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Love to drum? Join the Global Grooves bloco classes! With tuition from Leon Patel, Eraldo Marques, Holly Prest, and Emma Marsh, you'll love getting your weekly groove on alongside likeminded Carnival pals.

Love to blast out melody? Join the Global Grooves bloco classes! With tuition from Jack Tinker and guest artists, you'll love your weekly blow out alongside likeminded Carnival pals.

Love to dance? Join the Global Grooves bloco classes! With tuition from Freya Bennett-Nielsen, you'll love getting your weekly energy fix alongside likeminded Carnival pals in these exciting choreographies and opportunities to dance to live music!

Are you 16-18 and live in Oldham?
Are you interested in the arts?
Do you want to explore a future career in something you love?

Then this opportunity could be perfect for you.

Meet new friends and join a new network of creatives based in Oldham. Feel excited about learning new things and exploring your creative side through different workshops including arts career paths, event production, working as a freelancer or artist, music and movement, designing and delivering your own events,
and more...

N’famady Kouyaté is a young master musician from Guinea (Conakry), now based in Cardiff, Wales, UK. N’famady’s primary instrument is the balafon – a traditional wooden xylophone, sacred to West African culture and his family heritage of the griot.

A super charged 11-headed ska monster on a rampage through the dance floors of the UK leaving a trail of skanked out bodies in their wake. Join us for The Vale’s festive do and skank the night away.

A very special screening of a classic animation fairy tale ‘The Adventures of Prince Achmed‘, with NEW live score by Musician, Chris Davies.

BRAND NEW FOR 2025 - regular top up practice sessions for existing players of the pandeiro. Beginners sessions are also available for those embarking on their pandeiro playing adventures.

“Manchester’s answer to Aretha Franklin.” Tony Wilson, Factory Records

The Vale is excited to welcome back Mossley’s own Kyla Brox and her band to our stage. A night of soulful blues and R&B sounds, her live performances are truly something special.

Experience the soulful rhythms and vibrant melody and dance of Flamenco from Andalusia right here in Mossley. Brought to us by internationally renowned Spanish music and dance superstars Ramón Ruiz, Rebecca Ortega, and Natalia Marin this will truly be an evening to remember.

Specialising in discordant, hypnotic repetition, tales of boozy nights out, and radical politics, Loose Articles are a punk quartet with plenty to say. Their music speaks to all those determined to get through the age of austerity with tongue in cheek, pint in hand, and two feet firmly on the dancefloor.

BRAND NEW FOR 2025 - regular top up practice sessions for existing players of the pandeiro. Beginners sessions are also available for those embarking on their pandeiro playing adventures.

Back by popular demand, we are delighted to offer this 2-week short course in Pandeiro for beginners of the instrument. Top up practice sessions for players with pandeiro experience are also available to book.

In New Orleans, funerals are celebrated in style, with noisy brass bands processing through the streets. The main section of the parade is known as First Line, but the real fun starts with the Second Line, those who follow the band to enjoy the music, marching with the musicians and twirling parasols or waving handkerchiefs.