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NEW UPDATED Cancelled
Acoustic Warehouse - Kingsteignton
NEW Wednesday 2
March 2022 7.15pm - Acoustic Warehouse Music & Performance Club, Passage House
Inn, Hackney Lane, Kingsteignton, Newton Abbot TQ12 3QH
Monthly every 1st Wednesday, finishing at 10.00pm. We continue to raise funds
for Rowcroft Hospice with £2 entry and raffle ticket. Covid safety with
individual mic covers. More information from Nigel Dee 07989 180091.
www.facebook.com/Acoustic.Warehouse.TQ123QH.
New email address acoustic.warehouse.tq12@gmail.com
You can book tickets at www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts (+10% booking fee) or email boxoffice@ashburtonarts.org.uk to reserve and pay on the door (cash or card).
NEW
Saturday 31 May 2025 7.30pm - Ellie Gowers - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
“Ellie Gowers is, quite literally, an all-singing, all-dancing folk polymath”
Jon Wilks, TradFolk. Ellie has composed music for BBC Radio 3’s production of
‘Middlemarch’ and toured as support act for a number of artists including Blair
Dunlop and Elephant Sessions.” Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Saturday 24 May 2025 7.30pm - Seth Lakeman - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
With Benji Kirkpatrick and Alex Hart. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts. Part of Dartmoor Tors Festival
https://dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk/,
https://wegottickets.com/dartmoortorsfestival.
NEW
Friday 23 May 2025 7.30pm - Martha Tilston - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
With a pure silken voice and lyrics that inspire and captivate, Martha Tilston
has developed a successful musical career with a large and loyal following
worldwide. “Redolent of early Kate Bush, soulful vocals that soar around, an
understated masterpiece’” Acoustic Magazine. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts. Part of Dartmoor Tors Festival
https://dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk/,
https://wegottickets.com/dartmoortorsfestival.
NEW
Sunday 13 April 2025 3pm - Carmina with Diarmaid
Moynihan - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Celtic-inspired themes, powerful original songs with a rare UK guest appearance
by top Irish folk musician Diarmaid Moynihan (uilleann pipes & whistles). The
concert will feature Carmina’s unique and celebrated presentation of
Celtic-inspired themes and jazz improvisation, woven together in powerful
original songs, together with their own – at times surprising – arrangements of
carefully-chosen covers. Pippa Marland vocals, saxes; Rob King guitar,
bodhran; Paul Bradley guitars, vocals. The concert will also be presenting new
compositions for their forthcoming album, Late Light, which also features
Diarmaid’s playing. Samples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOcG_ghIEBw. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Thursday 10 April 2025 7.30pm - Charlie Dore &
Julian Littman - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Charlie Dore is one of the UK's most respected singer songwriters. In an
unusually diverse career her songs have won two Ascap awards, an Ivor Novello
nomination and both the Overall Grand and the Folk Prize from the International
Acoustic Music Awards. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Sunday 6 April 2025 3pm - Spring Singing
Workshop - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
This workshop will explore traditional and original songs inspired by this
beautiful turning point of the year. Led by experienced choir leaders and
Natural Voice Network Practitioners Georgie Buchanan and Alana Middleton.
Details
https://wegottickets.com/event/653166.
NEW
Sunday 6 April 2025 7.30pm - Georgie Buchanan
and Alana Middleton - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Inspired by voyages to the Outer Hebrides, tales of ancient Celtic Goddesses and
great folk singers from Peggy Seeger to Joni Mitchell, Georgie Buchanan is a
unique singer and harpist on the contemporary folk scene. She’s joined here by
Alana Middleton, folk fiddle-player and singer – they combine wonderfully
creating delicious harmonies with voices and instruments. Details
https://wegottickets.com/event/653153.
NEW
Friday 4 April 2025 7.30pm - Jonathan Prag
Classical Guitar - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Jonathan has an affinity with the folk roots of the classical guitar’s origins
and in this show, classical masters like Schubert and Scarlatti rub shoulders
with Turlough O’Carolan and his jaunty Irish airs. He skilfully introduces each
piece with well-chosen snippets of information and humour. This lends an element
of storytelling so that the audience always feels part of the performance, as if
they are travelling on a musical journey. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Wednesday 2 April 2025 7.30pm - John Langan /
Dartsong Chorus - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
John (John Langan Band) playing solo, performing originals and a collection of
traditional folk songs dear to his heart, honed at the festival campfires and
after shows over the years. Expect superb musicianship and a wonderful
collection of songs, everything from Scottish, Irish and Romany to South
American folk, one of the most unforgettable folk voices in Britain today.
Dartsong Chorus: This concert will feature a rich repertoire of intricate modern
and traditional choral arrangements, brought to life in vibrant multi-part
harmony. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Saturday 29 March 2025 7.30pm - Phil Beer - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
“A Phil Beer gig is one spent in the company of a true craftsman, a master
musician and consummate performer” Spiral Earth. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Sunday 23 March 2025 7.30pm - Kêmbang - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Songs and tunes from a magical band combining influences from English &
Indonesian folk music. Kêmbang create a unique sound by weaving together
melodies reminiscent of English folk music and traditional Javanese music.
Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Thursday 20 March 2025 7.30pm - Iago Banet
- Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
The Galician king of acoustic guitar. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Saturday 15 March 2025 7.30pm - Crazy World of
Arthur Brown
- Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
No, definitely not folk, but I saw the 'God of Hellfire' when I was at
college in London in 1970 - and Yes, he is still going! - so that's why they
get a mention here. English rock band formed by singer Arthur Brown in 1967,
famous for their song "Fire" (released in 1968) which sold over one million
copies. Why Ashburton? Local music legend, Sam Walker has for many years been
touring with Arthur Brown behind his drum kit, and he lives in Ashburton...
Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Sunday 9 March 2025 7.30pm - Mishra Duo - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Mishra is a global folk duo from the UK gathering international recognition,
which “draws together roots in UK traditional music with continent-spanning
musical textures into a multi-limbed virtuoso performance. Performing finely
crafted songs with stunning vocals and exhilarating instrumentals, Mishra spans
eclectic moods, from meditative raag-inspired improvisations to high-energy
celtic dance tunes underpinned by unstoppable percussive grooves, they create an
unaccountably big sound for just two people.” Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Saturday 22 February 2025 7.30pm - Carrivick
Sisters - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
The Carrivick Sisters is one of the UK's top young bluegrass and folk acts.
Twins Laura and Charlotte perform their original songs and instrumentals along
with a few carefully chosen covers on guitar, mandolin, fiddle, dobro, and
clawhammer banjo. Their busy touring schedule is rapidly building them a
reputation for engaging and entertaining live performances with tight sibling
vocal harmonies and multi-instrumental virtuosity. Having grown up in South
Devon, an area rich in folk lore and legends, much of their original material is
inspired by their local surroundings and history. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Sunday 2 February 2025 7.30pm - Tannahill
Weavers - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Firmly established as one of the premier groups on the concert stage; from
reflective ballads to footstomping reels and jigs, the variety and range of the
material they perform is matched only by their enthusiasm and lively Celtic
spirits. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Saturday 25 January 2025 7.30pm - Burns Night
Ceilidh - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
urns Night party, with music, dancing and high spirits. Put your dancing shoes
on in celebration of the great Scots bard. There'll be some called dances,
mostly it's up to you. There'll be haggis, tatties, neeps and whisky available
at a very reasonable price. There will be kilts, and perhaps Burn's poetry and
pipes. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Friday 24 January 2025 7.30pm - Re-Jig: 'Twas
the night before Burns Night - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
An almighty hooley will be happening here! Let your hair down, don your kilt,
and come and dance! Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Saturday 11 January 2025 7.30pm - Jacob &
Drinkwater - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
South West based duo Jacob & Drinkwater have been called 'Stand out new folk' by
BBC6 Music. Jacob & Drinkwater’s dynamic and emotionally charged live show, has
energy, musical chemistry, and spontaneity. It regularly draws comparisons with
the pairing of John Martyn & Danny Thompson. Jacob's vocals deliver
spine-tingling moments; the fluidity of his finger-picking underpinned by
Drinkwater's rhythmic double bass and electric guitar. At times soaring,
haunting, percussive, and driving, as a perfect counterfoil. The complement of
stirring vocal harmonies rounds off the mix. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
UPDATED (date)
Tuesday 10 December 2024 7.30pm -
Steve Turner
- Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Steve Turner is known as a pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina
song accompaniments, stretching the boundaries of traditional forms, with one of
the best voices in the business. He is a multi-instrumentalist, who also
accompanies himself on the cittern, and also plays mandolin and banjo. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
Friday 6 December 2024 7.30pm - Steve Tilston - Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
A fabulous singer, songwriter and finger-picking guitarists extraordinaire, in
the English folk tradition. Simply one of the best in the UK, a legend on the
folk scene who fans include the likes of Fairport Convention. He's also the
father of Martha Tilston, an apple that's fallen very close to the tree. Details
www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts.
NEW
18 April to 6 May 2024 -
Tinners Moon Festival
- Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
A huge range of events of many genres (including folk, folk dance, morris... and
much much more). Full details
www.ashburtonarts.org.uk
NEW Saturday 9
November 2024 7pm - Charity Concert - St Andrews Church, West Street, Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Ashburton Community Folk Orchestra and Moorland Mandolins are presenting n
evening of musical entertainment. Conductor: David Faulkner. This is a
fundraising concert for the Motor Neurone Disease Association to aid research
into finding a cure for the condition. Interval with a raffle and refreshments.
Donations to MND Association. ENTRY FREE. Doors 6.15pm.
www.facebook.com/AshburtonCommunityFolkOrchestra,
www.moorlandmandolins.uk.
NEW Monday 17
October 2022 7.30pm - While & Matthews - St Andrews Church Hall, West Street,
Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/554840.
saw afterwards that venue changed to:
The Farmhouse, Lower Broomborough, Totnes TQ9 5LX - 'Music at the
Farmhouse' ??
Ashburton Community Folk Orchestra
(this has been running for a couple of weeks but I've only just found out
about it)
Thursdays 6, 13, 27 February; 5, 12, 19, 26 March: Weekly on Thursday
mornings from 10.30 – 12noon in Ashburton Arts Centre (The Old Methodist Church,
15, West St, TQ13 7DT), led by award winning and experienced Community Musician
David Faulkner. All acoustic instruments and different levels of ability
welcome. Play music from Devon and beyond; play in harmony; develop learning by
ear. Scores and sound files provided. “Let’s make a big band, make some music
and have some fun! Come and join the band!” Cost: £8 per session or £32.50 for 5
sessions (concessions available). See:
www.ashburtonarts.org.uk/events/ashburton-community-folk-orchestra-2020-01-16
or for more information, contact David Faulkner on 07967 121985 or email
david.eelgrinders@gmail.com.
Details, tickets etc. www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts. www.facebook.com/pg/ashburtonarts/events. www.ashburtonarts.org.uk.
NEW
Tuesday 24 May 2022 7.30pm - Daphne’s Flight -
St Andrews Church, West Street, Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Daphne’s Flight was created 25 years ago by five of the leading singer
songwriters of their generation - Chris While, Julie Matthews, Melanie Harrold,
Helen Watson and Christine Collister. Described as one of the most exciting
vocal groups to emerge on the acoustic music scene, their energy on stage is
matched only by their collective talents, Daphne’s Flight are unrivalled and sit
firmly in a class of their own as singers, musicians and writers. Their highly
anticipated 3rd studio album was scheduled to tour in the spring of 2020, now
rescheduled to 2022. Miranda Sykes on vocals and double bass replaces Christine
Collister on this tour.
