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A POPULAR Warrington bar will be hosting a series of live music events next week as part of a UK-wide celebration of independent venues.<\/p>\n
Peggy McCools, on Erwood Street, is a vintage bar which specialises in craft beers from up to six independent breweries.<\/p>\n
The bar opened in 2024 and has proven a hit, with live music from up-and-coming performers.<\/p>\n
It has now been chosen to be part of the Independent Venue Week (IVW), which is an annual seven-day celebration in the UK.<\/p>\n
Since it launched in 2014, IVW has championed independently owned venues by bringing them together with artists, promoters, agents and record labels for a series of live events.<\/p>\n
Peggy McCools was chosen due to its commitment to Warrington\u2019s grassroots music scene since it opened, with more than 200 bands having played the venue since 2024.<\/p>\n
Not only this, but 100 per cent of the door revenue at the venue goes to the bands.<\/p>\n
As part of IVW, which is from January 26 to February 1, Peggy McCools will be putting on six days of live events.<\/p>\n
This includes four band nights, an evening of acoustic talent and an open mic night ahead of the Warrington Wolves home game against Leigh Leopards.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud to have been considered and chosen for Independent Venue Week \u2013 I never thought I\u2019d see Peggy McCools on the same list as the likes of the famous Ronny Scotts,\u201d said Matt McGinty, founder of the venue.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to be recognised for our efforts in providing a space for Warrington\u2019s grassroots music to keep thriving \u2013 it\u2019s really important to us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe grew up following our friends in some of Warrington\u2019s favourite bands and without independent venues they would never have been able to get the experience they needed to progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully the IVW spotlight on Warrington will help the town\u2019s scene kick on a gear because there\u2019s some incredible talent out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to welcoming people through the door for it next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A POPULAR Warrington bar will be hosting a series of live music events next week as part of a UK-wide celebration of independent venues. Peggy McCools, on Erwood Street, is a vintage bar which specialises in craft beers from up to six independent breweries. The bar opened in 2024 and has proven a hit, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2247397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[369692,435100,341685,435099,378670,435098],"class_list":["post-2247396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-grassroots-music","tag-independent-breweries","tag-next-week","tag-peggy-mccools","tag-warrington","tag-warrington-wolves"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Popular-Warrington-bar-to-series-of-live-music-events-next.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247398,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247396\/revisions\/2247398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}