In its nearly twenty year history, New York City’s Easy Star Records has produced numerous best-selling, trendsetting reggae albums. The label’s first tour pairs UK upstarts Backbeat Soundsystem, a band laden with groove, drawing on funk, ska, pop and dub influences, with US reggae/rock band Passafire. Expect an unrivalled live energy from these guys.
Backbeat Soundsystem
Backbeat Soundsystem have made a name for themselves on the UK festival and independent venue circuit over the past four years through their outstanding and consistent live performances. A band that’s...
The Bridge Jazz Club is the home of Exeter’s jazz scene. Pete Canter & Friends + Jam Session. First set from the house band followed by jam session. All welcome. Bring charts for the rhythm section. Entrance fee includes a free raffle.
The house band on 5th August will be:
Pete Canter – saxophone Tom Unwin – keys Ron Phelan – double bass Matt Skeaping – drums
Sophie Willoughby is a visual artist based in Bristol who specialises in photography, printmaking and bookmaking.
Her art practice is process driven. She works creatively with photography and printmaking employing experimental methods and combining processes, which enables her the scope to try out different approaches to image making.
Inspiration is drawn from familiar and foreign places, often discovering the most interesting subjects come from day to day life, noticing fresh things in a familiar background and looking at places which are generally overlooked yet finding...
Bars and Melody, Leondre Devries (14) and Charlie Lenehan (16), are two musicians from the UK that infuse hip hop , RnB and pop.
The band shot to fame in 2014 when they appeared on Britain’s Got Talent and Simon Cowell pressed his golden buzzer for them.
As soon as the TV show finished, Bars and Melody signed a one single deal with SYCO records and released their debut single Hopeful which entered the charts at number 5.
Since the release of Hopeful Charlie and Leondre haven’t stopped. They have played numerous sold out gigs in the UK, flown to America to appear on...
‘It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world’
An exploration into the people we are drawn to, the situations we escape from and the events we cannot avoid. ‘Frozen Butterfly’ is a new devised production from Symbiotics’ ‘Don’t Mention the Gorilla’ company, telling the stories of some seemingly unconnected characters who unwittingly share so much
West End Boot Camp – theatre summer school for young people aged 4 – 19.
Develop your skills with leading stars of the west end!
Back by popular demand, The Big Act are returning to The Barnfield this summer following the resounding success of last year’s ‘West End Boot Camp’. This is the chance for young people aged 4 – 19 years old to work in different groups with a range of leading professional performers direct from major shows in London’s west end such as Mamma Mia, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Chicago, Les Miserables, Grease, Ghost The Musical, Shrek and many more!...
Calling all young actors and singers! Playback Youth Theatre is running a six-day workshop to rehearse and perform an original musical play in just one week! All participants get a speaking and singing role in the production. The week runs from Saturday 15th to Friday 21st August at the Barnfield Theatre. The performances will be on Friday 21st. Cost is just £65 for the week! For more information, please contact Jez on 01363 773337 or E-mail info@playbackyouththeatre.org
Playback Youth Theatre presents Ghost Train, an original musical
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra brings the best of classical music with spectacular lasers and indoor fireworks to Exeter Great Hall this August.
Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Overture Shostakovich Waltz II from Jazz Suite No.2 Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess Ravel Bolero Handel Largo from Xerxes Stravinsky The Firebird: Infernal Dance and Finale Wagner Tannhäuser Overture John Williams Memoirs of a Geisha Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances AUDIENCE CHOICE – see below! Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
Artist Rosalie Schweiker will work with Spacex to imagine a future art institution. Users of Spacex, from artists and community groups to the wider public, will also be invited to share their aspirations and ideas for this new organisation.
During the project the artist will live at Spacex, bringing to life her manifesto Some ideas for a new art institution. This will include re-thinking the way the building is used. In line with her manifesto 'form follows budget' so spaces that previously operated as galleries will become...