For tickets (£20), please email Sarah Tobin on
sarah.tobin@plymouth.ac.uk.
NEW Saturday 11 May
2019 7.30pm - Wild Goose / Skylark - Ashburton Town Hall
Wild Goose is 'Wild, eclectic and dangerous... Pink Floyd, Kenny Rogers, Bryan
Adams channelled by Woodie Guthrie. Guitar, violin, banjo, mandolin, piano,
percussion.' Skylark is 'Beautiful arrangements of traditional and contemporary
songs with vocal harmonies, fiddle, flute, guitar and mandolin'. Bar and raffle.
Tickets £7, U15 free, from Jane 07818 844346 or Ashburton Information Centre.
All proceeds to Cancer Lifeline South West, a wonderful charity providing
residential therapeutic breaks for cancer sufferers and their carers.
NEW Friday 17 April 2020 7.30pm
- Belinda O'Hooley: Inversions Tour - St Lawrence Chapel, St Lawrence Lane,
Ashburton TQ13 7DD (map)
‘Inversions’ showcases Belinda’s abilities as a composer and pianist with
many of the piano pieces inspired by the songs and tunes her father inherited
from a long line of male musicians in the hills of the West coast of rural
Ireland. With the passing of her father in 2017, Belinda; the first woman to be
handed the tradition, has found the freedom to express the music of her
ancestors in her very own, unconventional way, evolving and migrating into
something you could describe as an inversion: a reversal of the norm. The venue
is 700+ years old and in a narrow lane with very restricted parking. Please use
the Town Centre car park (free after 6pm). The venue is a couple of minutes
walk. For disabled access, please contact Ian Pickvance iin advance to make
arrangements. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/494667. All profits from this event go to
Macmillan Cancer Support.
NEW Saturday 10
February 2024 7.30pm - Mae Karthauser (trio) - Awliscombe Parish Hall,
nr Honiton EX14 3PJ
Inspired by the likes of Albin De La Simone, Agnes Obel, Joni Mitchell
and Nick Drake (and somehow rather unlike any of them), Mae Karthauser is a
Devon-based songwriter with a rich, acrobatic voice and a style that is
distinctive yet impossible to place. Mae's latest album is a collection of songs
that were each written in one day, all within one month. The songs are arranged
for the trio of piano, flute, and cello with three vocals, allowing for
imagination and innovation to flourish. Details
www.villagesinaction.co.uk/performances/mae-karthauser.
NEW Wednesday 8
June 2022 7.30pm - Jurassic Folk (Acoustic) Club - The Honiton Inn, Awliscombe,
Honiton EX14 3PJ
The Club re-opened in October 2021 at this new venue and meets monthly on the
2nd Wednesday. The Club welcomes audience, singers and musicians from near and
far for an evening of live acoustic performance. Come along, bring your voice or
an instrument or both and entertain or be entertained.
www.jurassicfolk.co.uk. For further details contact Adrian on 01404 549903
or Mike on 01404 43429.
NEW
Friday 14 December 2018 7.30pm - India Electric Company - Church of St
Michael & All Angels, Church Hill, Awliscombe, Honiton (map)
Part of a unique series of candle-lit concerts from India Electric Company in
historic churches.
www.indiaelectricco.com. Refreshments will be available. Limited parking but
plenty available in the village hall & pub car park a few yards up from the
Church. Please note, there are no toilets at the venue, but the lovely pub The
Honiton Inn is a few yards up the road. After show drinks at the pub strongly
advised! Doors 7pm. Tickets £11+/£9+ from
www.wegottickets.com/event/454280.
NEW
Thursday
24 April 2025 - Daisy Rickman -
Outside, nr Bantham Cross, TQ7 3AA (map)
We're honoured to host the radical traditional folk artist Daisy Rickman, a
multidisciplinary visual artist and musician from Cornwall. Merging the realms
of folk and psychedelia, her music transmutes something between both an ode to
her homeland and the cosmos that holds us. Support: Tealeaf. t: 01548 705044. Details
www.outside-devon.com.
NEW
Tuesday
18 March 2025 - Chris Brain -
Outside, nr Bantham Cross, TQ7 3AA (map)
Yorkshire’s Chris Brain has carved his place firmly into the contemporary folk
scene following his highly-regarded first two albums. Garnering acclaim from the
likes of Cerys Matthews (BBC 6 Music) and Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2), he has
since shared the stage with iconic acts like Robert Plant, Jacqui McShee and
Martin Simpson. His third album launches in Spring 2025. t: 01548 705044. Details
www.outside-devon.com.
NEW
Sunday
17 March 2024 - LaZy Divide -
Old Plough Inn, Bere Ferrers Yelverton, PL20 7JL
Live mixed folk music from trad to a bit of folk rock, with a few jigs and reels
… bring your singing voice and dancing feet and join us from 8 pm to celebrate
Paddy's Night. Details
Facebook.
NEW
Saturday 13 October 2018 8pm - 'Shanty Special' Evening - BFS Club,
Bristol Row, Bere Ferrers, Yelverton PL20 7JL
The Tavy Tars are holding this ‘Shanty Special’ evening at Bere Ferrers
Social Club when they will present 4 cheques for £400 from funds they have
raised to: Help for Heroes, St Luke’s Hospice, the RNLI, and TASS (Tavistock and
Area Support Services). Free entry, donations welcome.
NEW
Friday 4 November 2016 8pm - Sea Shanty Evening - BFS Club, Bristol Row,
Bere Ferrers PL20 7JL
Sea Shanty evening with the Tavy Tars. After successful fundraising the Tars
are using this occasion to donate to several local causes, cheques will be
presented during this celebratory evening. They have invited friends 'The Press
Gang' from Mevagissey to join in a 'Shanty Special', sets from the Tars and the
Press Gang, with a 'singalong' session, from both crews and audience, at the end
of the evening! Free entry.
NEW
Friday 4 March 2016 7.30pm - A Grand Musical Extravaganze - St Andrews
Church, Bere Ferrers
Humanitarian Crisis Concern presents 3 acts: 1) Bere Alston Junior School
Drummers, most enthusiastic young percussionists; 2) Crow Puppets bringing their
own unique style of homespun folk. This Devon based female duo sing and play
various instruments, weaving mysterious imagery and tender lyrics. Their
harmonies provide absolutely spine tingling moments. 3) Gypsy Train klezmer
band, playing clarinet, saxophone, double-bass, guitar, fiddle and accordion.
Prepare to be intoxicated by the fast, foot-tapping arrangements of Balkan dance
tunes, soulful improvisation and gypsy passion. Book early to avoid
disappointment. Tickets £7.50, child 12+ £4, from Margaret Willmott 01822
840380, Bere Alston Pharmacy 01822 830234. Proceeds will go to help ‘Doctors of
the World’’ a totally voluntary organisation which does the most invaluable work
in refugee camps all over Europe. The Olde Plough will be serving pre-theatre
suppers from 6pm for £10 (£2of which will go to the charity). It will help the
chef to serve you quickly if you could book the meal in good time (01822
840358).
NEW
Friday
2 June 2023 - Harbottle & Jonas
-
Bigbury Memorial Hall, Bigbury TQ7 4HQ
Partners in life and music, dynamic Devon based
folk duo Harbottle & Jonas are one of the most exciting acts on the UK circuit
today, combining a love of the richness of traditional folk with their own
original and powerful songwriting. Dave and Freya have developed a distinct and
compelling signature sound, blending concertina, harmonium, cittern, stomp box,
acoustic guitar and banjo with their beautiful and closely intertwined vocal
harmonies. Details
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/harbottle-and-jonas-at-bigbury-memorial-hall-tickets-616911196997.
NEW Friday
22 November 2019 7.30pm - Harbottle & Jonas
-
Bigbury Memorial Hall, Bigbury TQ7 4HQ
Harbottle & Jonas are a stunning young folk duo
based in Totnes. Together the husband and wife duo combine the rich traditions
of folk music with original and contemporary interpretations through a blend of
closely intertwined vocal harmonies. Harbottle & Jonas sing about family,
villages swept into the sea, polar expeditions, historical characters and
peculiar narratives. Their music is original and unique. It is performed with
integrity and on instruments that include the concertina, harmonium, banjo,
stompbox, and acoustic guitar. Details
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
18 November 2018 7.30pm - The Churchfitters ~ Folk Unlimited -
Bigbury Memorial Hall, Bigbury TQ7 4HQ
The Churchfitters is a folk band like no other. A double bass made out of a
motor bike petrol tank. Heart-wrenching vocals accompanied by a musical saw.
Foot-stompingly fast fiddle mixed with infectious funk-rock rhythms and
traditional tunes reinvigorated with mesmerising jazz sax! Throw in some
exquisite harmonies, a slew of startlingly original songs and a few jokes that
create instant rapport and you’ve got a high energy show that always leaves
audiences cheering. How do you adequately describe such a musically diverse,
uplifting band? You leave it to Mike Harding, a self-confessed ‘huge, huge fan’.
He calls their music ‘totally brilliant and beautiful’. Details, bookings etc.
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
Saturday 5 July 2014 7.30pm - Appaloosas -
Bigbury Memorial Hall, Bigbury TQ7 4HQ
Bluebell Wood Music presents a wonderful evening with this 3 piece band from
Dartmoor playing Americana, old time American and Appalachian music. The band
features beautiful Appalachian and old time inspired vocals from Eliza Acty,
claw hammer banjo and guitar from Peter Acty and intricate melodies from
virtuoso fiddle and mandolin player Stephen Potter.
www.appaloosasmusic.com.
Tickets £10 to include paella by Oyster Shack.
Friday 23 October 2015 8pm
- Blackheart - Bigbury
Memorial Hall, Bigbury TQ7 4HQ
Their music and unique sound shuns
categorisation, combining acoustic instruments and the captivating voice of
Chrissy Mostyn with ancient synthesisers, effects, atmospherics and electronica
to create a new brand of avant-garde ethereal folk style of music. Their highly
personal, haunting music is flavoured with piercing observations and penetrating
lyrics. Samples
www.blackheartmusic.co.uk/listen.php. Tickets £10 (U16s£6), includes light
refreshments, available from Holywell Stores, St. Anne's Chapel tel 01548 810308
or Charles 01548 810023.
NEW
Sunday 21 July 2024
2-4pm - Mother's Ruin -The Old Commercial Inn,
Clanage Street, Bishopsteington, Teignmouth TQ14 9QS
Upbeat traditional and modern folk rock.
NEW
Saturday 20 April 2024
7.30pm - Mother's Ruin -
Ring of Bells, Fore Street, Bishopsteignton,
TQ14 9QP
Upbeat traditional and modern folk rock.
NEW Friday 29
April 2022 7pm - Suthering - Village Hall, 46 Fore Street, Bishopsteignton,
Teignmouth TQ14 9QZ
Suthering combines the musical talents of Julu Irvine and Heg Brignall. A couple
in life and in music, the duo are true story-tellers who champion female
characters, creating new narratives for women and unearthing the female heroines
of folk. With their wonderful chemistry and charisma on stage, natural humour
and two beautifully matched voices, an unusual mix of cascading, dramatic piano;
intricate, fingerstyle guitar; flute, whistles and harmonium, Julu and Heg bring
an exciting take on folk storytelling with their evocative and distinctive
sound. Details
www.villagesinaction.co.uk/events/suthering-if-we-turn-away-tour.
