Steve Davis joins Angel Field Festival 2025 line-up

Snooker legend Steve Davis is among the line-up at the 2025 Angel Field Festival which returns to Liverpool’s Capstone Theatre this month.

Davis’s six-piece electronic band The Utopia Strong will play at the Liverpool Hope venue as part of a busy programme of music, art, performance, film, workshops and discussion.

This year’s festival runs from March 20-27.

The festival opens on March 20 with the award-winning Dife Youth Ensemble which will showcase the heart and soul of Louisiana’s rich heritage, infusing the infectious rhythms of traditional Zydeco music with the expressive power of contemporary dance.

The Utopia Strong comes to Angel Field on March 21. Davis’s sextet was formed at Glastonbury in 2018 and released a self-titled debut album in 2019 with a second album, International Treasure, following in 2022.

March 22 sees an afternoon performance by Liverpool’s The Savoy Jazzmen. The group first performed at the city’s Mardi Gras Jazz Club in May 1960 and regularly played in the Downbeat Jazz Club. The Jazzmen also played at the original Cavern and have a brick in the wall in Mathew Street.

They will be followed by in the evening by a concert from the Hope Metropolitan Orchestra and Choir which concentrates on Mozart’s great works from 1791, the last year of his life.

Kininso Koncepts' Waterside

The neighbouring Cornerstone Building is the stage for Kininso Koncepts production Waterside on March 23, with the play billed as “an emotional, thought-provoking and magical journey that unravels the culture of totemism and taboos, plagues in the Niger Delta, and the significance of culture, family, memories, and dreams, delving into historical issues of oil exploitation and struggles of Nigerian youth, in particular unemployment.”

Then in the evening, the Capstone hosts a concert titled In a Landscape, featuring the music of Satie, Cage and David Revill performed by Lauryna Sablevicute on piano and Stephen Davismoon on electronics.

Stages of Youth on March 24 is is a celebration of young talent from Liverpool Hope University Drama Society, Young Everyman Playhouse Programme and a debut performance of the The Wee Wake, written, directed and produced by second year student Aoife Kane.

Kersti Ståbi presents The Hairy Girl at the Capstone Theatre

An artist talk and private view for the exhibition, (a contemporary) phantasmagoria (2), will take place in the Cornerstone Gallery on March 25. The talk at 4.30pm will take place in the Grace Room (COR 114) at Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus and will be followed by a Private View in the Cornerstone Gallery at 5.45pm.

In the evening, East Meets West – A Musical Interpretation of Poem’s Savors will feature Hua Lin, one of the most prominent contemporary Chinese composers, alongside Chinese pianist Lei Cai, Professor of Piano at America’s Ouachita Baptist University.

A re-telling of one of the wildest Scandinavian fairy tales, Kersti Ståbi’s The Hairy Girl, comes to the Capstone on March 26 with the eponymous heroine thundering through the world on her goat, beating up troll hags, saving her sister from a grim destiny, and using all her cunning to find a future for her family.

Then on March 27, Angel Field presents Moutya, a soulful and evocative performance steeped in Seychelles’ history.

Angel Field Festival is at the Capstone Theatre from March 20-27. More details and tickets HERE