Tickets 4

Smoke & Mirrors Sasha Velour’s first one-queen theatre tour, is an effortless blend of drag, visual art, and magic.

Velour introduces audiences to a whole new side of her artistry, through 13 dazzling and genre-busting lip-synch performances, all directed and choreographed by the queen herself. Featuring the music of Annie Lennox, Whitney Houston, Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland, Celine Dion, Sia, Nina Simone, Le Tigre and more.

Tickets £36 to £43.50 | VIP £78.50 Book Tickets

Miloš Karadaglic’ Homage to Segovia

Thursday 17 February 7.00pm Miloš is a contemporary music superstar. BBC Music Magazine has included him in their list of the world’s greatest classical guitarists and he continually tops the charts with his best selling recordings.

He makes his Bridgewater Hall debut in support of his latest album The Moon & The Forest.

Tickets £33.50 to £38.50 Book Tickets

Toy Story In Concert

Friday 18 February 7.30pm Toy Story In Concert will feature a screening of the ground-breaking complete film with Oscar and Grammy-winning composer Randy Newman’s musical score performed live to the film by the Novello Orchestra, conducted by David Mahoney. The Toy Story films are beloved worldwide for their compelling characters, extraordinary storytelling, stunning visuals and the music of Randy Newman. The composer and songwriter is behind signature songs including You’ve Got a Friend in Me and Strange Things.

Tickets £39 to £69

The Hallé The Lark Ascending

Ben Palmer conductor Kristine Balanas violin Saturday 19 February 7.30pm Beethoven Symphony No.6, Awakening of happy feelings upon arrival in the countryside Lili Boulanger orch. Ben Palmer D’un matin de printemps Beethoven Symphony No.6, Scene by the brook Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending; The Wasps: Overture Vivaldi The Four Seasons: Spring Beethoven Symphony No.6, Peasants’ merry-making; Thunderstorm; Shepherds’ song, happiness and thanksgiving after the storm

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The natural world has inspired many composers, from Beethoven to Vivaldi, and this concert offers a collection of much-loved pastoralthemed masterpieces. Ben Palmer will lead the performance of all five movements from Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, interspersed with Lili Boulanger’s charming D’un matin de printemps and works that showcase the talent of the awardwinning Latvian violinst Kristine Balanas: Spring from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Vaughan Williams’ enduringly popular The Lark Ascending.

Miloš Karadaglic’

Tuning Up 6.30pm: Conductor Ben Palmer and tonight’s soloist, Kristine Balanas in conversation.

Tickets from £16.50 OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices Claimants/Students – 10% discount Our Pass free ticket offer Book Tickets 5

Anton & Erin Showtime

Sunday 20 February 3.00pm (Rescheduled from 21 February 2021) Join the nation’s favourite ballroom couple on their brand new tour for 2022. Showtime is a glittering celebration that pays tribute to some of the world’s greatest icons of entertainment as Anton & Erin present world class dance inspired by an array of classic performers including Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Liza Minnelli, Elton John and many more. With stunning costumes, fabulous live vocals and a highenergy West End dance ensemble.

Tickets £20.50 to £50.50 Book Tickets

Van der Graaf Generator

Tuesday 22 February 8.00pm (Rescheduled from Monday 4 May 2020) Van der Graaf Generator are Peter Hammill (voice, guitar, keyboard), Hugh Banton (organ, bass) and Guy Evans (drums, percussion), the three surviving members of the original group formed in 1968.

Tickets £36 to £41 Book Tickets

The Hallé – Isata Kanneh-Mason Performs Clara Schumann Tianyi Lu conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason piano Thursday 24 February 7.30pm

Friday 25 February 8.00pm (Rescheduled from 22 November 2020)

Anna Clyne This Midnight Hour Clara Schumann Piano Concerto Brahms arr. Schoenberg Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor Anna Clyne has established a reputation as ‘a composer of uncommon gifts’ (New York Times).

In This Midnight Hour, she responds to poems by Jiménez and Baudelaire in music combining high-octane energy and waltzing tenderness.

Since last with the Hallé, Tianyi Lu has won First Prize in the Sir George Solti International Conductors’ Competition, whilst Isata KannehMason made her Hallé debut last season. A passionate advocate of Clara Schumann’s music, she’ll be giving the Hallé’s first performance of her virtuosic concerto. Schoenberg’s admiration for Brahms is evident throughout his orchestral take on the latter’s G minor Piano Quartet.

In the barn-storming finale, with its typically Brahmsian gypsy fireworks, Schoenberg gives the percussionists a field day.

