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AQQ – Alison Rayner Quintet featuring Deirdre Cartwright featuring:

Alison Rayner – bass Deirdre Cartwright – guitar Buster Birch – drums Diane McLoughlin – saxophone Steve Lodder piano

A new band led by bassist and composer Alison Rayner, encompassing the talents of five talented and exciting jazz musicians. They combine diverse influences from American swing and funk and Afro Cuban dance music to contemporary jazz and European folk. The music is accessible and broad in its reach; the compositions are melodic with killer...

After last year’s extraordinary concert of Handel’s music for Vespers, English Touring Opera returns to Exeter Cathedral to celebrate Bach’s breathtaking Advent cantatas.

Enjoy an intimate evening of choral music and the most beautiful Christmas songs masterfully interpreted by soloists from ETO, the Old Street Band, and local choirs Cathedral Consort, Isca Voices and the Gentlemen of Exeter Cathedral’s Choir.

www.englishtouringopera.org.uk

Tickets: A £20 B £16 C £12 D £10 (unreserved seats around the nave) Running Time: 1hr 45mins

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Power up your ray guns, slip on your neon legwarmers and make sure you’ve applied your dinosaur repellant liberally…

This New Year’s Eve we invite you to send yourself spinning through time. From prehistoric dinosaur days through gothic victoriana, eightie’s electronica to future space odyssey, join us for live music and time-warped happenings.

Join the Phoenix for:

Live music and DJs Nineteenth century absinthe bar Walkaround cyborgsVictorian burlesque 80’s silent disco Robot dance-off Daft as Punk Rock & Roll bands Live electronica and light show 50’s Pin-up...

Hold it Down presents Grandmaster Flash plus support

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip-hop. Theirs was a pioneering union between one DJ and five rapping MCs. Grandmaster Flash not only devised various techniques but also designed turntable and mixing equipment. Formed in the South Bronx, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were one of the first rap posses, responsible for such masterpieces as ‘The Message’, ‘Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel’, and ‘White Lines’.

The combination of Grandmaster Flash’s turntable...

‘Good folk songs are like dangerous ideas, forcing us to re-imagine who we are and the institutions that support us.’

Folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Luke Daniels’ talents as a singer-songwriter are becoming widely recognised. Immaculate acoustic guitar playing and insightful, honest lyrics exploring love, life, doubt and faith and the idea that happiness and hope spring from what we have in common, rather than what we can acquire as individuals.

Over the course of a twenty-year career Daniels has already earned his place on the UK Folk scene as a virtuoso...

Two innovative musical pals, both established solo folk artists in their own right, come together from their respective corners of Britain for a night of sparkling acoustic tunes.

The Pictish Trail is the nom de plume of Johnny Lynch, a Scottish musician who spent some time running Fence Records alongside Kenny Anderson (King Creosote). His music is a sonorous mixture of acoustic-driven balladry and lo-fi synthesised pop, that has been described as ‘a post-summer trove of sun-warped electro, anamorphic folk’ (Plan B Magazine).

Sweet Baboo is Stephen Black, a native of the...

Fish - Moveable Feast UK tour

Fish, the critically acclaimed progressive rock singer/songwriter, and former lead singer of Marillion, brings his extensive 13-date tour to Exeter.

Billed as The Moveable Feast Tour this nationwide trek is named after his new album A Feast Of Consequences. Fish will perform songs from the new album, as well as his solo album tracks, including early Marillion classics.

Fish operates outside of ‘the industry’ and so this new release will be available via www.fishheadsclub.com

Tickets £23

Box office: 01392 667080

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Beans on Toast with support from Lori Campbell and Will Varley

Drunk folk singer, barefoot troubadour and cult legend Beans on Toast has been around the block more times than he cares to remember. Thankfully though, with his unique blend of simple songs and no holds barred quick wit, he is an act that is anything but tired.

With a fresh spring in his step after an incredible start to the year, which saw him conquer his first American headline tour, play a series of shows with Flogging Molly in the US and perform to over 40,000 people in just one week whilst opening Frank...