Prolific folk singer and fiddle player Eliza Carthy teams up with Tim Eriksen, acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads and dance tunes from New England and Southern Appalachia. He combines hair raising vocals with inventive accompaniment on banjo, fiddle and guitar.
Eliza’s powerful, vital and exuberant rhythms, absorbed from her travels around the globe, characterise the highly original, self-penned music. This tour marks a rare and wonderful opportunity to see these two outward-looking players sharing in each others...
This remarkable pairing played an important part in the tremendous shake up given to British folk music in the middle to late 60s.The experienced approach to their art lacks none of the fervour of their early days, and brings a maturity born of many years living with the music that is an integral part of their beings.
‘Intense and demanding, this is hardcore traditional music.’ Telegraph
Tickets: £15 (£14) Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/martin-carthy-dave-swarbrick/
With their massively energetic and exciting harmony-infused alt-Country/Americana, outstanding songs, huge sound and an unrivalled stage presence; formed in 2009, ahab have already built up a reputation for their electrifying live performances.
‘They are blistering live – alt-country edge and sheer class’ BBC Radio 2
Tickets: £10 (£8) Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/ahab/
Renowned for their eclectic and energetic live shows, they bring together their own unique union of ska-funk-dub and afrobeat and top it all off with cleverly crafted conscious rhymes – you’ll know these boys came to party.
‘Enjoyably raucous’ EVENING STANDARD
By The Rivers
Not a band to be easily defined. Their eponymous debut album demonstrates influences of the melodies of Soul & Motown, the grooves from Funk & Afro-Beat, and the fun from Ska and Pop, with a blazing brass section which accents, stabs, and sways its way alongside...
New Exeter Chiefs winger Fetu’u Vainikolo has spoken of his excitement after he completed his move to the Aviva Premiership club on a two-year-deal.
The Tongan international, who moves to Sandy Park from Irish club Connacht, has said that Exeter Chiefs’ style of play was a main factor for joining and that he cannot wait to get started. “I’m really excited and looking forward to it,” said the 28-year-old. “It’s always good to get a new experience and I’m really looking forward to the challenge. “Exeter’s type of game play really suits me as a rugby player, it’s the type of rugby I...
The daughter of folk legend Steve Tilston, Martha found herself drawn to folk’s protest spirit and its themes of social justice from an early age. These themes are ever present in the eloquent, politicized questioning that suffuses her latest LP, 'Machines Of Love and Grace', released in late 2012, a collection of subtly charged acoustic folk songs, tinged with electric guitar and touches of electronica. The title is a nod to a beat poem by Richard Brautigan.
‘She has the power to draw an audience into her world, leaving all those present with a smile, and a few issues to...
Criticised by an art school lecturer as having “a remarkable eye for trivia”, Chris Wood’s love of small things has made him one of England’s most vivid and arresting song writers. With gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables. Hollow Point is his chilling ballad of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezez and Wood’s feel for the sheer “one thing after another-ness” of life allows us, for the first time, to see the event through the eyes of the victim.
‘The finest and most original singer-songwriter to have emerged from the British folk scene...
Zion Train are Dub/Dance pioneers and have been undisputed leaders in the genre for the past two decades. The band were heavily involved in alternative and DIY underground culture in the UK during the 1990s as well as being purveyors of the finest Roots Reggae music throughout this period. They are one of the finest live dub acts on the planet and promoted the practice of dynamic onstage dub mixing which they perform alongside acoustic instruments and the best vocalists.
Expect top-notch reggae-fusion which combines soaring vocals, conscious lyrics, high-energy dance beats and the...
The Mighty Diamonds — Donald “Tabby” Shaw, Fitzroy ”Bunny” Simpson and Lloyd “Judge” Ferguson – formed in 1969 in the Trenchtown area of Kingston, Jamaica. They are the most consistent and long-running vocal trio in Jamaican musical history and for the past 41 years have been entertaining and educating the world with their sweet harmonies and conscious lyrics.
Tickets: £15.50 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/the-mighty-diamonds/
The Noisy Animals are THE biggest band in the world. They are about to blast off into outer space on a mission to find their brand new sound for their latest hit album. In a super duper really, really fast adventure around a rock ‘n’ roll musical universe, our friends encounter noisy planets, cheesed-off nursery rhyme characters, shooting stars and Shakespeare.
Kid Carpet and The Noisy Animals are back, with a brand new adventure. 'Blast Off!' involves some very lo-fi technological wizardry, turning ordinary everyday toys into magical superstars with the aid of a video...