Thursday Series is sponsored by Siemens Tuning Up 6.30pm: Tianyi Lu & Isata Kanneh-Mason discuss works by female composers, past and present.

Tickets from £14.50 OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Students – Stalls £5.50 | Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices Claimants/Students – 10% discount Our Pass free ticket offer Book Tickets

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An Evening with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein In Conversation

In the mid 70s the band Blondie emerged onto the New York music scene and quickly became era defining and internationally iconic.

Now, frontwoman Debbie Harry and the band’s co-founder, guitarist and songwriter, Chris Stein will be in conversation with multidisciplinary artist and director (and long time Blondie collaborator) Rob Roth, discussing five decades of Blondie, their lives as artists and creative partners. Centred around Chris and Debbie’s recent, acclaimed books, the conversation ranges over their career including the ground-breaking music, adventures in 1970s New York, work and play with artists from The Ramones to H.R. Giger, David Cronenberg, plus touring, acting, photography and beyond.

Tickets £28.50 to £58.50 Book Tickets

BBC Philharmonic

Mark Wigglesworth conductor Alessandro Fisher tenor Saturday 26 February 7.30pm Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No.3) Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 in D major The BBC Philharmonic and the Hallé are teaming up to celebrate 150 years since the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams – and tonight’s concert, the first in the series, looks at the composer through the prism of war. The poignant Pastoral Symphony reflects on the French fields where Vaughan Williams served in the Great War; while the 1943 Proms premiere of the glowing Fifth gave comfort at the height of the Second World War. Continuing the theme of innocence lost, Alessandro Fisher is our companion for a song cycle of poems from AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.

Adam Ant Antics Tour

Sunday 27 February 7.30pm Pop icon Adam Ant returns to the Hall with his brand new tour Antics, with a set list that promises to get everyone on their feet. Performing his classic chart-topping singles and personal favourites, Adam Ant’s Antics audiences will be thrilled with the return of live music…

Tickets £41 to £46 Book Tickets

Tickets £12.50 to £26.50 Disabled patrons – 50% discount Seniors & Claimants – 20% discount Under 26s & Students – Stalls £5.50

Adam Ant

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The Hallé Broadway… And All That Jazz Roderick Dunk conductor Emma Kershaw & Katie Birtill vocalists Thursday 3 March 7.30pm

Dick & Angel Dare To Do It! So Much More To Say Tour 2022 Friday 4 March 7.30pm

Including: Chicago All That Jazz; Funny Girl Don’t Rain on My Parade; Cabaret Cabaret and Maybe This Time Company Being Alive; A Little Night Music Send in the Clowns; Into the Woods The Children Will Listen; Sweeney Todd The Ballad of Sweeney Todd; West Side Story A Boy Like That/I Have a Love; Annie Get Your Gun Anything You Can Do Adding a fresh, jazzy twist to much-loved greats, the Hallé, Roderick Dunk and two of Britain’s most versatile vocalists lead this uplifting celebration of everyone’s favourite West End and Broadway songs and shows.

Sponsored by Siemens Tuning Up 6.30pm: Pre-concert performance from RNCM students.

Tickets from £16.50 OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices Claimants/Students – 10% discount Our Pass free ticket offer – www.ourpass.co.uk

Dick & Angel Strawbridge, the stars of Channel 4 hit ‘Escape to the Chateau’ are on the road again on their ‘Dare To Do It!’ Tour with so much more to say. During this highly entertaining evening, the duo explains who they are, where they have come from, how they met and why they dared to do it!

Tickets £33 Book Tickets

Stephen Hough

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March

BBC Philharmonic

Texas SOLD OUT

Omer Meir Wellber conductor Stephen Hough piano Eli Danker narrator Saturday 5 March 7.30pm

Tuesday 8 March Doors 7.00pm (Rescheduled from 26 October 2020)

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor Milch-Sheriff The Eternal Stranger (UK premiere, BBC co-commission) Beethoven Symphony No.3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica’ – Funeral march; Overture ‘Leonore’ No.3 Stephen Hough’s recorded Beethoven cycle received universal acclaim on its 2020 release – and we’re thrilled to welcome back the pianist, composer, author and BBC Philharmonic Artist in Residence to perform the stormiest of his five Piano Concertos. The work opens a Beethoventhemed concert that continues with a new BBC cocommission by Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff, the UK premiere of a monodrama inspired by a mysterious dream of migration that Beethoven experienced on the train to Vienna, and also takes in the brooding funeral march from the ‘Eroica’ symphony and the darkness-into-light journey of the third overture Beethoven wrote for his only opera.

