The Forsyths Blog
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...
As spring begins it's journey into summer, we've got a packed month of events for you! Launched in March but continuing until 31st May is the piano trail with manchester jazz festival. This is our 4th year of partnering with mjf to bring street pianos to the streets in an around Manchester. This year it's bigger and better than ever with 16 pianos in place! This years locations are: 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! --- We're kicking May off on the 8th with a joint performance by Aaron Le Maistre and Stanley Butcher, playing works for two pianos, and a piano solo. The programme includes Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, as well as works by Bach-Busoni, Ginastera, and...
A reminder of our reduced hours over the two bank holiday's this month. We'll be open on Monday 5th May and Monday 26th May, but with reduced hours of 11-17!
A reminder that we will be closed on Sunday 20th and Monday 21st April for the Easter bank holiday!
Spring is in the air here in Manchester, and we have a packed couple of months of free music events for you to enjoy! Launched in March but continuing until 31st May is the piano trail with manchester jazz festival. This is our 4th year of partnering with mjf to bring street pianos to the streets in an around Manchester. This year it's bigger and better than ever with 16 pianos in place! This years locations are: 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! --- This month we're welcoming back Forsyth regular performer Duncan Honeybourne for a Thomas Pitfield: Piano Music Album Launch on the 11th April. Duncan Honeybourne, acclaimed internationally for his insightful interpretations of 20th and...
Today, 29th March, is the 88th day of the year and that makes it World Piano Day! Established in 2015, this year marks 10 years of #WorldPianoDay! Every year it gets bigger and better, and is now known across the globe. To mark the occasion we're livestreaming over on our YouTube channel from our street piano outside the shop Our street piano all kitted up for the manchester jazz festival. Our street piano also forms part of the manchester jazz festival piano trail of 16 pianos we've sourced and placed in different venues around Manchester. Our technician Joe getting the piano in Manchester Piccadilly Station ready Why not make a day of it and enjoy as many of the pianos as you can! You can also enter the competition to win some amazing prizes including a Yamaha Pianos digital piano -> https://manchesterjazz.com/mjf2025-piano-trail/ Delivering a piano to the Royal Exchange ... and if you enjoy the street pianos we put around Manchester and maintain for everyone to enjoy, perhaps you'd like to contribute to the fundraiser to help...
This year's piano trail around Manchester officially started today (20th March 2025) and is in place until 31st May 2025. There are 16 pianos around Manchester in an array of venues free for everyone to enjoy. 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. As in other years there is an opportunity to win a Yamaha digital piano as well as an array of other prizes by posting a video to social media of your performance on one of the street pianos tagging in @manchesterjazzfestival @manjazzfest and the tag #mjfpianotrail2025 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),...
Our free recital continued in February with two wonderful performances! For up to date information on our upcoming performances, see our main event page here We started with a performance by Cristo Harijan of music by Liszt and Mompou. All our free recitals are livestreamed to Facebook, you can see Harijan's performance here --- Our second recital in February was with Robert Wheatley and our very own Winnie Su, for an evening of Impressionist Music. The livestream can be found here --- We had some exciting bits of filming happen in store in February, one of which became a feature video across Secret Manchester's social media --- Our social media channels have been busy, with all our departments sharing their favourite items. Our Piano Department shared this adorable pre-owned Ibach 'Baby' Grand Piano, which has been stealing the hearts of everyone who walks by. At not quite 4.8 feet long it's our smallest little 'Baby' Grand. --- Our Instrument Department has been feeling the spring spirit and sharing some lovely guitars...
An 'arty' Guitar Trail will be coming to Manchester this summer and the organisers are looking for people to donate their old/broken/unused guitars to become part of a city centre wide guitar trail. The appeal for donations in a 'guitar amnesty' was launched today (7th March), and Forsyths is one of the venues that you can drop off your donated guitar. The guitars will become part of multiple artworks across the city (including possibly in Forsyth's window!). Any usable instruments after the trail has finished will then be donated to deserving local causes. To find out more about the 'Music for the Senses' project and the guitar trail visit www.musicforthesenses.co.uk