1930 in British music

This is a summary of 1930 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

8 February – Singer Sam Browne makes his first recording with Bert Ambrose's band on Decca.
5 April – 25-year-old Michael Tippett gives a concert at Oxted consisting entirely of his own works—a Concerto in D for flutes, oboe, horns and strings; settings for tenor of poems by Fry; Psalm in C for chorus and orchestra, again with a text by Fry; piano variations on the song "Jockey to the Fair"; and a string quartet.
7 June – The Daily Herald reports that Jack Hylton and his band sold nearly four million records in the previous year.
29 September – Roy Fox gives his first London performance.
22 October – The London-based BBC Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert in Queen's Hall, conducted by Adrian Boult.
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*The Joe Loss Orchestra is established.
*Gerald Walcan Bright adopts the name "Geraldo" to further his career as a bandleader.
*Songwriter Fred Godfrey and Irish tenor Tom Finglass form a short-lived variety act.
*The Dagenham Girl Pipers are established, under the direction of Rev. Joseph Waddington Graves, the minister of Osborne Hall Congregational church.

25 June – The Love Race opens at the Gaiety Theatre where it runs for 237 performances.
30 October – Nippy, starring Binnie Hale, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre and runs for 137 performances.

Elstree Calling, starring Teddy BrownHarmony Heaven, starring Polly WardJust for a Song, starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Roy Royston and Constance Carpenter.The Nipper, starring Betty Balfour