Tickets £12.50 to £26.50 Disabled patrons – 50% discount | Seniors & Claimants – 20% discount | Under 26s & Students – Stalls £5.50 Book Tickets

International Concert Series

Stephen Hough piano Sunday 6 March 4.00pm

Rawsthorne Bagatelles Schumann Kreisleriana, Op.16 Stephen Hough Partita Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A-flat. Op.47; Nocturne in F-sharp Major, Op.15, No.2; Nocturne in E-flat, Op.9, No.2; Scherzo No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.31 One of the most distinctive artists of his generation, Stephen Hough combines a distinguished career as a pianist with those of composer and writer. Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Hough was the first classical performer to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (2001) and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year’s Honours 2014.

Tickets £21.50 to £39.50

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Texas return to The Bridgewater Hall celebrating the 30th anniversary of seminal album Southside, by performing it live in its entirety.

Tickets £32 to £53 To be added to Waiting List please email supervisors@bridgewater-hall.co.uk Ultimate VIP Experience £138.50 | VIP Package £88.50

The Hallé Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

Tabita Berglund conductor | Jakob Koranyi cello Thursday 10 March 7.30pm Dvořák Cello Concerto Mette Henriette This Too (UK premiere) Bartók Concerto for Orchestra After her last visit to the Hallé, The Guardian commented that Tabita Berglund left her ‘appreciative Manchester audience invigorated’. She’s joined by the young Swedish cellist Jakob Koranyi, described by The Strad as ‘a force to be reckoned with’, who makes his Hallé debut in Dvořák’s concerto. Although mainly written during his US stay, the work reflects his homesickness for Bohemia, as well as being a heart-felt memorial to his beloved sister-in-law.

After it, Berglund introduces a haunting miniature, This Too, by her Norwegian compatriot Mette Henriette, whose multi-talents as a composer, saxophone and jazz improviser have established her formidable reputation.

Also while in the States, in exile from war-torn Hungary, Bartók wrote a final masterpiece, his virtuosic showpiece Concerto for Orchestra where the sections of the orchestra share the limelight.

Sponsored by CMS Tuning Up at 6.30pm: An exploration of the use of folk music in classical music and the crossover between the two.

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Firedance Karen Hauer & Gorka Marquez Friday 11 March 7.30pm

(Rescheduled from 20 March 2021) Hot pulsing beats, seductive choreography and passion that will take your breath away. With live Latin musicians and a dynamic dance ensemble, get ready for a captivating dance experience you strictly won’t want to miss. Featuring iconic songs including – In the Air Tonight, Sway, Bad Romance, Sweet Dreams, Relight My Fire, Bamboleo and many more, Firedance is back and it’s the hottest ticket in town.

Tickets £20.50 to £49

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The Hallé – Cityscapes

Rodolfo Barráez conductor | Ning Feng violin Sunday 13 March 4.00pm Wednesday 16 March 2.15pm Thursday 17 March 7.30pm Gershwin An American in Paris Korngold Violin Concerto Jennifer Higdon City Scape: river sings a song to trees Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story A programme of music with America at its core, conducted

by Rodolfo Barráez, who makes his first visit to the Hallé since excelling in the inaugural Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition. Gershwin’s portrait of an American enjoying the sights and sounds of Paris, complete with car horns, is followed by the Violin Concerto of Austrian émigré Korngold incorporating melodies from his lush scores for Hollywood movies. It’s played by Ning Feng, International Tutor at the RNCM and winner of the 2006 Paganini Competition. Jennifer Higdon’s City Scape is her evocation of Atlanta: here, in the slow movement, its creeks and parks.

Bernstein’s dynamic symphonic dances were expanded from his music-theatre classic in which Shakespeare’s ‘star-crossed lovers’ are relocated to New York.

Concert sponsored by CMS Tickets from £14.50 Book Tickets Students/Claimants – 10% discount OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Students – Stalls £5.50 Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices Our Pass free ticket offer – www.ourpass.co.uk 10

Status Quo Out Out Quoing

Monday 14 March Doors 7.00pm Status Quo is a band known for their live performances across their incredible 50 year career, it’s time to get back to doing what they do best. After such an unwanted layoff, the band is more ready than ever, making the ‘Out Out Quoing’ tour unmissable. Expect all the hits and some serious live energy!

Tickets £41 to £52

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Go West

With special guests Cutting Crew Friday 18 March 8.00pm (Rescheduled from 8 May 2021) Award-winning 80s Pop icons Go West are celebrating their 35th anniversary with a special run of UK shows throughout May 2021, together with a full live orchestra featuring all their greatest hits plus very special guests Cutting Crew.

