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The London African Gospel Choir closed Budleigh Music Festival in spectacular style

Budleigh Music Festival strikes emotional chord with concertgoers

From the opening notes of the community choral day to the uplifting finale of the London African Gospel Choir, Budleigh Music Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary in style.

Taking place in the beautiful St Peter’s Church, the festival delivered world-class classical performances, inclusive community events, and stunning moments of musical magic.

More than 3,600 tickets were sold over the nine-day Festival, which included performances by Sir Michael Morpurgo and cellist Clare O’Connell, internationally acclaimed pianist Sir Stephen Hough, and Bath Philharmonia....

PaddleBoat Theatre Company begin Summer Tour

Authored by paddleboat
Posted: Thu, 07/02/2015 - 5:41am

Children and Families in Exeter will be able catch both of PaddleBoat Theatre Company's exciting new shows - A Little Man's Holiday and According to Arthur... - when they perform at the BikeShed Theatre later this month, on the 22nd and 23rd July respectively.

PaddleBoat was founded a mere 18 months ago, but has flourished in Exeter, creating shows and delivering workshops to schools across the South-West. Now, the company is preparing to travel to the largest theatre festival in the world - The Edinburgh Festival Fringe - with preview performances at theatres in Bristol...

Sidmouth theatre tops the bill

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 07/01/2015 - 11:39am

Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion Theatre has topped the bill with its own audiences after being awarded a Certificate of Excellence Award from TripAdvisor.

Staff at the venue, owned and managed by East Devon District Council, are thrilled with the surprise accolade and believe they are one of the few theatres in the South West to have received such an award.

The 277 seat theatre continues to go from strength to strength and has attracted more than 32,000 visitors in the last year with over 265 performances. Investment and improvements made to the venue by the council over the...

Alan Ayckbourn's Joking Apart opens in Sidmouth

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 06/30/2015 - 10:03pm

Weekly rep continues at the Manor Pavilion Theatre in Sidmouth next week with the arrival of the second production, Joking Apart by Alan Ayckbourn, which runs from Thursday 2 to Wednesday 8 July 2015.

The Summer Rep Season sees one company of actors present a season of twelve classic revivals throughout summer, with a new production each week until the end of September. Joking Apart tells the story of Richard and Anthea, the ideal couple who are charming, generous and successful. They bought their big country house for a song, Richard breezes through his work life as easily as he...

Exhibition explores forgotten wartime wrecks

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 06/30/2015 - 10:22am

Cullompton services is currently home to a fascinating exhibition which looks to raise the profile of under-represented aspects of the First World War.

The temporary display, which runs until December 18th, offers a great chance to view recovered artefacts and learn about some of the lesser-known, but compelling, stories of the Great War.

Over 700 wartime wrecks are known to lie off the south coast of England. These include largely forgotten ships and craft of all shapes and sizes, which were carrying out a myriad of different tasks and activities when they were lost....

Boyzone and Alesha wow Devon crowds

Thousands of excited fans descended on Newton Abbot Racecourse to watch Boyzone and Alesha play the racecourse’s first-ever concert on Sunday 28th June.

The sun shone as over 7,000 fans came from all over the country, including places as far as Germany, to go back to the nineties and watch Boyzone perform some of their most popular songs from their 20 year career.

Their only performance in the South West this year, Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Shane Lynch and Mikey Graham wowed the crowds with an energetic performance on the night. Performing a variety of songs including ‘...

Singers wanted for Open Mic UK 2015

Open Mic UK’s 2015 auditions begin in two months.

The national music competition Open Mic UK is the biggest search for unsigned artists in the UK and it’s calling all singers, singer-songwriters, vocal groups, rappers and solo artists to get involved in their singing auditions which begin in August. With over 9,000 people entering last year, and a fifteen-date audition tour in place this year, 2015 is definitely the year to enter!

Open Mic UK focuses on developing acts with music industry feedback and live performance experience, and in addition there are thousands of...

Yazzy Crowned Future Music’s Songwriting Competition Winner!

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:40pm

Earlier this year Future Music launched a brand new Songwriting Competition to find the best songwriters in the UK and it has found its first winners! Joining a long line of prestigious Future Music competition winners, Yazzy from Westwood Ho, Devon has been crowned the winner of the national Songwriting Competition at Dingwalls in London!

Yazzy, who is 16 years old, was crowned champion in front of a capacity crowd and a prestigious music industry judging panel at the world-renowned music venue Dingwalls in Camden, London on Sunday night. Her original song called “Someone Could Be...

Lyme Regis is ready to rock

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 06/29/2015 - 10:23am

Glastonbury is over for another year, but Lyme Regis is preparing to go global on Saturday (4 July) as this year’s Big Mix family youth music festival welcomes a world of talent to the town from near and far.

Fresh from their appearance and having a massive impact at Glastonbury, dance band KOG and the Zongo Brigade will headline the festival. Fronted by the irrepressible Ghanaian-born songwriter and performer Kweku Of Ghana their blend of West African rhythms, soul, funk, reggae and Latin jazz has taken them all over Britain and Europe and they arrive in Lyme Regis on the back of...

Mental health debate on the stage

On Thursday 2nd July, Devon’s leading mental health charities and services will make their way to the stage at The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.

Representatives from Rethink Mental Illness, The Devon Depression and Anxiety Service, Recovery Devon, Time to Change and MIND will join Executive Producer Charlie Parker and Viki Browne to discuss HELP!

Award-winning actress, Viki Browne returns to Exeter with Ignite Festival sell out HELP! ; an engaging performance about her personal experiences of anxiety and depression. This touching and humorous performance uses striking imagery...

A week of Wild West fun in Exeter

This summer Miracle Theatre, Exeter Phoenix and Farms For City Children are teaming up to bring a week of wild west fun to Exeter.

Across five nights, (14-18 July) the award-winning Cornish company Miracle Theatre will be performing their rootin’ tootin’ new show The Magnificent Three in the glorious outdoor setting of Rougemont Gardens.

One for all the family, the week is set to include plenty of fun extras, including workshops and a Friday night live music hoedown under the stars. There will be an excellent selection of food and drink available to open air theatre goers,...

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