NEW
Saturday 10 June 2016 3pm - Five Finger Eddie -
Red Rock Brewery, Humber Farm, Bishopsteignton TQ14 9TD
Live music.
NEW Friday 19 April 2019 7.30pm -
The Drystones - Black Dog Memorial Hall, Black Dog, nr Crediton EX17 4QS
The Drystones are a young duo making big waves on the UK folk scene. Combining
traditional music’s timeless instrumental union of fiddle and guitar with
technical mastery, an unexpectedly large live sound, it’s no wonder they’ve been
described as ‘indecently talented’ (Mike Harding) and earned themselves a
nomination for the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. Since forming in 2011 to
play at their local folk festival in Priddy, Somerset, they have played
festivals across the country, including Glastonbury and Sidmouth Folk Week, have
supported Seth Lakeman and Steeleye Span, produced two albums and, somehow,
squeezed in their music degrees. Tickets: adult £9, child £7, benefits £7,
family £20. Call 01363 877417 to book.
NEW Saturday 16 April 2016 8pm -
Dallahan - Black Dog Memorial Hall, Black Dog, nr Crediton EX17 4QS
Tickets £8 (child £3, conc £5.50) from 01363 866434 & Kennerleigh Community
Stores. Licensed bar
NEW
Saturday 23 November 2019 -
Autumn Ceilidh with Spinach for Norman -
Blackawton Village Hall, Vicarage Road, nr Totnes TQ9 7AY
Doors and bar 7.15pm. Music 8-11pm with a short interval. Tickets £10 adult, £5
U16, from Blackawton Community Shop, phone 01803 712159 (George Inn) or email
villagehall@blackawtoncommunity.com.
Friday 3 February 2012 - The Acoustic Strawbs
- Blackawton Village Hall, nr Totnes
(map)
The front line of one of Britain's most successful and enduring folk rock bands.
Doors 7.30pm. Licensed bar and ample free car parking. Tickets £12 from Steve
Gale 01803 712449 or 07941 611868.
Bovey Tracey (South Devon Music)
NEW
Friday 18 October 2024 7pm - Back Beach Boyz
and Banned from the Moor - Dartmoor Whisky Distillery, The Old Town Hall, Bovey Tracey TQ13 9EG
An evening of shanties, songs and up-beat jigs and reels, raising funds for the
Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team. £10 on the door.
NEW
7-9 June 2024 - Craft Festival - Bovey
Tracey
Enjoy great music whilst you eat and drink the wide variety of locally sourced,
imaginative food and ales... Musicians include Si Barron. More music to be
announced.
www.craftfestival.co.uk/Whats-on-BoveyTracey.
NEW
Saturday 27 April 2024 from 10am - Bovey
Green Man Spring Festival
Festival will feature food and beverage stalls, local produce stalls, craft
stalls, live music, 22 morris dancing sides and a great atmosphere! The parade
starts at 10am with an opening ceremony. Hosted by Bovey Tracey Town Council and
Grimspound Border Morris.
NEW
Friday 26 April 2024 from 7pm - Banned from
the Moor - Dartmoor Whisky Distillery, The Old Town Hall, Bovey Tracey TQ13 9EG
Rocking folk from Dartmoor. The full 9-piece Banned are heading to the lowlands.
2 fiddles, whistles, concertina, guitar, keyboards, bass guitar and drums and
our 3 singers will be rolling out our new festival and party set. An evening of
jigs, reels and songs. Free entry, bar will be open and you are welcome to BYO
food takeaways. Donations towards the Banned's costs, on the night, would be
appreciated.
2022 See Bovey Tracey event details at www.craftfestival.co.uk. Musical entertainment includes Cosgrave & Soph contemporary folk, Griselda Sanderson, Annika Skoogh Latin duo, Becky Brine, Saff Juno. More Music to be announced.
NEW Saturday 31 August 2019 1pm - Meridianum
Ensemble - Baptist Church, Bovey Tracey
An exciting fusion of folk musics from across Europe, played on an amazing
variety of instruments (Soufian Saihi on Arabic oud; Ricardo de Noronha on
Middle-Eastern percussion; Nuno Silva on Persian santur; Griselda Sanderson on
Swedish nyckelharpa and Louis Bingham on cittern; Steve Tyler on hurdy-gurdy).
Part of the Nourish Festival: craft ~ food ~ music. Full festival details
www.nourishfestival.org.
NEW
Thursday 14 March 2019 8pm - Nick Harper - Dolphin Hotel, Station Road, Bovey
Tracey TQ13 9AL
Just ask anybody who's seen him! Remarkable performer. As it happens, he's
the son of the legendary Roy Harper. Details
www.southdevonmusic.co.uk.
Bow nr Crediton (Mick Richards)
NEW
Saturday 17 August 2024 7.30pm - Mariners Away - The Heart of
Devon, Bow Village Hall, nr Crediton EX17 6HU (map)
Renowned singers of sea shanties and other maritime melodies. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/626825.
NEW
Friday 30 June 2023 6.30pm - Miranda Sykes, Candlelit Concert - St
Petrock’s Church, Clannaborough, nr Bow, Crediton EX17 6DA
A rare opportunity to experience a performance by the multi talented musician
Miranda Sykes at this very special venue by candlelight. Miranda, the acclaimed
singer and bassist with ‘Show of Hands’ is returning to her roots. After a
career spanning over 20 years, during which time she has played with many of the
top musicians and singers within the folk world, she is touring as she started
out: one woman, one bass, and one guitar. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/574944 or tel Mick 01363 82379, email
richardsmik1@gmail.com.
NEW Sunday 23 June 2019 6pm - Anna Tanvir -
Waterside Café, Bow, nr Crediton EX17 6LA
Singer and Celtic Harpist. Songs from around the world. Tickets £18 for dinner
and concert. Telephone Bow Garden and Aquatic Centre 01363 460466.
Bradninch Folk Club Guest Nights, September to
May, third Tuesday. Venue - Bradninch Guildhall, Fore Street, Bradninch. EX4 5NN
Doors open at 7.30 PM with the performance starting at 8.00 PM. BYO refreshment
or purchase locally.
For more information visit Bradninch Folk Club’s Facebook Group Page,
www.facebook.com/groups/Bradninchfolk, contact 01392 881105 or just turn up
on the night with cash to pay on the door.
Bradninch Folk Club In the round open music & song, first Tuesday. Venue – The
Castle Hotel, Fore Street, Bradninch. EX4 5NN
In the bar from 8pm.
NEW
Tuesday 20 May 2025 8pm - Jon Wilks -
Bradninch Folk Club, Guildhall, Fore Street,
Bradninch, nr Cullompton EX5 4NN
Multi-talented much-admired fingerpicking folk guitarist and singer in the
Martin Carthy / Martin Simpson vein. With a forthcoming album featuring his
original songs, 20th of May will be an interesting time to see him in action.
Details
www.devonfolk.org/events-diary. £8 on door, U18
free subject so space. BYO refreshments. Facebook
www.facebook.com/groups/Bradninchfolk, contact 01392 881105,
NEW
Tuesday 15 April 2025 8pm - Louis Bingham -
Bradninch Folk Club, Guildhall, Fore Street,
Bradninch, nr Cullompton EX5 4NN
Multi-instrumentalist and singer, plays fretted string instruments like the
cittern, guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, and tambura. His music incorporates
elements from diverse regions such as the Celtic fringes, Appalachia,
Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, and North Africa. Visit his website
louisbingham.com
NEW
Tuesday 18 March 2025 8pm - Daria Kulesh -
Bradninch Folk Club, Guildhall, Fore Street,
Bradninch, nr Cullompton EX5 4NN
Born in Russia but based in the UK for the last 15 years, she fearlessly
explores her heritage and turbulent family history in Ingushetia (North
Caucasus) with songs that “aren’t just sung but lived” (FATEA). Daria is a
consummate storyteller covering tales from many lands of history and fable. She
is a vibrant personality blessed with an amazing singing voice.
https://daria-kulesh.co.uk/. Details
www.devonfolk.org/events-diary.
Bradninch Folk Club News
BRADFOLK, the informal gathering of musicians and singers will continue on
the 1st Tuesday of the month in the function room at the White Lion from 8pm. It
is free for performers and audience and we never really know what will happen,
but it is an opportunity to meet, play and discuss music.
NEW Saturday 9 December 8pm - The Moulton
Brothers - Ye Old White Lion, 26 High Street, Bradninch EX5 4QL
The Moulton Brothers
NEW Saturday
21 September 2024 - Jim Causley - Christ Church, Station Rd, North Brentor, Tavistock
PL19 0LR
Songs of Dartmoor. Tickets
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
UPDATED Date correction
Saturday
18 November 2023 7.30pm - Swamp Stomp
String Band - Village Hall, 6 Station Rd,
Brentor, Tavistock PL19 0LW
A raucous and energetic travelling three-piece band
from the UK, consisting of banjos, upright bass, guitars, and a flat-pack
honky-tonk piano. We play rambunctious, up-tempo, old-time music infused with
Bluegrass, Country, Americana, and anything else you might find pouring out of a
beer soaked, roadside dive-bar! Details
www.villagesinaction.co.uk/performances/the-swamp-stomp-string-band.
NEW Saturday
23 September 2023 7.30pm - Mitchell and Vincent - Village Hall, 6 Station Rd,
Brentor, Tavistock PL19 0LW
Westcountry folk duo bringing traditional and contemporary styles on fiddle and
guitar to music from the British Isles with their own varied arrangements
telling stories with their tunes as well as songs. Acoustic magazine praised
their playing as, “Stunning”; FATEA said, “Music that is beautifully played”;
while Bright Young Folk described their performance as, "Providing skilled
arrangements and expert delivery of tunes and songs which showcase the vibrancy,
and variety, of folk music across Britain. A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable
experience.” Details
www.villagesinaction.co.uk/performances/mitchell-and-vincent.
NEW Saturday 24 May 2025
7.30pm - The Black Feathers - Brixham Theatre, New
Road, Brixham TQ5 8TA (map)
Americana to some, Folk to others, The Black Feathers have those qualities
in expansive quantity. Sian Chandler’s soaring, dramatic, melodious but powerful
voice is a perfect counterpoint to Ray Hughes’ piquant vocals and his sparkling
and occasionally spicy guitar motifs. This is a duo who love what they play and
play what they love with panache, humour, delight and rather a lot of commentary
on the downside of being a human. Details
www.brixhamtheatre.co.uk.
NEW Sunday 4 May 2025
7.30pm - Old Time Sailors - Brixham Theatre, New
Road, Brixham TQ5 8TA (map)
Old Time Sailors - seafaring music, songs and shanties infused with Celtic
Rock, Punk and Ska. Details
www.brixhamtheatre.co.uk.
NEW
Thursday 3 April 2025 7.30pm - Rachael McShane & The
Cartographers -
Brixham Theatre, New
Road, Brixham TQ5 8TA (map)
Rachael McShane is a renowned folk singer, cellist, fiddle, and viola player
from the North East of England. She gained fame as an original member of the
award-winning folk big band Bellowhead, recording five studio albums with them
and winning a staggering 8 BBC Folk Awards. Away from Bellowhead, Rachael is the
leader of The Cartographers, a band featuring traditional folk and contemporary
sounds. Details
www.brixhamtheatre.co.uk.
