County Durham · 2 gigs · next 4 weeks
13 Nov – 11 Dec
Help keep grassroots venues open in Durham
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Updated 12 November 2026
4 weeks
| Venues with something on | 0 |
| Venues tracked | 17 |
| Open mics | 10 |
2 gigs listed in Durham over the next 28 days. In total we track 17 grassroots venues and 10 regular open mics here.
Only Friday to Sunday - and nothing is listed in Durham for this weekend yet. The four-week list below shows what is coming, and the open mics further down run every week.
No weekend gigs yet - most venues add theirs by Thursday.
Counting every upcoming date, not just the next four weeks, there are 11 gigs listed in and around Durham - sixth of 7 against its nearest places with live music, behind the Newcastle area (283). Each row counts the gigs, venues and open mics our directories hold in and around that place, refreshed nightly; tap a town for its live music scene.
| # | Place | Gigs |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Newcastle area 75 venues · 25 open mics | 283 |
| 02 | Carlisle area 19 venues · 9 open mics | 111 |
| 03 | Scarborough area 17 venues · 11 open mics | 51 |
| 04 | Middlesbrough area 27 venues · 11 open mics | 40 |
| 05 | Stockton-on-Tees area 16 venues · 8 open mics | 25 |
| 06 | Durham area This page 17 venues · 10 open mics | 11 |
| 07 | Sunderland area 23 venues · 13 open mics | 11 |
From 13 Nov to 11 Dec, Durham has 2 gigs listed. This is the full four-week run, not just the weekend: every gig we hold, in date order.
| Search every Durham gigEverything upcoming, not just the next four weeks |
All 17 grassroots rooms we track around Durham, busy or quiet this month, with how many each holds, the kit it has and when it opens. A room's own page shows its upcoming nights.
60 cap Angel InnDurham 
Gala DurhamMillennium Place · DurhamHouse PAEngineer 500Cap 
The Drunken DuckClaypath · DurhamHouse PA 80Cap 
The Holy GrAleSt Margarets Garth · DurhamHouse PA Cap tbc 
The Station HouseNorth Road · Durham Cap tbc 
The Woodman InnGilesgate · Durham Cap tbc 
Waddington Street CentreWaddington Street · Durham Cap tbc 
Ye Old Elm TreeCrossgate · Durham Cap tbc 
Bar Bianco Chester Le StreetChester-le-Street Cap tbc 
Coundon WMCCoundon, Bishop Auckland · Bishop Auckland Cap tbc | All 17 Durham venuesCapacity, backline and opening times |
10 regular open mics run around Durham on a fixed night each week or month - no tickets, just turn up. Cards show the sign-up time, the slot length and any fee.
Kick-off20:00 Ye Old Elm TreeCrossgate · DurhamNo fee 
The Drunken DuckClaypath · DurhamNo feeHouse PA 20:00Tue 
The Holy GrAleSt Margarets Garth · DurhamNo feeHouse PAFortnightly 20:00Wed 
Waddington Street CentreWaddington Street · DurhamNo fee1st Thu of the month 19:30Thu 
The Station HouseNorth Road · DurhamNo fee2nd Thu of the month 20:00Thu 
The Woodman InnGilesgate · DurhamNo feeMonthly TBCThu 
Hamsteels Community CentreEsh WinningNo feeMonthly 19:30Sat 
Sherburn Village Working Men's ClubSherburn VillageNo feeFortnightly 19:00Tue 
Daleside ArmsCroxdaleNo feeFortnightly TBCTue 
Newton Aycliffe Navy ClubBluebell Way · Newton AycliffePaid 19:15Wed | All 10 Durham open micsSign-up times, slots and kit for every night |
Grassroots venues are where every act you have ever paid to see started out. Durham still has 17 of them.
Durham is a folk-and-pub city: Ye Old Elm Tree's Monday and Tuesday sessions, the Angel Inn on Crossgate, the Drunken Duck on Claypath and the Gala for touring indie and folk.
In the year to July 2025, 78 UK grassroots venues stopped putting on live music and 30 closed outright, while pubs shut at about two a day in early 2026. Each one was somewhere a band played its first paid gig or a songwriter tried a new song on a room of strangers.
