After a fourth sell-out show at London’s Royal Albert Hall in April 2012, concert and festival favourites Show of Hands - 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards double winners - come to insert name of venue in 2013 showing just why they have been showered with accolades.
Accompanied by striking double bass player/ vocalist Miranda Sykes, England’s finest acoustic roots act will be showcasing their new album Wake the Union, a journey through the heart of two landscapes (UK & North America) united by a common tongue and musical heritage.
Limehouse Lizzy have been officially named one of the hardest working acts in the UK, alongside some of the country's biggest and most popular performers.
They were accredited for their live shows by the Performing Rights Society, and received their award from PRS Chairman and Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter (Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Tom Jones) Guy Fletcher OBE.
Renowned for an action-packed pyrotechnic-fuelled explosion of a show, Limehouse Lizzy continue to keep the spirit of Celtic rock icon Philip Lynott and his band Thin Lizzy alive, well and dominating stages...
Edge Comedy – Nationally acclaimed comedy club bringing you an eclectic mix live stand-up comedy from the best of the UK comedy circuit returns to The Barnfield Theatre on the first Saturday of every month.
From the finest up and comers to top professional circuit acts, expect a rip roaring, side splitting showcase of comedic talent from around the globe.
Copplestone Music Proms features Exeter Children’s Orchestra, who were presented with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in 2012.
Following their recent engagements in France and Russia the 90-piece ECO will perform a selection of classical favourites and rousing anthems, during an evening of “Proms in the Park” style entertainment
The performance starts at 6pm in the grounds of Copplestone School, Bewsley Hill Copplestone.
Tickets are £5 (children under 16 accompanying an adult are free) from Olivia James Design in Crediton, 01363 777968, www.oliviajames.co.uk...
Sitting in his kitchen workshop, Sam Lacey makes terrible shoes and tries to sell them online. They are so bad that no-one really wants them, not even his neighbour (who thinks he should give up and get a real job!). Then one night, two tiny visitors climb in through the window and start cutting and stitching and gluing...and Sam's life is never quite the same again! Following their sell-out shows, The Enormous Turnip, Little Red Hen and 3 Little Pigs, the inescapably eccentric Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company return with an up-to-date, size 13½ retelling of everyone's favourite story...
Varmints is a brand new dance-theatre show for everyone over the age of eight. It tells the poignant tale of one small creature's stuggle to preserve a world in danger of being lost forever. Every day the city grows larger and the noise grows louder, until there is so much noise that no-one can hear themselves think. This exhilarating new show is choreographed by Wilkie Branson (Champloo Dance Company) and directed by Sally Cookson, who most recently collaborated on the brilliantly energetic Christmas show, BOING!
Performances at 3pm and 7pm. www.travellinglighttheatre.org.uk...
It's an object of shame and pride; it inspires laughter and fear; it's a symbol of power, yet it's incredibly fragile; it can be a pound of flesh or an ounce of winkles, it can be used to express both love and hate; it creates life, it can condemn us to death... and it can do wees as well. How can one tiny flap of sponge and sinew be all these things? Richard Herring intends to find out in this tenth anniversary update of the critically acclaimed show that exposes the truth about men and their flutes of love. Sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe 2002 and Melbourne Comedy Festival 2003,...
"I Was A Rat!" insists a scruffy page boy who turns up one evening on the doorstep of old married couple Bob and Joan. But what is he now? A terrifying monster rampaging in the sewers? A money-spinning fairground freak? A champion wriggler and a downy card? Or just an ordinary boy, though a little ratty in his habits? Philip Pullman's glorious and gripping story is brought to life on the professional stage for the first time in the UK. Combining humour, fantasy and adventure, this moving and darkly comic tale slowly reveals its connection to one of the most famous fairy tales of all time....
