Paper Champion Christmas Party with Yr Poetry, The Hemingways, Rubber Jaw, Lawrence & Cow, Three Wise Monkeys, High Street, Colchester, tonight, 7pm. £4. 01206 543014.

Jonathan Dadds is one of Colchester’s true music heroes regularly promoting local bands and putting on cracking concerts. To mark the end of the year he’s doing another one with Yr Poetry all the way from Birmingham to perform alongside three cracking local acts The Hemingways, Rubber Jaw, and Lawrence & Cow.

SlackFolk, Piatto Café, Priory Walk, Colchester, tomorrow, 2pm. Free, but donations welcome. 07850 773291.

More music talent at this month’s acoustic meet-up with Farlanders, a Scandinavian/UK ensemble, based in Cambridge, instrumental trio, Azucar, Suzy Cramer and Strange Combination with their own special brand of folk, blues and jazz. And of course Dave Rado’s a capella community song.

Puss in Boots, Headgate Theatre, Chapel Street North, Colchester, until tomorrow, 7pm. £12, £9 concessions. 01206 366000.

Always a popular December treat as the familiar faces that tread the Headgate boards throughout the year don their very best Panto garb for a packed show full of songs, dance and lots of laughter.

Colchester Heritage Tour with Sir Bob Russell - Tour A, starts from Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, Sunday, 10am. £5 donation. 01206 500900.

It’s the last tour of the year for the town’s High Steward and former MP as he continues his very own quest of raising enough money to build a statue to the Taylor Sisters who wrote Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. And with the popularity of these tours, he can’t be far off now.

Grayson Perry: The Life of Julie Cope, Firstsite, Lewis Gardens, Colchester, until February 18, 10am to 5pm. Free. 01206 713700.

Now that the hullabaloo has all died down with the Essex artist’s visit this week, time to enjoy the show itself, which may be smaller than you might hope for but is nonetheless perfectly formed. Worth seeing if only for those stunning tapestries.