What's On in May and June

2nd May–30th June

Some of the biggest names in music visit the banks of the Tyne this May and June while we also have innovative talks and performances as part of Thinking Digital Arts 2017 & Hexham Gathering...

Folkworks Hexham Gathering 2017

25th–28th May

The annual Hexham Gathering sees hundreds of performers converge on Tyne Valley to celebrate traditional music, song and dance in a four day folk spectacular.

Young players will be at the...

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo

Sage Two, 27th May, 2017. 8pm

The creator of a unique and fascinating sound, the Poly-Rythmo is one of Africa’s biggest orchestras, for whom the term polyrhythm is not used in vain. The author of hundreds of recordings,...

A Beethoven Feast

Sage One, 10th June, 2017. 6pm

Step back in time to 22 December 1808 in Vienna.

An all Beethoven evening, full of new works, including Piano Concerto No.4, Symphonies 5 and 6 and the Choral Fantasy.

Join us as we restage...

SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart

Sage One, 24th June, 2017. 7.30pm

Christoph Eschenbach conductor

BEETHOVEN Symphony No.8
MAHLER Symphony No.1

Having opened the season with the most intimate Mahler symphony with RNS, we close it with the composer’s mighty...

Mercury Rev with Royal Northern Sinfonia plus Hazel Wilde (Lanterns on The Lake)

Sage One, 12th July, 2017. 7.30pm

Joining the celebrations around Bella Union’s 20th anniversary come a relatively recent signing to the label with a glorious history of their own. For this very special evening, Mercury Rev will...

OMD

Sage One, 22nd November, 2017. 7.30pm

The Punishment of Luxury is the new album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), the pioneering synth-pop group – founded almost 40 years ago by two teenage Kraftwerk fans from the Wirral...