Christina Alden & Alex Patterson

Colchester Arts Centre, 1 Dec 2025


Tickets £13 / £12 concessions.
Doors open 7.30pm, starts 8pm.
This gig is for a seated audience.

Christina Alden & Alex Patterson are multi-instrumentalists and songwriters from East Anglia. Their music is rich with intertwining harmony, sensitive accomplished musicianship and a creative song-writing style that is both delicate and moving.

Deeply inspired by the world around them, they have a keen environmental eye to craft stories with the natural world at its heart, reflecting on the relationship between humans and the wild.They have toured extensively in the UK and Europe;including a twenty-three-date concert hall tour with Show of Hands (including Union Chapel and St David’s Hall Cardiff), a show at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for Celtic Connections, headline and main stage performances at some of the UK’s most prestigious folk festivals and performances in Norway, Belgium, France and Ireland.

They have written and self-released four albums, composed music for a BBC Radio 4 documentary series and have had over a million streams on Spotify.

‘A bright, lively collection of songs that plays so sweetly it evokes the sensation of a summer folk festival’ – The Guardian

‘A milestone for contemporary folk songwriting’ – Bright Young Folk

‘Gorgeous harmonies and lush melodies’ – BBC Countryfile

Show Details


Venue
Colchester Arts Centre
Date
1 Dec 2025
Doors
7:30 p.m.
Starts
8 p.m.

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Church Street, Colchester, CO1 1NF

01206 500 900 / info@colchesterartscentre.com

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