Live & Local launches Winter/Spring 2024/25 Season of Live Shows in Derbyshire

Live & Local have announced their new Winter/Spring 2024/25 season of professional performances in community venues across Derbyshire. With music, drama, comedy-theatre, dance, storytelling, puppetry and more, there really is something for everybody!

Funded by Arts Council England and local district and borough councils, Live & Local has been facilitating surprising shows in surprising places for over 33 years by supporting local volunteers to bring exciting and awe-inspiring shows for all ages to community spaces across the county.

Running into the Christmas period, this season promises lots of exciting new performers and shows for audiences to discover, as well as returning favourites, which guarantee a fantastic night out in a Derbyshire village near you. Highlights include:

Live & Local regulars Pentabus Theatre Company are back with a brand-new show called

Make Good: The Post Office Scandal, a musical that tells the story of the Post Office Scandal, now recognised as one of the gravest miscarriages of justice in British history.

SHED by Northern Rascals is a dance-theatre show from the Rural Touring Dance Initiative that uses visual art, digital technologies, spoken word and contemporary dance to raise awareness of the mental health issues faced by many young people. Made for and by young people.

Don’t miss the return of Old Spot – Appalachian Fiddle and Banjo Duo with their foot-stomping old-time music expressed with a range of instruments including fiddle, banjo, gourd banjo and guitar.

New to the menu this year is As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by ARKangel which adapts author Laurie Lee’s captivating teenage journey from the Cotswolds to the Spanish Civil War into an evocative multi-sensory odyssey with live music and prose.

Steve Wilson, Artist Engagement Officer at Live & Local said:

“We’re extremely excited to launch this new season, packed full of high-quality shows from established and emerging artists and performers. It’s also really exciting to see many of the artists who have participated in our talent development programme DART (Developing Artists for Rural Touring) progress on to our menu and see them embraced by our network of promoters. Audiences are going to love it!”

Derbyshire Listings:

• Fri 27 Sep – 7:30pm – Serena Smith & Friends: Celtic Fusion Show – Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall, Holloway, DE4 5AQ
• Sat 28 Sep, 7:30pm, Baslow Village Hall, Flatworld in Concert, DE451SR
• Sat 28 Sep, 7:30pm, The Verney Institute, Pleasley, Serena Smith & Friends: Celtic Fusion Show, NG19 7PL
• Sat 5 Oct, 7:30pm, Fred Hopkinson Memorial Hall, An Evening with Kellys Heroes, S18 4AL
• Thu 10 Oct, 7:30pm, Kirk Langley Village Hall, Lyon & Bird, DE6 4NG
• Sat 12 Oct, 7:30pm, Tansley Village Hall, Lyon & Bird, DE4 5FH
• Fri 18 Oct, 7:30pm, Breadsall Memorial Hall, Mark Harrison Band, DE21 5LF
• Sat 19 Oct, 7:30pm, Taddington Village Institute, Filkin’s Drift – Contemporary Folk Duo, SK17 9UD
• Sat 19 Oct, 4:00pm, Rickman’s Corner Community Centre, The Witch and the Egg, DE12 6PD
• Thu 24 Oct, 7:30pm, Tideswell Community Hall, Alas! Poor Yorick, SK17 8PD
• Sat 26 Oct, 7:00pm, Doe Lea Resource Centre, AWOL, S44 5PD
• Sat 26 Oct, 7:30pm, All Saints Church, Bradbourne, Threaded, DE6 1PA
• Thu 31 Oct, 7:00pm, Killamarsh Parish Suite, Make Good: The Post Office Scandal, S21 1EL
• Sat 2 Nov, 7:30pm, Crich Glebe Community Centre, Routes To Classics, DE4 5EU
• Fri 15 Nov, 7:30pm, Tansley Village Hall, Grace Smith Trio, DE4 5FH
• Sat 16 Nov, 7:30pm, Dalbury Lees Millennium Hall, The Music of Trees, DE6 5BE
• Sat 16 Nov, 7:30pm, Great Longstone Village Hall, Grace Smith Trio, DE45 1TB
• Sat 16 Nov, 7:30pm, The Verney Institute, Pleasley, 54 North – Celtic Folk Fusion, NG19 7PL
• Sat 16 Nov, 7:30pm, Partington Theatre, Serena Smith & Friends: Celtic Fusion Show, SK13 8BW
• Fri 6 Dec, 7:30pm, Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall, Holloway, Old Spot – Appalachian Fiddle and Banjo Duo, DE4 5AQ
• Sat 7 Dec, 7:00pm, Doe Lea Resource Centre, Craig Gould & The Noble Thieves present: The Campfire Sessions, S44 5PD
• Sat 7 Dec, 2:00pm, Fred Hopkinson Memorial Hall, The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen, S18 4AL
• Sat 21 Dec, 5:00pm, Belper Community Hall, Polaris The Snow Bear, DE56 1BA
• Sat 11 Jan, 7:30pm, Morton Village Hall, AWOL, DE55 6GT
• Fri 17 Jan, 7:30pm, Ashover Parish Hall, An Evening with Kellys Heroes, S45 0BA
• Sat 18 Jan, 7:30pm, The Verney Institute, Pleasley, Filkin’s Drift – Contemporary Folk Duo, NG19 7PL
• Sat 18 Jan, 7:30pm, Biggin Village Hall, An Evening with Kellys Heroes, SK17 0DL
• Fri 31 Jan, 7:30pm, The Burton Institute, Winster, The Music of Trees, DE4 2DQ
• Fri 31 Jan, 7:30pm, Spring Bank Arts Centre, New Mills, Yours Sincerely, SK22 4BH