Tickets £35.50 to £45.50 | VIP Meet & Greet £118.50 Book Tickets

BBC Philharmonic

Sir Andrew Davis conductor Hallé Choir Saturday 19 March 7.30pm Vaughan Williams Toward the Unknown Region; Symphony No. 4 in F minor; Job: A Masque for Dancing ‘The greatest symphony since Beethoven,’ reckoned William Walton of Vaughan Williams’ Fourth – fierce, earthy and compelling music, brought to vivid life tonight

by Sir Andrew Davis as we continue our joint celebration with the Hallé of 150 years since the composer’s birth. A soaring setting of Walt Whitman’s journey into the eternal beyond presents a very different side to Vaughan Williams – as does the dramatic yet balletic sweep of Job: A Masque for Dancing, a masterful interpretation of the battle between God and Satan as viewed through the prism of the servant who never quite lost his faith.

Book Tickets Tickets £12.50 to £26.50 Disabled patrons – 50% discount | Seniors & Claimants – 20% discount | Under 26s & Students – Stalls £5.50

James Martin

Sunday 20 March 7.30pm Celebrity chef James Martin is hitting the road with a brand-new tour for 2022! Join us for an evening of live demonstrations, cooking tasks, conversation and some very special guests.

Tickets £33 to £48.50 Book Tickets

James Morrison

Monday 21 March Doors 7.00pm After four years away from the limelight, James Morrison returns to The Bridgewater Hall in support of his new album You’re Stronger Than You Know. The album is a modern British take on a classic soul and Motown, echoing influences such as Van Morrison, Otis Redding, The Band and Dusty Springfield. The power, tenderness and finesse of his vocal can only come from a man who has experienced everything that he’s singing about.

Tickets £26 to £43 VIP package £78.50 Book Tickets

Sophie Ellis-Bextor Kitchen Disco Tour 2021 SOLD OUT

Friday 25 March 7.30pm As we emerge back into the world again after lockdown, Sophie Ellis-Bextor takes to the road with the Kitchen Disco Tour 2021; bringing together all of the camp and frivolity of her original show Instagram Live shows to stages across the country.

Tickets £34 to £54

Firedance Karen Hauer & Gorka Marquez

(Rescheduled from 18 May 2021)

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The Hallé The Best Of Bond

Stephen Bell conductor Alison Jiear & Matthew Ford vocalists Saturday 26 March 7.30pm Includes the themes and music from No Time to Die; Dr. No; You Only Live Twice; Goldeneye; Live and Let Die; From Russia with Love; Quantum of Solace; The World is not Enough; Goldfinger; View to a Kill; Die Another Day; Thunderball; Skyfall; For Your Eyes Only; The Spy Who Loved Me; Moonraker; The Living Daylights; Diamonds are Forever; Spectre and Licence to Kill.

Smooth as a vodka martini, elegant as a tuxedo and cool as a cucumber, Stephen Bell celebrates the ultimate British hero – James Bond. Immerse yourself in the spine-tingling sounds that give musical voice to the films, in punchy title sequences and haunting songs.

Sponsored by Brother Tuning Up at 6.30pm: Pre-concert performance by RNCM students Tickets from £16.50 OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices Claimants/Students – 10% discount Our Pass free ticket offer – www. ourpass.co.uk Book Tickets

10cc The Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour Monday 28 March 7.30pm

10cc return to The Bridgewater Hall in 2022, where they will celebrate the hits which have seen them recognised as one of the most inventive and influential bands in popular music. Led by co-founder Graham Gouldman, 10cc are heralded in equal measure for their ability to craft ingenious songs that also resonated commercially. The icons of art-rock achieved eleven Top 10 hits, and over 15 million albums sold in the UK alone, with three No.1 singles – Rubber Bullets, Dreadlock Holiday and the ubiquitous I’m Not In Love.

Tickets £37.50 to £42.50 Book Tickets

Foy Vance Signs of Life Tour

Support: Gareth Dunlop, and The Late Heavy Tuesday 29 March Doors 7.00pm Foy Vance comes to the Bridgewater Hall in support of latest studio album Signs Of Life. Signs Of Life is the sound of a beloved singer-songwriter at the peak of his powers. It’s also the sound of a man – a husband, a father, a sinner, a drinker – belatedly coming to terms with his demons.

