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Blabba

📅 Saturday 11 July 2026 🕚 8:00pm 📍 Colchester Arts Centre
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/£12 concs , show 8pm This show is seated but with room to dance. Introducing the unmissable, exclusive Colchester premiere of BLABBA – featuring local singer, Chi Chi Armstrong and our very own Associate Director, Vijay Patel. Dance the night away to the greatest hits of ABBA and a selection of some of the best soul music. Whether you're a fan of ABBA or soul music (or both!), there is something for everyone in this one-of-a-kind concert by two established local singers. On moving to London from her hometown in Colchester, Chi Chi became a member of the well-established London Community Gospel Choir for a number of years where as a Christian, she travelled nationwide and worldwide performing at events such as ‘Live 8’ in 2005 for Madonna. She has sung with Boney M, Sam Moore, Blur plus many more and has performed in countries such as Ghana, Morocco, Austria, Germany, France, Greece, to name but a few, ministering and touching the lives of others through song. Chi Chi was also the Whoopi Goldberg of Colchester when she played the leading role in Sister Act at Colchesters Mercury Theatre. Vijay Patel has toured the country with theatre shows such as Pull the Trigger, Sometimes I Leave and more recently Brotherly, Otherly, Disorderly – a neurodivergent pop concert. He is the Associate Director at CAC and now focuses on singing alongside that role – most recently performing at the CAC Freedom Road Street Party in August 2025. He is a trained accessibility coordinator working across Theatre and TV industries. Photo credit: Andre Kimche

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