What’s On

With the start of the school summer holidays, fun activities are in full swing across the borough this week. The kids will love Tabby McTat, live on stage at King George's Hall, the perfect treat to start the summer holidays.

The Mall Blackburn is starting the summer in style while raising money for charity with its One Great Day celebrations! It will join 200 shopping centres across the UK for the annual charity and fundraising event in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital and other local charities, with The Mall donating 50 per cent to the children’s support services at …

Blackburn Fire Station Open Day this week! Lots more to see and do here too!

Join multi award-winning comedian Tim FitzHigham and BBC Radio 4 musical maestro Duncan Walsh Atkins as they starch their beards and trim their dinner jackets, ready to bring you the wit and wordplay of those ingenious comedy songsmiths, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.

Here’s the list of events in & around Blackburn & Darwen from Monday, 8th July 2019 to Sunday, 14th July 2019.

“Me, you and the old guitar,How perfectly, perfectly happy we are.MEEE-EW and the old guitar.How PURRRR-fectly happy we are!” Tabby McTat is a cat with the loudest of meee-ews and a best friend with a guitar, Fred. Together they sing their favourite songs delighting the crowds, until one day Fred disappears. Separated and alone, Tabby finds shelter and a new …

The popular antiques show hosted by David Dickinson is coming to Blackburn's King George's Hall on Saturday 27th July!

Due to exceptional demand and an array of sold out dates all over the UK, Britain’s leading one-liner comic will return to the road with another onslaught of lean, expertly crafted gaggery, with a stop at Darwen Library Theatre this June.

A powerhouse tribute to the life of the iconic legend Meat Loaf and the music of the maestro Jim Steinman, the man behind the musical masterpieces.

Thousands of people are set to enjoy a Family tribute Festival in Witton Country Park this June!

This June, King George's Hall welcomes an incredible production starring the world’s leading Michael Jackson tribute artist, Navi, and MJ's iconic guitarist, Jennifer Batten.

Using the music of one of the most influential girl bands in the world, Diva Mix brings a show like no other, this June at Blackburn Empire Theatre.

Now a regular and hotly anticipated event in the Northwest classical music calendar, Martin Roscoe’s Launch concert for RVIPW (in association with Westholme School) will delight the audience with a fabulous evening of piano music – he will perform pieces by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt and Dohnanyi. Plus in his role as Artistic Director he will give fascinating insights to …

This fabulous comedy hosts a cast of hormonal women, memory loss one-liners and innuendo-laden versions of pop classics.

A stunning tribute to the music of one of the greatest performers and singers of our time.

As part of Darwen Live weekend, Darwen Library Theatre are proud to welcome Terrorvision front man, Tony Wright, up close and acoustic.

Featuring all the classic hits from Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons including, ‘Walk Like a Man’, ‘Sherry’, and ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’.

Billy is a former SAS Sergeant Major Class 1 and bodyguard to stars including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Russell Crowe, Sir Michael Caine, Tom Cruise and many others.

With over 15 realistic dinosaurs, puppets and characters take you back in time to when dinosaurs ruled the earth.

Gathered together from the cream of the North-West's Floyd-loving musicians, they deliver two and a half hours of Pink Floyd classics.

A captivating musical show that celebrates the life and music of one of the most important, successful and elegant British female singers of all time.

Star of Live At The Apollo, Live From The BBC, Mock The Week, Roast Battle and Live From The Comedy Store, Suzi Ruffell.

One of the UK's biggest and most successful Simon and Garfunkel theatre shows and their full live band come to Blackburn Empire Theatre.

Vienna Festival Ballet’s traditional staging of this 1841 masterpiece moves from the sunny optimism of Giselle’s idyllic village life to an ethereal world of mystery and menace.

Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field and Bill Pullman star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons.

The group are widely recognised as one of the best tributes to The Shadows and are capable of re-creating the authentic vocal and instrumental sounds from the past to the present.

They dance whilst they play. They sing whilst they play. They leap, tumble, juggle and joke whilst they play.

Matchmaker Dolly Levi has decided widowhood has palled and that her next client will be herself.

In Loyal Company is the incredible true story of missing World War II soldier and prisoner of War Arthur Robinson, written and performed by his great-nephew, David William Bryan.

Inspired by the much-loved fairy tale, Puss in Boots tells the story of a remarkable cat who, despite being both clever and charming, always seems to bring his master bad luck.