This is one of the most curious gigs I’ve ever been to: it’s almost as if the audience was incidental to the event taking place at all.
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Australian circus outfit Circa have made a welcome return to the Norfolk & Norwich Festival with a sinuous and energetic show that barely takes a breath and never makes a wrong turn.
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This year’s Norfolk & Norwich Festival will feature over 100 events – including 20 free shows – at venues reaching from King’s Lynn to Lowestoft.
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The first shows of the 2026 Norfolk and Norwich Festival have been announced, with tickets going on public sale tomorrow.
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Pity poor audience member Kai: he tried his best to outfox Alex McAleer, but he never stood a chance.
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As part of her between songs chat Nabihah Iqbal mentioned how impressed she was that Norwich has (or had) 52 churches – so hopefully she’ll appreciate this description of her gig being something of a curate’s egg.
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It’s one thing to have heroes – it’s quite another to write an album of songs celebrating them.
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This year’s Norfolk and Norwich Festival circus centerpiece takes a different tack, with a mock reality show to find the “face of circus”.
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One of the UK’s oldest festivals kicks off its 2025 edition this week, with dozens of events around Norwich and venues across Norfolk. We’ve picked out a few festival highlights.
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Norwich’s 2025 art festival will kick off with a parade of 150 local people playing electric guitars backed by a deconstructed marching band, followed by two weeks of music, theatre, performance, and visual arts.
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Two resident artists, a new circus show, and a literary lecture are among the early highlights for the 2025 Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
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The Norfolk and Norwich Festival Spiegeltent often throws up surprises: tonight was the first time I’ve seen a crowd sit on the floor for a song.
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Jazz-fusion band Nubiyan Twist got the Spiegeltent shaking with their smorgasbord of hip-hop, afrobeat, dancehall, soul, reggae and dance.
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Five-piece psychedelic rock outfit Floral Image bought a night of Norfolk music in the Spiegeltent to a frenzied end.
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There’s something unnerving about heading incantations read aloud, even when you don’t believe in them – and the spoken rituals that started the Norfolk and Norwich Festival incarnation of Modern Rituals definitely had that edge.
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