When: 7.30pm on Saturday 25 April 2025
Where: Hallé at St Michael’s, 36-38 George Leigh Street, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5DG

We’re delighted to be hosting Nadia Reid – Live With Strings at St Michael’s – plus Juni Habel!

New Zealand–raised, Manchester-based songwriter Nadia Reid returns with a special Record Store Day release: Nadia Reid with NZ Trio – Live at Old St Paul’s.

This album comprises of a number of tracks recorded live at Old St Paul’s in Wellington, New Zealand with NZ Trio, a string trio based in New Zealand. Nadia sang an incredible array of her catalogue, including a song that has been released this year alongside her latest album Enter Now Brightness, accompanied by a beautiful classical string arrangement. All of the tracks on the album have never been released before, digitally or physically, making it not only Nadia’s first ever live album, but also first live album with new live arrangements.

Two of the tracks on the album include beautiful covers, one from Mazzy Star and another from New Zealand-based Mahin?rangi Tocker.

The record will include a gorgeous Blue Denim vinyl, printed inner sleeve with words from Nadia and a QR insert to download the tracks.

The release will be accompanied by three extra special shows in London, Bristol and Manchester, with a string duo to accompany the tracks on the album, as well as older songs.

Special guest is Juni Habel. Juni Habel’s fragile finger-picked lullabies warm themselves by the open fire with her rich intimate voice atop twinkling arrangements and strange percussive instrumentation. Like glowing embers in the dark, these songs are odes to life and death, the beauty of belonging and human kinship with nature.

The Norwegian’s first album in three years, Evergreen In Your Mind  – released 10 April on Basin Rock – follows the breakthrough success of her Carvings LP. The songs remain delicate, Habel’s voice playing an elegant lead role – but there are fluctuations too. The small shifts in Habel’s sound mark a notable stride forward, with more focus on the groove. Playfulness was embraced and, perhaps most importantly, patience played a fundamental role in shaping every element of this incredible set of torch folk songs. Brushed with the gentle touch of pastoral psychedelia, these are songs that sit in half-light, in the gas between where we are and where we might be.

This concert takes place in Hallé at St Michael’s – a former Roman Catholic church, which was founded in 1859 and became the heart of the Little Italy Community in Ancoats.

This is a 14+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

This show is a co-promotion with Grey Lantern.

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