Tracks

20/01/2025

We are really excited to announce these sessions to celebrate International Womens Day 2025! Two absolute legends of our Northern culture scene Kate Fox and Lauren Pattison joining for us for some lush chats! Get your tickets booked as they are very limited and are on a pay what you feel basis :-) Darlington For Culture - the official site Creative Darlington Whats On in Darlington Love Darlo

📢 Noisy Daughters Celebrating North East Women 📢

Tracks are linking up with Darlington Hippodrome for two very special Noisy Daughters ‘In Discussion With’ sessions.

Championing women in the creative sector from the North, these two sessions will be laid back and informal with opportunities for the audience to ask questions.

⭐ Sat 1st Feb - Stand up poet, spoken word artist and broadcaster KATE FOX.
🎟 https://www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk/whats-on/Noisy-Daughters-In-Discussion-with-Kate-Fox

⭐ Sat 1st Mar - Newcastle comedian LAUREN PATTISON will be joining us for a chat.
🎟 https://www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk/whats-on/Noisy-Daughters-In-Discussion-with-Lauren-Pattison

ℹ Both sessions will run 11am-12pm and tickets are available to book now on a Pay What You Decide basis.

Kate Fox: Stand-Up Poet

16/01/2025

Our friends over at Stellar Projects are looking for volunteers for their upcoming event Valley of Light over in Saltburn. Great for anyone looking for festival experience 🥰✨

📣 Valley of Light volunteer opportunity! 📣

We are looking for volunteers via Tees Valley Festivals Volunteering to help us transform Saltburn Valley Gardens into a magical Valley of Light this March.

We have volunteer opportunities available on:

📅 Thursday 13th March (set up)
📅 Friday 14th March (event)
📅 Saturday 15th March (event)
📅 Sunday 16th March (take down)

What will you be doing?

🌟 Helping set up and take down the festival
🌟 Stringing fairy lights
🌟 Installing the lantern village
🌟 Putting up signs
🌟 Welcoming visitors
🌟 Assisting on information points
🌟 Guiding visitors around site
🌟 Assisting artists with workshops
🌟 Facepainting and other activities

What's in it for you?
✨ You'll have fun, meet new people and be part of a team!
✨ You'll learn about event management and gain confidence
✨ You'll develop your customer service skills
✨ You'll discover new performers and artists
✨ You'll be at the heart of Saltburn Valley of Light
✨ You'll connect with and support your local community
✨ You'll help others have a great time and make the festival a success
✨ You'll learn about different career opportunities and enhance your CV

📲 Find out more and to sign up via: https://volunteer.tvfvolunteering.com/opportunities/78042-valley-of-light-2025-volunteer-saltburn-by-the-sea-2024-12-16

15/01/2025

Helloooo 2025! And yes it takes us this long to remeber to write 2025 and not 2024! We are bringing you two quality live music events to start our year off!

First off we have the mighty Dossers coming back to Darlington to headline our Independent Venue Week gig with The Forum Music Centre on Tues 28th Jan with quality support from North Yorks poetic rap rockers Ceiling Demons and Darlo's own Analogue Blood bringing the bangers. Tickets £10 on sale now from our website or from The Forum Music Centre

On Friday 7th Feb we have the return of Hark: The Sound of Stories - featuring Polly Paulusma our gigs that twin live music and literary lushness performed in the beautiful surroundings of Darlington Libraries Crown Street Library with pop up bar from Crafty Merlins and the chance to borrow a book! Books, beer and live music - all the goodness! This volume features Polly Paulusma Music sharing a soundscape of synths, piano, guitar and poetry from her new album 'Wildfires', lush acoustic support from Ren Lawton and readings from Bob Beagrie and more. Tickets £10 or £12 OTD

Get your tickets, come along, support Darlington Libraries The Forum Music Centre and start your year right Love Darlo

www.tracksdarlington.co.uk

https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Darlington/Darlington-Library/HARK-The-Sound-of-Stories/40526203/

https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Darlington/The-Forum-Music-Studios/IVW25---Dossers-Ceiling-Demons--Analogue-Blood/40420801/

31/12/2024

Happy New Year Everyone! A huge shout out to all of you who came to our events this year! From Big Little Gigs to Hark! The Sound Of Stories, Tracks Tuesdays in the market square, community music sessions and our ever growing grassroots music and comedy fest Last Train Home Festival! Thanks to all the musicians, sound engineers, venues, event managers, photographers and volunteers we worked with - you are all amazing! Thanks to all the partners and funders, old and new who have supported us this year. We'll be raising a glass to you all tonight and we're looking forward to more live music fun with you for 2025 :-)

Photo credits Rob Irish Victoria Wai Visuals Gareth Willams

20/12/2024

Tomorrow (21 December), drop by Darlington Library on Crown Street for the last of our Christmas Music Moments, featuring Phil Wing Music!

