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Honiton Sausage & Cider Festival

Event Date: 
01/05/2015 - 12:00pm to 02/05/2015 - 11:00pm
Venue: 
Honiton Show Ground

The biggest community event in Honiton with music, activities, food and of course drink spread over two days of fun in the lovely countryside of East Devon.

Fundraising for Devon Freewheelers who provide life changing, and saving support to the NHS.

http://honitonfestival.org/

Toby Buckland's Garden Festival‏ at Powderham Castle is back!

After the success of last year, Toby Buckland's Garden Festival at Powderham Castle is back and bigger than ever on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd May!

There will be explosive 'daytime fireworks' with coloured smoke and showering steamers down from the Gate House. Toby and the Countess of Devon will be cutting the ribbon.

Teign Trees will be swining from the trees at the entrance of the castle! There will also be live music from the Cataclews and much more.

Topsham Flower Club are decorating the Chapel at Powderham with incredible flower arrangements themed on the work...

Seth Lakeman returns to Chagstock

Chagstock Festival organisers announce that local hero Seth Lakeman has been added to the main stage line up for this year's festival, alongside a host of other newly announced acts including Electric Swing Circus, Gaz Brookfield, Ciaran Lavery and Marquee stage headliners, Molotov Jukebox (Fronted by Harry Potter and Game of Thrones star, Natalia Tena)

Folk singer, songwriter and virtuoso fiddler Seth Lakeman is a multiple BBC Folk Award-winner and former Mercury Music Prize nominee. One of Devon's finest musicians, Seth's uplifting modern takes on classic Westcountry folk songs,...

Festival celebrates traditional Devon ciders

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 04/22/2015 - 10:27am

A Festival will take place in May at Exmouth Rugby Club to celebrate cider made by those people dedicated to keeping Devon's traditional apple varieties and pressing methods alive.

The type of musical acts you would expect and hope for at a festival like this will be playing, such as London Irish “psycho-cèilidh”band Neck, 50s psychedelic punk from GoGo Cult, blues- grass from Big Joe Bone and folk rock from Ash Mandrake and the Redhillbillies.

RNLI Exmouth will be providing village fete style games during the daytime to promote their volunteer and fundraising initiatives,...

Double silver for Otter Brewery

Silver anniversary celebrations continue for Otter Brewery with silver at the South West’s largest beer festival.

Otter Head has won Silver in the 'Strong Bitters & Pale Ales' class at SIBA's 23rd South West Beer Competition.

Brewed by Otter Brewery in the Blackdown Hills near Honiton, the beer was entered for judging as part of the 2015 beer festival – an event that takes place at Tuckers Maltings in Newton Abbot each year.

Otter Head is the strongest of the five core beers produced by the brewery, all of which are made using natural ingredients and their own...

Tribes & Tribulations

Event Date: 
01/06/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre

Substance & Shadow Theatre are proud to be part of Festival @ Cygnet, Cygnet Theatre's first week long festival!

Festival season will be soon be upon us, which can mean only one thing… time to scrape the mud off your wellies and get your waterproofs on! Tribes & Tribulations takes you on a trip back to 1984, to a time before portaloos and pop-up tents when festival were really free.

Tribes and Tribulations is set against the bleak political landscape of Thatcher’s Britain and tells the story of four diverse characters, who momentarily escape the tribulations of...

Tribes & Tribulations

Event Date: 
12/06/2015 - 8:00pm to 13/06/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
The Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Festival season will be soon be upon us, which can mean only one thing… time to scrape the mud off your wellies and get your waterproofs on! Tribes & Tribulations takes you on a trip back to 1984, to a time before portaloos and pop-up tents when festival were really free.

Tribes and Tribulations is set against the bleak political landscape of Thatcher’s Britain and tells the story of four diverse characters, who momentarily escape the tribulations of their everyday lives and descend upon the anarchic, vibrant, multicultural madness of a free festival.

In a muddy field...

Tribes & Tribulations

Event Date: 
28/05/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
The Blackmore Theatre, Exmouth

A Festival within a festival.... Substance & Shadow Theatre are delighted to be part of this year's Exmouth Festival!

Festival season will be soon be upon us, which can mean only one thing… time to scrape the mud off your wellies and get your waterproofs on! Tribes & Tribulations takes you on a trip back to 1984, to a time before portaloos and pop-up tents when festival were really free.

Tribes and Tribulations is set against the bleak political landscape of Thatcher’s Britain and tells the story of four diverse characters, who momentarily escape the...

Tribes & Tribulations

Event Date: 
23/05/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
The Blackmore Theatre Exmouth

Festival season will be soon be upon us, which can mean only one thing… time to scrape the mud off your wellies and get your waterproofs on! Tribes & Tribulations takes you on a trip back to 1984, to a time before portaloos and pop-up tents when festival were really free.

Tribes and Tribulations is set against the bleak political landscape of Thatcher’s Britain and tells the story of four diverse characters, who momentarily escape the tribulations of their everyday lives and descend upon the anarchic, vibrant, multicultural madness of a free festival.

In a muddy field...

Swashbuckling fun promised at Cider Festival

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:47am

Anyone going to the south coast of Devon this May would be advised to be prepared for some swashbuckling as pirates will be everwhere; from Brixham to Plymouth, stopping off for a knees-up at Exmouth Rugby Club.

Scrumpstock, a cider festival which celebrates keeping Devon’s apple varieties and traditional pressing methods alive, will join in the notorious seafarers’ fun with its own Pirate Day on the final of three days of music, family entertainments, activities and opportunities to discover an ever-expanding selection of ciders.

Young pirates, who may not have waged...

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