Performance Channel and its sister channel Performance MainStreet can be found on SKY Channel 270 and 271 (UK).
Performance is the UK’s no. 1 arts and entertainment channel, dedicated to showing the best of rock, pop, jazz, easy listening, dance, opera and classical music, as well as exploringthe craft of acting in A-list movie-star interviews.
Performance Channel broadcasts concerts, performances, master classes and star profiles from the world’s greatest composers and musicians, from Mozart with Mutti and Beethoven with Barenboim to ballet with Sylvie Guilleme and Darcy Bussell and to opera with Pavarotti and Domingo; from jazz greats Basie and Hancock and film stars from Eastwood to Theron.
Performance MainStreet is dedicated to the culture of 20th Century Music.
Performance MainStreet aims to bring you great music and great programmes. With interviews, from the likes of Peter Gabriel, Bono, Bob Geldoff, Martin Sheen, Billy Bragg, Patti Smith, Tim Robbins, Pete Seeger and many, many more.
Just to spoil you a little further, we have programmes such as the old favourite Old Grey Whistle Test, Get Up Stand Up, Ed Sullivan Show, Books into Film, Jazz in France and Concerts from the likes of Blur, Deep Purple, Stanley Jordon and more.
December 29, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Big fan of the performance channel. Regular viewer of Inside The Actor’s Studio which is fantastic and also Planet Rock which I watch frequently. It’s so good to have something devoted to the best of the arts when there’s so much garbage on the other channels. Keep up your excellent service.
March 4, 2008 at 10:37 pm
What a lovely surprise to find the new “Performance” after a rather long absence. have laughed at the Ed Sullivan show, sometimes cried at the adorable poetry readings, been moved by the prestigious concerts, Barenboim and others and their star soloists and particularly the other evening, the brilliant performance of excerpts from the Gilbert and Sullivan operettes. The accompanist, Susan Cooke, is a “virtuose” in her own right but, unfortunately, I did not catch the name of the very talented baritone.
If someone could tell me who he is, I would be most grateful.
Many thanks and best wishes for your continued success; am looking forward also to tuning in to 271.