Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions release Cold Blows the Rain

The ‘dark side’ of the Calder val­ley allows no light dur­ing win­ter, and its drain­ing effects on the human soul are more than just myth. There’s a bleak­ness that is all-encom­­pass­ing, set­tling over the moors and deep val­ley sides, while res­i­dents hun­ker down and await spring. But draw­ing inspi­ra­tion from the stark beau­ty of this…

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Independent Venue Week at The Trades Club

While we spend Jan­u­ary snug­gling under duvets lis­ten­ing to lash­ing rain and howl­ing wind, the night time econ­o­my takes a hit. One area that can’t afford to lie dor­mant is grass­roots music venues. Per­fect­ly timed, Inde­pen­dent Venue Week is an annu­al cel­e­bra­tion of these unique, inti­mate places and aims to entice music fans out with…

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Callis, Todmorden band with new single and gigs

The Calder Val­ley has built up an extra­or­di­nary rep­u­ta­tion of being a cra­dle of musi­cal tal­ent with The Orielles, Work­ing Men’s Club, The Lounge Soci­ety and many more emerg­ing from its atmos­pher­ic, intense and brood­ing land­scape. And recent­ly the unique folk music of Trevor Beale was dis­cov­ered, tes­ta­ment to local cre­ative tal­ent hark­ing back to…

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