NEW Wednesday 13
November 2024 - ’Shanties by the Sea’ - Berry Head Hotel, Berry Head Rd, Brixham
TQ5 9AJ
With Missin’ Tackle Shanty Crew; Carport Extension and pianist Anne Fairey.
Concert in aid of Torbay Communities Development Trust. Tickets £10 available
phone 01803 212638 or email
info@torbaycdt.org.uk. Food and drink available pre-concert call Berry Head
Hotel 01803 853225.
NEW Friday
4 October
2024 7.30pm - Reg Meuross - Brixham Folk Club, The Edge, Bolton Street,
Brixham TQ5 9DH
Support: Maggie Duffy. Advance booking recommended. Tickets £10, cash on door. Details
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063670173620. BYO refreshments.
NEW Saturday 27
July 2024 7pm - The Fish Hawkers’ Story by Black Gold - Galmpton Village
Institute, 24 Greenway Road, Galmpton, Brixham TQ5 0LT
Black Gold is a Brixham based musical duo who use narration and song to portray
the story of The Fish Hawkers, the fishermen’s wives left behind to run the
business and bring up their families. Guests: Carport Extension, an emerging
Torbay based male folk song quartet who sing a wide range of songs, a cappella
and accompanied, from across a broad folk and acoustic repertoire. BYO
refreshments. Tickets £10, to reserve email
blackgoldbrixham@gmail.com or
call 07881 524015. All profits to Fishermen’s Mission Charity No 232822.
Missin’ Tackle Shanty Crew summer quay
concerts in Brixham - 23 & 30 July & 6 & 13 August
Missin’ Tackle Shanty Crew are holding their summer quay concerts, this year
to help raise funds for Shoalstone Pool. They are being held under the Old Fish
Market (next to the Golden Hind) on Brixham Harbour on Tuesday evenings 23 & 30
July & 6 & 13 August starting at 7.30pm. These are free events with donations
being taken on the night.
NEW Saturday 29
June 2024 7.30pm - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir - The Spark Studio, 1
Metherell Avenue, Brixham TQ5 9QB
Recent audience feedback called this choir, 'Outstanding' others have said 'We
were blown away with your beautiful voices' and ' I was totally entranced'. Come
and see why! With songs ranging from raw Pagan sun salutations to contemporary
messages that urge us to keep our land pure and sweet and green; this is a
celebratory, reflective and stirring set of songs. Using full choir, both male
and female ensembles, quartets and mixed ensembles, The Lost Sound bring their
amazing voices and love of harmony to deliver their heartfelt 'Country Matters'
set. Details
www.thelostsound.co.uk.
NEW Thursday 8
February 2024 7pm - Shanty Broadside - Berry Head Hotel, Berry Head Rd, Brixham
TQ5 9AJ
'All Hands On Deck' and 'Missin' Tackle' performing in a joint shanty
concert to help raise funds for Froward Point National Coastwatch Station.
Tickets £10 available from Dave on 07989 542883. With a wide variety of shanties
and songs of the sea this is something to look forward too.
Click here for full details.
NEW Friday
6 October
2023 8pm - Cosgrave & Banks - Brixham Folk Club, The Edge, Bolton Street,
Brixham TQ5 9DH
details tba
www.cosgraveandbanks.com. Club FB page
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063670173620.
NEW
Saturday 23 September 2023 10am-10pm - 'Singathon' - Christian Community Centre,
Fore Street, Brixham TQ5 8DS
Featuring All Hands on Deck, The Sea Hounds, Missin’ Tackle Shanty Crew, Time &
Tide and other choirs, groups and individuals in 12 hours of continuous singing.
This is a fundraiser for Rowcroft Hospice. It is a FREE event with donations
being taken on the day for this local charity and good cause. Refreshments will
be available including tea, coffee & cake and soup and a roll over the lunch
period.
NEW Tuesdays 25
July, 1, 8 & 15 August 2023 7.30-8.30pm - Missin’ Tackle Shanty Crew - Old Fish
Quay, Brixham Harbour
Voluntary collections in aid of ‘Dart Sailability’ (charity no. 1155753), a
local good cause that enables anybody with any disability to enjoy sailing,
boating and social activities on the River Dart. All are welcome to attend these
free events.
NEW Thursday 27
April 2023 7.30pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men - The Bottle Shop, 24, Middle Street,
Brixham TQ5 8ER
In anticipation of the Brixham Pirate Festival starting the following day Fougou
Music presents The Exmouth Shanty Men, well 6 of them, half a crew. The original
buoy band. Details
www.fougoumusic.com/brixham-gin.
NEW Friday
12 May
2023 7.30pm - Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years - Brixham Theatre, New
Road, Brixham TQ5 8TA (map)
Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon &
Garfunkel Through the Years continues to delight audiences across the globe.
Featuring stunning vocal harmonies from world-class musicians, this spectacular
concert transports you on a journey through the epic songs and history of the
much-loved Simon and Garfunkel. Collectively known as Bookends, Dan Haynes and
Pete Richards have been fronting Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years since
its creation in 2011. Details
www.brixhamtheatre.co.uk.
NEW
Sunday 12 June 2022 3pm - Jim Causley: Songs of Devon - Galmpton Primary
School, Greenway Road, Brixham TQ5 0LT (map)
Rescheduled from Sunday 20 March: A concert of
traditional Devonshire songs. Hosted by Brixham Folk Club; support:
Maggie Duffy. Doors 2.30pm. Tickets £12 (£10 concs) are available from
jocastle_4@hotmail.com.
NEW
Friday 16 November 2018 7.30pm - Cosgrave & Banks -
Brixham Library, Market Street, Brixham TQ5 8EU
The Friends on Brixham Library are delighted
to welcome back Cosgrave & Banks for our annual concert. They first performed in
2016 and there has been an overwhelming demand for their return. They have been
described as ‘one of Devon’s multi-instrumental treasures’ whose music takes you
‘on a sumptuous journey far and wide across the UK and Europe’. Their last
concert was a magical evening and we are looking forward to the same superb
quality of music delights. Doors 7pm. Members £10; non-members £12,
available in advance from Brixham Library, tel: 01803 853870; ticket includes a
free drink.
but 1927 to 1942 acoustic blues, Brixham Blues on every second Thursday. Contact: email stuart1929@btinternet.com, tel. 01803 855256.
NEW Tuesday 12
November 2024 8pm – Brixham Blues: Erin Harpe and Jim Countryman - The Birdcage,
New Road, Brixham TQ5 8LT
An unforgettable evening of US and UK country blues at its finest. Erin’s
high-energy performances centre around her superb finger-style guitar playing
and her powerful vocals. With support from Brixham’s own Boal Weevils playing
their beautiful 1930s National guitars. And it's free! Come to Brixham Blues
every second Tuesday.
www.facebook.com/BrixhamBlues.
NEW Tuesday 14
November 2023 8pm - Richard Miller plus the Boal Weevils - The Birdcage, New
Road, Brixham TQ5 8LT
Rich Miller is "an absolutely phenomenal slide player" - The Blues Guitar Show.
With support from the equally phenomenal Stuart 'Marshcat' Cumberpatch and Andy
Boal - the Boal Weevils. Rich and the Weevils bring you blues from the 1930s
played on authentic instruments of the period. And it's free. Come to Brixham Blues
every second Tuersday.
www.facebook.com/BrixhamBlues/?locale=en_GB. Free. Contact:
stuart1929@btinternet.com, 01803
855256.
NEW Tuesday 11
July 2023 8pm - Brixham Blues - The Birdcage, New Road, Brixham TQ5 8LT
A great acoustic blues double-header this month, with Kelvin Davies/Gary Jones
plus the Boal Weevils (Stuart Cumberpatch/Andy Boal). The most authentic picking
and bottleneck guitar you will hear for miles around! If you play, sing or
listen to acoustic blues (not the loud electric rhythm-and-blues type), Come to Brixham Blues
every second Tuersday.
www.facebook.com/BrixhamBlues/?locale=en_GB. Free. Contact:
stuart1929@btinternet.com, 01803
855256.
NEW Tuesday 14
December 2021 8pm – Brixham Blues 2nd Tuesday BBT2 – The Birdcage, New Road,
Brixham TQ5 8LT
We are up and running again at our new venue with acoustic blues. hokum,
gospel and Hawaiian music from resident duo The Boal Weevils – Andy Boal and
Stuart ‘Marshcat’ Cumberpatch - plus contributions from some of Devon’s finest
curators of the country blues heritage. Free. Contact:
stuart1929@btinternet.com, 01803
855256.
NEW
Saturday 23 September 2023 7.30pm - Banter - St Peter & St Paul
Church, Broadhempston, nr Totnes TQ9 6BN
Banter are: Simon Care on melodeon, Nina Zella on
keyboards & vocals, Tim Walker on drums, percussion, brass, vocals & dance
calling and Mark Jolley on bass, fiddle, guitar & vocals. Four fine musicians
who’s roots are firmly in the traditional English genre, but who enjoy
stretching the limits. Bookings
www.ticketsource.co.uk/mellow-yellow-gigs/banter/2023-09-23/19:30/t-eaqnojn.
Hosted by Mellow Yellow Gigs on behalf of Broadhempston Parochial Church
Council.
NEW
Saturday 20 October 2018 7.30pm - The Leisure Society - St Peter & St Paul
Church, Broadhempston, nr Totnes TQ9 6BN
The 6-piece folk influenced rock band enjoys a loyal following. This promises to
be an exceptional and intimate performance as part of their UK tour. In receipt
of two consecutive Ivor Novello nominations the band enjoys endorsements of
everyone from Guy Garvey to Brain Eno. Now putting the finishing touches to
their long awaited fifth album, expect to hear brand new Nick Hemming
masterpieces. “Warm, colourful, literate songs that reach into the heart and
head” (The Independent). Tickets £13 from Anna on 01803 812426 or email
annabeadel[at]yahoo.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 22 March
2025 7pm - Enchanted Forest
Equinox Ceilidh Ball
- Moor Imagination Centre, Chapel Street, Buckfastleigh
TQ11 0AB
Enchanted Forest Fancy Dress Equinox Ceilidh Ball. Step into a
world where magic and nature intertwine. Details
www.moorimagination.org/whats-on.
NEW
Saturday 10 June
2023 7.30pm - The Lost
Sound: Dartmoor Folk Choir
- Town
Hall, Buckfastleigh TQ11 0DD
Sponsored by Heart and Soul Funerals. The choir are on home turf
for their 'Country Life' Tour. With new arrangements of songs by Steeleye Span,
Ninebarrow & Chris Hoban, the set is brimming with the energy of Summer, lusty
courtship, the triumphs of harvest and the deeply tender moments of love lost
and sorrowful homecomings. It's a wild and natural feast of unaccompanied
singing, harmony and rhythm! Tickets:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/The-Lost-Sound-FolkChoir/t-pqmjkaj.
NEW Saturday
24 September 2022 7.30pm - Sarah McQuaid - Community Hall,
Buckland-in-the-Moor TQ13 7HP (map)
“One of the most instantly recognisable voices in current music ... Shades of
Joni Mitchell in a jam with Karen Carpenter and Lana Del Rey.” Details
www.villagesinaction.co.uk/events/sarahmcquaid.
