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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!
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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
Beamish
Tap your foot along to the sound of brass bands at Beamish Museum.
Music Event
Durham City
Join Durham University Big Band and Durham University Jazz Orchestra for their yearly Jazzy Christmas charity gig at the Assembly Rooms Theatre for an evening of festive classics, blazing solos and Christmas cheer!
Christmas and New Year
Durham City
Enjoy an outstanding musical evening in the days after Christmas with a performance of Vivaldi's timeless classic, The Four Seasons, in the spectacular candlelit setting of Durham Cathedral.
Concert
Durham
Durham Singers with their musical director Tom Edney present Christmas carols from countries across Europe, including Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Norway and Iceland. You might are also get invited to sing along in a few carols with the…
Christmas and New Year
Sedgefield
Sedgefield's three choirs' present their Christmas concert: A Rhapsody of Christmas.
Festival
Sedgefield
Hardwick Festival returns 15th to 17th August. The 2025 line-up will be revealed soon.
Concert
Durham
Experience live classical music like never before at Ushaw on Friday 29 November 2024.
Concert
Durham
Candlelight: Best of the Beatle. Experience live classical music like never before at Ushaw on Friday 13 December 2024.
Concert
Barnard Castle
As well as creating award-winning original songs and instrumental pieces with the folk trio Lau, Kris Drever has had a fruitful solo career exploring the cracks between classic and modern song-writing and the traditional music that he comes from.
Concert
Durham City
Highlighting music that normally accompany a stage performance. This includes Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (a tragic love story) and Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty depicting the lilac fairy and puss-in-boots.
Concert
Durham City
Durham Opera Ensemble presents a spectacular evening of opera's finest arias, duets and choruses spanning Mozart to Gilbert and Sullivan.
Christmas and New Year
Wynyard
Experience the wonder of our annual Christmas carols in the historic chapel, where timeless melodies blend with festive spirit to create unforgettable moments of joy.
Christmas and New Year
Bishop Auckland
Join us for our Christmas Sing Along at St. Peter’s Chapel, Auckland Palace!
Music Event
Durham
Do you know a child that loves to sing? Durham Cathedral Choir is looking for the next generation of Choristers. This is a unique opportunity for any child in school years 2-6 to sing with the Choristers in the Cathedral.
Christmas and New Year
Durham City
Be transported back to the medieval monastery here at Durham Cathedral with Britten's Ceremony of Carols.
Music Event
Beamish
Come and join The Cloth Cappers in The Band Hall in the Pit Village. Featuring songs, tunes and dancing our musicians will be providing entertainment to suit all tastes with lively chorus songs and some high quality folk music between 12pm –…
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!
Music Event
Beamish
Enjoy the sound of Jeanie and the Jollyboys, who will be performing in the 1950s welfare hall between 12-2pm.
Christmas and New Year
Durham City
Sing your favourite Christmas carols with family and friends at the Carols for All services in the cathedral. Enjoy 30 minutes of Christmas readings, prayers and carols.
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