AZYMUTH: The original Light As A Feather Album line-up trio
Alex Malheiros (Bass) Ivan Conti (Drums) Fernando Moraes (Keyboards) Guest Musician: Thiago Silva (Percussion)
Azymuth return in 2013 for a full world tour playing their most famous album, 1979′s Light as a Feather, in full for the first time. The album took Azymuth to international fame with a string of hit singles taken from it including Jazz Carnival. Combining funk, soul and jazz with samba, Azymuth are the legendary Brazilian three-piece orchestra who were responsible for creating a new sound and genre...
Five fiddle players front this fiery outfit, highlighting the distinctive flavours of music from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The regional styles of each fiddler are exposed before a combined explosion of music as they all get together.
Acclaimed singer songwriter Gwyneth Herbert releases her new album, Sea Cabinet, in March.
Every day, a woman walks the beach alone. She collects each discarded or washed up object she finds and takes it home, cataloguing it with the care and rigour of a scientist. These objects are placed in ‘The Sea Cabinet’, and each one sings with the memory of a secret sea-set story – the victory of a Fishguard cobbler’s wife, a jaded seaside hotel, a sunken chapel, the shifting sands of wartime Alderney, the dangerous allure of the King’s Shilling, the loves and the losses and the stars and...
This summer, Exeter Phoenix has some excellent live music ranging from a local band tipped to make it big, The Computers, to the American living legend, Lonnie Liston Smith.
Jenny Eclair returns to Exeter after a sell-out show last year and Antara, which mixes contemporary Bollywood dance with world music and urban poetry is set to be a beautifully moving performance.
One of Exeter’s most anticipated summer events, Big Screen in the Park is back with a screening of The Goonies , Skyfall , Life of Pi and The Great Gatsby , underneath the stars in Northernhay Gardens. Plus...
Proving that any space can be a theatre and anyone can tell a story, Ignite is a 6-day celebration of new live performance work from the South West and beyond that will host events in a number of venues across Exeter.
It is an affordable opportunity for artists, performers and companies to preview their Edinburgh shows or as a local, alternative, exciting festival experience, aiming to create a diverse and inspiring summer festival programme.
Over 50 performances are to take place across the city at venues including Exeter Phoenix, The Bike Shed Theatre and The Cygnet...
The East London quartet brought their summery and fresh vibes to the Exeter Phoenix on Friday as well as bringing along some glorious weather, which perfectly matched the vibrant burst of tunes that filled the venue.
Performing to a sold out crowd, the ears of the Exeter audience were in for an auditory delight. As soon as The Skints launched into their first song Rise Up , the audience were hooked, already moving in sync to the rhythmic beats pumping through the room.
Each member of the band contributed something unique to the performance with Josh Waters Rudge providing...
Exeter will host a six-day celebration of new live performance work from the South West and beyond. Over 50 performances are to take place across the city at venues including Exeter Phoenix, The Bike Shed Theatre and The Cygnet Theatre as well as pub venues such as The Hourglass, The Globe and The Rusty Bike.
One of Exeter Phoenix’s highlights includes an inventive and quirky play, The Last Post , in which 17 audience members watch a nostalgic love story about the wonderful art of letter writing, in the back of a mobile sorting office in the Phoenix carpark.
After the torrential rain of the previous two days, Saturday 23 March was fortuitously dry for the Exeter Pride 2013 parade down Exeter High Street, which kicked off all manner of Pride events in celebration of the lesbian gay bisexual and transgender community.
At first gathering at the St Sidwell's Centre on Sidwell Street, an excited buzz built up from 12pm ahead of the 1pm parade down Exeter High Street. Led from the front by the ever-cheerful Chair Alan Quick, a most colourful procession made its way down the High Street brandishing a 50-metre long rainbow flag. Incorporating...
Dizraeli and the Small Gods were welcomed by a diverse audience at Exeter Phoenix on Friday night as part of the Exeter Vibraphonic Festival 2013. The band were visibly excited as they played well-known songs such as ‘Never Mind’ and ‘Little Things’, as well as promoting their first ever album, ‘Moving in the Dark’.
They may already have seven very different members, but the band’s talents seem to make for endless musical combinations. When she wasn’t decorating Dizraeli’s rhymes with haunting backing vocals, band member Cate Ferris was on the flute or mouth accordion. Although...
Exeter-based Great Western Morris have been asked to host the 2013 Joint UK Morris Organisations’ national day of dance.
Teams and dancers from all over the country will be coming to Exeter on Saturday 20 April 2013.
"It’s sure to be a fantastic day," says Great Western’s ‘Squire’ Quinton Cumbes. "We’ll have examples of traditional dance styles from all over the country, performed by youth teams, not so young teams, and anything in between."
About 500 dancers in 40 teams will be dancing at street and shopping centre locations all over the city centre from 10am....
