Todmorden Unitarian

09/06/2024

08/06/2024

Congratulations to Tom & Ursula on their wedding today ❤️💒🔔🥂👰🏻‍♀️🤵🏻
08-06-2024

03/06/2024

Everyone welcome 🥰💒🫖☕️🍰🧁🌈

01/06/2024

The wedding of Paula & Craig 💒🍾🥂
25th of May 2024.

26/05/2024

10/05/2024

Sumer events 2024☀️
by Sloman Music

10/05/2024

Today Darcey & friends visited from Shock Out Arts Dance School in Manchester.
They were getting some beautiful footage inside the church for their project.
💒💃💃🏻💃🏿

29/04/2024

The 8th Folk Festival has many events over the coming weekend! 🤩
Use the link below to see the programme 🥰
Tickets are selling fast with some events already sold out. 🏃🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

⭐️Saturday night -
💒Todmorden Unitarian Church:
“The evening concert at the atmospheric Unitarian Church is headlined by the beautiful vocal harmonies and multi-instrumentalist talents of Lady Maisery.
They will be followed by the raucous, foot-stomping sounds of Bonfire Radicals”

⏱️ 7:30 - 10:30pm

🍺🍷 Bar & Food. 🍽️

https://www.todfolkfest.co.uk/programme/

28/04/2024

28/04/2024

UK TEMPLES TOUR is over! 🇬🇧

Back at home after an unforgettable run of shows in the old gothic England. We saw amazing places and met lovely people along the way.

Thanks to everyone involved in making it happen! And thank you to all the people who came to the shows and gave us their support. I already miss everything about this past week.

Special mention to Ellen of Dead Space Chamber Music / Dark Alchemy for her invaluable help and superb work behind and on stage.

23/04/2024

24th of April 🔺Nero Kane 🔺7 - 10:30pm

⛔️No Parking at the church - please use Morrison’s carpark ( we have a friendly agreement) or town centre car parks (free after 6pm)

A special night of evocative music in the suggestive spaces of the Unitarian Church in Todmorden:

NERO KANE (psych dark folk, Italy)
DEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC duo (experimental early music, Bristol)
MENKO (ambient, transcendental sounds, Todmorden)

Doors 7pm
Concerts 7.30 - 10pm
Tickets 10£ cash/paypal at the door or use link below.

NERO KANE

Nero Kane was listed at No. 3 among the three best 2023 concerts with New Noise magazine (FR) for the show at former church Maison des Choeurs in Montpellier.

"The magical setting was destined to host an exceptional evening, and so it was. Nero Kane's celestial, incantatory and liturgical music fit the space perfectly, and the audience was transported to another dimension." Obsküre magazine (FR). live report from Nero Kane concert at Eglise du Gesu church in Toulouse

Psych dark folk songwriter Nero Kane (guitar/vocals), accompanied by artist Samantha Stella (organ/mellotron/vocals), opened the "Temples Tour" with a live performance in the ruins of a Neo-Gothic cathedral near Leipzig and will perform as a duo between 2023 and 2024 at various festivals, clubs and in the atmospheric setting of churches and historic sites in Europe and the UK. The first Italian date was in support of US dark musician Zola Jesus. The third album, "Of Knowledge and Revelation," inspired by Dante's Paradise and Hell, has been mentioned by many journalists as being among the best Italian and international albums of 2022.
Nero Kane's ritual music, between Italian Occult Psychedelia, pagan chant and liturgical art, guitar arpeggios and solemn organ notes, cinematic and emotionally overwhelming, has been described as a suspended, crepuscular journey with a unique style and personality. The live performances have been depicted as shamanic, hypnotic and full of beauty and intensity. Echoes of Swans, Nick Cave, Velvet Underground, Johnny Cash, the Swedish Cold Meat Industry sound and Nico, to which Stella's vocal timbre is compared.
The first album was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Joe Cardamone, Mark Lanegan's last collaborator, while the second and third albums were recorded in Italy with producer Matt Bordin and include the presence of multifaceted artist and singer Samantha Stella. In addition to headlining tours, Nero Kane supported musicians from the international experimental, dark and folk scene including Jozef Van Wissem, Darkher, Jonathan Hultén, Hugo Race and Marissa Nadler.

