True North Music music promoter
True North Music is an award-winning local music promoter bringing you the very best in Americana, bluegrass and folk/roots music. Organiser Maria Wallace puts on live concerts at several venues across Yorkshire, featuring talented musicians from across the USA, Canada and UK, and has presented several exceptional online events too.
True North Music has hosted over 50 successful and well-received gigs in Meltham, Marsden, Huddersfield, Holmfirth and Sheffield since early 2015, with an ongoing music series that's currently gone virtual due to the pandemic. Winner of the Outstanding Promoter Award at the Yorkshire Gig Guide Grassroots Awards 2017, Maria was also a finalist in the 2019 YGG awards. In spring 2019 she completed the prestigious Leadership Bluegrass course in Nashville run by the International Bluegrass Music Association.
After running all her events completely independently for many years, in 2020 Maria was successful in her first two applications for Arts Council England funding (Project Grants: Supporting Grassroots Live Music strand). True North Music was awarded funding both to run the first Yorkshire Americana & Bluegrass Day festival (postponed to summer 2021) and for a winter 2020/21 online music series which was a big success.
Find out about upcoming events at truenorthpromotions.co.uk or follow True North Music on Facebook and @truenorthgigs on Twitter and Instagram, for all the latest news!
As well as being a dynamic grassroots promoter and booking agent, Maria Wallace is also a singer, songwriter and musician herself, playing bluegrass, folk and Americana. The connections and relationships she's built over the past decade have helped True North Music bring some of the very best roots artists to Kirklees for some world class live music events.
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My Location
Huddersfield
Website: http://truenorthpromotions.co.uk/
My News
True North Music's live music series returns to Meltham / Mon 11 Apr 2022
Local roots music promoter Maria Wallace is reviving her True North Music grassroots live music series after a break of over two years due to the pandemic. Now the Americana, bluegrass and folk-roots concerts are coming ...
International Bluegrass Award nomination for True North Music / Thu 08 Jul 2021
Huddersfield-based music promoter and booking agent Maria Wallace (True North Music) has been nominated for a Momentum Award by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) based in Nashville, Tennessee. The nomi...
Streaming Across The Sea online festival coming up in July / Mon 21 Jun 2021
There'll be banjos, fiddles and mandolins galore, lively tunes and songs of heartbreak at the Streaming Across The Sea online festival, which fittingly kicks off on the Fourth of July. Huddersfield-based music promoter T...
My Events
The Slocan Ramblers in concert at The Carlile Institute, Meltham / Sat 10 Sep 2022
Exceptional Canadian quartet The Slocan Ramblers have built a worldwide reputation as a storming live band, based on energetic performances and impeccable musicianship on banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar and double bass....
Stillhouse Junkies in concert at The Carlile Institute, Meltham / Sat 25 Jun 2022
Hailing from south-western Colorado, USA, Stillhouse Junkies perform a fun and entertaining blend of bluegrass, Americana, country roots, blues and more. Winners of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s 2021 Mo...
Jake Blount in concert at The Carlile Institute, Meltham / Sat 21 May 2022
Award-winning young American musician and scholar Jake Blount is an exceptional banjoist, fiddler and singer, and a winner of the 2020 Steve Martin Banjo Prize. His debut solo album Spider Tales was released in 2020 to w...
My Videos
Saturday concert video, Fall into Autumn Virtual Festival
Day 1 of the Fall into Autumn Virtual Festival presented by Huddersfield-based True North Music. Featuring acclaimed Americana, bluegrass and folk artists from the USA and UK. This Saturday concert live stream featured T...
Sunday concert video, Fall into Autumn Virtual Festival
Day 2 of the Fall into Autumn Virtual Festival presented by Huddersfield-based True North Music. Featuring acclaimed Americana, bluegrass and folk artists from the USA and UK. This Sunday concert live stream featured Ver...
Streaming Across the Sea finale concert filmed in Meltham
The finale of True North Music's Streaming Across the Sea online festival took place on Saturday 10th July. This special double bill concert by two outstanding UK folk-roots bands, Jaywalkers and The Jellyman’s Daughter,...