Music

Barnfield Bar Presents... November Acoustics

Event Date: 
07/11/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Clifford Room, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

November Acoustics with Okehampton’s singer songwriter and best known home grown talent Jordan Hookway. Joining him are Rushwood & Co with their haunting anthemic songs and mesmerising performance.

Tickets only £7.50

www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

The Outlaws perform to raise cash for charity

A group of lawyers turned rock stars from local law firm Ashfords LLP will be performing at Tedburn St Mary Village Hall to raise money for the firm's Charity of the Year, Mind on Saturday 21 November 2015.

The six-piece of talented performers, also known as "The Outlaws", have already performed to great acclaim at the firm's summer party and number of other local venues, quickly capturing the hearts of their co-workers and locals with a mix of classic and current rock favourites.

The 2 hour charity gig is being held at Tedburn Village Hall and will...

Singing the Past: Being Human Festival 2015

Event Date: 
14/11/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Guildhall, High St, Exeter. EX4 3EB.

Songs and ballads form a unique connection between the past and the world in which we now live. Engagement with popular songs, whether by singing or listening, is an important part of life today, just as it was in the past, and music forms a central element in the cultural legacy we leave for future generations. Work and play, war and peace, love and loss, crime and punishment – all these aspects of human existence are preserved in the songs people sang as part of their daily lives. This event offers a musical exploration of songs from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Come and join us...

Singing the Past: Being Human Festival 2015

Event Date: 
13/11/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Walronds, 6 Fore St, Cullompton. EX15 1JL

Songs and ballads form a unique connection between the past and the world in which we now live. Engagement with popular songs, whether by singing or listening, is an important part of life today, just as it was in the past, and music forms a central element in the cultural legacy we leave for future generations. Work and play, war and peace, love and loss, crime and punishment – all these aspects of human existence are preserved in the songs people sang as part of their daily lives. This event offers a musical exploration of songs from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Come and join us...

Singing the Past: Being Human Festival 2015

Event Date: 
12/11/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Chapel of St Clare at Livery Dole, Magdalen Road, Exeter. EX2 4TU.

Songs and ballads form a unique connection between the past and the world in which we now live. Engagement with popular songs, whether by singing or listening, is an important part of life today, just as it was in the past, and music forms a central element in the cultural legacy we leave for future generations. Work and play, war and peace, love and loss, crime and punishment – all these aspects of human existence are preserved in the songs people sang as part of their daily lives. This event offers a musical exploration of songs from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Come and join us...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend

THEATRE

The Rogues Gallery IV Friday, 7.30pm, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Award winning comedy, burlesque, music and magic come together once more in one fantastic show. The Rogues Gallery brings a modern twist and a hint of darkness to the Victorian vaudeville variety genre. Be prepared to be blown away! Tickets £12 (over 16s only). www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

A Murder is Announced Friday & Saturday, Northcott Theatre, Exeter The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are astonished to read an advert...

Exhibition: Music, ancient and modern

Event Date: 
14/11/2015 - 9:30am to 22/11/2015 - 9:30am
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Saturday 14th until Sunday 22nd November 2015

From a 13th century missal constraining chant music to a 21st century composition based n the 10th century Exeter Book, via a letter written by Henry Purcell and records of payments to members of the choir, Exeter Cathedral Library and Archives has a wealth of information about music over the centuries.

Visiting information

The exhibition is open during normal Cathedral opening hours.

Admission to this exhibition is included in the Cathedral's admission charge. Find out why we charge tourists to visit the...

Lavolta performs music by Walton and Berio

Event Date: 
01/11/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix, Voodoo Lounge, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 2LS

A new group of outstanding, professional Devon-based musicians will perform two bright and brilliant classics of 20th century music, featuring the voices of Sarah Owen and Kate Westbrook at Exeter Phoenix on Sunday 1st November at 7.30pm. Musical Director, Emma Welton, has brought together some of the most adventurous musicians in Devon to play music that rarely gets heard in Exeter:

Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, for mezzo soprano with ensemble of harp, strings, wind and percussion is a collection of songs from the United States, Armenia, France, Sicily, Sardinia and more. The songs...

Elton John to perform in Exeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 10/20/2015 - 10:19am

He is one of the most recognisable, most decorated and bestselling British artists of all time, and once again Elton John will perform on British shores, having announced a string of huge dates in June next year – including a very special show at Westpoint Exeter on June 19th.

Elton will, as part of these dates, bring his world-renowned live band show to Exeter on June 19th, in what will be a truly unique and special event – he has only performed in Exeter twice before, once in 1973 and once in 2003 solo. So it is over 40 years since Elton and his band have performed in Exeter....

Millbrook Village sponsors Classics Galore!

Millbrook Village – Exeter’s first luxury retirement village – is sponsoring this year’s Classics Galore! concert in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity.

The show at the University of Exeter Great Hall on Saturday, November 14, features a programme of entertainment that features familiar and uplifting music performed by a 200- strong ensemble – a full orchestra, a brass band and two choral societies.

“Without the support of generous sponsorship, making fundraising events like ours possible, the amazing and valuable work of FORCE would not be available in support of so many people...

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