Entertainment & Reviews

How one folk musician and composer’s passion for the first music machine has seen him embrace the very latest 21st century music technology.

1. Painstakingly restore a 19th century 4ft high music box and reverse engineer the Victorian technology used to project music manuscript onto its 20” steel discs.

2. Write the first new music for Polyphon in 132 years and develop a computer programme that turns midi notes into concentric coordinates to manufacture brand new discs.

3. Replace the machine’s coin mechanism with foot operated solenoid switches to enable stop/...

Saturday 12th March sees a new show of folk songs come to the Cygnet Theatre in Exeter, celebrating women from history.

The show is being curated by three of the team from Wren Music – Amy Wilson, Sarah Owen and Marilyn Tucker (pictured), and has already recruited a chorus of 30 women who are sure to make the evening extra special.

Although the arts organisation already runs five community choirs across the county, they spotted an opportunity to bring together a women-only singing group specifically to celebrate women’s history for international women’s day.

Marilyn...

Ping!, the nation’s favourite ping pong festival, will be bouncing back onto the streets of Exeter this summer for its third succesive year!

Active Devon, who coordinate the festival of ping pong in Exeter, are placing the focus for this year’s Summer long affair with table tennis on getting more people at work to pick up a bat and play.

Last year, Ping! tables saw nearly 1.3 million visits from members of the general public nationally during the festival (which takes place between June-August) and even more are expected this summer with five new cities signed up to deliver...

Heads South Latin Jazz Quintet bring their exhilarating music to Exeter on Friday February 26.

The acclaimed Band, who will be on tour in the South West, will perform at 8pm at the Barnfield Theatre. Heads South combine Cuban and other Latin rhythms with distinctive melodies in a thrilling repertoire of original compositions and arrangements of classic tunes.

Heads South features the UK's top jazz trumpeter Steve Waterman, band leader John Harriman on piano/organ, Venezuelan bassist Adolfredo Pulido, Cuban percussionist Chino Martell Morgan on congas, bongos, cajon, guiro,...