Driven by powerful percussion, Time Stand Still features a soaring, emotive vocal from Vance, who was struggling with an addiction to alcohol and painkillers at the time of writing.

Tickets £31 to £33.50 Book Tickets

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The Hallé – Berlioz’s Harold In Italy

Lionel Bringuier conductor Timothy Ridout viola Thursday 31 March 7.30pm Berlioz Harold en Italie Kodály Dances of Galánta Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini A Hallé double debut for the French conductor Lionel Bringuier and British violist, Timothy Ridout. Having ‘an absolute mastery of his craft’ (Washington Post), Bringuier’s career is well established with regular visits to major orchestras across the globe, whilst Ridout is a former BBC New Generation Artist and First Prizewinner of the 1916 Lionel Tertis Competition.

He is the soloist in Berlioz’s Harold in Italy, which the composer intended for Paganini, wanting to make the viola ‘a kind of melancholic dreamer in the manner of Byron’s Childe Harold.’

Kodály’s vibrant Dances of Galánta sprang from the folk music and gypsy bands he’d known since childhood, and Tchaikovsky’s graphic tone poem depicts Dante’s tale from his Divine Comedy, describing the fate of Francesca da Rimini and her lover forever doomed in Hell.

Thursday Series sponsored by Siemens Tuning Up at 6.30pm: Spotlight on the viola Tickets from £14.50 OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Students – Stalls £5.50 Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices Claimants – 10% discount Our Pass free ticket offer – www. ourpass.co.uk Book Tickets

Heather Small

Nathan Carter

As Part of M People, hits such as Moving On Up, One Night In Heaven and Search For The Hero and albums like Elegant Slumming, Bizarre Fruit and Fresco achieving massive worldwide success, Heather Small became one of the seminal British voices of the 1990s.

Nathan Carter is a sensation! In Ireland he outsold One Direction, Pharrell Williams and Michael Buble, and became the first country act to reach number one in the Irish charts in 2013 after Garth Brooks, six years before. He is an exciting feature on the UK Country scene, and once again tops the Irish charts with his fifth album Where I Wanna Be which features his unique blend of Celtic, country and pop.

Friday 1 April Doors 7.00pm

Tickets £33.50 to £48.50 Book Tickets

Saturday 2 April 7.30pm

Tickets £29.50 to £33.50 Book Tickets

Marc Almond In Concert Chaos and the Hits Monday 4 April 7.30pm

Marc Almond is delighted to be back where he really belongs, on the stage. Marc will be singing songs from his last top 20 albums, Chaos and a Dancing Star (released in March 2020) plus many favourites from his extensive catalogue and his biggest hits. Marc always has surprises up his sleeve.

Tickets £31 to £64 Book Tickets

Heather Small

April 13

International Concert Series

Tenebrae Queen of Heaven

Tuesday 5 April 7.30pm Gorecki Totus tuus Parsons Ave Maria Bruckner Ave Maria Stravinsky Ave Maria Britten Hymn to the virgin Rebecca Clarke Ave Maria Grieg Ave Maris stella Bax Mater ora filium Owain Park Ave maris stella Tavener Mother of God, here I stand Sister Sulpitia Cesis Stabat mater Chant Tota pulchra es Maria Verdi Laudi alla Vergine Maria Chant Ave Regina Coelorum Swayne Magnificat Chant Salve Regina Chant Poulenc Salve Regina Margaret Rizza Ave generosa Award-winning choir Tenebrae returns to the Hall with a wide-ranging programme of music composed for the Virgin Mary. Over the centuries, the Queen of Heaven has inspired countless artists to create some of their most exquisite masterpieces, and this collection is one of dramatic contrasts. The richness of Verdi and Grieg is juxtaposed with the serenity of Gregorian chant, and Parsons’ sixteenth-century setting of the Ave Maria sits alongside Bruckner’s high Romantic interpretation of the same text. A rare performance of Arnold Bax’s Mater ora filium is a particular highlight.

Tickets £21.50 to £41.50 Book Tickets

The Hallé – Beethoven’s Eroica

Kristiina Poska conductor Nicholas Trygstad cello Wednesday 6 April 2.15pm Thursday 7 April 7.30pm Sunday 10 April 4.00pm Berlioz Overture: Le carnaval romain Schumann Cello Concerto Beethoven Symphony No.3, ‘Eroica’ Berlioz’s overture, Roman Carnival, incorporating themes from his opera Benvenuto Cellini has all the vibrancy and exuberance of Rome en fête.

It’s conducted by Estonian, Kristiina Poska, Chief Conductor of the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, who is directing the Hallé for the first time.

