Music Projects

United By Music – a perfect phrase to capture the magical two weeks Liverpool has enjoyed sharing with the world. Everything we have done has been with the awareness that we were hosting this year’s final on behalf of the Ukraine and wherever you went in the city or whoever you spoke to it was […]

A Blog from Kevin McManus, Head of Liverpool UNESCO City of Music, about World Music Day in the city of Liverpool. World Music Day (or Fête de la musique) is celebrated every year on 21st June.  If you haven’t heard of it before, it is the simple but brilliant concept of having a day that […]

Liverpool born John Murphy began scoring movies at the age of 25. In 2001, following the success of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, he moved to Los Angeles. Since then he has worked with some of the industry’s most respected and luminary filmmakers, including Michael Mann, Danny Boyle, Guy Ritchie, Stephen Frears, […]

Liverpool City Region Music Board is proud to share its Black Lives Matter Manifesto, now published on the Music Board’s website. Created in response to the Black Lives Matter Movement and born from the Board’s dedication to diversity and inclusivity, the manifesto details the Board’s commitments to acknowledging the contribution of Black people to the […]

Thank you for the music, the joy you’ve given… “Vasily Petrenko has just ended his glorious 15 year reign as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor after a final trio of concerts last week. Of course the loss of such a major talent is a sad moment for the Phil and for the city […]

Author’s note — to be clear from the off all the opinions expressed here are mine alone, completely subjective and liable to change at a moment’s notice. I have a pretty good memory but can’t guarantee any factual accuracy so feel free to contradict me at any point. “It’s pretty much stating the obvious to […]

by Kevin McManus, Liverpool City of Music The joy that music can bring to all of us has just been underlined for me by the text I’ve just received from my niece Jess. She was so excited that my phone almost burst under the sheer weight of emoji’s signalling that I was dealing with a […]

by Kev McManus, Head of Liverpool UNESCO City of Music, Culture Liverpool Just when you are feeling a bit down in the dumps, suffering the post -Christmas January blues, along comes Independent Venue Week to make life seem a little brighter again. This year IVW runs for a week from 25th Jan celebrating and championing […]

“Music — it speaks to our very soul. It has the ability to lift our spirits when we are feeling down, it can transport us around the world and through time and perhaps best of all, it’s free and available to everyone. From singing in the shower for an audience of one to an outdoor […]