Everything here comes from the venues and promoters themselves, refreshed every day: 2 gigs in Durham over the next four weeks, plus the 17 grassroots venues and 10 regular open mic nights we track. Nothing is ranked or sponsored - if we know it is on, it is listed.
The best support is a full room. Turn up to something new, stay for the support act, and buy from the bar. For a weekly round-up of Durham gigs, use the sign-up below; if you run a venue here, claim your listing so people can find it. If you have never been to an open mic, Ye Old Elm Tree runs one every Monday.
Durham has 2 gigs in the next four weeks and 10 open mic nights running. Choose one, go, and tell someone who would like it - word of mouth still fills small rooms.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Durham
—A UK venue stops hosting live music every 5 days — and turning up is what keeps a room open. Get a free weekly email of gigs in Durham. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
One email, once a week. Noon on Monday, Durham's week of live music from the 2 venues with gigs on, alongside 10 open mic nights, capped at two gigs a night so it stays readable. When fewer than four Durham gigs fall in the week, the email reaches on to the next fortnight, then the month, so you still have something to choose from.
Why sign up. Small rooms post their dates in a dozen different places; the email is the one place Durham's gigs are all together. Right now Durham leans country and function / covers. One click unsubscribes, any time.
Beyond this week. Gigs in Durham are announced week to week; festivals are planned months out. The UK music festivals we have date-checked sit on one festival timeline, by month, region and genre, with clash checks for your weekends.
| All Durham gigsEverything upcoming, sorted by date | |
| Durham venues17 grassroots rooms | |
| Durham open mics10 regular nights | |
| The Durham sceneVenues, promoters, local rates and members near you | |
| Every city we coverThe same page for every city, updated daily | |
| UK gig directoryEvery upcoming grassroots gig | |
| UK open mic finderStage time near you | |
| UK venue directoryThe rooms behind the gigs |
Every What's On page, A–Z140 pages
What's On across the UKNearby: Sunderland, Gateshead, Newcastle, Stockton-on-Tees
List a gig free, claim your venue, or join as an act - 2 Durham gigs are already on GigXchange this month.
What's On in Durham
Live music in Durham over the next four weeks — 13 Nov – 11 Dec. 2 gigs listed in Durham over the next 28 days. In total we track 17 grassroots venues and 10 regular open mics here.
Two pubs a day are closing, and last year 78 grassroots venues stopped putting on live music. Get Durham gigs in your inbox — and go to one.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Durham
—A UK venue stops hosting live music every 5 days — and turning up is what keeps a room open. Get a free weekly email of gigs in Durham. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
Last updated: 12 November 2026
This Weekend in Durham
Only Friday to Sunday - and nothing is listed in Durham for this weekend yet. The four-week list below shows what is coming, and the open mics further down run every week.
How Durham Compares
Counting every upcoming date, not just the next four weeks, there are 11 gigs listed in and around Durham - sixth of 7 against its nearest places with live music, behind the Newcastle area (283). Each row counts the gigs, venues and open mics our directories hold in and around that place, refreshed nightly; tap a town for its live music scene.
- #1 Newcastle area 75 venues · 25 open mics 283
- #2 Carlisle area 19 venues · 9 open mics 111
- #3 Scarborough area 17 venues · 11 open mics 51
- #4 Middlesbrough area 27 venues · 11 open mics 40
- #5 Stockton-on-Tees area 16 venues · 8 open mics 25
- #6 Durham area This page 17 venues · 10 open mics 11
- #7 Sunderland area 23 venues · 13 open mics 11
Gigs in Durham
From 13 Nov to 11 Dec, Durham has 2 gigs listed. This is the full four-week run, not just the weekend: every gig we hold, in date order.
Venues in Durham
All 17 grassroots rooms we track around Durham, busy or quiet this month, with how many each holds, the kit it has and when it opens. A room's own page shows its upcoming nights.