In Schumann’s romantically lyrical Cello Concerto, written in a fortnight’s burst of inspiration, she’s joined by the orchestra’s principal cello, Nicholas Trygstad. Although Beethoven dedicated his revolutionary Third Symphony to Napoleon, the composer angrily withdrew it after his hero declared himself Emperor. Its subsequent title, ‘Eroica’, nevertheless reflects the character of a work that in its daring and ambition changed the course of music history.

7 April Sponsored by CMS 10 April Sponsored by Zen Tickets from £14.50 OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Students – Stalls £5.50 Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices Claimants/Students – 10% discount Our Pass free ticket offer – www. ourpass.co.uk Book Tickets

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Giovanni Pernice This Is Me Friday 8 April 7.30pm

(Rescheduled from 4 April 2020) Strictly Come Dancing Showman, Giovanni Pernice, is set to make a spectacular return to the stage in 2022 with his highly anticipated show This Is Me. Pernice has become a firm fan favourite, having been a professional dancer on the hit BBC TV show since 2015 and has reached the final three times, with Georgia May Foote, Debbie McGee and Faye Tozer respectively.

Tickets £25 to £40.50 VIP ticket £80.50

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BBC Philharmonic

John Wilson conductor Sarah Fox soprano Ladies of the Manchester Chamber Choir Saturday 9 April 7.30pm Vaughan Williams Sinfonia antartica (Symphony No.7); A London Symphony (Symphony No.2) John Wilson returns as part of a Vaughan Williams celebration with two symphonies inspired by two very different environments. We start at the South Pole in the company of Captain Robert Scott for the Sinfonia antartica, an immensely evocative work partdrawn from music Vaughan Williams wrote for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic. And then we’re rather closer to home for the London Symphony – a colourful portrait of our bustling capital in the years before the First World War. Book Tickets

Tickets £12.50 to £26.50 Disabled patrons – 50% discount Seniors & Claimants – 20% discount Under 26s & Students – Stalls £5.50

Hallé Youth Ensembles Showcase

International Concert Series

Hallé Youth Orchestra Delyana Lazarova, Director Hallé Youth Choir Stuart Overington, Director Hallé Youth Training Choir Stuart Overington, Director Hallé Children’s Choir Shirley Court, Director

Friday 15 April 7.30pm

Sunday 10 April 7.00pm

Chris Hazell The Journey Oliver Vibrans (Hallé commsion world premiere) Selection of ‘Songs to the Moon’ This special event is a highlight in the Hallé’s calendar and a fantastic opportunity for all four Hallé Youth Ensembles to showcase their talent with a varied, uplifting and family-friendly selection of music.

Hallé Youth Ensembles are supported by PZ Cussons and the Siemens-Hallé International Conductors Competition Tickets £12.50 Book Tickets Concessions £10 Students and under 5s £5.50 Our Pass free ticket offer – www.ourpass.co.uk

Manchester Collective The Oracle Programme to include: World premiere works by Abel Selaocoe Music by Picforth, Rameau, Stravinsky, Oliver Leith, Mica Levi South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe is a sensation. His work has a way of cutting through what we think and tapping directly into how we feel. Backed by the beat of African percussion, in this brand-new show Abel is joined by the Manchester Collective string orchestra to present a musical journey that spans continents and generations, past and future. It’s music at its most joyful and life-affirming.

Tickets £12.50 to £37.50

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Dr John Cooper Clarke I Wanna Be Yours

Wednesday 13 April Doors 7.00pm (Rescheduled from 11 June 2021)

Thursday 14 April Doors 7.00pm In celebration of his long-awaited autobiography ‘I Wanna Be Yours’, the original ‘people’s poet’ Dr. John Cooper Clarke returns to the Hall. Also known as, the Bard of Salford, is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, presenter, social and cultural commentator – he’s one of Britain’s most beloved and influential writers and performers.

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Dr John Cooper Clarke

Tickets £26 to £38.50

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Sir Karl Jenkins

Karl Jenkins In Concert

Imelda May

Sir Karl Jenkins conductor Manchester Chorale choir Manchester Concert Orchestra Saturday 16 April 7.30pm

Monday 18 April Doors 7.00pm

(Rescheduled from 19 June 2020) Sir Karl Jenkins conducts a superb selection of his most popular works, including The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace, with sublime excerpts from Symphonic Adiemus and Palladio.

