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Embrace your love of music with an array of exciting festivals, performances and events happening across Durham this year.
See big name acts, exciting new bands and up and coming local artists at iconic venues across the county. From intimate gigs and street parties to fabulous festivals and stadium tours. A visit to Durham is guaranteed to get your toes tapping!
Number of results: 18
Music Event
Chester le Street
Dementia Friendly Choir.
Music Event
Barnard Castle
Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams aka State of the Union, create a magical, stripped back and enthralling musical atmosphere with two guitars and two voices. Boo Hewerdine is perhaps best known from his years fronting much loved English rock band…
Music Event
Beamish
Beamish Folk is a new folk music session taking place on the second Sunday of each month in our 1900s Pit Village band hall, 11.30am-1.30pm.
Music Event
Durham City
An immersive tribute to Hans Zimmer and cinema's most iconic music with a live chamber orchestra illuminated by light!
Music Event
Beamish
Come and join The Cloth Cappers in The Band Hall in the Pit Village.
Music Event
Beamish
Join us for an afternoon of skiffle music in the 1950s welfare hall! Enjoy our own band, Hop, Skiffle and Jump performing from 12pm until 1pm, followed by our Uke Club from 1.15pm until 2.15pm where you can develop your ukulele skills.
Concert
The College, Durham
Spend an evening hearing Vivaldi's Four Seasons under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Festival
Mill Street, Crook
Mark your calendar for Sunday, May 4th, 2025, and join us at CrookFest, an electrifying one-day music festival held in the market town of Crook, County Durham.
Music Event
Newton Aycliffe
We're thrilled to announce that Ayclive Festival is back for its third year, bigger and better than ever! By popular demand, we're expanding to a two-day event, taking place on Friday 25th July and Saturday 26th July 2025.
Music Event
Durham City
Here is a rare chance to hear Handel's Judas Maccabaeus (HWV 63) performed by Durham Choral Society and orchestra. The music is typically baroque and with a recognisable tune, with the words, of "See the conquering hero comes" as a popular brass…
Concert
The College, Durham
Experience the music of Hans Zimmer under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Music Event
Barnard Castle
An evening with THE BOOTLEG EAGLES is jam-packed with all of the unforgettable hits and best-loved album tracks audiences love.
Concert
The College, Durham
Lose yourself in this sonically spectacular celebration of Radiohead's vast and ever-expanding universe of music - including hits and hidden gems from their 30 years in the spotlight from albums such as OK Computer, In Rainbows and The Bends.
Theatre
Durham City
DULOG Musical Theatre return with the all-singing, all-dancing Golden Age romantic-comedy Crazy For You!
Music Event
Durham
Mississippi MacDonald won 2 awards at the prestigious UK Blues Federation event: Traditional Blues Artist Of The Year 2024 and Acoustic Act Of The Year 2024.
Music Event
Durham
Join the reigning double-UK Champions of A Cappella, along with their Durham University A Cappella friends, for a night of outstanding vocals in the Gala Durham.
Festival
Sedgefield
Hardwick Festival returns 15th to 17th August. The 2025 line-up will be revealed soon.
Music Event
Beamish
Head to The 1900s Pit Village band hall where music group Kiddars Luck will be hosting the Pit Village Music Hall from 11.30am-2.30pm, a musical celebration of the North East, including clog dancing and a surprise guest or two!
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