Organisers of The Sidmouth Folk Festival have revealed the first details of a week-long event that will bring an exciting blend of music, dance and family entertainment back to the Devon seaside town this summer.
Billed as A Celebration of Sidmouth Folk Festival and taking place between July 30 and August 6, the aim is to offer everyone an authentic taste of the festival they know and love, while remaining vigilant around ongoing Covid-19 concerns and restrictions.
The line-up will include live headline performances by festival patrons Show of Hands, the brilliant Eliza...
The new Revamped and Rockin show will be a celebration f the 25 years and will include an amazing amalgamation of acts, driven by a rock n roll sound scape, a show that will have you on the edge of your seat when not falling off with laughter.
Having postponed their annual concert in Exeter Cathedral last July due to Covid, the Amadeus Orchestra is delighted to announce that it will now take place in July 2021.
Principal conductor Philip Mackenzie says: “As an orchestra, we have been silent since February 2020 when we performed in the House of Commons and we are very excited by the prospect of performing once again. It is very fitting that our first post-Covid concert will be held in Exeter Cathedral as this is the city where the orchestra was founded in 1990.”
Having postponed their annual concert in Exeter Cathedral last July due to Covid, the Amadeus Orchestra is delighted to announce that it will now take place in July 2021.
Principal conductor Philip Mackenzie says: “As an orchestra, we have been silent since February 2020 when we performed in the House of Commons and we are very excited by the prospect of performing once again. It is very fitting that our first post-Covid concert will be held in Exeter Cathedral as this is the city where the orchestra was founded in 1990.”
Choirs from across Devon are currently singing to thier own phone or laptop, filimg themselves, ready to be montaged together with Dartmoor based multi award-winning folk singer Seth Lakeman.
Dartmoor based Seth Lakeman’s new Song for Devon, How We Remember, will be premiered on asongforus.org from 12.30pm on 23 March 2021, the first anniversary of lockdown 1. A nationwide project, A Song for Us commissions leading music creators across genres to write new songs inspired by the people of their county. A Song for Devon – How We Remember by Seth Lakeman is commissioned by Sound UK,...
Multi-million selling recording artist Bryan Adams is coming to the UK next summer with a spectacular open-air tour set in the grounds of some of the UK’s most beautiful venues.
Kicking off in Bristol on 26 June, Bryan Adams’ 2021 outdoor tour will visit Powderham Castle on Tuesday 6 July.
Enjoy a live performance from one of the world’s best selling artists in summer 2021, taking in an open-air show set against stunning, picturesque backdrops. The tour also visits Cardiff, Scarborough, Widnes, Telford, Canterbury and Leeds, plus The Eden Project in Cornwall and the...
Exeter-based performer Riaz Ahmad will join nine musicians and artists from across the globe for a virtual music festival that will raise money to support Creative Action Institute’s work to advance gender equality and build a more sustainable planet.
Riaz will be performing a set as part of Raising Spirits, Creative Action Institute’s online event taking place October 24th at 4:00 pm EST. He is joining performers from Bristol, Boston (United States), New York City, Cincinnati, Seattle, Kenya, and Cameroon, in this one-night-only event.
For the past few weeks composer / technologist Simon Belshaw has been working on a project to create a Zoom version of his Music Machine 4 for 8 players sound installation.
The Arts Council funded physical installation was scheduled for March 2020 but had to be cancelled due to Covid-19.
The piece uses 8 novation launchpads and 8 Raspberry Pi computers. The launchpads have an 8x8 grid of buttons, when one of these lights up the performer presses it and a short cell of music is played.
The piece runs for 8 minutes and begins by choosing only one note, then two and...
Groove pop band Heir have followed in the footsteps of their music heroes – all the way to Abbey Road!
The five-piece – whose keyboard player Sam Perry hails from Exeter – have just released their eagerly-awaited new single Fear of Falling .
The brilliant slice of throwback pop was not only recorded at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios but was produced by the great Ken Scott who has famously worked with such icons as The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Elton John .
The magical experience at Abbey Road was new territory for Heir whose previous singles...
Making a yoga playlist doesn’t have to involve collecting solely tantric, spellbinding melodies, or albums that are reminiscent of temples. There are plenty of songs to collect that will be able to get you zen enough to strike a pose. Yoga is personal, and playlists can reveal a touch of that personality.
Music can be incredibly powerful for your yoga practice. With these songs, you’ll get a mix of slow spacey sounds and energizing beats to help you hold poses from happy baby to bird of paradise.
1. Bob Moses - Talk
This song has some of that primal vibe known in yoga...
