Get ready to celebrate the Queen of Pop with an unforgettable Madonna Tribute Night - Making it Madonna! Experience all the iconic hits, electrifying performances, and timeless style that made Madonna a global superstar. From Like a Virgin and Material Girl to Vogue, Like a…
It is with great regret that, due to illness, From Northern Lands has been postponed until 2027. Colchester Chamber Choir's candlelit winter concert of music by Monteverdi and Gesualdo will be held on Saturday February 6th and more details will be…
THE KOPYCAT KILLERS, SUBARCTIC MONKEYS, OASIS 96, KASABIAN'T, SCAM FENDER and KAISER CHEATS are amongst the best tributes in the world, playing huge festivals both in the UK and abroad to thousands, and now ALL COMING TOGETHER on this special touring festival show. HOURS OF…
Now a staple part of North Essex cultural life, the Roman River Festival returns for its 26th season, bringing world-class performance – from the classical to the contemporary – to beautiful and unusual venues across North Essex every September and October…
To mark the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s death, this rare performance brings together the complete cycle of Britten’s five Canticles – some of the composer’s most intimate, spiritual and emotionally searching works. Led by acclaimed tenor and…
Round off the opening night of Colchester Fringe with an hour of great live jazz at Patch. Elmer’s Fringe Jazz Club brings together a hand-picked assortment of brilliant jazz musicians from across the UK and beyond for a relaxed, intimate evening in the heart of the city…
Orlando Jopling Cello Ellie Corr Violin Other players to be announced Festival Artistic Director Orlando Jopling brings together an exceptional quartet of chamber musicians for an evening of Beethoven, Britten and Rebecca Clarke alongside Nordic folk-inspired dances…
Artistic Director Orlando Jopling joins acclaimed violinist Eleanor Corr for an intimate lunchtime recital exploring classical and twentieth-century chamber music. Bringing together elegance, virtuosity and emotional depth, the programme ranges from Mozart’s conversational…
Mojca Jerman Violin Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez Cello, Viola da Gamba & Viola Alex Mastichiadis Historical Keyboard The Nocturnalia Ensemble presents a lively and inventive exploration of 17th-century British music, where folk traditions meet the worlds of…
Get ready to relive the noughties at our 2000s Party Night! Join us for an incredible night packed with the biggest hits from the decade. Dance the night away to chart-topping pop, R&B, indie, dance anthems, and all the iconic throwback tracks that defined the 2000s. Doors…
The Award-winning Elvis Presley Spectacular Put on your Blue Suede Shoes and come celebrate the music of the King of Rock ’n’ Roll with the UK’s supreme Elvis – Rob Kingsley – and his talented cast. This breath-taking recreation…
Before Ella, Tina, Billie, or Beyoncé – there was JOSEPHINE Josephine is an international award-winning off-Broadway one-woman biographical musical that combines cabaret, theatre and dance to tell the story of the iconic Josephine Baker, the first…
After wowing Colchester Fringe with their smash hit adaptation of Shakespeare's WORST play, multi award-winning Rendered Retina return, only this time their bringing his LEAST-KNOWN work, Timon of Athens. Follow Timon, a wealthy and incredibly generous philanthropist who…
Alissa Firsova Piano Daniel Rowland Violin Sébastien van Kuijk Cello Three outstanding international musicians come together for an evening of powerful and atmospheric chamber music, moving from the intensity of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, to the stillness of…
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Overture Strauss: Four Last Songs Soloist: Elinor Rolfe Johnson Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G
Experience two late-Romantic masterpieces in intimate chamber orchestrations by Iain Farrington, revealing the extraordinary detail and emotional power at the heart of Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. Performed by the Wild Arts Ensemble with…
#SHORN presented by the highly talented Elsa McTaggart. Celebrating 15 years of touring and five-star Fringe performances, this show features original song, eclectic musical styles, loop-pedal and spoken anecdotes. Drawing on a lifetime of music-making, Elsa performs with warmth…
Following the success of the sell-out show Hebridean Fire, multi-instrumentalists Elsa and Gary return with Celtic Tales, enchanting audiences with myths and legends of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. This dynamic duo masterfully blend heartfelt ballads with…
Set within one of Essex’s most extraordinary Norman churches, this programme explores the soaring beauty of late-medieval Marian music through works drawn from the Eton Choirbook and Tudor England’s rich sacred traditions. Performed by the acclaimed Bruegel Consort…
Imagine a room full of music, laughter and people of all ages dancing, whooping and clapping. That's a Ceilidh. The dances are energetic but everyone – of any age - can get on the floor. A Ceilidh isn’t about getting every step right—it’s…
Eccentric and unfiltered stand up comedian Jeanie Vowles brings her work-in-progress show back home to Essex, suppling fast paced humour on anything from golden flutes, troll farmers, thumbs, windmills, and whatever else has been living rent-free in her brain. Expect fast paced…
Religious divide! Orientalism! Radical avant-garde! A Japanese Buddhist soprano trained in Western music struggles with Christian songs, discriminatory stereotypes of Japanese women, and the search for her own unique voice. A comical yet beautiful songbook from Theatre Group…
FREE BAND CONCERT ABBEYGATE CONCERT BAND DIRECTOR STEPHEN WATKINS WEDNESDAY 28th OCTOBER 2pm LAYER DE LA HAYE VILLAGE HALL, New Cut, Layer de la Haye, CO2 0EH
The sell-out festival favourite returns from an acclaimed tour spanning Wellington, New Zealand to Brighton, England. Now even better, harder, and art-er. It's updated, innovated, and, as always, no two shows are ever the same. Art is pain. Pain is art. Two “definitely…
Mitch Benn is Asking Elvis The King is back! Mitch Benn resurrects Elvis from BBC Radio 2's legendary "Steve Wright in the Afternoon" show, to answer hunks of burning questions about life, death, cheeseburgers and everything in between... including the story of how…
