A talented local mother and her two daughters are currently exhibiting an unusual range of paintings, prints and felted items at A la Ronde, near Exmouth. The family of artists – Daphne Currier, Louisa Currier and Josephine Birch – work both together and individually to celebrate the natural environment.
Daphne Currier (BA Art/Ed) works mainly in felt to make pictures, wall hangings, cushions, hats, bags and accessories. Daphne says: ‘My work is embellished with hand and machine stitching and some elements of collage. Felt work is becoming more popular as a versatile and durable...
Exeter Cathedral will be hiding Easter egg shapes throughout the Cathedral during the Easter holdiays.
You have to count as many as you can see, write your answer on the form you pick up from the entrance desk and then take your entry to the Cathedral shop to claim your prize.
Your name will be entered into the draw for the chance to win some Easter goodies.
Easter Family Activities: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 & 12 April Come along to the Cathedral on the above dates to do some fun Easter activities.
Try dressing up as a bishop or a medieval knight/princess, make egg box birds, decorate Easter eggs, create a giant flower and have a go at brass rubbing. The activities are run by the education team and will take place from 10.30am-3.30pm in the Chapter House (entry via the Cathedral). Access to all these activities is just £1 per child. Buy your ticket on the day from the Cathedral entrance desk. Standard admission to the Cathedral applies....
Acoustic Strawbs are David Cousins, Dave Lambert, and Chas Cronk, the front-line of the classic 1970's line-up of Britain's most successful international folk-rock band.
In the early 1970s Strawbs scored chart success in Britain with huge albums such as 'Grave New World' and 'Bursting at the Seams'. From the mid-1970s the group concentrated their attention on the United States and Canada where their albums, including the classics 'Hero and Heroine' and 'Ghosts', spent over fifty two weeks on the Billboard charts.
Strawbs toured with the likes of Santana, The Eagles, REO...
Anyone who's attended a 10cc concert in recent years is likely to have seen band co-founder Graham Gouldman's opening acoustic set, featuring some of the hits he wrote for other artistes.
The success of those performances, in which fellow 10cc band members back Gouldman, has evolved into Heart Full of Songs, which plays a more significant role as opening act on this autumn's 28-concert 10cc tour.
Taking it a stage further in spring 2013, under the banner of Graham Gouldman's Heart Full of Songs, Gouldman and his 10cc bandmates Rick Fenn, Mick Wilson and Mike Stevens will...
2013 sees the 20th outing of this band of friends which promises a new album launch, a booklet about the band's history as well as the usual glorious live show.
It all started in a folk club as a bit of an idea in 1993 and has developed into a UK folk-rock institution.
Six of the country's best fiddle players front a cracking band of guitars, keyboards, sax and accordion. It's all held together by the grandfather of folk-rock drumming - Dave Mattacks.
The show includes solos, original and traditional songs, a few iconic rock references and theme tunes plus mighty...