Concerts in the West is delighted to welcome the exciting young cellist Amy Jolly, who together with pianist Gemma Beeson, will be making exhilerating music at venues in Devon, Somerset and Dorset from April 21 to 23, 2016. A recent graduate of the Halle/RNCM String Leadership Diploma at the Royal Northern College of Music, Amy Jolly won the 2014 Charles Halle Award and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Stavanger University of Music, Norway. She graduated with distinction from the MA programme at the Royal Academy of Music, achieving a DipRAM for an outstanding final recital...
How one folk musician and composer’s passion for the first music machine has seen him embrace the very latest 21st century music technology.
1. Painstakingly restore a 19th century 4ft high music box and reverse engineer the Victorian technology used to project music manuscript onto its 20” steel discs.
2. Write the first new music for Polyphon in 132 years and develop a computer programme that turns midi notes into concentric coordinates to manufacture brand new discs.
3. Replace the machine’s coin mechanism with foot operated solenoid switches to enable stop/...
Saturday 12th March sees a new show of folk songs come to the Cygnet Theatre in Exeter, celebrating women from history.
The show is being curated by three of the team from Wren Music – Amy Wilson, Sarah Owen and Marilyn Tucker (pictured), and has already recruited a chorus of 30 women who are sure to make the evening extra special.
Although the arts organisation already runs five community choirs across the county, they spotted an opportunity to bring together a women-only singing group specifically to celebrate women’s history for international women’s day.
Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum Development Trust announces today that Rathbone Investment Management is sponsoring the fifth series of classical concerts at the museum in April, May and June 2016.
Following the successful concert series held over the past four years, RAMM’s Development Trust has organised another series of classical concerts to be held at RAMM. The series will start on Wednesday 27th April with internationally acclaimed pianist, Martin Roscoe, playing Debussy, Schumann and Beethoven.
On Wednesday 25th May, cellist, Michael Petrov and pianist, Erdem...
Members of the Exeter Bach Society (Musical Director: Simon Capet) will give a liturgical performance of J.S.Bach's Cantata 41 Jesu, nun sei gepreiset.
Your essential guide to the best of What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (12-14 February)
THEATRE
Tommy Tiernan: Out of the Whirlwind Friday, Exeter Corn Exchange Now entering his 20th year as a stand-up comedian, having won every award going and still as passionate as ever about the adventure of storytelling and comedy, Irelands number one comedian is also starting to take some very exciting risks. Over 16s, tickets £19.50. http://sites.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange
Panto: Sleeping Beauty Friday & Saturday, Tedburn St Mary Village Hall Tedburn Amateur...
80's Gold - Newton Abbot Racecourse plays host on Sunday 14 August 2016 to a star studded array of pop’s best loved names from the 1980s.
Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet), ABC, Bananarama and Midge Ure (Ultravox) will be performing their greatest hits and more on stage; there will also be music from local bands so this will be an amazing night of music, fun and nostalgia.
Standard tickets: • Early Bird: From 1 December 2015 – 31 March 2016*: Adult £22.50 and child under 16 £10 (ID) ** • Full Ticket Price: From 1 April – 14 August 2016: Adult £25 and child under 16 £10 (ID...
Family fun for the post-rave generation of parents. Helping parents be responsibly irresponsible since 2013.
DJs 601 (Punks / Sub Slayers), plus resident Little My play (grown up) dance music on the multi-sensory dancefloor with glitter cannons, bubbles and giant parachute dance.
Craft tables with giant colouring mural, themed crafts and playdoh table. Play area with tents and tunnels and baby chillout space with mats and small ballpool.
Licensed bar, free transfer tattoos, glowsticks and freebie treats to take away at the end.
Steve Knightley, one of the British folk roots scene’s biggest names, brings his “All At Sea” UK tour back to his Devon home town this month when he appears at Topsham’s Matthew Hall (Saturday, February 20). Show of Hands’ acclaimed BBC award-winning frontman has been rated “one of England greatest singer songwriters”. His song Walk With Me (When the Sun Goes Down) on the brand new Show of Hands album, The Long Way Home (released January 15), is currently playlisted on BBC Radio 2. www.bbc.co.uk/music/records/n3f39j He set out on a mission in 2014 - to play as many village halls and “...
Having headlined the 2015 Glastonbudget Festival last year (the biggest tribute festival of the year), Totally TINA comes to TORQUAY – Princess Theatre on Saturday 20th February 2016!
Totally TINA is an award-winning tribute to the Queen of Rock and Roll, Tina Turner, being given the “Official UK number one” honour by the Agents Association of Great Britain.
Currently touring the UK theatres in a full production version with live band, dancers and our leading lady Justine Riddoch. Rather than being a biography, this show focuses on Tina's live concert career, replicating...