UPDATED
Thursday 26 March 2020 7.30pm
- Gypsy Dreamers
-
Village Hall, Buckland-in-the-Moor TQ13 7HP (map)
Bringing together 4 successful
multi-instrumentalist singers who have performed all over the world, from Sidney
Opera House to the Glastonbury Festival, Gypsy Dreamers presents a sophisticated
and hugely entertaining mix of pop songs, Latin and jazz tunes, French chansons
and originals in their unique style. “dynamic hybrid jazz-meets-classical
project that explores tango, bossa nova, pop, jazz and world sounds via violin,
cello and percussion.” Time Out.
www.gypsydreamers.com.
Call or text 07818 225511 or email
davidburke9@icloud.com
to book. £9 adult, £5 child.
NEW
Friday 21 February 2020 7.30pm
- Flats and Sharps
-
Village Hall, Buckland-in-the-Moor TQ13 7HP (map)
Flats and Sharps are a
four-piece Bluegrass outfit originally from Penzance, Cornwall. Delivering
energetic, enthusiastic and spirited performances, their shows are a fresh and
modern outlook on foot-stomping Bluegrass with powerful and well-crafted
original songs. Their music blends strong harmonies and stonking solos, and
their incredible stage presence and energy will have you dancing, laughing and
singing along in no time!
Call 01364 653525 or book online at
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
NEW Friday 12 July
2024 - The Dilly Boys Folk Band - Public
Hall,
Station Road, Budleigh Salterton, nr Exmouth EX9 6RJ
(map)
Doors 7pm. Gather 'round, folks! Prepare for an enchanting
evening as a captivating folk band takes center stage. With a harmonious blend
of the banjo, accordion, violin, and guitar, they weave together traditional
songs and tunes that'll transport you to a bygone era. Details
www.paintitredproductions.co.uk/events.
NEW Saturday 20
January 2024 8pm - Exmouth Shanty Men - The Salterton Playhouse, Playhouse Lane, Budleigh Salterton
EX9 6BS
'Tall Ships & Tavern Tales' - A voyage in song from the high sesa to a dockside
tavern. Ticket £12 from
www.ticketsource.co.uk/salterton-drama-club or call Budleigh Info Centre
01395 445275..
NEW
Saturday 16 June 2018 7.30pm -
Summer Ceilidh with Spinach for Norman - Public Hall,
Station Road, Budleigh Salterton, nr Exmouth EX9 6RJ
(map)
Caller Pam Hayes. Tickets £10 on
door. Profits to Exeter Leukaemia Fund. BYO refreshments.
NEW
Saturday 14 April 2018 9pm -
Dumbo's Feather - Dog &
Donkey, 24 Knowle Village, Budleigh Salterton EX9 6AL
Dumbo's Feather with their occasionally ethereal mix of reels, jigs, polkas,
airs and songs. As always, the popular Irish/Scots/World music band shall be
fronted by the lightning fast fiddling of Alice McShane, and augmented by the
often inspirational, always reliable multi-instrumental pairing of Mike Cosgrave
and Richie Evans.
NEW
Sunday 15 April 2018 4-10pm -
Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan,
The Ellis Gang, Reg Meuross,
Miranda Sykes - Salem Chapel, 4 Vicarage Rd, East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton
EX9 7EF
4 acts, and complimentary
Tapas and a drink ,with other food and drink available to buy. The "The Ellis
Gang" are a father and son guitar duo from Cornwall; Miranda Sykes as part of
her solo tour; singer. songwriter, story teller Reg Meuross; top of the bill
Scottish folk singer Emilly Smith & Jamie McClennan (who have previously
headlined at The Sidmouth Folk Festival, Cambridge Folk festival, and appeared
on the Transatlantic sessions on BBC 2, possibly their only gig in the West
Country as part of an English tour promoting a new album. Tickets £25 available
from David Ash on 01395 445346/ or preferably email
davidvash@btinternet.com. The
Salem Chapel is limited to 120 persons and tickets have started to sell. The
historic venue is a dissenters chapel built in 1791 and maintained by the
Historic Chapels trust.
NEW
Saturday 19 October 2019 7.30pm - Zulu
Tradition - Callington Town Hall, New Road, Callington, PL17 7BD
From Kwa-Zulu Natal to the world’s stage, rekindling the spark of Zulu
culture and heritage, through song, dance, and drums. Zulu Tradition is a
company of genuine young Zulu singers and dancers who deliver a heady mix of
traditional African harmonies and high-energy, athletic dance – all
traditionally costumed – and supported by drum-rhythms. Details
www.carntocove.co.uk/event/zulu-tradition.
NEW
Saturday 18 May 2019 8pm - Ceilidh / Barn
Dance with Dartmoor Pixie Band - Rilla Mill Village Hall, nr Callington
Bar available. Call 07366 141335 to book tickets £10 (incl. pasty) and collect
from The Manor House Inn, Rilla Mill.
NEW Saturday 8 October 2016 1pm - Gareth Hedges
- Boot Inn, Calstock PL18 9RN
Vocalist & fingerstyle acoustic guitarist performs, delta & ragtime blues, jazz,
folk, Celtic & original songs & instrumentals. With six CDs to his credit and
tours in Australia, America and Europe over the years, Gareth offers a relaxed
eclectic mix of styles with sensitivity & humour.
Details www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts, www.calstockarts.org.
Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane,
Calstock PL18 9QX (map)
Calstock Arts was established in 2010 and is a not-for-profit arts venue.
It is largely staffed by a dedicated team of volunteers. Initially set up as a
Community Interest Company we converted to Charity status in 2015. Our programme
is varied and includes folk, jazz and classical music, dance, films, talks,
comedy, workshops and exhibitions. Fully licensed bar. Full programme details:
www.calstockarts.org. The current programme includes:
Coming later at Calstock Arts - The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock PL18 9QX
(map)
Details for all events below at
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Saturday 20 September 2025 8pm - Katie Spencer - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Folk guitarist. “Her articulate picking, with suggestions of folk and jazz,
frames intelligently written songs and is the backbone to her music.” Guitarist
Magazine; “One of the most satisfying and spellbinding singer-songwriter
collections I’ve encountered in some time.” RnR Magazine. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Friday 13 June 2025 8pm - Jacob & Drinkwater - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
UK alt-folk duo Jacob & Drinkwater have been called “stand out new folk” by BBC6
Music and “inventive and thrilling” by R2 Magazine. Tobias Ben Jacob's sweeping
vocals never fail to captivate, delivering many a spine-tingling moment; the
fluidity and precision of his finger-picking underpinned by Lukas Drinkwater's
nimbly rhythmic double bass; at times sweetly soaring, haunting, percussive and
driving, the layers of depth a perfect counterfoil. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Friday 16 May 2025 8pm - India Electric Co. - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
India Electric Co. return to their roots with a series of more acoustic based
duo shows in more intimate surroundings than their recent support tours across
the UK and Europe with shows including their debut at The London Palladium.
Showcasing their latest album bringing fresh, stripped back arrangements to
songs they’ve travelled the world with, these concerts will take the band back
to where it all began, sometimes folk, sometimes not. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Friday 2 May 2025 8pm - The Prophecy of Merlin - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
A Cornish Tale set to Music. Welcome to an hour of fast-moving oral storytelling
and achingly beautiful music; an epic adventure story by Mike O’Connor and
Barbara Griggs. After the story there will be a break followed by a 45 minute
talk on the history and folklore behind it. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Friday 25 April 2025 8pm - Nos Lowen with
Kelliwik Golowi Band - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Nos Lowen (Cornish for "Happy Night") is a style of Cornish social dancing with
its roots firmly in traditional Celtic music. Join us for an unforgettable night
of music and dance with a proper Cornish knees up, full of energy, laughter and
community spirit. This event is a Gallery Bar Special with a bucket collection,
all proceeds to Callington Youth Project Group. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Thursday 24 April 2025 8pm - Kathryn Roberts &
Sean Lakeman - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
For three decades Kathryn and Sean's ’s partnership has proved personal,
permanent and pivotal. From their roots in 90’s folk supergroup ‘Equation‘
through to becoming a revered duo in the folk music scene this multi
award-winning folk music couple continue to exude timeless class with their
exquisite brand of traditional and contemporary acoustic music. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW Saturday 12 April 2025 8pm - Sarah Yeo - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock singer/songwriter from Devon who singer/songwriter from Devon who delivers a unique blend of original folk/country songs, with a breathtaking and soulful voice that has been likened to Karen Carpenter. Sarah's mature and captivating songwriting, accomplished musicianship and engaging stage presence gives audiences a flavour of British songwriting at its finest and has been influenced by artists such as Gretchen Peters and Joni Mitchell. Details www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts, www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Friday 11 April 2025 7.30pm - Keith James: The
Music of Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Keith James presents an honest and loving reflection of the timeless and
insightful music of Yusuf - Cat Stevens. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Friday 4 April 2025 8pm - Rachael McShane & The
Cartographers - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Rachael McShane is a renowned folk singer, cellist, fiddle, and viola player
from the North East of England. She gained fame as an original member of the
award-winning folk big band Bellowhead, recording five studio albums with them
and winning a staggering 8 BBC Folk Awards. Away from Bellowhead, Rachael is the
leader of The Cartographers, a band featuring traditional folk and contemporary
sounds. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Saturday 22 March 2025 8pm - Daoirí Farrell - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Singer and bouzouki player Daoirí (pronounced ‘Derry’) Farrell is described by
some of the biggest names in Irish folk music as one of most important singers
to come out of Ireland in recent years. Six months after releasing the album
‘True Born Irishman’ Daoirí won two prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017 for
Best Newcomer and Best Traditional Track, and performed live at the awards
ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Friday 7 March 2025 7.30pm - The Countrymen - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
It’s difficult to find a musical genre that would fully describe The Countrymen,
but Folk Rock Harmony comes close. A five-piece band featuring tight four-part
vocal harmony and strong instrumentation. Primarily performing original songs
and their own arrangements of lesser-known contemporary folk, the band’s lyrical
inspiration is drawn from life in Cornwall, the demise of local industries and
other rural issues that resonate throughout the country. The Countrymen are
accomplished performers, engaging the audience with light-hearted banter and
back-stories to their songs. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Saturday 22 February 2025 8pm - Suthering - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Produced by BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winner, Sean Lakeman (Levellers, Seth Lakeman),
the duo's second album is a bold new direction in sound for the duo. A poignant
and powerful exploration of themes affecting the social and political landscape,
the 2024 album is a collection of personal reflections, captivating stories and
modern-day songs of protest and unity. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Saturday 8 February 2025 8pm -
Budapest Cafe Orchestra
- Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Refreshingly unconventional and snappily attired boutique orchestra BCO play
gypsy and folk-flavoured music in their unique and surprising way. From Balkan
and Russian traditional music to their artful distillations of Romantic
masterworks to soaring Gaelic folk anthems, BCO is an infectious musical
experience like none other. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Saturday 1 February 2025 8pm -
Mississippi MacDonald
- Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
English soul-blues singer/songwriter/guitarist whose blues are authentic,
heartfelt, and reflect a lifetime of learning from the greats. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Friday 31 January 2025 7.30pm -
Kerdroya & the Cornish Hedge
- Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Beautiful short film about Kerdroya, the Cornish Landscape Labyrinth constructed
from Cornish hedges, located beside Colliford Lake on Bodmin Moor. The evening
begins with live Cornish music from 'Dalla Duo' who created the gorgeous
soundtrack for the film. Evening ends with a Q&A session. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Saturday 18 January 2025 8pm -
Sarah McQuaid
- Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Sarah McQuaid's lush, chocolatey voice combines with her engaging personality,
"subtle mastery onstage" (Huffington Post) and "brilliant musicianship" (fRoots)
on acoustic and electric guitars, piano and (occasionally) drum to create a
truly immersive experience. Born in Spain, raised in Chicago, holding dual Irish
and American citizenship and now settled in rural England, she brings the
eclecticism of her background to her "captivating, unorthodox songwriting" (PopMatters)
and choice of material, spanning genres and defying categorisation. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Friday 6 December 2024 8pm - Janice
Burns & Jon Doran - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Janice Burns & Jon Doran are an award-winning Anglo-Scottish duo who came
together after discovering a shared love of traditional music. Their songs tell
vivid stories about the nature of life and our place in the world. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Sunday 1 December 2024 8pm - Goblin Band +
Craven - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Double bill of folk: Goblin Band formed from sessions of the same name run out
of the HobGoblin Music shop in central London, organised by a collection of
young queer folk obsessive friends and shop employees looking to forge their own
way into folk music. This gave rise to a band of multi-instrumentalists firmly
rooted in the folk music of Britain. Folk band Craven perform traditional
ballads with crafted arrangements. Their genre bending soundworld takes
influence from punk, electronic dance and classical chamber music. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/636398.
