A TRIBUTE night to music icon David Bowie is being held in Keighley.
Bowie's Birthday Party takes place at Studio 5 Live – in Chesham Street, off Dalton Lane – on Saturday, January 3, from 7.30pm.
It follows previous, similar events including a sell-out show which took place at the start of 2025.
Returning for the latest party are The Rhythm Junkies and The Shakes, and performing an acoustic set will be Adrian Thomas.
There is also a disco and raffle.
Tickets are available online – priced £7, plus a booking fee – at ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/dkmywyqxyezd
All proceeds go to the Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice, Manorlands.
The event forms part of the Groovy Happening series of charity gigs – and represents instalment number 158.
Groovy Happening takes place monthly, with its 'regular' home being the Parkside Social Club in Haworth.
Since it was first held, £59,100 has been raised for Manorlands.
The hospice supports patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families, across an area covering Craven, Airedale and Wharfedale as well as parts of Bradford.
All services are free to patients and their loved ones, but it costs more than £10,000 a day to keep the hospice doors open.
Most of the funds have to be raised through voluntary donations.
Sue Burke, for Groovy Happening, says: "The 2025 Bowie's Birthday Party sold out – so I'd urge people to get their tickets now."
Outlining the roots of the Bowie night, she added: "In 2017 when it was coming up to the first anniversary of Bowie's death – and what would have been his 70th birthday – I asked Ann Wiles, Groovy's founder, if she'd thought of doing a Groovy Happening event to celebrate his music. She said she hadn't, but that if I wanted to organise it, go ahead.
"The event has grown, and been repeated most years since then."
Bowie was a singer, songwriter and actor widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
He achieved his first top-five entry in the UK singles chart with Space Oddity in the late 1960s.
Bowie then 're-emerged' in 1972 during the glam rock era, with the alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
His single Starman, and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, earned him widespread popularity.
Bowie's death in 2016 came two days after the release of his final studio album, Blackstar.
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