🎅🎼Playing 11-11.30am and 12-12.30pm, Phil will be serenading library goers with a range of Christmas classics to welcome in the holidays!

🎄🪕Join us this Saturday for the first of our Christmas Music Moments.🪕🎄 The fab Phil Cox will be with us at 11am and 12pm in our Junior Library.

Tracks

12/12/2024

As well as putting on music events, we love to bring music out into the community 😊 Thanks to our pals at Tees Music Alliance for asking us to be a part of their fab project

Our chums at Tracks paid an early Xmas visit to the residents of The Grange Care Home as part of our project. A session of seasonal signing has put the residents in the mood for the forthcoming festivities.

This was made possible with support from The National Lottery Community Fund

06/12/2024

We are back at Darlington Libraries tomorrow for some live music Christmas cheer! This week we have our very own Christmas Witches singing some family festive favourites. They’ll be performing two sets, one at 11am and one at 12pm. Come in for a breather from Christmas shopping, a warm away from the grim weather, borrow a book and join us for a fun singalong session 🎄🧑🏻‍🎄🎤 Love Darlo Creative Darlington Darlington For Culture - the official site

30/11/2024

Have a break from your Christmas shopping for a bit of live music in our beautiful Darlington Libraries we’ve got the excellent Phil Cox playing today 🎄🤩

🎄🪕Join us this Saturday for the first of our Christmas Music Moments.🪕🎄 The fab Phil Cox will be with us at 11am and 12pm in our Junior Library.

Tracks

28/11/2024

Morning! Excited to announce that we have teamed up with The Forum Music Centre to bring you an epic gig for Bringing the mighty Dossers back to Darlo to headline plus quality support from Ceiling Demons and Analogue Blood Tickets on sale now!!! Gig tickets for Christmas anyone? 🤩🎄🧑🏻‍🎄 Love Darlo Creative Darlington Darlington For Culture - the official site

https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Darlington/The-Forum-Music-Studios/IVW25---Dossers-Ceiling-Demons--Analogue-Blood/40420801/

26/11/2024

Deadline approaching for this mint opportunity for a lucky local band/solo artist over at Tees Music Alliance! Take a look 👀

Tees Music Alliance presents... The Green House Music Residency - APPLICATIONS CLOSE FRI 6TH DEC (5PM)

Our week-long music residency The Green House returns from 24th February-1st March 2025. The residency, which takes place at The Green Dragon Studios will offer three artists living or working in the Tees Valley (of any genre and background, and at any career stage) the following opportunities…

● Access to rehearsal space (Mon-Sat 10am-7pm) to practice, write music and
work on live setup.
● Access to a professional recording studio for one day to record music, which
will be mixed by our in-house engineer after the residency has finished.
● Workshops with music industry professionals offering expert advice, followed
by post-residency mentoring.
● £500 Grant.
● Photoshoot
● Live show at The Georgian Theatre, Stockton on the evening of Saturday 1st March with full audio and visual recording of the performance.

Click here for our application form: https://teesmusicalliance.org.uk/projects/the-green-house-2025/

The residency will run with generous support from the PRS Foundation

19/11/2024

LOW TICKET ALERT! very limited tickets left for this on Saturday Darlington Hippodrome so if you did fancy joining the awesome Liz Corney for a Christmas singalong to get you in the mood, get your tickets booked quick! 🧑🏻‍🎄

🔔 Just announced! 🔔

Tracks returns to Darlington Hippodrome with their Noisy Daughters project to get you in the Christmas spirit! ❄

🎄 Join Liz Corney for a very special pop up choir session, where you'll learn uplifting songs and rounds, to be sung in easy parts 🎶

🎵 Saturday 23 November 2024 🎵

Tickets are free, but must be booked in advance ⬇
www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk/whats-on/Noisy-Daughters-Festive-Pop-Up-Choir-

ℹ Age guidance: 14+. In line with the Noisy Daughters ethos, this event is only open to women and gender minorities.

