Andrew Millington looks back on a lifetime’s career in church music, with reminiscences of Worcester, Gloucester, Guildford and Exeter Cathedrals. There will be some serious thoughts mixed with anecdotes about the variety of characters he has worked with over the years.
An Organ350 event.
Tickets
General admission £3 Friends of Exeter Cathedral, Residents' Card Holders, Cathedral Volunteers £2
The Cathedral's three resident organists perform with our choir of children and adults in celebration of the organ's 350th anniversary year.
Following an extensive restoration (completed at the end of 2014) the organ will be back in action, taking a solo role, together with providing the accompaniment for the Cathedral Choir.
This popular concert takes place in the candlelit nave of the Cathedral.
John Scott is presently Organist and Director of Music at St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York (where he directs the renowned choir of men and boys) following a long association with St Paul’s Cathedral, where he was Organist and Director of Music from 1990 until 2004.
A highly regarded choir trainer, composer and arranger, John Scott is widely recognised around the world as one of the leading recitalists, so we are extremely proud to announce his performance here in Exeter, the first recital on the newly restored organ.
Live music at the Mill on the Exe, Four bands battling the boundaries of music to create a fabulous and exciting evening for everyone.
Producing a wealth of music from across the genres throughout the decades.Constructed and organised by the academy of music and sound exeter, in partnership with Honeyland's charity.
Doors open at 8pm
£2 entry fee and £4 entry fee after 8.30pm.
Please go along and support a worthy cause for a local charity.
Don’t make any plans for the weekend until you’ve checked out our guide to what’s on in and around Exeter:
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Exeter Comedy Club Christmas Specials Friday, 8.30pm, Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter Featuring Lloyd Griffiths, Joel Dommett, Nathan Caton and Rob Deering. www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange
George's Marvellous Medicine Daily, Exeter Northcott Theatre The Birmingham Stage Company present Roald Dahl's amazing story about a young boy who makes a marvellous new medicine to cure his grandmother of her terrifying temper. But when his grandmother...
WORDS and music inspired by visits to the ancient Beer Quarry Caves are to be performed by children and young people from across the region at a special concert in Exeter Cathedral in the New Year.
A collaboration between the Jurassic Coast Teaching Schools Alliance of 28 schools from Dorset, Devon and Somerset and Lyme Regis-based youth music charity B Sharp, the Beer Quarry Caves Concert on January 13 at 7.30pm marks the culmination of a year-long project that has seen 390 students and more than 45 teaching staff visit the historic caves at Beer where stone has been quarried for...
The fifth Tiverton Balloon and Music Festival takes place from Friday 10th until Sunday 12th July 2015 at Petroc College/Tiverton Campus on Bolham Road, Tiverton, in Devon.
Line-up This year the Tiverton Balloon & MUSIC Festival will be showcasing acts across it's 2 Music Stages - The Main Stage and Origin Stage. There are no acts confirmed yet for 2015.
Plus a Comedy Stage, Workshops provided by staff and students from both Petroc College and Tiverton High School, poetry and story readings, diverse catering and an eclectic mix of other attractions.
This year sees the tenth anniversary of Exeter’s Swedish St Lucia Procession, a traditional Scandinavian midwinter celebration of light and song first brought to the city by local folk singer Rosa Rebecka from her homeland of Sweden in 2004.
In the decade since, the celebration has grown from strength to strength, with Rosa’s Scandinavian choir, ExeSwedes, and friends singing traditional Sankta Lucia songs in pubs, theatres, churches, and even Exeter cathedral.
This year's Lucia procession will be held at St Andrew’s Church on Alphington Road on 6.30pm Saturday 13th...
New for 2015, Future Music is launching a songwriting competition to find the best songwriters in the UK.
The songwriting competition will provide the opportunity for both aspiring and established songwriters to get their music heard by music industry professionals, with prizes including Songwriter Awards, plus the opportunity to perform in a Grand Final showcase in London in front of A&R who work for the three major record labels.
The songwriting competition is brought to you by Future Music, the company behind the discovery of artists such as Atlantic Record’s Jacob...
A workplace choir from a leading local law firm has performed its first concert to a packed audience of colleagues, family and clients. The Rolling Scowns – a 24 piece choir from law firm Stephens Scown LLP in Exeter – performed a selection of 11 songs at a concert held at St Stephens Church, Exeter. The Rolling Scowns’s repertoire included “Let it Be”, “Black Horse and Cherry Tree” and “Merry Christmas Everyone”. The evening also saw a performance by established local choir, Bel Canto. Stephens Scown’s choir was formed following the firm’s away day this year, where staff enjoyed a fun...