NEW
Saturday 16 November 2024 8pm - Granny's Attic
- Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
15th anniversary tour. Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne (melodeon, anglo
concertina, vocals), George Sansome (guitar, vocals) and Lewis Wood (violin,
vocals). The trio have been heralded for their lively performances and skilled
delivery of traditional material, playing with verve, energy and their own
inimitable style. Though grounded in tradition, they are keen to push new
boundaries by exploring fresh approaches and writing their own compositions.
"Great tunes, great energy, great arrangements, great stuff!” - Jon Boden. Details
www.wegottickets.com/calstockarts,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW Friday 4 March
2022 8pm -
Gallery Bar Special:
Kit Hillbillies -
Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
Old-timey, good-timey bluegrass! With rousing vocal harmonies that smuggle in
occasional quirky local references. Instrumental tasting notes: Banjo, fiddle,
mandolin, guitar. Irresistibly tappy on the toes, with a crisp percussive
finish. Think Betty Stogs, rather than Harvey’s Bristol Cream!
Free entry, bucket for the band. Details
www.calstockarts.org.
Calstock Boot Inn (monthly, was previously in descending date order Calstock Boot Inn, Linkinhorne, Metherell)
Session news
NEW Saturday 14 September 2024 7.30pm - Monthly Session - Who'd Have Thought It
Inn, St Dominick, Saltash PL12 6TG
Second Saturday of the month. Songs, chats, tunes in the conservatory. Flat car park
adjacent. 01579 350214.
NEW Saturday
29 February 2020 - Folk Evening -
Boot Inn, Fore Street, Calstock PL18 9RN
Change of date, not 7 March as previously stated,
for the last session of this winter. An unavoidable clash of gigs etc would mean
the session being very thin on the ground. That would be a great shame for our
last sing and play at The Boot Calstock, until October 2020 anyway. Sorry if we
have to miss some of you due to prior bookings. Thank you one and all for making
the evenings enjoyable throughout this long wet winter. Sylvie & Mike.
The monthly session previously held (in descending
date order) at
Calstock Boot Inn,
Linkinhorne, Metherell is moving again to:
Linkinhorne (nr. Callington): Church House Inn PL17 7LY (01579 363711)
The Boot Inn, Fore Street, Calstock PL18 9RN. Public car park nearby.
Saturday 29th September. Folk Evening (first of the former Cross House and Boot
Inn evenings at its new venue)
NEW Saturday 2 March 2019 - Folk
Evening - Church House Inn, Linkinhorne, Callington PL17 7LY
(map)
Regular first Saturday of the month folk evening.
Playing, singing, nattering and noggins. Song and music session. All welcome,
bring your instruments and voices. Pub contact David Farwig 01579 363711,
djfarwig@hotmail.co.uk.
NEW Saturday
1 November 2025 7pm
- Baskery -
Calstock Village Hall, The Quay, Calstock PL18 9QA (map)
Fundraiser for Whitchurch Primary School. Baskery is a Swedish alternative Americana folk
rock trio comprising sisters Greta (banjo, drums, vocals), Stella (double bass,
vocals) and Sunniva (guitar, vocals) Bondesson. Spinning outlander folk and
angrily countrified stateside traditions through an original emotion storm of
turbulent energy and magnificent, Euro-refined artistry Baskery have been
expanding minds around the globe with ear-splitting, explosive live
performances. www.baskeryband.com.
Details
www.calstockhall.com/events.
NEW
Friday 18 April
2025 7.30pm
- Old Time Sailors -
Calstock Village Hall, The Quay, Calstock PL18 9QA (map)
They're back! The Old Time Sailors are back in town with their unique mix of
musicianship, stage antics and who know what else. This will sell out, so if
you're thinking of coming don't delay in buying tickets.
www.oldtimesailors.com. Details
www.calstockhall.com/events.
NEW
Friday 21 March
2025 7.30pm
- Steve Knightley -
Calstock Village Hall, The Quay, Calstock PL18 9QA (map)
Steve Knightley is a multi-award-winning
singer-songwriter and musician, best known as a founding member of the
folk/acoustic band "Show of Hands." He hails from the West Country and is
renowned for crafting songs deeply rooted in geographical places, merging
historical folk influences with contemporary themes. Notably, his song "Country
Life" earned him acclaim as a spokesperson for rural issues. Details
www.calstockhall.com/events.
NEW Thursday 31
October 2024 - National Baring Gould
Centenary concert tour - St. Michael the Archangel Church , Chagford TQ13 8BN
‘Ghosts, Werewolves and Countryfolk: a celebration
of the Centenary of Sabine Baring-Gould’ with John Palmer, Miranda Sykes and Jim
Causley. Doors 7pm. Tickets £16
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
Full description of tour
here.
NEW Saturday 23
December 2023 7.30pm - Jim Causley & Sally Sedgman - Endecott House, High
Street, Chagford TQ13 8AY
Chaos at Christmas: Sally Sedgman will perform her ‘Chaos at Christmas’, or to
give it its fuller title: “The Chaos Theory of Life after Christmas!” an
hilarious guide to putting the festive season into perspective that everyone in
the family will relate to! Join Jim Causley in celebrating the Christmas season
as he entertains you with lesser known West Country carols, medieval and secular
carols from around the British Isles, his own settings of moving Christmas poems
by his relative, the late Cornish poet Charles Causley as well a gurt dollop of
festive fun with songs of over-indulgence and even a spot of panto too!
www.jimcausley.co.uk/product/chagford-23-dec.
NEW Saturday 12
November 2022 7pm - Jim Causley
- Church of St. Michaels the Archangel, Chagford TQ13 8BN
An Evening with Jim Causley
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
Tickets £10 from:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-devon-an-evening-with-jim-causley-tickets-442315085327.
NEW Thursday 24
October 2019 - Budapest Café Orchestra - Jubilee Hall, Chagford TQ13 8DP (map)
Led by British composer and violinist Christian Garrick the BCO play a
blistering barrage of traditional folk and gypsy-flavoured music from across the
Balkans and Russia, Klezmer laments, Romanian Doinas, Hungarian Czardas and
their own unique re-imaginings of some of the biggest pieces ever written by the
greats. They have won legions of fans through their magical and infectious
performances. Evoking vivid images of Tzigane fiddle maestros, Budapest café
life and gypsy campfires - plus a few surprises along the way - hugely
entertaining, immense skill and profound musicianship. Check them out on YouTube!
Tickets £10, call 01647 24789 to reserve.
NEW
Friday 7 June 2019 7.30pm - Ninebarrow
- Church of St. Michaels the Archangel, Chagford TQ13 8BN
Multi-award-winning folk duo (and walkers!)
who are impressing audiences across the country with their innovative and
captivating take on the folk tradition. Described by Mark Radcliffe as sounding
like ‘two halves of one voice’, by Seth Lakeman as ‘a fantastic duo’ and by Kate
Rusby as ‘absolutely amazing’, Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere combine breath
taking vocal harmonies and melodies, delivering songs that are inspired and
rooted in the landscape and history of the British Isles. Most recently, the duo
were nominated in the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in the ‘Horizon’ category for
Best Emerging Artist.
Tickets £10, child £7, available from Sally’s Newsagents, Chagford, or call
01363 85370, or online from
www.ninebarrow.co.uk.
Organised by the Two Moors Way Association
www.twomoorsway.org/latest-news.
NEW Thursday 4
April 2019 7.30pm - Lvov Affair - Chagford Inn, 7 Mill Street, Chagford TQ13 8AW
"Every few weeks in the autumn Wednesday night in the Chagford Inn becomes a
whole lot more fun thanks to Lvov Affair playing their wonderfully evocative
folk and gypsy music".
https://bunelik.wixsite.com/lvov./
www.thechagfordinn.com.
NEW Fri/Sat 23/24
July 2021 - Chagstock Festival - Whiddon Down, nr Chagford
See
www.chagstock.info.
NEW
Sunday 26 January 2025 1-5pm - Playing for
Morris Dance Workshop -
Village Hall, Yeoford Road,, Cheriton Bishop,
Exeter EX6 6JA
Melodeons in Devon Occasional Sundays presents Playing for Morris Dance Workshop
for all melody Instruments. Tutor: Ed Rennie. Details
www.spinningpathmusic.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 9 December 2023 - Jim Causley: A Causley Christmas! - St
Mary's Church,
Cheriton Bishop, Exeter EX6 6HY
Details via
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW
Thursday 4 April 2019 - Steve Knightley - Higher Eggbeer Farm, Cheriton Bishop,
Exeter EX6 6JQ
In aid of Age UK Exeter. An intimate evening with Steve Knightley in a beautiful
setting. As a long-serving troubadour of the folk and acoustic music scene,
master songwriter and storyteller Steve has spent much of his life on the road,
collecting songs, stories, anecdotes and observations – with the odd disaster
along the way. Steve once again takes to England’s highways and byways to
present ‘Roadworks’ – a show which builds on the success of his sell-out 2018
solo tour ‘Songs and Stories’. Advance tickets only, £25; price includes a
delicious meat or vegetarian curry. Details
www.eventbrite.com/o/age-uk-exeter-18519087485.
NEW
Saturday 18 April 2020 7.30pm - Zulu Tradition - Lympstone Village Hall, School
Hill, Lympstone, Exmouth EX8 5JY (map)
NEW
Sunday 19 April 2020 3.30pm - Zulu Tradition -
Parish Hall, Bary Lane, Cheriton Fitzpaine, Crediton EX17 4BB
Zulu Tradition is rekindling the spark of Zulu culture and heritage through
song, dance, and drums. Imagine a youthful, mixed gender Ladysmith Black Mambazo
with high-energy dance! Zulu Tradition is a company of genuine young Zulu
singers and dancers who deliver a heady mix of traditional African harmonies and
high-energy, athletic dance – all traditionally costumed – and supported by
drum-rhythms. Their stage shows are exciting, enthralling and hugely
entertaining and they attract enthusiastic audiences. Ticketing see
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 8 December 2018 - Jim Causley: A Causley Christmas! - St
Matthew’s Church, Cheriton Fitzpaine, Crediton
Join Jim in celebrating the Christmas season as he entertains you with
lesser known West Country carols, medieval and secular carols from around the
British Isles, his own settings of moving Christmas poems by his relative, the
late Cornish poet Charles Causley as well a gurt dollop of festive fun with
songs of over-indulgence and even a spot of panto too! If you are feeling a
little dismayed with the over-commercialisation of “Christmas present” then join
Jim for a journey through Christmas past that will be guaranteed to get you in
the festive spirit!
www.jimcausley.co.uk. Tel. 01363
866082.