Tickets £28 to £47

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Globally revered Irish artist Imelda May returns to The Bridgewater Hall in support of her highly anticipated new album 11 Past The Hour. Superstar singer and songwriter Imelda’s sixth studio album 11 Past The Hour – her first new music in four years – is a record that brims with sensuality, emotional intelligence, spirituality and intuition, marking a new chapter for Imelda and showcasing her at her most authentic.

Tickets £31 to £41 Gold VIP £108.50 | Silver VIP £78.50 Book Tickets

Remembering the Oscars

Zucchero

Sunday 17 April 7.30pm

Tuesday 19 April 7.30pm

(Rescheduled from 14 April 2020)

(Rescheduled from 7 June 2020)

Aljaž and Janette return with their brand new show Remembering The Oscars. Get ready to celebrate the Oscar winning songs in this exhilarating new dance spectacular with Strictly’s favourite couple. Whether you are Wishing On A Star, Swinging On A Star or merely dancing in the City of Stars, with songs from Lady Gaga, Adele, Prince, Queen, Eminem, Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand, as well as classics from Burt Bacharach, John Barry, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and Irving Berlin. With a cast of amazing dancers and musicians this dazzling spectacular will be a night to remember.

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Tickets £28.50 to £46 | VIP Package £100 + ticket 16

The Italian singer-songwriter Zucchero makes his debut at The Bridgewater Hall. Zucchero recorded his first album in 1983 and has scored hits with Senza Una Donna his duet with Paul Young, Il Volo, Menta e Rosmarino, Diavolo In Me and Baila. He has duetted with some of the greatest musicians in the world including Luciano Pavarotti, John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, BB King, Tom Jones and Sheryl Crow amongst others.

Tickets £31.50 to £38.50

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The Hallé Vaughan Williams’ Final Symphony John Wilson conductor Sopranos and Altos of the Hallé Choir Matthew Hamilton choral director Thursday 21 April 7.30pm Vaughan Williams Symphony No.9 Holst The Planets To launch the Hallé’s contribution to the joint Vaughan Williams symphony cycle, marking the 150th anniversary of his birth, John Wilson, renowned for his outstanding performances and award-winning recordings of British music, returns to the Hallé. The Ninth Symphony was RVW’s last symphonic utterance having its origins in Hardy’s Wessex and particularly Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

Visionary in character, it ends enigmatically with the unearthly timbre of three pulsing saxophones, music that seems to be gazing into eternity itself. Combining works

by Vaughan Williams and Holst is always apposite since they were lifelong friends. In his ever-popular The Planets, it was their astrological characters which Holst so brilliantly portrayed, from the terrifying battlefield of Mars, to the solace of peace in Venus, the jollity of Jupiter and the mystic harmonies of Neptune.

Space Spectacular

Anthony Inglis conductor Manchester Concert Orchestra Saturday 23 April 7.30pm John Williams Star Wars; Superman; Close Encounters & E.T. Holst Mars & Jupiter from The Planets Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Plus music from Apollo 13, Star Trek, Thunderbirds, Alien A thrilling concert of your favourite music from deep space and beyond in a galaxy of sight and sound with a spectacular Star Wars finale.

Tickets £28 to £48

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Marti Pellow

Sunday 24 April 7.30pm

Thursday Series is sponsored by Siemens Tickets from £14.50 OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Students – Stalls £5.50 Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices Claimants – 10% discount Our Pass free ticket offer – www.ourpass.co.uk Book Tickets

Whitney – Queen Of The Night Friday 22 April 7.30pm

Direct from a sold-out run in London’s West End, the critically-acclaimed international stage sensation Whitney – Queen Of The Night celebrates the music and life one of the greatest singers of our time. Fans will be blown away by the live band performing three decades of nostalgic hits, including I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Higher Love, One Moment in Time, I’m Every Woman, How Will I Know, The Greatest Love Of All, I Will Always Love You and many more.

Tickets £28.50 to £40

Marti Pellow returns to The Bridgewater Hall with his fabulous ‘Greatest Hits’ tour.

Tickets £38.50 to £41

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Coming Soon to The Bridgewater Hall

The Best of Divine Comedy A Charmed Life Tuesday 26 April Doors 7.00pm

Having now completed his third full decade as a recording artist, The Divine Comedy, aka Neil Hannon, announces the treasure trove that is Charmed Life – The Best Of The Divine Comedy. A 24 track career-spanning roster of hit singles and fan favourites, compiled by Neil and remastered at Abbey Road Studios, Charmed Life includes monumental tracks National Express, Something For The Weekend, Songs of Love and Our Mutual Friend. It also features brand new track The Best Mistakes.