15/11/2024

Are we feeling Christmassy yet? No? Well good because it’s still ages away and we are not ready! 😂 However here is the second of our musical Christmas announcements. We have three free acoustic festive sessions happening at the beautiful Darlington Libraries on the run up to the BIG day. Featuring Phil Cox Phil Wing Music and our own Christmas Witches Francoise Harvey and Sarah Wilson 🎄 Yes, we know two of the sessions feature people called Phil, but we hoped that you would like it if we wrote a brilliant status about how you can all Phil your Christmas stockings with festive music! Or that you can all Phil your hearts with Christmas joy, etc, etc😂 Why not take a break from your Christmas shopping and pop in the library for a Christmas music break and a book to read on those dark winter nights 📚🎅🏻🎄

Sat 30th Nov - Phil Cox
Sat 7th Dec - Christmas Witches
Sat 21st Dec - Phil Wing

11am-11.30am and 12pm-12.30pm

Love Darlo Creative Darlington Darlington Borough Council

14/11/2024

Wanna find out more about Tees Music Alliance and Generator new Sonic Futures programme and share your ideas for the local music scene? Head down to this on Friday The Forum Music Centre to find out more

Do you want to help us plan the Sonic Futures programmes that we offer? We’d love to hear your ideas about what should (and shouldn’t!) be included, so why not join us at one of our upcoming drop-in sessions across Tees Valley, and give us your thoughts:

▪️ 13th November – 6pm-9pm, Arc, Stockton Arts Centre (Part of Tees Valley Creates: The Freelancer Network launch event – separate sign-up needed:
https://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/tees-valley-creates-freelancer-network-launch/)
▪️ 15th November – 11am-1pm, The Forum Music Centre, Darlington
▪️ 15th November – 2pm-4pm, Flok Co-working space, Middlesbrough
▪️ 22nd November – 11am-1pm, Redcar Palace

What is Sonic Futures?
Sonic Futures is a visionary, TVCA-funded programme dedicated to nurturing Tees Valley’s next generation of musical talent while strengthening the region’s musical infrastructure. By combining the expertise of Tees Music Alliance and Generator, Sonic Futures seeks to establish Tees Valley as a vibrant hub for music creativity.
With a focus on professional, organic, and sustainable growth, this initiative aims to empower local artists and industry professionals, fostering long-term success and cementing Tees Valley’s role in shaping the future of music on both local and national stages.

12/11/2024

First of a couple of Christmassy announcements right here! Lush to be able to work with Darlington Hippodrome to bring the wonderous Liz Corney back to town for another pop up choir. Free to attend and good for getting your voice geared up for blasting out all those Christmas bangers over the festive season! Book your tickets 🎄🎤

🔔 Just announced! 🔔

Tracks returns to Darlington Hippodrome with their Noisy Daughters project to get you in the Christmas spirit! ❄

🎄 Join Liz Corney for a very special pop up choir session, where you'll learn uplifting songs and rounds, to be sung in easy parts 🎶

🎵 Saturday 23 November 2024 🎵

Tickets are free, but must be booked in advance ⬇
www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk/whats-on/Noisy-Daughters-Festive-Pop-Up-Choir-

ℹ Age guidance: 14+. In line with the Noisy Daughters ethos, this event is only open to women and gender minorities.

09/11/2024

MERCH! We've added some trinkets from Last Train Home Festival to our store if you wanna snag some cool curiosities to rep the local music scene wherever you go. Including plectrums, enamel pin badges, and a selection of prints from work we commissioned from local artists.
More info in the store: www.tracksdarlington.co.uk/shop

05/11/2024

Take a look at this! New music directory for the North East being set up by Index Music get your details on there, spread the word about what you do

23/09/2024

We’ve just landed after four days at Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg once again (it’s our fifth year!) Such a vibrant place to discover new artists from all across Europe and around the world, as well as meet and make plans with music industry moguls.

We saw countless amazing performances in loads of great venues, but it was especially cool to catch Teesside native Amelia Coburn playing at headCRASH Hamburg. Props to Generator, Tees Music Alliance, Tees Valley Combined Authority and the team behind Sonic Futures for making it happen. It’s great to see North East representation at the festival and we’d love to find a way to keep that going.

Word to Karousel Music too who always put on a top showcase including UK talent every year. It’s getting harder and more expensive than ever to tour but it really puts things into context when you see how much European audiences appreciate UK music, and how important it is to make international exchange happen.

1 & 2: Amelia Coburn
3: Zaho de Sagazan
4: Lambrini Girls
5: Grosse Freiheit 36
6: SNAYX
7: Geordie Greep
8: SWIM DEEP
9: Ibibio Sound Machine
10: Kate Nash