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The Brown and the Yellow Ale - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Durham
Traditional singer Macdara Yeates explores the much misunderstood and intriguing folk song The Brown and the Yellow Ale, detailing its folk origins and its many modern authors, from James Joyce to Luke Kelly.
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- 18 Sept 2026Open 12:30 - 13:30
Banter - Ceilidh - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Durham
Banter is a dynamic English folk and ceilidh quartet known as the "world's smallest big band", featuring Simon Care, Nina Zella, Tim Walker, and Mark Jolley. Prepare for a joyous night of dancing!
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- 18 Sept 2026Open 20:30 - 22:30
Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced - Park View Theatre
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Theatre
Chester le Street
An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is not one of the house's several occupants, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic…
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- 10 Sept 2026to12 Sept 2026Open 19:15 - 21:30
Music Session in the Lantern Room - Saturday - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Market Place, Durham
All instruments welcome.
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- 19 Sept 2026Open 20:00 - 22:00
The Wilsons' Farewell Set; The Welfare Collective; Johnny Handle - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Flass Street, Durham
The Wilsons are our Patrons, and proud purveyors of North East song and the most powerful family vocal harmonies. Their set will close this year's festival.
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- 20 Sept 2026Open 19:00 - 21:30
Shooglenifty; Rioghnach Connolly & Honeyfeet - Durham Folk Festival
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Heritage
Durham
Shooglenifty have blazed a trail that many other top Scottish traditional bands have followed, but they are still the original and best. They will have you on your feet with their electric new tunes and a full-on set of old favourites.
Dates
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- 18 Sept 2026Open 19:30 - 22:00
Calum Baird - People's Bookshop - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Durham
Calum Baird is an emerging Scottish folk, punk and story-telling singer-songwriter and musician who's been featured on BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio Scotland.
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- 19 Sept 2026Open 19:30 - 21:00
NETOA Christmas Concert with Jonathan Eyre FRCO at the Wurlitzer Organ
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Music Event
Howden le Wear, Crook
JONATHAN EYRE plays a concert of Christmas music including Carols, etc. at the mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.
Dates
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- 20 Dec 2026Open 14:30 - 17:00
Steve Turner; Pete Atkin; Ruth & Sadie Price - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Durham
Steve Turner is known as a pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina song accompaniments, stretching the boundaries of traditional forms, with one of the best voices in the business.
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- 20 Sept 2026Open 15:30 - 18:30
The Wilsons - Market Square - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Durham
The the foremost proponents in the country of traditional harmony singing, The Wilsons repertoire is rich with songs from Teeside and the North East. They famously joined Sting in New York for his production The Last Ship, have performed at the BBC…
Dates
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- 20 Sept 2026Open 16:00 - 16:30
East Anglian Tunes Workshop - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Flass Street, Durham
Learn tunes in the East Anglian tradition with master melodeon player Katie Howson.
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- 19 Sept 2026Open 11:30 - 12:30
Right Track Theatre: Off and On by Ben Cawood - Durham Castle
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Theatre
Durham
All aboard for a side-splitting farcical ride!
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- 30 Aug 2026Open 14:30 -
The Grand Cavalcade - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Durham
On Sunday, make way for the Grand Cavalcade! Master entertainers set up in Durham Marketplace with The Grand Exhibition of Contraptions & Curiosities, a charming yet chaotic show of myths, music, magic, mayhem, silliness, songs, sparkles, bangs and…
Dates
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- 20 Sept 2026Various Opening Times
Music Session - Sunday - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Durham
All instruments welcome. Free entry - no ticket needed
Dates
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- 20 Sept 2026Open 14:00 - 16:00
The Big Christmas Sing A-Long with Aled Jones and Alexander Armstrong - Durham Cathedral
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Christmas and New Year
Durham
Get ready to lift your voices and celebrate the festive season as The Big Christmas Sing-a-Long embarks on its debut UK tour in November and December 2026. Starring much-loved performers and presenters Aled Jones and Alexander Armstrong, this…
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- 2 Dec 2026Open 19:30 -
Scouting For Girls Live in Durham Cathedral
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Concert
Durham City
Scouting For Girls will be performing their greatest hits live in Durham Cathedral.
Dates
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- 29 Oct 2026Open 19:45 - 22:00
Beamish Folk - Beamish, The Living Museum of the North
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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.
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- 13 Sept 2026Open 11:30 - 13:30
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- 11 Oct 2026Open 11:30 - 13:30
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- 8 Nov 2026Open 11:30 - 13:30
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- 13 Dec 2026Open 11:30 - 13:30
The Music of The Beatles by Candlelight - Durham Cathedral
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Concert
Durham
Direct from London's West End, featuring a spectacular cast of West End Singers and epic live band, Come Together for a Magical Mystery Tour, jam packed with over 40 Beatles hits, as you have never heard them before!
Dates
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- 28 Aug 2026Open 19:30 -
Katie Howson: Carry on Squeezing - Durham Folk Festival
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Festival
Flass Street, Durham
Musician, researcher and historian Katie co-founded the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust with her late husband John. 50 years of melodeon-playing are explored here with light-hearted (non-scary) audience participation: choose one of Katie's…
Dates
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- 18 Sept 2026Open 15:30 - 17:00
The Demon Barber Roadshow; Spafford Campbell - Durham Folk Festival
Type
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Festival
Durham
For over two decades, The Demon Barbers have redefined live folk performance with their explosive fusion of traditional music, English folk dance and Hip-Hop choreography.
Dates
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- 20 Sept 2026Various Opening Times
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