You can never have enough live music. Keep a regular check on our listings page to find out what's worth checking out.
We're particularly keen to hear from promoters, agents, musicians putting events on across Yorkshire.
Please also register on the website and you can submit your own global roots and grooves listings. We look forward to hearing form you or seeing you at a gig or two.
The well connected DJ Mayeva invites you to come and join their Mustica de Mestiza world music cafe club - a perfect meeting point for all world music afficianados in Manchester! Guest for 29th January is Luciano Gerber with Brazilian MPB and Bossa Nova.
Described as one of the world's great live acts by the Guardian. After three years away the mighty Orchestra Baobab are making a long awaited return to the UK to play a handful of live dates in January 2012. One of the defining acts in contemporary African music, Orchestra Baobab, first formed in 1970, fused Senegal’s formerly predominant Afro-Cuban sounds with Congolese rumba, Ghanaian high life, griot singing and other local styles. 
To celebrate the launch of the 'World Routes: on the road' compilation (out 16 January on Nascente), catch two extraordinary live performances and presenter Lucy Duran and producer James Parkin in conversation with Petroc Trelawny. They are joined by two of the artists who appear on the cd. Read more for the full press release. 
