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Festive Entertainment and Music
Sat 29 Nov - Wed 31 Dec 2025
Derby City Centre
About the Event
Get into the Christmas spirit with festive music and entertainment.
A delightful range of festive characters, lively singers, heartwarming choirs, and merry brass bands will be spreading cheer and animating the Derby City Centre this festive season by Derby LIVE and Cathedral Quarter Derby. Don’t miss the festive fun.
Derby LIVE Walkabout entertainment
Sun 30 Nov - Elf on the shelf (in and around the Nordic Bar).
Sun 7 Dec - Gingerbread man (in and around the Nordic Bar).
Sun 14 Dec - Elf on the shelf (in and around the Nordic Bar).
Sun 21 Dec - Gingerbread man (in and around the Nordic Bar).
Mon 22 Dec - Stitch (in and around the Nordic Bar).
Tue 23 Dec - Olaf (in and around the Nordic Bar).
Wed 24 Dec - Gingerbread man (in and around the Nordic Bar).
Cathedral Quarter BID walkabout entertainment
Sat 29 Nov - St Peters Quarter BID (around St Peters Cross but will go down East Street and down St Peters Street): Candy Cane Stilt Walkers, Winter Fairies on foot. Cathedral Quarter (around Market Place and Cornmarket): Grinch, Gonks, Mirror Men, Ice King on Stilts, Ice Queen on Stilts.
Sat 13 Dec - Fae & Flurry Dragon and others (around the Cathedral Quarter).
Sat 20 Dec - Elf On A Shelf, Naughty Elf's on motorised sleighs, Ice King and Queen on stilts, Walking Snowglobes, Gingerbread Man (around Cathedral Quarter).
Nordic Bar Entertainment
See the full programme on the Nordic Bar website page.