Tickets £28.50 to £43

With James Haskell, Mike Tindall & Alex Payne Friday 6 May 2022 7.30pm

Simply Sinatra

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Sunday 15 May 2022 3.00pm Book Tickets

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Dirty Dancing In Concert

Film with live band and singers Wednesday 25 May 2022 7.30pm

The Hallé A Sea Symphony

Sir Mark Elder conductor Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha soprano Roderick Williams baritone Saturday 30 April 7.30pm Hallé Choir Matthew Hamilton, choral director Hallé Youth Choir Stuart Overington, director Vaughan Williams Symphony No.6 Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony

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John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension

Monday 30 May 2022 7.30pm Book Tickets

International Concert Series

Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra

Friday 10 June 2022 7.30pm

Vaughan Williams holds a central place in the heritage of 20th-century British music. The range of his art is distinctly apparent in the juxtaposition of these two symphonies, the Sixth with its turbulent fast movements and enigmatic, bleak wasteland conclusion, and the choral First, A Sea Symphony, setting Walt Whitman’s poetry, with its surging majestic opening and searching finale which Sir Mark views as ‘a mystical journey to the stars and beyond.’ Joining the Hallé Choir are soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Song Award winner of the 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, making her Hallé debut, and an always welcome guest, Roderick Williams, described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘our greatest living baritone.’

Tickets from £14.50 Claimants – 10% discount OAPs (2 Mondays before a performance) – 20% discount Students – Stalls £5.50 Under 30 – 15% discount on top three prices Our Pass – 25 free pairs of tickets Book Tickets

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The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

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Box Office: 0161 907 9000 www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Take a look behind the scenes at The Bridgewater Hall We're delighted to announce that Bridgewater Hall building tours will restart in Spring 2022.

Take a look behind the scenes and learn more about the building, its acoustics and architecture, and even the world-famous organ.

Specialist tours for schools, colleges and British Sign Language are also available.

Please see our website for dates and more information.

Box Office: 0161 907 9000 www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Get Involved at The Bridgewater Hall The Bridgewater Hall's Learning & Participation Team are back, and working hard on a range of workshops, events and activities for you to take part in.

Whether you're taking your first steps using music in the classroom, or are a community group wanting a unique day out, we hope to have something for everyone.

Please visit the 'Get Involved' pages of the website for more information, or drop us an email at learning@bridgewater-hall.co.uk Box Office: 0161 907 9000 www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Booking Information Booking Online

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Visit www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk where you have the option to select your own seat or choose the best available. You can also add dining and parking vouchers to your order. If you select your own seat, you can see at a glance which seats are available.

Prices shown in this brochure include booking fees.

A booking fee of £2.50 or £3.50 per ticket applies to telephone and online transactions. No fee applies to tickets bought in person or purchased as part of a fixed or flexible subscription.

Booking By Phone 0161 907 9000

Booking In Person Box Office, The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3WS

Booking By Post To the Box Office at the address above

Box Office Opening Hours Monday to Friday 10.00am—5.00pm Sunday (concert nights only) 2.00pm—5.00pm Closed on non-concert Sundays Counter service until 8.00pm on concert nights As at December 2021. Please phone the Box Office or visit www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk to check for changes in opening times.

Forms of Payment Accepted Payment can be made by cash, cheque, Mastercard, Visa or debit card. If paying by cheque, please make your cheque payable to ‘The Bridgewater Hall’.

For details of ticket exchange, group discounts, concessionary and standby tickets, please visit www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk or call the Box Office

Flexible Booking Save 15%! Save on the full ticket price when you book 5 or more concerts featuring Save 15% Choose any 5 or more concerts

Parking Discounts A limited number of prepay discounted spaces are available to patrons attending evening concerts at Q-Park First Street car park (see map) at a rate of £7.60. Spaces must be booked at the time of purchasing your concert tickets, no less than 24 hours before the event. Parking is limited to a maximum stay of 8 hours at the discounted rate.

Q-Park, Anne Horniman St, Manchester M15 4FN

Accessibility The Bridgewater Hall is fully accessible for disabled patrons. For full information on facilities please visit www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk or call the Box Office on 0161 907 9000.

Hotel Accommodation Innside by Melia Manchester is an ideal choice. The hotel is located two minutes’ walk from The Bridgewater Hall – see map on opposite page. Innside offers 208 spacious, modern guest rooms, with comfortable king-size or twin beds, and fantastic cityscape views.

Innside by Melia 1 First Street Manchester M15 4RP Tel: 0161 200 2500 Email: innside.manchester@melia.com

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