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Paul Callaghan
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Culture, economics, regeneration, business, politics & football. #SunderlandMusicCity #SAFC My own views. Retweets are not an endorsement http://MACTrust.org.uk
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November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
August 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Dave Stewart guesting with @tomasmithmusic.bsky.social at @thefirestation.bsky.social Summer Party

Photo by @tynesight.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It’s the 12th August so Happy National Mackem Day to Wearsiders wherever you are.
August 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is going to be an amazing night.

Celebrate all things Sunlun with us, Sunderland Music City, at the Sheepfolds Stables on Tuesday 12th August!

NATIONAL MACKEM DAY

It's FREE but ticketed to make sure the place isn't swamped.
Get in quick and get a ticket here:
musiccity.uk/whats-on/nat...
August 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
July 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The photographic evidence - stopping off in Trafalgar Square on the way to India
July 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What a fantastic start to the Year of Music
Since 21st June, we have seen
Adele Emeli Sandé
Franz Ferdinand
Smoove & Turrell
RNS
Martin Stephenson
Hamilton @ the Sunderland Empire
And it's only just getting started!
July has
The Levellers
Samling Opera
BBC Proms - Soweto Kinch
musiccity.uk/whats-on
July 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Summer Streets Festival - Today 5th July and Tomorrow 6th July
Cliffe Park - and it’s FREE
July 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Happy 118th Birthday to the wonderful Sunderland Empire
July 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Music City Sunderland! How good is that! You have to agree with Alex Kapranos.

Fantastic night at The Fire Station with Franz Ferdinand celebrating everything good about music, identity and community.
June 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Happy 1st Birthday to Sunderland Music City musiccity.uk

What a year it has been - and we are only just starting.
June 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Today, 21st June is World Music Day. Throughout the world people are making music. It is also the start of the Sunderland Year of Music. Celebrating the city joining the www.musiccitiesnetwork.com, we begin the year with a day filled with music everywhere. Sunderland musiccity.uk - be part of it.
June 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Hamilton at the Sunderland Empire is a phenomenal show.

Highly recommended for a great night out.
June 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Front Page of The New York Times!
Nine Years ago, we were with in the USA with Live Theatre's co-production of Lee Hall's Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour.
What a show it was, and it made the front page of the NYT.
Here is a clip from the show
youtu.be/gNVOV5e469c?...
June 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
The Fire Station Thu 19 Jun

Tickets:
www.thefirestation.org.uk/whats-on/263...
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons sounds as fresh and tuneful three centuries after they were composed.

Photography by Thomas Jackson
June 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”

By Ruben Bolling

I love the detail
June 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Get ‘In the Mood’ with The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Directed by Ray McVay

The Fire Station Sunderland
Sun 29 Jun 15:00

Tickets: www.thefirestation.org.uk/whats-on/430...
June 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
June 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
May 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Great photograph of Roker by Tony Charles
May 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
French painter Henri Rousseau—the archetype of the modern naïve artist, known for his richly coloured and meticulously detailed pictures of lush jungles, wild beasts, and exotic figures was born on 21st May, 1844.
May 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
May 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Sunderland Music City are proud to present Franz Ferdinand, live on Wednesday 25th June on Wearside, as they help open the Sunderland Year of Music 2025-2026.
May 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM