Music for Health gigs, crossing cultures & the city #citydailyphoto

Photo of Deli Babies performing as part of the RNCM Music For Health project. Photo credit to Lime, an award-winning arts charity within the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

There is an RNCM Music for Health concert on Thursday 7 February from 1 p.m to 1.30 p.m. at the Manchester Children’s Hospital atrium, followed by music on the wards.  Hong Kong Musician of the Year 2012 Yin Ng (promotional photo below) will be playing the wonderful Chinese traditional instrument - the Sheng. It's like a church organ and harmonica combined. He will be working with multi-instrumentalist Pete Moser on accordion, guitar and trumpet.

In the evening of Thursday 7 February Yin Ng, Pete Moser, Ben McCabe and Semay Wu are performing a Year of the Snake gig at the Chinese Arts Centre at 8 p.m. It'll be a fusion of Chinese music, jazz, beats and inspiring tunes. (Tickets £5).

Then on Friday 8 February at 8.30 p.m. there is a change of genres with a Music in Hospitals benefit gig upstairs at the Attic; above the Thirsty Scholar pub near Oxford Rd station and featuring Naymedici, Paper Town and Lazlo Baby (Tickets £5). 

You've got to love Lazlo Baby's Twitter feed blurb: "Lazlo Baby play gypsy, balkan and ska infected folk. From Marple, near Manchester. We are radiators not drainers."