After two critically acclaimed sell out runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a sold out Soho Theatre run, Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show 2023 nominee Ania Magliano is back on tour.

Ivor Novello Award winning singer-songwriter Scott Matthews plays a special show for us at The NCEM.

Hayden Thorpe is best known as the former frontman and chief songwriter for the much-loved band Wild Beasts. He returns to the stage with his beautifully singular third album Ness, made in collaboration with best-selling nature writer Robert Macfarlane.

Sophie Duker is BACK! The Taskmaster champ is back on tour and dealing with her (sugar) daddy issues in a hilarious new stand-up show.

A star of Live at the Apollo and co-host of All Killa No Filla, Rachel joins us at the Crescent for her highly-anticipated 2025 UK tour. Set to perform for the first-time ever a unique blend of her brand-new stand-up and character show ‘Side Eye’.

Say Owt Slam is a raucous evening of poet vs poet in a fun night of verse. Poets have three minutes to wow YOU the audience. Expect poetry with humour and heart, comedy and charisma, stories and sizzling spoken word! With incredible guest poet Maria Ferguson.

Hot young London quintet Man/Woman/Chainsaw make their York debut in February, celebrating the release of their debut EP Eazy Peazy.

Shovel Dance Collective are a group of nine musicians united by a passion for the beauty, force, and political charge of the traditional musics of Britain, Ireland and beyond. They are committed to Folk music not as an archaeological artifact to be unearthed, but as a living communal activity – inviting and generous to those it speaks to.

The days of the Supergroup may be long past… but The Guilty Men would surely qualify for that description! Featuring Paul Burgess (10CC, Jethro Tull, Camel, The Icicle Works), Clive Gregson (Any Trouble, Clive Gregson and Christine Hollister), Jez Smith (Barclay James Harvest), Craig Fletcher (Barclay James Harvest) and Neil Cossar (The Cheaters). Between them, they have played over 10,000 gigs on planet Earth, recorded thousands of songs and made countless radio and TV appearances.

With every visit to York, the crowd gets bigger and bigger. Jiggery folkery, hokery pokery… folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and ‘shake your ass’ in a big old bubbling cauldron!