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Free Cider and Summer Tunes Come to Devon with a Music Series from Thatchers Cider

Free pints, live music and summer vibes

Thatchers is set to delight music and cider fans heading into venues and pubs across the summer with a national 40+ gig series that will visit Devon throughout August.

A mix of Juicy Sounds DJ nights and Summer Sessions acoustic evenings will be held to celebrate what promises to be a summer filled, not just with sport, but with music too.

Events are currently planned for:

  • The Blue Ball in Exeter on Friday 7th August.

  • Boathouse, Dawlish, Saturday 8th August.

  • Hyde Dendy,

  • ...

India comes to Exeter's Quayside

Authored by JoJo Spinks
Posted: Thu, 07/11/2013 - 11:59am

Local company Chandni Chowk are giving the arts a boost this summer in their support of a new Anglo/Indian dance production show at Exeter Phoenix 15 August, 2013.

Antara combines the talents of international artist Ajeesh K Balakrishnan, fresh from the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore, with Exeter-based dancer Kay Crook.

Antara is a truly inter-continental collaboration that interweaves dance and narrative poetry into a powerful love story.

Chandni Chowk, which specialises in textiles, hand-made in India and Bangladesh, are a Fairtrade company...

Gala at Exeter Corn Exchange celebrates two decades for stage school

Authored by Kickline
Posted: Wed, 07/10/2013 - 8:50pm

If it’s the hottest show in town you’re looking for, look no further than Exeter Corn Exchange this Sunday 14 July at 6pm. Exeter’s only independent theatre arts school, Stage by Stage, is putting on a gala show to celebrate 20 years of making young people’s show business dreams come true.

Tickets are available from 01392 211244.

The gala performance at Exeter Corn Exchange, which will be attended by Exeter’s Lord Mayor Councillor Rachel Lyons, will feature highlights from Stage by Stage’s hit shows of the last two decades. These include Bugsy Malone , which was the first...

Essex Energy Comes To Exeter - Olly Murs wows the crowds at Powderham

Temperatures reached a scorching 27 degrees Celsius as revellers from across the UK came to Exeter to watch Olly Murs perform in front of 20,000 at Powerham Castle over the weekend.

Essex star, Olly, who struggled to perform his set at Robbie Williams' Wembley concert just two days before, managed to treat the crowd to his famous hits 'Dance With Me Tonight' and 'Please Don't Let Me Go', to a welcome response from the audience.

During the show the 'Troublemaker' singer got his fans shaking their stuff to Beyonce's 'Crazy In...

Kapes bentoni – A well travelled specimen from the RAMM’s collection

Kapes was a small lizard-like parareptile some 100mm long.

It had only been found in Triassic of Russia until a tiny jaw was found in the Middle Triassic Otter Sandstone at Sidmouth in 2002.

230-240 million years old, the Sidmouth specimen is named after Mike Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Bristol University, who has made major studies of the Otter Sandstone fauna. His finds at Sidmouth were donated to RAMM.

The Kapes jaw has recently returned from the University of Helsinki where it has been on loan and the subject of further study by...

Interview: Al Kershaw, lead singer and guitarist of Exeter-based band The Computers

Authored by Steph C
Posted: Sat, 07/06/2013 - 2:28pm

After performing at the Eden Project with The Kaiser Chiefs and with more summer festivals such as Reading and Leeds still to perform at, The Exeter Daily managed to grab a few quick words with Al Kershaw, the lead singer of The Computers, before the band are due to perform their highly anticipated show at the Exeter Phoenix on 6 July.

Q: For those readers who are not familiar with The Computers, could you briefly sum up who and what the band are about?

A: Well in short, we are a 5-piece beat combo from Exeter, Devon...

Charity hosts Exeter's Our Big Gig 2013

Authored by CEDA Exeter
Posted: Fri, 07/05/2013 - 2:17pm

Our Big Gig 2013 will see the whole country come together, celebrate and enjoy music together during a weekend of musical merriment. For all those suffering Glastonbury withdrawal symptoms or who have missed out on live music this summer, help is just around the corner!

Community, Equality, Disability Action (CEDA) are hosting Exeter’s contribution to the national music event ‘Our Big Gig’. Taking place thanks to funding secured from the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and Arts Council England, the eclectic variety of free music and participation events taking...

Topsham and Exeter welcome Suffrage Play

Today (Thursday 4 July), residents of Topsham will welcome Dreadnought South West Association into the town as they continue their journey in celebration of the centenary of The Great Suffrage Pilgrimage. At 11am, the cast of Oxygen will perform Episodes from the play outside Topsham Museum, which will be followed by a commemorative land journey to the train station and on into Exeter, where Oxygen will be performed in full (at 3pm and 7.30pm) at Rougemont Gardens. On Friday 5 July, Oxygen – which has been written by Exeter-based playwright Natalie McGrath – will be performed at the...

Pickling, potting and preserving at Powderham 2013

This year the Powderham Food Festival is celebrating ‘Pickling, Potting & Preserving’ from ancient roots to space food technology. The festival takes place on 5 October 2013, and is sponsored by Helpful Holidays one of the leading holiday cottage specialists in the South West. The event will celebrate food and food-growing in a spectacular location – Powderham Castle: an exceptional, family-run 600-year-old stately home which is situated beside the picturesque Exe estuary, and surrounded by stunning deer park.

There will be over a hundred producers exhibiting in the castle and...

John Hubbard and Adam Buick on display at The Art Room, Topsham

Authored by RosieSymes
Posted: Wed, 07/03/2013 - 11:33am

Both John Hubbard and Adam Buick are known for their tendency to work with natural materials in an exciting and modern way, combining the elements of nature - mostly water and earth - to try and represent the essence of life.

John Hubbard is a serious and celebrated artist, born in the USA in 1931 and now living in Dorset. He has had a long and distinguished career exhibiting internationally with his work in public and private collections worldwide.

Hubbard uses vine charcoal in many of his drawing to express the movement and dynamics of rushing and siwlring water, rocks...

A taste of what’s to come for Devon Open Studios at Gloss

Art lovers will have a chance to get an exciting preview of the work of Devon Open Studios artists at gloss-Art Exeter this summer within their stunning multi-artist exhibition of work by Devon Artist Network artists.

Devon Artist Network (DAN), a membership organisation committed to raising awareness of visual arts, with over 800 artist members, produces the Open Studios event annually.

Forty-five percent of the 60 DAN artists on show at Gloss will also be opening their studios later in the year, all over Devon between 7 September and 22 September, therefor enabling the...

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