The longest day of the year is here. The sun has finally reached its highest altitude of the year and...
“Can I have a good time tonight?” Courtney Pine is the man asking the question and the sell-out audience in...
“Impeach Trump.” The message emblazoned on the huge button pinned to guitarist Marc Ribot’s jacket is clear for all to see. When...
The inspiration for Flit – a highly inventive, inspired animation and music live show – came from when Martin Green...
For the best part of the last fortnight, the Howard Assembly Room has played host to the Yorkshire Festival and...
The alacrity with which tickets for this show flew out of the Howard Assembly Room door is but one small indicator...
With its roots immersed in ancient Persia, qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music that now stretches back for...
This is the Howard Assembly Room’s first live musical show of 2017 and what a start to the year it turns...
The Jajouka come from a small goat-herding village of the same name that lies in the foothills of the southern...
The Kronos Quartet has long been part of the vanguard of invention. For 43 years, to be precise, the San...
In one month’s time, This Is Not This Heat will take to the Howard Assembly Room stage. A direct descendent...
Advertising “new century talking and singing pictures”, the Assembly Rooms – located on the first floor of the magnificent Leeds...
Much of The Bad Plus’s reputation and mainstream appeal lies in their ability to deconstruct the work of others. Having...
Having Souad Massi open your autumn season of events proved to be quite a coup for the Howard Assembly Room...
The son of fêted English folk-rock trailblazers Richard & Linda Thompson he may well be, but Teddy Thompson is very...