october, 2025
This is a repeating event

Event Details
We’re delighted to announce that Manchester Camerata’s Music Café is returning to the Monastery! This wonderful Music Café is for people living with dementia, along with their families & carers, to
Event Details
We’re delighted to announce that Manchester Camerata’s Music Café is returning to the Monastery!
This wonderful Music Café is for people living with dementia, along with their families & carers, to make music and have fun together, meet new friends and learn how music can help you reconnect to your loved ones.
FREE to attend, with tea/coffee/biscuits
Meet our professional musicians
Make new friends
No musical experience required!
Every Wednesday morning in the visitor’s room.
Programme and timings
10.30am: Arrive, refreshments served
11am-12pm: Music-making session
Cost
Free of charge for people living with dementia and their carers/families.
There’s full disabled access and lots of free parking too.
Directions
Click here.
To book
Email [email protected] to reserve your place and/or find out more.
Great press our Music Café received last time around!
Guardian reporter Helen Pidd wrote on her own Twitter account that the Music Café ‘…was the most moving thing I’ve had the privilege of reporting on in quite a few years. Bravo to Manchester Camerata’. Read the full article here.
This article follows press from both ITV and BBC News. Ann O’Connor from ITV described the Café as ‘Simple, effective and often magical‘, and the BBC put a lovely segment together which you can check here!
Time
(Wednesday) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location
The Monastery Manchester
89, Gorton Lane