https://nerokane.bandcamp.com/album/of-knowledge-and-revelation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynaHa-cHDpQ

DEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC (voice and guitar duo for this show)

Dead Space Chamber Music (DSCM) are an experimental early music group from Bristol, UK. They reinterpret historical material, particularly from the medieval and Renaissance periods, taking forms and melodies that are hundreds of years old and shapeshifting them into new and varied contemporary works. Drawing on many musical approaches, including ‘found sound’ and improvisation, they incorporate elements and atmospheres of dark medieval, dark-folk, ritual ambient, avant-garde and doom in their powerful and emotive music.

Together with modular synth artist Tommy Creep, DSCM also co-curate the Dark Alchemy event series, hosting immersive events in atmospheric spaces, hosting and collaborating with artists such as Kate Arnold, The Nent (DE), Il Santo Bevitore, A-Sun Amissa and Maud the Moth. As well as supporting Nero Kane in Todmorden, they look forward to welcoming them to Bristol to play in the stunning church of St John on the Wall as part of their Temples tour.

The band has earned acclaim for their live shows having previously supported The Danse Society, Cold in Berlin and Rose McDowell. In the last year they toured the UK with hackedepicciotto (Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten & Danielle de Picciotto Crime and the City Solution) and internationally acclaimed composer and virtuoso cellist Jo Quail.

The Black Hours is the band’s latest studio album. Two years in the making, it was released in late 2021. The songs show the breadth of the group’s scope in terms of influences and approaches, giving new life to historic material. The title refers to an intimate medieval prayer book - a devotional 'book of hours’ - of the same name. Ranging from melodic and tender to doom-laden and visceral, it digs deep into the unsettling and disorienting experiences of the time it was created. The album has received very positive reviews, and has brought Dead Space Chamber Music to the attention of wider audiences in and beyond the UK.

“The Black Hours is deeply storied and gloriously doomy ... a mix of beauty and heaviness, ancient and new.” The Quietus

https://dscm.bandcamp.com/album/the-black-hours
https://www.youtube.com/

MENKO

Menko is music project of music therapist, cellist, pianist, vocalist, producer and composer, Katrina Awramenko. Looping delicate piano, glitching vocals and strings gives way for ambient, transcendental sounds from her heart.

https://menko.bandcamp.com/album/menko



Tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nero-kane-temples-tour-dead-space-chamber-music-menko-tickets-779367879307?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios

10/04/2024

We will be at Todmorden Unitarian Church for The Mayors Ball serving pizza by the slice.

Get a ticket while you can!

The Mayor’s Ball, Unitarian Church, this Saturday 13th of April.
Doors open at 6pm for a 7pm start.

Ticket link 👉 https://shorturl.at/hqCDN

⛔️No parking at the church… you can park at Morrison’s (as we have a friendly agreement) or in one of the town centre car parks (Free after 6pm)

07/04/2024

Yesterday Eugene & Kathy got married at Todmorden Unitarian Church 🥰💒
Congratulations to them both.
06-04-2024.

Thank you to Scott van der Zanden for the lovely photo of the couple saying their vows.

02/04/2024

Tonight at 7pm.
Everyone welcome 🥰💒🍰🫖

30/03/2024

Join us for a resonant performance of Sacred Songs, Folk Stories, Medicine Music & Om Bombs!

28/03/2024

20/12/2023

Places that are open on Christmas Day 🥰

We’ve put together opening times for Emergency Food provisions on Christmas Day! (25th December)

Please see the poster below 👇🏾

20/12/2023