NEW
Saturday 27 October 2018 7.30pm - 3 Daft Monkey - Parish Hall, Bary Lane,
Cheriton Fitzpaine, Crediton EX17 4BB
With Celtic and eastern influences, the 3 Daft Monkeys’ dynamic style of
world folk music reflects the global village in which we now live. Their
infectious dancing rhythms lead you through a musical journey of the senses and
emotions, and will leave you breathless, enthralled and exhilarated. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/449812.
NEW
Saturday 2 June 2018 7.30pm - Clive Carroll - St Matthew’s Church,
Cheriton Fitzpaine, Crediton
'A Thousand Years of Music' is a show that demonstrates the versatility of
the guitar to its fullest extent. For the last decade, audiences all over the
world have been kept in a constant state of awe and amazement at his virtuosity
and skill. With his breath-taking mastery of techniques and antecedents from
Benjamin Britten to Nick Drake and from Renbourn through Gordon Giltrap to Pat
Metheny, join this stunningly versatile guitarist on a joyful fairground ride of
instrumental styles spanning the fields of traditional, classical and jazz with
inspirations running from newgrass and fusion jazz to Irish stylings.
www.clivecarroll.co.uk. Licensed bar. Tickets from 01363 866082.
NEW
Saturday 28 April 2018 7pm - Shanty Evening with The Exmouth Shanty Men -
Parish Hall, Bary Lane, Cheriton Fitzpaine, Crediton EX17 4BB
£10 adv (from Gordon Leigh 01884 855368 or Sheila Jefferies 01884 855634),
£12 door. Bar. Fund raising event for the re-hanging of Cadbury's church bells.
Saturday 27 August 2011 7.30pm - Chloe Hall &
Silas Palmer - Teign Valley
Community Hall, Christow (map)
EX6 7LZ. Contact 01647 252863
NEW Saturday 14
March 2019 8pm - Balagan Café Band - Chudleigh Community School Hall, Lawn
Drive, Chudleigh TQ13 0LS
From Parisian and American Jazz, the Chalabi music of Algeria, Tango from
Argentina, Balkan folk melodies through to folk music of Western Europe, guitar,
violin and cello. An eclectic mix of music for the ears, heart, and feet! See
https://www.greennote.co.uk/production/balagan-cafe-band/. Licensed Bar. Tickets
from Lynn and Chris Evans 01626 852553, or direct from Chudleigh DIY, adult £10,
under 16s £7. (A Chudleigh Community Project/Villages in Action event.)
NEW Saturday 16
February 2019 8pm - Moscow Drug Club - Chudleigh Community School Hall, Lawn
Drive, Chudleigh TQ13 0LS
Moscow Drug Club is a curious musical place where certain elements of 1930’s
Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club de France, Nuevo Tango & Gypsy Campfire meet, have a
few to drink and stagger arm in arm into the darkness of some eastern European
cobbled street on a mission to find the bar where Django Reinhardt & Tom Waits
are having an after hours jam with the local Tziganes. Combining their original
material with songs by the likes of Jaques Brel, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits &
Bertolt Brecht, provide an intoxicating & intimate musical experience. Early
gigs in the bars and clubs of Bristol provided evidence that Moscow Drug Club
made a noise that made people happy.
www.moscowdrugclub.com. Tickets £12 adult, child £8 from 01626 852553.
NEW Saturday 1
December 2018 10.30am-3.30pm - Music for Morris Dancing – Community Hall Primary
School, Lawn Drive, Chudleigh TQ13 0LS
Cotswold - North West - Border - Molly - Rapper - Longsword. Led by Steve
Gill and Mary Marker.
A Devon Folk event. Music available/by ear.
£10. Details, application form see
www.devonfolk.org.uk/Pages/Activities.html.
NEW Saturday 4
November 2017 8pm - 3 Daft Monkeys – Chudleigh Community School Hall, Lawn
Drive, Chudleigh TQ13 0LS
Bringing vibrant and sparkling new songs from their latest album, festival
favourites 3DM perform a brand new set of the quirky, original and upbeat fiddle
driven tunes. Now with a 4 piece line-up, the band are taking their famously
dynamic live show to new danceable dizzy heights. With Celtic and eastern
influences, their style of world folk music reflects the global village in which
we now live. Their infectious dancing rhythms lead you through a musical journey
of the senses and emotions and leave you breathless, enthralled and exhilarated.
www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk.
Tickets from 01626 852553, £11 adult, £7 child. Seated, but with room to get up
and dance.
NEW Tuesday 4 July
2017 8pm - Cosgrave & Banks - Chudfest, Chudleigh
with support from Maggie Duffy & Tiggy Kazza. Mike Cosgrave (Sin é, Jackie Leven,
Jackie Oates) and Steve Banks (Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band, Blue Jewel) have
formed an exciting folk duo, performing a highly entertaining smörgåsbord of
beautiful music, traditional and contemporary, from Britain, Europe (mainly
France, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe) and beyond with superb musicianship.
"Steve and Mike are superb musicians bringing unexpected gems for our delight.
Soulful and fun. What more could you want?" Maddy Prior.
www.cosgraveandbanks.com. Maggie and Tiggy have
supported Ange Hardy and opening this year for Geoff Lakeman, Bob Fox and Phil
Beer and Sarah McQuaid. “Maggie's voice has a rare and haunting quality which is
just amazing” Judi Spiers.
www.maggieduffy.co.uk.
Concert in marquee on playpark behind St Martin & St Mary Church, Fore St.,
Chudleigh, TQ13 0HZ. Licensed bar. Tickets £10. Full info and booking
www.chudfest.co.uk/folk-night.
NEW
Friday 17 March 2017 7.30pm - Phil Beer -
Chudleigh Community Hall, Lawn Drive, Chudleigh TQ13 0LS
Licensed bar. Unreserved seating. Tickets £14
Sue, email susan.metcalfe@hotmail.co.uk
or call 01626 853651.
Friday 4 December 2015 8pm - Jamie Smith’s Mabon - Chudleigh Community
Hall, Lawn Drive, Chudleigh TQ13 0LS
Chudleigh Community Project welcomes the return of Jamie Smith’s Mabon on
their ‘The Space Between’ Tour. Performers of original InterCeltic music, with
vocals, accordion, bouzouki, bass and percussion – and lots of energy! Through
songs and melodies, from thoughtful lyrics to joyful jigs, this is an
InterCeltic/World roots band that the Financial Times described as
‘stratospheric’ and about whom Songlines magazine said ‘If music could fuel
engines, Mabon could solve the energy crisis’. Tickets £12 from Lynn and Chris
Evans 01626 852553, or from Andy at Chudleigh DIY. More information
www.chudleighpool.org.uk/index.php/upcoming-events/item/jamie-smith-s-mabon.html.
NEW
Saturday 3 May 2025 8.30pm - House Concert: Jimmy Crowley & Eve
Telford - Hatch
Court, nr Churchstow, Kingsbridge TQ7 4AJ
Jimmy Crowley has been at the heart of the Irish folk scene since his ground
breaking debut album The Boys of Fairhill in 1977. Fourteen albums later, he is
constantly exploring new musical expressions. Currently touring with Eve Telford
who is a singer, poet and writer of short stories. In her singing of traditional
songs, one can sense her deep-seated connection to the folk singers who have
passed on. Her original songs are rooted in the wellsprings of world mythology,
indigenous stories, and a proximity to our Earth. No bar, BYO drinks. Cash
donations on door, we encourage £12-15. Doors 7.30pm. Bookings, call Mark on
07730 921192 or email
wheelwrightmark@gmail.com. Hatch Events Group:
www.facebook.com/groups/867342600023926.
tbc
Friday 24 November 2023 8.30pm - House Concert: Cosgrave & Banks - Hatch
Court, Churchstow
details tba ...performing at an intimate house concert. This is a non
ticketed event with donations on the door. Doors 7.30pm. For reservations and
enquiries please contact Mark Arnold at
wheelwrightmark@gmail.com or
07730 921192. No bar so BYO.
House Concerts at Hatch Court, Churchstow
Hatch Events Group:
www.facebook.com/groups/867342600023926.
Donations on the door. Doors 7.30pm, start 8.30pm. Contact Mark on 07730
921192 or by email
wheelwrightmark@gmail.com for availability, reservations, directions. No
bar, BYO.
NEW
Saturday 23 November 2024 7.30pm - Jim Causley - Caroline's Kitchen, Churston
Farm Shop, Dartmouth Road, nr Brixham TQ5 0LL
An evening with Jim Causley, supported by Maggie Duffy. Free onsite parking and
all manner of beverages and snacks available. Email
scotcraft@msn.com to book seats £12.
tbc
Sunday 8 September 2024 2.30pm - Phil Beer - St Mary the Virgin Church, Church
St, Churston Ferrers, Brixham TQ5 0JE
Phil Beer "Back in Service". Support from Maggie Duffy & Bob Thomson. Tea &
coffee available for donations; you may have to bring your own mug!. Tickets
£14. Book via Maggie 07770 806083 or 01803 855961, email
scotcraft@msn.com.
Sunday 11 August 2024 7pm - Big Yellow Tambourine Man Band -
Lupton House, Churston Ferrers, nr Brixham TQ5 0LD
Set up on the beautiful Italianate garden. Be transported by faithful renditions
of some of the most iconic songs from the two greatest singer-songwriters of
modern times, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. The show is the brainchild of
Devon-based singer-songwriter Isabelle Nutton and Cape Town guitarist and singer
Bob Thomson, conceived after discovering a shared fascination with Mitchell’s
and Dylan’s imagery, poetry and artistry. There followed a dive into - and a
subsequent obsession with - two parallel worlds of genius: phrasings, tunings
and arrangements; dulcimers, Wurlitzers and harmonicas; histories, fantasies and
rivalries; to create a show that pays utmost respect to the craft of their
musical idols. Details
www.discoverlupton.com.
NEW
Saturday 7 March 2020 7pm - Third Annual Barn Dance with Stargazey Pie -
Churston Grammar School Hall, Greenway Road, Galmpton, Brixham TQ5 0LN
Caller to guide us through the dances: Hugh Edwards. Even if you have never
“Barn Danced” we can promise you a great fun evening. Licensed bar serving wine,
beer, cider and soft drinks. Our main beneficial charity for this event will be
the “Torbay Holiday Helpers Network (THNN)” who provide free fun filled holidays
to families who have seriously ill/handicapped children, or have suffered a
recent bereavement. Tickets £12 to include a choice of pasties and salad. For
tickets contact Robbie Clymo
info@stmarguerite.co.uk or call 01803 698376 or Niki Bowman
niki@bowmannet.com or call 01803 666161.
