Join us at The SSE Arena in Belfast on August 7, 2025, for an unforgettable evening hosted by The Lowry. Known for our diverse and high-quality performances, we promise a night filled with laughter and entertainment. The event will start at 18:30, so ensure to secure your spot by visiting our official website, thelowry.com, or our YouTube channel for more details. For tickets, please visit the primary event link. Don't miss out on this spectacular performing arts event in the heart of Belfast!

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Peter Kay Live

The SSE Arena, Belfast

Charles Ives described the opening of The Unanswered Question as a ‘cosmic landscape’ and this concert is very much rooted in landscapes of all types, from Ives’s exploration of the human spirit’s connection to the realm of nature to the pastoral idyll of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony. Gavin Higgins’s Horn Concerto was written for our soloist, Ben Goldscheider, and is inspired by the Forest of Dean, where Higgins grew up. There are echoes of hunting calls and Wagner in a work that finishes with a movement uniquely inspired by the forest floor and titled Mycelium Rondo.

The Great Outdoors

Ulster Hall

The Rat Pack, comprising Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., defined an era of entertainment with their charismatic performances, onstage chemistry, smooth vocals and undeniable charm. While their heyday was in the 1950s/60s, their impact endures with their music evoking a sense of timeless sophistication and cool that still appeals to audiences today.

Ulster Orchestra Presenting: The Rat Pack

Waterfront Hall

It’s Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire falling in love in Funny Face. It’s Catherine Deneuve beneath the cheerfully coloured Umbrellas of Cherbourg. It’s Audrey Tautou as a waitress helping others find happiness in Amélie. Fiona Monbet conducts and performs her own work, Faubourg 23, written for jazz ensemble and orchestra; a celebration of both jazz and symphonic music that sits in a lineage that flows from Stephane Grappelli and is effervescent, uplifting and full of the joys of spring in Paris!

April in Paris

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Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ is a deep, contemplative drama based on the events leading up to the crucifixion and the earthquake that marked the moment of Jesus’s death. The music pulls us into an ominous and unsettled world; a lament at the foot of the cross. Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen for strings is another lament, this time for the destruction wrought in Munich in World War II and the shattering of cultural life as the composer knew it. Full of loss and anguish – but also serenity and majesty – this is music for meditation and reflection this Good Friday.

Music for Good Friday

This concert shines a spotlight on music filled with sumptuous drama. Strauss’s incidental music for Ariadne auf Naxos gives more than a flavour of its protagonists flitting across the opera stage. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.24 just pre-dates Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro and it too brings all the poise and characterful drama of opera to the concert stage. Our second half moves from the world of opera to ballet, as Tchaikovsky finished his Third Symphony before writing Swan Lake and this work pirouettes with the kinetic energy of the corps de ballet.

Take the Stage

Hans Zimmer and John Williams are two of the greatest film music composers of all time, creating epic scores for some of the most iconic films ever made. Experience this incredible symphonic celebration of music from blockbusters such as Gladiator, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Superman, Batman Begins and of course Harry Potter and re-live your memories of hearing and seeing it for the first time.

Epic Film Scores: Hans Zimmer & John Williams

Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff are three giants of Russian music, and this concert foregrounds all their exceptional talents. Arensky uses one of Tchaikovsky’s Sixteen Children’s Songs to capture a range of moods and character, while Stravinsky’s Concerto for Violin is a feisty, joyful romp for the instrument, full of cheerful melody and musical wit. To close, a second visit to the no-holds-barred emotional world of Rachmaninoff’s symphonies (though you’ll have to wait until 2025/26 for Symphony No.3!) and the achingly beautiful, flamboyantly majestic Second.

Grand Masters

Was it, or wasn’t it, an act of defiance and bitter retort to Stalin’s displeasure? Shostakovich’s life was so utterly and constantly in peril that he could never publicly declare whether his Fifth Symphony was simply ‘a Soviet artist’s reply to just criticism’ or a satirical puncturing of the dictator, deliberately hollow but dressed as adulation. But either way, it’s a phenomenal piece of music – playful, poignant and magisterial, it’s a blockbuster end to the Season. Walton’s lyrically romantic Cello Concerto sets the scene for Shostakovich’s dramatic fireworks.

Act of Defiance

The Legend of Luke Kelly is an authentic show celebrating the life and songs of Ireland’s most iconic and greatest folk singer.

