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Devon County Show 2025: A Triumphant Celebration of Agriculture and Community

As the 2025 Devon County Show draws to a close, Show Manager Lisa Moore reflects on three extraordinary days.

“The weather was truly on our side. Blue skies and warm spring sunshine created the perfect atmosphere, ensuring a seamless setup and boosting public confidence—leading to record-breaking advance ticket sales.

As an event rooted in agriculture, the show proudly hosted hundreds of livestock and equine competitions, showcasing the best in breed and crowning well-deserved champions. Everyone greatly enjoyed the new fancy dress cattle class which was held on Saturday...

From Glastonbury to Lapstock

Authored by Proteus
Posted: Tue, 06/27/2017 - 12:29pm

Tankus the Henge to headline at Mid Devon music festival

Fresh from playing the Avalon sage at Glastonbury last week, London based band Tankus the Henge and Holsworthy based Lionstar will soon be heading for the mid-Devon village of Lapford to play as the headline acts at the 11th annual Lapstock Music Festival.

The highly popular Tankus' music is influenced by rock 'n roll, Gypsy jazz and Romani music, Balkan music, ragtime, New Orleans music, and ska and they proved an immense hit with festival goers at Glastonbury. Lionstar are renowned for their unique reggae/rock/world...

Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir Concert in support of Devon Air Ambulance

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 06/27/2017 - 11:47am

Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir (BSMVC) will support Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) in celebration of their 25th year of service with a gala concert at Exeter Cathedral this summer. The concert, at 7:30pm on Saturday 5th August, will feature BSMVC, directed by Michael Graham, performing a mixture of popular and traditional songs from their wide repertoire, set to entertain a broad audience. The concert will feature special guests Tim Mirfin, Bass, and Iryna Ilnytska, Mezzo Soprano, both of whom have appeared in concerts and operas around the world, and David Davies, previously Assistant...

Sidmouth Play Festival opens

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 06/27/2017 - 7:02am

Paul Taylor Mills is delighted to announce The Summer Paly Festival 2017, bringing weekly rep to The Manor Pavilion Theatre with one company presenting a season of twelve classic revivals from Thursday 22 June to Friday 22 September 2017.

Paul said: "It's hard to find the right way to explain how privileged I feel to be presenting our fifth season of plays at The Manor Pavilion Theatre. I am utterly overwhelmed with the reception we have received both locally and across the country and am proud that we are the last standing weekly play season in the entire country. The season...

Exeter Northcott Theatre presents The Comedy of Errors

Exeter Northcott Theatre is proud to present a brand-new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.

The production will open at Exeter’s Rougemont Gardens before touring to Knackershole Barn in Dulverton and Torre Abbey in Torquay.

Directed by Metta Theatre’s Poppy Burton-Morgan, the production will feature a cast of recent graduates including Martin Bassindale (Antipholus of Syracuse), Katriona Brown (Ring Mistress), Ella Dunlop (Dromio of Ephesus), Grace Hussey (Dromio of Syracuse), Lucy Rothwell (Luciana), Jennifer Ruth-Adams (Adriana), Tanwyn Smith-Meek (...

Coronation Street star and BGT finalist headline Exmouth panto

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 06/26/2017 - 5:41pm

Coronation Street’s Steven swaps the cobbled street of Weatherfield for The Exmouth stage as the Pavilion panto gets extended by huge demand with its biggest pantomime ever!

It may only be June however panto bosses at Exmouth Pavilion are already working hard towards their biggest pantomime to date.

This year Trio Entertainment will return to produce The fun-filled family favourite “Cinderella” starring Coronation Streets and Dancing On Ice star ‘Steven Arnold” best known for his role as Ashley Peacock in Coronation Street.

It was in 1996 that he made his debut in...

Bryan Adams announces special guests for Powderham Castle show

Indie-pop quartet The Dunwells have been announced as special guests for Bryan Adams’ show in Exeter this summer. The band, which has a strong following across the UK, will perform ahead of Bryan Adams at Powderham Castle on Thursday 13th July 2017. The Dunwells are a quartet from Leeds whose music is intimate yet epic, and fuses acoustic instrumentation and electronics with down to earth song writing and big choruses. The band comprises four lifelong friends, two of whom are brothers: Joe Dunwell, singer/guitarist Dave Dunwell, bassist Rob Clayton, and drummer Adam Taylor and its hits...

Lockdown returns to Powderham Castle

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 06/26/2017 - 10:55am

Lockdown, the South-West’s biggest dance music festival, will return to the magnificent Powderham Castle, near Exeter on the weekend of 1-3 September 2017.

Acts already confirmed: DIZZEE RASCAL CHASE & STATUS (DJ) (SEE WEBSITE FOR THIRD HEADLINER) WILEY GIGGS WILKINSON (DJ) SIGMA DJ GORGON CITY (DJ) BASEMENT JAXX (DJ) AJ TRACEY BECKY HILL SASASAS TQD JAX JONES SAM WHITMORE J.MASSISION SAM DEVINE KURUPT FM METRIX MY NU LENG CONGO NATTY

Plus many more live acts and DJs to be announced.

LOCKDOWN will be spread across four stages over the three days and will feature...

Re: Produtcion - A play questioning female legacy

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 06/26/2017 - 6:59am

Can you have it all? Do you want it all? A scientist, on the cusp of a new IVF discovery, is faced with difficult decisions about her own fertility. This lovable yet challenging story explores women’s choices, and the science behind those choices, when weighing up careers, parenthood, and where self-worth is found.

The award-winning White Slate Theatre are back for a third piece of new writing to face the stage. First came the iconic tumultuous story of Your Fragrant Phantom, then the compelling & exposing Captured, and now don't miss out on the stunningly innovative Re:...

Award-winning authors and broadcasters headline Budleigh’s 9th annual Literary Festival

The line-up of best-selling authors and budding literary stars for the annual Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival has been announced.

Now in its ninth year, the themes of the 2017 Festival will be nature, wildlife and history, including family history and memoir. There will also be magical events for children to help mark the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book.

The opening day of the Festival on 13th September will include an “in-conversation” event with Festival President, Dame Hilary Mantel MBE, who’s eagerly anticipated final book in her Cromwell trilogy is...

Invoking 50 Articles - a response to Brexit a year on from the referendum.

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 06/25/2017 - 10:23pm

In response to Britain voting to leave the European Union and the ambiguous times we live in, a new musical ritual ‘Invoking 50 Articles’, is going to have eight South West performances this June and July. Originally performed in April at the Torbay Doorstep Theatre Festival and Totnes’s ‘Party In The Town’, it had such positive responses that it is now being taken on the road.

‘Invoking 50 Articles’ is is a 45 minute work for 4-part choir with triangle, a vocoder, four umbrellas, portraits of all the prime ministers from Heath to May, a paper shredder and a solo violin. It was...

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