- PA system (TBC)
- Drum kit (TBC)
- Guitar amp (TBC)
- Bass amp (TBC)
- Keys / keyboard (TBC)
- Vocal mics (TBC)
- In-house engineer (TBC)
- Mon14:00–23:00
- Tue14:00–23:00
- Wed14:00–23:00
- Thu14:00–23:00
- Fri12:00–00:00
- Sat12:00–00:00
- Sun12:00–23:00
- PA system
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- Guitar amp
- Bass amp
- Keys / keyboard (TBC)
- Vocal mics (TBC)
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- Mon10:00–17:00
- Tue10:00–20:30
- Wed10:00–20:30
- Thu10:00–20:30
- Fri10:00–20:30
- Sat10:00–20:30
- Sun14:00–20:30
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- 2 vocal mics
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- Mon14:00–00:00
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- Sat12:00–01:00
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- Wed15:00–23:00
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- MonClosed
- Tue16:00–22:30
- Wed16:00–22:30
- Thu16:00–22:30
- Fri14:00–22:30
- Sat12:00–22:30
- Sun16:00–22:30
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- Mon09:00–17:00
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- Sat09:00–15:00
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- Mon11:30–23:00
- Tue11:30–23:00
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- Fri11:30–00:00
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- Sun11:30–23:00
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- MonClosed
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- Fri21:00–02:00
- Sat21:00–02:00
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- Mon10:00–17:00
- Tue10:00–17:00
- Wed10:00–17:00
- Thu10:00–17:00
- Fri10:00–17:00
- Sat11:00–23:00
- Sun11:00–23:00
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Open mics in Durham
10 regular open mics run around Durham on a fixed night each week or month - no tickets, just turn up. Cards show the sign-up time, the slot length and any fee.
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- PAProvided
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- Open toMusicians
- Sign-up19:30
- Slots12 min
- EntryNo fee listed
- PAProvided
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- Open toMusicians
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- EntryNo fee listed
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- Open toPoets, Spoken word artists
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Support grassroots music in Durham
Grassroots venues are where every act you have ever paid to see started out. Durham still has 17 of them.
Durham is a folk-and-pub city: Ye Old Elm Tree's Monday and Tuesday sessions, the Angel Inn on Crossgate, the Drunken Duck on Claypath and the Gala for touring indie and folk.
In the year to July 2025, 78 UK grassroots venues stopped putting on live music and 30 closed outright, while pubs shut at about two a day in early 2026. Each one was somewhere a band played its first paid gig or a songwriter tried a new song on a room of strangers.
Everything here comes from the venues and promoters themselves, refreshed every day: 2 gigs in Durham over the next four weeks, plus the 17 grassroots venues and 10 regular open mic nights we track. Nothing is ranked or sponsored - if we know it is on, it is listed.
The best support is a full room. Turn up to something new, stay for the support act, and buy from the bar. For a weekly round-up of Durham gigs, use the sign-up below; if you run a venue here, claim your listing so people can find it. If you have never been to an open mic, Ye Old Elm Tree runs one every Monday.
Go to one this month
Durham has 2 gigs in the next four weeks and 10 open mic nights running. Choose one, go, and tell someone who would like it - word of mouth still fills small rooms.
Help keep grassroots venues open in Durham
—A UK venue stops hosting live music every 5 days — and turning up is what keeps a room open. Get a free weekly email of gigs in Durham. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy.
One email, once a week. Noon on Monday, Durham's week of live music from the 2 venues with gigs on, alongside 10 open mic nights, capped at two gigs a night so it stays readable. When fewer than four Durham gigs fall in the week, the email reaches on to the next fortnight, then the month, so you still have something to choose from.
Why sign up. Small rooms post their dates in a dozen different places; the email is the one place Durham's gigs are all together. Right now Durham leans country and function / covers. One click unsubscribes, any time.
Beyond this week. Gigs in Durham are announced week to week; festivals are planned months out. The UK music festivals we have date-checked sit on one festival timeline, by month, region and genre, with clash checks for your weekends.
What's on in Durham — FAQs
Common questions about live music in Durham, answered with this week's live data.
Every What's On page, A–Z140 pages
What's On across the UKNearby: Sunderland, Gateshead, Newcastle, Stockton-on-Tees
Play or put on gigs in Durham?
List a gig free, claim your venue, or join as an act - 2 Durham gigs are already on GigXchange this month.