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Sophie Ellis-Bextor will headline The Piece Hall on 2 July 2027 with Scouting For Girls as special guests—an open-air Halifax pairing built for dancing and big choruses.

Huddersfield’s Northern Quarter is open again under a community-interest company, with Matt Delaney, Bryde, Purple Dots, Wood Street Open Mic and more on the first programme.

Huddersfield becomes an international new-music capital from 20–29 November, with 70-plus premieres, free events and a local ticket discount.

The genre-bending live revival brings horns, soul, rock’n’roll and theatrical mayhem to Parish on Saturday 7 November.

The Essex firestarters mark 50 years of their debut album at Parish on Friday 6 November, with founding drummer Steve Nicol back for selected anniversary shows.

Founder members Rosie Garland and Tom Ashton bring four decades of post-punk history — and a current three-piece band — to Amped on Friday 6 November, with Salvation supporting.

The world-music veteran and his full band arrive in the Colne Valley on Saturday 7 November for an Arts Council-backed night of guitar-led Congolese dance music.

The Grassroots Jazz Tour reaches The Keys on Saturday 31 October, pairing one of Britain’s busiest jazz guitarists with a fearless Prague improviser.

The Choral revisits a work it first performed in 1859 at Huddersfield Town Hall on Saturday 31 October, joined by Royal Northern Sinfonia and four soloists.

Alabama 3 bring acoustic guitar, harmonica and their crooked country-gospel swagger to Parish on Thursday 29 October, with HENGE’s Matthew C. Whitaker opening solo.

Opera North Youth Orchestra returns to Dewsbury Town Hall on Sunday 1 November with Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Pärt, Elgar and Dukas—and under-16s go free.

Damian Lewis brings his full band and second album Sweet Chaos to Holmfirth Picturedrome tonight, with doors at 7.30pm and support from KIER.

Brighouse & Rastrick, Marsden and Skelmanthorpe bands join forces for a massed-band afternoon at Huddersfield Town Hall today.

The Amy Winehouse Band bring Back to Black’s 20th-anniversary tour to Halifax, one day after the expanded reissue lands.

Electronic pioneers Kraftwerk will bring their multimedia live show to The Piece Hall, Halifax, on 22 June 2027. Tickets go on general sale Friday.

The Howlers play a live in-store and signing at Vinyl Tap, Huddersfield, tonight at 7pm, celebrating their new album Heavy.

The Wave Pictures play Parish, Huddersfield, on Friday 23 October with Turner, bringing their 2026 album Gained / Lost to a show marking 20 years of the venue.

Both Holmfirth Picturedrome nights are sold out as Levellers celebrate 35 years of Levelling the Land with The Meffs opening.

hcmf// shorts brings 14 free performances, 11 UK premieres and three world premieres to Huddersfield on Monday 23 November — from noon until almost midnight.

Belinda O’Hooley and Jackie Oates bring their new When the Light Draws In show to Slaithwaite Civic on Saturday 17 October, with tickets from £16 plus booking fee.