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Flower Festival and Scarecrow Extravaganza

Event Date: 
03/05/2014 - 10:00am to 05/05/2014 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Church of the Holy Cross, Cruwys Morchard, Tiverton EX16 6LD

Beautiful flowers will fill this historic church and the scarecrows will be parish-wide, in the theme of nursery rhymes (map provided).

A hunt the clue based around both flowers and scarecrows will keep the whole family absorbed. In the new Parish Hall next to the church will be an arts and craft exhibition, plant and cake stalls and refreshments- ploughman's lunches, cream teas cake and beverages.

10am-4pm daily.

Tickets selling fast for Sausage & Cider Festival

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Wed, 04/23/2014 - 1:53pm

Organisers of the inaugural Honiton Sausage & Cider Festival on May 3 are advising the public that tickets will not be available to purchase on the gate, such has been the response to online booking.

The festival, which is being held to raise money for emergency out-of-hours voluntary medical courier service Devon Freewheelers and other good causes, promises great entertainment with live music acts Sweet Black Angels, Ollie Bowern, Fools and Horses, Diamondogz plus headliners, The Wurzels.

Gates open at 8.00am and the music starts are 10.00am with the Ukelele Band....

Volunteers wanted for Sausage & Cider Festival

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Thu, 04/03/2014 - 10:25am

As the first Honiton Sausage & Cider Festival draws nearer, the call is out for East Devon cider fans and businesses to lend a helping hand.

Ticket sales for the festival, on May 3 are going really well and the music line-up continues to grow with Diamondogz, Sweet Black Angels, Fools and Horses, Ollie Bowern and headliners The Wurzels all confirmed and more to come.

Trade stalls and food and drink stands are booking up nicely and with lots going on for all the family this promises to be a great day.

Funds raised will benefit the Devon Freewheelers charity which...

Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink 2014

Event Date: 
25/04/2014 - 10:00am to 27/04/2014 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Castle & Northernhay Gardens

Enjoy a weekend with the whole family at the Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink, Friday 25th- Sunday 27th April at Exeter Castle and Northernhay Gardens, with family attractions to keep everyone entertained, plus 3 Festival After Dark Party Nights, Thursday 24th-Saturday 28th April in Exeter Castle.

The festival offers three days of foodie fun with over a hundred producers, hands-on activities for children, as well as 30 talented chefs demonstrating their amazing culinary skills. Visitors can enjoy live music throughout the day and at the Exeter Festival After Dark...

Devon's own reality show to air tomorrow

Essex and Chelsea are now famous areas of the UK due to hit reality shows TOWIE and MIC. Woolacombe is the next UK destination to put itself on the map when it stars in a new two part TV series which starts tomorrow.

‘Who needs Ibiza: The Great British Holiday’ is a two-part TV series set at Europa Park in Woolacombe, one of North Devon’s most popular seaside towns. The first episode is scheduled to air on BBC Three on Wednesday 12th March at 9pm and looks at the growing popularity of ’staycations’ amongst the younger generation. The documentary, filmed last summer follows staff...

Review: Motherland at Tiverton Community Arts Centre, 22 February

This play was well worth the drive from Plymouth!

Stage-Wright Productions backed a winner in Suze Gardner's Motherland. A double first: new company and new play.

The script was amusing and informative, and portrayed the main character to perfection. We all know of Marie Stopes, but few know of her controversial and pioneering birth control clinics had a dual purpose: perporting to help the poorest of women limit the number of offspring, but equally furthering Stopes' rather more sinister involvement in eugenics. The script brought to light her dodgy personal contacts with...

The Waterboys to headline Chagstock Festival

Chagstock Festival have announced that million-selling alt-rock legends, The Waterboys, will headline their main stage on Saturday night.

Formed 30 years ago by Mike Scott, The Waterboys became famous for their powerful live performances and majestic albums such as A Pagan Place and This Is The Sea, which included their biggest hit The Whole Of The Moon.

After the recruitment of Irish fiddle maestro Steve Wickham, the band created their million-selling Fisherman's Blues album, on which Scott's original and unusual songwriting was merged with older musics - country, trad,...

Heavy rain forces festival cancellation

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Fri, 01/24/2014 - 1:34pm

Moretonhampstead Festival of food and drink has been rained off despite not due to take place for another six weeks.

The Organising Committee of the festival took the decision to cancel the Festival due to the exceptional level of recent rain making the fields used for parking unsafe for users.

Bob Small the festival’s lead organiser explained the decision of the committee: “Even if we had six weeks of no rain from today the fields would still be far too wet.

“The ground on the fields would be unsuitable, unsafe, possibly even dangerous to use.”

Festival...

Barnfield Music Festival: Philliip Dyson - Fascinating Rhythm

Event Date: 
20/02/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

George Gershwin Fascinating Rhythm

75th Anniversary Concert

International Concert Pianist Phillip Dyson has been described as simply “brilliant”, with a “wonderfully dry, very British sense of humour” and a recent recital in New York City accredited him as nothing less than “magnificent”. A world class pianist and great entertainer, performing to ‘sell-out’ audiences around the world.

He broadcasts regularly for the BBCand Classic FM, performs with the most prestigious orchestras and has a great international reputation in Europe and America, gaining enormous...

Laugh Out Loud Comedy Festival 2014

Event Date: 
31/01/2014 - 10:00am to 07/02/2014 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Various venues, Exeter

Laugh Out Loud Festival brings you an array of comedians from all over the country for a city-wide comedy festival. Expect plenty of stand-up, sketch comedy and open mic sessions.

Back for another groundbreaking, outstanding, hilariously funny, unbelievably sidesplitting, non-stop chortling and descriptively extravagant comedy filled time!

The festival takes place from 25 January to 7 February 2014 across a multitude of venues in the city of Exeter and features top-billing, award winning comedy acts.

The first acts to be confirmed for the 2014 festival are all high...

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