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Gigs today: Roots & Grooves Open Mic 02/03/2026 at Roots & Grooves Café · Monday Night Group Sing - 02/03/2026 at Three Wise Monkeys · Gilmore & Roberts at Colchester Arts Centre

Today


New earlier start time to allow for more performers
Upstairs at Three Wise Monkeys, Colchester every Monday
Acclaimed contemporary folk and acoustic duo

This Week


Open mic night is fortnightly on the first and third Tuesday of each month
Lineup announced soon
Join us at the Three Wise Monkeys Open Mic Night every Tuesday night
For International Women's Day
Join the band - every Thursday from 8:30pm
Create more, worry less. Singer-songwriter. One half of Panama City. Bass player for Mezzotint
Multi-genre trio based around Essex, UK
Colne Delta present Victoria's Big Easy album launch party with special guests
Original musician
Two of Colchester's finest singer/songwriters
Every Sunday from 8pm. Hosted by Rosalind Harniess

This Month


New earlier start time to allow for more performers
Upstairs at Three Wise Monkeys, Colchester every Monday
BBC Folk Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter
British organist and choir director
Join us at the Three Wise Monkeys Open Mic Night every Tuesday night
Post-punk high-octane blasts of indie, and a fusion of furious intellect and straight-to-the-vein songwriting
Open mic night every 2nd, 3rd, 4th and (5th) Wednesday
The fortnightly jam sesh is on Wednesdays down in the Speakeasy gin bar at Three Wise Monkeys in Colchester
A perfect acoustic line up for a Thursday evening
Join the band - every Thursday from 8:30pm
Southern Heights + René Mills + Sam Milne & The Tyrants + The Enquiries
Honkus Rompus + Vix and the Bleeding Hearts + Felc + KinoZolte + Amari
The third Sunday of every month means the Hot Box blues jam, featuring The Roots Collective as house band
Elbows Out! This is Capitalism album launch tour
An extraordinary celebration of Nina Simone's timeless legacy
Every Sunday from 8pm. Hosted by Rosalind Harniess
New earlier start time to allow for more performers
Upstairs at Three Wise Monkeys, Colchester every Monday
Sanctuary: Songs from Sacred Spaces
Open mic night is fortnightly on the first and third Tuesday of each month
Smash It To Pieces tour
Join us at the Three Wise Monkeys Open Mic Night every Tuesday night
Open mic night every 2nd, 3rd, 4th and (5th) Wednesday
Colne Delta Blues and American presents
Colne Delta Blues and Americana presents
First concert in over 40 years for legendary post punk group
Abrasive Trees + Rothko + Strandings + Vaahl
Perhaps the most original group to emerge from Southend's Jazz 825 scene
A folk band like no other

April


Gabriela Eva + Amber Burgoyne + Headline TBC
Quantum Bigfoot + Found Missing? + Novocandi + Blood Woolf + A Tribute to Mark Giltrow
Hot Rats + Bloom + Blu + Dusk + Newt

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