Saturday sees the first Exfest Exeter Canalside Folk Festival, featuring an exciting line-up of some of the best musicians on the circuit, and a day of traditional music and dance, all in the beautiful surrounds of the Double Locks pub on the banks of the Exeter Canal.
Programme:
Noon: Afternoon concert with Jim Causley, David Gibb & Elly Lucas and Helen English & Jon Waltham.
Afternoon dance displays in the pub gardens from Northgate Rapper and Firestone Appalachian.
6pm: Evening concert with Sam Carter, Greg Russell & Ciaran Alger and Matt...
Local charity, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau, is reporting that there has been an 18% increase in the number of repossession cases listed at Exeter County Court by social landlords.
Where a CAB adviser has assisted clients facing repossession, the clients have avoided repossession in over 80% of cases.
Exeter City Council has provided financial support for this essential service.
Steve Barriball, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau Chief Executive, said: “We have at least one adviser present at the Court each Tuesday morning to advise and advocate for clients. In 2012/13...
Since the BBC's new sewing programme, The Great British Sewing Bee aired, John Lewis Exeter has seen a surge in purchases of haberdashery products, with sales looking set to rise further over the coming weeks.
Following the programme's launch the haberdashery department in Exeter saw a 36% increase on the week before including a 55% increase in sales of sewing machines.
Claire Tovey, section manager for Haberdashery said: “We've been really please with the reaction from our customers to the Great British Sewing Bee. There's no doubt it's given lots of people the sewing bug...
Chris Smith, who chaired the judges in 2012 when RAMM won the ArtFund Prize for Museum of the Year, will reflect on the aspects of RAMM’s transformation that particularly won the judges’ admiration and on how this leads into a broader vision of how museums generally can fulfil their best and most compelling roles in the future.
Tickets are £7, £5 conc, available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours.
Following on from the success of their annual Plant Sales, the 2013 Garden Fair at Poltimore House seeks to offer a diverse range of plants and other garden related products of the domestic garden.
Suitable for anyone interested in gardening. Refreshments will be available throughout the day.
Dogs on leads welcome.
Adults £3 (£2 Friends of Poltimore House), £5 for 2 adults, children under 16 free.
For more information email: events@poltimore.org or telephone: 01392 248938
Michael Morpurgo, the award-winning author of War Horse, Private Peaceful and Adolphus Tips, is RAMM’s chief patron and a passionate supporter of museums.
He has visited RAMM many times as a parent, grandparent and writer. In this family evening he will talk about his connection with and love of Devon, its people and landscape, and their place in his stories.
A fundraising event for the RAMM Development Trust.
Tickets are £10, £5 conc and are available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours.
West Country-based winner in the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, researcher and ecologist, Mark Tatchell, will share his passion and fascination with the pristine Antarctic environment in a lecture building on his extensive experience of working as a wildlife guide on expeditions.
Through his photographs, he will explore the wildlife of this beautiful icy continent.
Complementing the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition which is at RAMM until 2 June 2013.
Tickets £6 (£4.50) are available in person or by...
The Budleigh Jazz Festival 2013 brings three nights of live Jazz to suit all tastes to the town of Budleigh Salterton.
The exciting line-up this year features:
Friday 19 April - Both of the Devon Jazz Youth Orchestras 1 and 2
These students will display their abilities under the direction of Brian Moore. They play big band arrangements including those from the Count Basie Band.It is not often one can hear a live big band playing Jazz today.
Tickets £10.
Saturday 20 April - An All Star evening features…Trumpet and Flugel Horn, Bruce Adams
Emma Johnson has an international career as a soloist. She has performed across Europe, the USA and the Far East, as well as in Africa and Australia in venues such as the Kennedy Center, the Concertgebouw, the Louvre and the Barbican.
In Britain she has achieved particular popularity with her two discs on the Universal label, Voyage and The Mozart Album, which spent many weeks at the top of the Classical Charts. She is joined by her regular duo partner, the distinguished pianist John Lenehan.
