Manchester Jazz Festival launched yesterday on the 16th May 2025, for their 30th festival!

This is the 4th year that Forsyths has teamed up with Manchester Jazz Festival (MJF) and Yamaha to create the piano trail and this year it is bigger and longer than ever before. The Piano Trail started back in March, and this month is your last chance to enter the competition to win a Yamaha P-145 Stage Piano (among other fantastic prizes!) 

To enter - just post a video to social media of your performance on one of the street pianos tagging in @manchesterjazzfestival  @manjazzfest and the tag #mjfpianotrail2025

We'd love it if you tagged us @forsythmusicshop so we can enjoy your playing too! Enter before the 31st May 2025 for your chance to win.

You can find all 16 pianos in the following locations:-

The Arndale Centre, 

The Corn Exchange,

Forsyth Music Shop, 

Aviva Studios: Factory International,

Grand Arcade (Wigan), 

Great Northern, 

Harvey Nichols, 

Manchester Central Library, 

Manchester Piccadilly Station, 

Quayside MediaCityUK (Lowry outlet), 

Royal Exchange Arcade, 

Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre (Oldham), 

Spinningfields, 

HOME, 

Trafford Palazzo, and 

Manchester Victoria Station.  

You can read the full details of the piano trail competition and how to enter on the Manchester Jazz Festival website.

Play it Forward: Street Piano Fund

This year we are also launching a fundraiser with MJF to help maintain the pianos and keep them available throughout the year in an ever growing range of venues. The fundraiser is called 'Play it Forward: Street Piano Fund' and you can find the details and DONATE HERE