Whether you’re in love with music or need some romance, the Locked Horns Jazz Orchestra are inviting you to kick off the Valentine’s weekend with them on Friday 13 February at the Buccaneer’s Bar.
Boasting more than 20 musicians, the band will be belting out a mix of songs from the sixties to the naughties. The band play a mix of classic and new arrangements and are led by local musician Alfie Pugh. The Locked Horns formed just over a year ago and have already wowed audiences with their rich sounds.
Everyone is welcome to attend this fantastic evening – bring your friends,...
Chagstock Festival, which takes place on 17 and 18 July this year, is one of the Westcountry’s best-loved festivals.
Set in 70 acres of farmland on the edge of Dartmoor, Chagstock is renowned for its stunning location, diverse line-up of artists and non-corporate, family friendly atmosphere. Chagstock showcases the very best music, food and entertainment that the Westcountry and the UK have to offer.
The full Friday billing has been confirmed, and is without question the biggest single-day line up in the festival’s nine-year history.
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is getting romantic this February with two events lined up.
The Valentine’s Vintage Ball brings dance music and theatre to the Museum. The Hot Tin Roofs will bring a raucous blend of swing, shake and rhythm & blues.
The Lindy Hoppers will on-hand with dance lessons, Nuts and Volts theatre company will be in residence researching the history of romance and there will be ElectroSwing DJs, Alfie’s Black Cab Photobooth and a vintage dressing up theme.
The event takes place on Saturday 14 February, from 7 to...
The Honeymead Ensemble returns to Exeter Cathedral for their sixth annual performance.
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
Daniel Tong (piano) Kate Gould (cello)
Programme to include piano trios by Schubert and Dvořák.
Tickets (including interval drinks and canapés) are available from 01392 285983 or online (no booking fee for online purchases) www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/boxoffice
The Lympstone based South West Comms Band will again be performing at one of the most popular charity events on the Devon musical calendar. Led by new musical director Rich Harvey, they will take to the stage for the fifth Classics Galore! concert.
Classics Galore! is an extravaganza of entertainment that features familiar and uplifting music performed by a 200-hundred strong ensemble - a full orchestra, the Lympstone brass band and two choral societies.
The event is staged to raise money for local cancer charity FORCE and this year’s concert will be at the University of...
King Charles is an extraordinary man. He doesn’t look like anyone you know, he doesn’t think like anyone you know and he doesn’t make music like anyone you know. How often, in these days of near fatal over saturation, days where you feel that, perhaps, there’s just nothing new out there to spark your imagination, can you say that? Glorious psychedelic folk from this highly rated indie-folk solo act.
After two years of touring his LoveBlood album, King Charles ended the 2014 festival tour season and went straight into recording his next as-yet-untitled sophomore album with what he...
With a quintessentially English voice which is both pure and unique, and soulful and honest lyrics that come straight from the heart, Leddra is truly one of the most gifted young songwriters in Britain today.
A celebratory night of live roots reggae music to honour what would have been thee 70th birthday of the reggae legend Bob Marley.
Black Roots are a roots reggae band from the St. Paul’s area of Bristol, England that originally formed up in 1979. It wasn’t long before their brand of roots reggae started to draw in people seeking to find a voice that spoke out against the injustices and alienation caused by the pace of political reform introduced in Thatcherite Britain. Black Roots’ uncompromising lyrical content was that voice. They gained national prominence when they released...
Frontman and songwriter for the three-piece alternative rock band I Am Kloot, John Bramwell – formerly known as Johnny Dangerously – will have two gigs in Devon.
I Am Kloot were shortlisted for the Mercury Prize in 2010 for their album Sky at Night, but it’s not the only time John received heady praise for his work. The Guardian called his 1989 mini-album You, Me and the Alarm Clock ‘one of the greatest albums you’ve never heard’.
It will be a ‘rare opportunity to see a real music legend up close and personal’, says the South Devon Arts Centre, one of the venues John will...
