Angel Field Festival

20 Mar 2025 - 27 Mar 2025

Capstone Theatre

A legendary snooker world champion will headline a festival in Liverpool later this month with his acclaimed electronic music group.

Steve Davis’ band The Utopia Strong tops the bill at this year’s Angel Field Festival 2025, taking place at Liverpool Hope University’s Creative Campus from 20th until 27th March. The week-long festival will see a range of arts and music on offer in what is a truly eclectic line-up.

The Utopia Strong will play The Capstone Theatre on Friday 21st March at 7:30pm. The band from Glastonbuty released their self-titled debut album in 2019 and their second, International Treasure, in 2022 with the late great DJ Andrew Weatherall proclaiming the band’s sound as “gnostic sonics in a nutshell”.

Liverpool’s own The Savoy Jazzmen, who formed an incredible 65 years ago, will play the festival on Saturday 22nd March at 2pm.

The band first performed at the Mardi Gras Jazz Club Liverpool on Tuesday 3rd May 1960. They also played regularly in the Downbeat Jazz Club in the 1960s and a poster can be seen in the World Museum advertising the group’s session in the club with the Swinging Blue Jeans. The band played at the original Cavern – which began as a traditional jazz club – and a brick in the wall opposite the new Cavern commemorates these sessions.

Then, later on Saturday evening, The Hope Metropolitan Orchestra and Choir will deliver a stunning showcase of Mozart’s great work of 1791, including a performance of his famous Requiem. The concert will feature Barbara Ruzsics (soprano), Sarah Helsby Hughes (mezzo-soprano), Hugh Kaliski (tenor) and Joseph Murphy (bass). The year 1791 saw Mozart complete several great works – the piano concerto in Bb, k.595, the operas The Magic Flute and La Clemenza di Tito, the Clarinet Concerto k.622, the string quintet in Eb k.614, the much-loved motet Ave Verum Corpus.

On Sunday 23rd March at 7:30pm, Liverpool audiences will be able to experience a concert of music of a reflective nature featuring works by the composers Erik Satie, John Cage and David Revill. French composer Satie (1866 – 1924) was an early pioneer of musical modernism exerting a profound influence on 20th-century music, meanwhile American composer Cage (1912 – 1992) was a legendary music theorist perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4”²33”³, which is performed in the absence of deliberate sound; musicians who present the work do nothing aside from being present for the duration specified by the title. British composer David Revill, who passed away in 2024, is the author of The Roaring Silence, the authorised biography of Cage.

East Meets West – A Musical Interpretation of Poem’s Savors is a programme that includes a piano recital alongside a lecture on the subject of contemporary piano works combining Eastern and Western cultural influences.

Hua Lin, one of the most prominent contemporary Chinese composers, and Chinese pianist Lei Cai, Professor of Piano at Ouachita Baptist University will perform these pieces on Tuesday 25th March, 7:30pm and introduce the works to the audience through reading his English translations of the Chinese poems and showing traditional Chinese paintings of the artistic conception.

As well as these exciting highlights, the festival will feature diverse range of music, art, performances, workshops and talks throughout the week at Liverpool Hope University’s Creative Campus.

Angel Field Festival is an exciting week-long festival of arts and culture at The Capstone Theatre and Liverpool Hope University’s Creative Campus from 20th until 27th March 2025. It will showcase an enthralling and diverse programme of music, art, dance, film, workshops and discussion.