Railway posters, a promenade performance of Jason and the Argonauts and a talk by author Tom Cox are amongst the happenings at Exmouth Festival.
This year’s Festival includes theatre, music, visual arts, westcountry traditions and activities for all the family. Highlights include:
• A commissioned artist will reinterpret the railway posters of the early 20th century, creating a new series of “Visit Exmouth” posters which will be displayed at railway stations from Paddington to Exmouth.
• Four of Swords will be performing their family-friendly adaptation of Jason and...
If you are looking for something to do or somewhere to go this weekend, there’s plenty to choose from in our essential guide to What's On in and around Exeter.
THEATRE
Exeter Comedy Grove Friday, 8.30pm, Lemongrove, Exeter University The very best of UK live stand up comedy with Adam Kay (headliner), Adam Rushton, Mark Simmons and compere Cerys Nelmes. Tickets are £10. www.exetercomedygrove.club Doors open 7.30pm and show starts at 8.30pm
Nel Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter Meet Nel; a quirky, shy foley artist, who, for the first time in her life...
Music Festival with the UK's Premier Queen Tribute Band, "The Top Rhapsody" with support from Squiffy Biro - 4KD-Dark Matter and more Tickets £15 inc. booking fee.
Also on the day will be fun activities for all the family to make an enjoyable and memorable day. Come and join in the fun on the sideshows including Coconut shy - Crockery smash - Treasure hunt - Play your cards right and Get the ball in the cup - Penalty shootout - and more
Fairground rides : Swing boats - Carousel - Bouncy castle - plus candy floss & ice cream & more
Join us at the Exmouth Pavilion On Thursday 18th June as the The Fortunes celebrate 51 years in show business; with their fabulous 2015 “Past and Present” show. New Songs - new stories - new anecdotes all brought together with narration & video projection from the era. The “Past and Present” 2015 show will bring back not only your memories of the swinging 60’s, but also the golden age of the 70’s, and a surprise or two. Many hit songs not only from The Fortunes, but also hits from Marmalade, Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas, Love Affair,...
Tribes and Tribulations is an original play written by Midge and Rosie Mullin and is set against the bleak political landscape of Thatcher’s Britain in the early 80’s.
It tells the story of four diverse characters who momentarily escape the tribulations of their everyday lives when they descend upon the anarchic, vibrant, multicultural madness of a free festival.
In a muddy field in deepest, darkest Wales, the tribes are gathering to exercise their right to party and four individuals embark on a unique journey, each of them searching for...
Comprising three of Britain’s finest musicians and interpreters of songs and tunes, each member of this trio is an acknowledged virtuoso in their own right. Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr have come together for the joy of playing and exploring the possibilities of music together, after appearing together on stages in various combinations over recent years and thoroughly enjoying it!
Nancy Kerr has been a major part of the acoustic music scene since she was a teenager and has always been a distinctive and impressive talent, turning heads everywhere she’s played or sung...
Out of Isca is a stunning new rock electronica band which took to the stage at the end of 2013, and have been wowing audiences in venues all over the South West.
They have already made a storming entrance to the live music scene in 2014 and are showcasing their energetic live show in pubs, theatres and open-air festivals with a full diary in 2015.
The band perform a variety of their original material with a blend of thick guitars, heavy drums, pumping bass lines and catchy melodies. The twists of electronica are refreshing and modern to the music scene of now!
Award winning Jazz and Big Band Singer and BBC Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal has always championed the music of the most beloved female singers of the 20th Century. In 2014 she turned her attention to one of the world’s greatest musical stars who was celebrating her 90th birthday, the iconic and much loved Doris Day.
Clare’s tribute to Doris on BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night, in honour of this milestone birthday, was a huge success. So it was decided that this was a show that really needed to be taken on tour. Clare has...
Composer/bandleader Mike Westbrook is back at the Barnfield this summer with an even bigger band and a brand new jazz entertainment. A Bigger Show has been described as a Jazz/Rock Oratorio. Kate Westbrook’s scenario uses the image of the fairground to examine, with irony, humour and high drama , the lot of Humankind in the age of the World-Wide-Web. The 22 piece ensemble involves 3 vocalists/actors, acoustic brass and saxophones, electronics and a double rhythm section.
Kate is joined by fellow vocalists Martine Waltier and Billy...