Created and performed by the renowned Chris Kavanagh the show is not a tribute but a journey through Luke’s music that has received rave reviews in Ireland and abroad.

The Legend of Luke Kelly

The Priests performed their first musical collaboration in 1974, and in 2024, celebrate 50 years of musical association. Having achieved millions of record sales, received multiple awards, travelled the globe, and played countless concerts as The Priests, Frs Eugene, Martin (brothers) and David perform their last ever concert as a group at the Ulster Hall. The evening will see The Priests perform many of their classic songs including Ave Maria, Amazing Grace, How Great Thou Art and You Raise Me Up with the prestigious Ulster Orchestra.

Time to Say Goodbye: 50 Years of The Priests

With a brand-new production for 2025. Join a multi award-winning all-star cast of musicians and singers Stephen, Raymond and Chris for the musical masterpiece that is the 'Legends of the 60s Show'. The show with the ultimate feelgood factor will transport you all the way hand clapping, swinging and singing back to that magical golden decade that was the 1960s.

Legends of the 60s Show

When the Three Amigos - Jimmy Buckley, Robert Mizzell and Patrick Feeney initially came together they little thought that they would still be making music a decade on from then.

But that is precisely what is continuing to happen right now as, with the curtain having come down on their hugely successful 2024 tour, the talented musical ambassadors are already setting their sights on 2025.

The Three Amigos

The High Kings, one of Ireland's most admired pop-folk groups, are set to play the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on 03 January 2025 as part of the Step It Out World Tour!
Following the phenomenal Success of 'The Road Not Taken Tour’ The High Kings continue to captivate audiences worldwide, selling out venues and amassing an ever-growing legion of fans.

The High Kings, one of Ireland's most admired pop-folk groups, are set to play the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on 03 January 2025 as part of the Step It Out World Tour!
Following the phenomenal Success of 'The Road Not Taken Tour’ The High Kings continue to captivate audiences worldwide, selling out venues and amassing an ever-growing legion of fans.

The High Kings

Take a journey from nostalgic musicals such as Oklahoma!, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera up to more recent productions with songs from Wicked, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Waitress and many more.

Presenting: Essentially Broadway

Boyzlife will bring their new live tour to venues across Ireland with dates at the Ulster Hall on Wednesday 15 January.

Boyzlife brings together the talents of two iconic figures from the legendary boy bands of the 90s and early 00s as they sing their iconic hits.

Boyzlife

Comedy sensation Jarlath Regan returns to the stage for his brand-new comedy show, In Bits, at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast on 04 January 2025!
The Brand New Standup Comedy Show From “Yer Man” Off Instagram.

After 2 years of making us laugh out loud into our phones, hundreds of millions of views, thousands of seats filled across America, Ireland and the U.K. - Jarlath Regan is back with a totally new barnstorming stand-up show like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

Jarlath Regan

Direct from Belfast, Shamrock Tenors are Ireland’s most exciting new music sensation. Proudly supported by Tourism Ireland, the group features performers from both sides of the community across Northern Ireland, with vocalists from London’s West End along with the country's best multi-instrumentalists. Their show takes you on a journey through Ireland’s most beloved classic songs, in beautiful five part harmony. With all your favourites including Danny Boy, Whiskey in the Jar, The Parting Glass, and Wild Rover, this is a show for all ages, performed with that cheeky Irish charm!

Shamrock Tenors

Look at the Guinness Book Of Hit Singles and you could be forgiven for thinking Smokie’s success story was a 1970s phenomenon. After all, 11 of their 14 British hits came in that eventful musical decade. However, their massive success story has continued to flourish around the globe including Scandinavia, South Africa, Germany and even China.

Smokie

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade sets a wild and windswept tone for a concert that ends with a symphony inspired by the ruins of the chapel at the Palace of Holyrood, full of fierce energy and which even hints at the inevitable and typical Scottish thunderstorm! Mendelssohn’s ability to depict landscape in music is fully evident here and the dramatic Highlands scenery that he enjoyed on holiday is sketched in magical style. Bringing a little musical calm to temper the storm is Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, who performs Mozart’s mellow and serene Piano Concerto No.27.

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Grand Masters

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Act of Defiance

Ulster Orchestra

The Legend of Luke Kelly

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Waterfront Hall

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