NEW
Saturday 16 July 2022 7.30pm - Ninebarrow - St Andrew's Church, Market Place,
Colyton EX24 6JS
Multi-award-winning folk duo who are impressing audiences across the country
with their innovative and captivating take on the folk tradition. Described by
Mark Radcliffe as sounding like ‘two halves of one voice’, by Seth Lakeman as ‘a
fantastic duo’ and by Kate Rusby as ‘absolutely amazing’, Jon Whitley and Jay
LaBouchardiere combine breath taking vocal harmonies and melodies, delivering
songs that are inspired and rooted in the landscape and history of the British
Isles. Details
www.ninebarrow.co.uk/colyton.
NEW Saturday
30 November 2019 7.30pm - Harbottle & Jonas
-
Colyford Memorial Hall, Swan Hill Road, nr
Seaton, East Devon EX24 6QJ
Harbottle & Jonas are a stunning young folk duo
based in Totnes. Together the husband and wife duo combine the rich traditions
of folk music with original and contemporary interpretations through a blend of
closely intertwined vocal harmonies. Harbottle & Jonas sing about family,
villages swept into the sea, polar expeditions, historical characters and
peculiar narratives. Their music is original and unique. It is performed with
integrity and on instruments that include the concertina, harmonium, banjo,
stompbox, and acoustic guitar. Details
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
NEW
Sunday 9 September 2018 7.30pm - Bob Fox -
Colyford Memorial Hall, Swan Hill Road, nr Seaton, East Devon EX24 6QJ
While on tour with War Horse Bob Fox is coming to play a gig in Colyford. An
evening of songs from his home in the north east of England and from further
afield, his great voice and amazing guitar playing are well worth seeing.
Tickets £10 adult (£5 U16) available from Colyford Post Office or 01297 553710.
NEW
Saturday 28 January 2017 7.30pm - Tim Edey -
Colyford Memorial Hall, nr Seaton, East Devon EX24 6QJ
The incredible Tim Edey returns to East Devon by popular demand, following
three Jurassic Folk appearances in as many years. For anyone who has not
experienced his performance, he is universally acknowledged as one of the finest
multi-instrumental musicians worldwide in the Celtic music genre, and a double
winner in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. To top it all he exudes such
joie-de-vivre that it is quite impossible to be unmoved.
www.timedey.co.uk
+ numerous clips on YouTube. Adv tickets £10 from
www.eastdevonfolk.org,
Colyford Post Office Shop (in person only) or call 01297 20064. Easy onsite
parking.
Friday 4 September
2015 7.30pm - Projet Brassens Trio - Colyford Memorial Hall nr Seaton
The Trio comprises Maxine Green on vocals and guitar, Charlie Hearnshaw on
clarinets, and Mike Thorn on double bass. Tickets £9 available from Colyford
Post Office or ring Helen or Graeme on 01297 553710 to make a booking. Doors/bar
7pm. Profits will go towards the Hall’s running and maintenance costs. Colyford
Memorial Hall is a registered charity.
NEW
Saturday 11 July 2020 - Ninebarrow - St Andrew's Church, Market Place,
Colyton EX24 6JS
Ninebarrow are a multi-award-winning folk duo, who are impressing audiences
across the country with their innovative and captivating take on the folk
tradition. Described by Mark Radcliffe as sounding like ‘two halves of one
voice’, by Seth Lakeman as ‘a fantastic duo’ and by Kate Rusby as ‘absolutely
amazing’, Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere combine breath taking vocal
harmonies and melodies, delivering songs that are inspired and rooted in the
landscape and history of the British Isles. Details
www.ninebarrow.co.uk/colyton.
NEW tbc
Saturday 10 June 2017 - Jim Causley - Colyton Village Hall (Town Hall?),
Market Place, Colyton EX24 6JR
details tba Colyton History Day
www.colytonhistory.co.uk.
NEW
Friday 11 April 2025 8pm - Steve Tilston with Hugh Bradley - Exeter Folk & Acoustic Music Club,
Victoria Park Tennis Club, Lyndhurst Road, St. Leonards, Exeter, EX2 4NX (map)
Steve is a multi-award winning songwriter and a remarkable guitarist. Some of
his renowned songs have been performed and recorded by artists including
Fairport Convention, Tom McConville, Delores Keane and Bob Fox. Steve is one of
the most celebrated songsmiths in a career that has spanned 50 years. He is a
favourite amongst his peers too, including Richard Thompson, Dave Pegg, Ralph
McTell and Jez Lowe. www.stevetilston.com.
This is an advanced ticket reservation concert only. Tickets £14 paid in adv
(£16 reserved / paid on door) from
exeterfolkclub@outlook.com, 01392 210983.
www.exeterfolkclub.org,
www.facebook.com/groups/exeterfolkclub.
NEW
Friday 7 March 2025 8pm - Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne - Exeter Folk & Acoustic Music Club,
Victoria Park Tennis Club, Lyndhurst Road, St. Leonards, Exeter, EX2 4NX (map)
Cohen is a captivating and exciting performer, known for being a master of the
anglo concertina and melodeon, along with his powerful singing. He is at the
forefront of the young English folk musicians currently on the circuit. He is
currently a member of the trio, Granny's Attic but is also now embarking on a
solo career alongside of this. He is rooted in the English tradition but he also
includes shades of Baroque, Ragtime and Music Hall. His first solo album gave
him a nomination at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Horizon Award in 2018! Tickets £12 paid
in adv (£14 reserved / paid on door) from The Cornelius Family: 01392 210983 or
exeterfolkclub@outlook.com.
NEW
Saturday 15 February 2025 7.30pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men - Jubilee Hall, High
Street, Stoke Canon, Exeter EX5 4AR
An "Exeter Folk Club & Folk @ The Stoke Presentation". Expect the unexpected, as
the Exmouth Shanty Men perform a variety of sea shanties, from traditional songs
to modern ones, and mix fun and authenticity in their stage show. Under the
concert banner, Tall Ships And Tavern Tales, their ever-popular show, will
showcase both the rowdy and more serene examples of shanty-singing and songs,
mixed with plenty of humour, theatricals and props to provide a very
entertaining evening! Come along and have a good sing! Tickets £12 paid in adv
(£14 reserved / paid on door) from The Cornelius Family
exeterfolkclub@outlook.com /
01392 210983 or Alison Bloomer alison_bloomer [at] yahoo.co.uk.
NEW
Friday 8 November 2024 8pm - Mick Ryan & Paul Downes - Exeter Folk & Acoustic Music Club,
Victoria Park Tennis Club, Lyndhurst Road, St. Leonards, Exeter, EX2 4NX (map)
One of the finest duos on the folk scene. Mick Ryan – one of folk's finest
voices and writer of many highly-acclaimed folk operas, including The Navvy's
Wife, The Pauper's Path and A Day's Work. Paul Downes – one of the UK's finest
guitarists and multi-instrumentalists. He has been involved, as musical director
and participant, in all of the above folk operas.
www.riseupandsing.org/artistcomposer/mick-ryan,
www.pauldownes.com. Both are members of
the folk band Crows. Tickets
(must be reserved in advance): Paid in advance £12; reserved, pay on door
£14. Advance payment by bank transfer or cheque. Info / ticket enquiries contact:
exeterfolkclub@outlook.com,
01392 210983, www.exeterfolkclub.org,
NEW Sunday 30
March 2025 7pm - Xogara / The Owl Light Trio - Crediton Arts Centre, East St, Crediton EX17 3AX
Xogara are an Anglo-Welsh-Galician multi-instrumental four-piece with a joyous
sound that is both deeply rooted in tradition and emphatically their own. Owl
Light Trio are Jim Penny on concertina, Jane Griffiths on fiddle and viola and
Colin Fletcher on guitar. All three musicians have deep roots in traditional
music. Details
www.creditonartscentre.org/events.
NEW Saturday 29
March 2025 7.30pm - Ashley Hutchings & Blair Dunlop - Holy Cross Church, Church
St, Crediton EX17 2AQ
Ashley's 80th Birthday Tour. An old friend of Harberton Folk, Ashley is
celebrating by undertaking a limited tour with his son Blair Dunlop, an
established star in his own right, to present a night of songs and reminiscences
of a remarkable life in folk music. Details
www.creditonartscentre.org/events.
NEW Saturday 15
March 2025 7.30pm - The Blackheart Orchestra - Crediton Arts Centre, East St, Crediton EX17 3AX
Rick and Chrissy return for the third time with their amazing blend of rock,
acoustic, prog and experimental allied with stunning musicianship and
breathtaking vocals. Details
www.creditonartscentre.org/events.
NEW Friday 14
March 2025 7.30pm - Lady Maisery - Holy Cross Church, Church St, Crediton EX17
2AQ
"The most exquisite vocal harmony work on the English folk scene" - The
Guardian. Hannah James, Hazel Askew and Rowan Rheinganns are individually three
of the most accomplished musicians and singers on the folk scene. Together, they
are truly astonishing. Details
www.creditonartscentre.org/events.
NEW
Friday 25 October 2024
7.30pm - An Evening of Folk Songs & Stories -
The Old Town Hall, High Street, Crediton EX17 3LF
As our museum exhibition draws towards its end, we celebrate stories and songs
with a local or folklore connection. With contributions from a range of folk
singers, storytellers and others. Tickets £5. Details
www.creditonhistory.org.uk/whats-on/2024/folksong.aspx. BYO refreshments.
NEW Saturday 12 October 2024 7.30pm -
Suthering - Crediton Arts Centre, East St, Crediton EX17 3AX
Julu Irvine and Heg Brignall have taken the folk scene by storm with their
unusual and fresh approach to folk - true story-tellers who champion female
characters, creating new narratives for women and unearthing the female heroines
of folk. Details
www.creditonartscentre.org/events.
NEW
Friday 14 April 2023
7.30pm - Long for the Coast - Crediton Arts Centre, East St, Crediton EX17 3AX
Long For The Coast is the musical alias of Jamie and Sophie Gould. They combine
sincere lyrics with beautiful harmonies and sing stories about social change,
spiritual adventures, and close friends lost and found.
www.longforthecoast.com.
www.creditonartscentre.org. Tickets (??)
www.ticketsource.co.uk/creditonartscentre.
NEW
Wednesday 20 July 2022
7.30pm - Jim Causley -
Crediton Library, Belle Parade, Crediton EX17 2AA
With Mark Norman. An evening of Devonshire Custom and Song. Raising money for
the Folklore Library and Archive, and specifically for the formation of a
special collection for Devonshire Folklore materials. Tickets £5 from
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/store/p140/Wed_20_July:_JIM_CAUSLEY:_An_evening_of_Devon_Custom_and_Song.html.
NEW Friday 17 June
2022 7.30pm - Jim Causley - Red Lion, 8 Shobrooke Village, Crediton EX17 1AT
Drawing from the collections of Victorian folksong collectors such as Sabine
Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp, more modern collectors and writers including Cyril
Tawney and Tony Rose, Edwardian ballads and Music Hall ditties, as well as a few
of his own self-penned hits, proud Devonian, awarding winning folk singer and
musician Jim Causley presents an evening jam-packed with Devonshire delights
that richly bring to life the distinct flavour of music making from this unique
corner of the British Isles. Details
www.villagesinaction.co.uk/events/jim-causley-traditional-songs-of-devon.
NEW
Friday 5 June 2020 - Jim Causley - Boniface
Centre, Church Lane, Crediton EX17 2AH
details tba Saint Boniface Day concert.
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 16
November
2019 7.30pm - The Lost Sound Chorus
-
Heart of Devon, Crediton Congregational Church
EX17 3LB
The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir sing traditional songs with contemporary
arrangements in a unique style that has audiences captivated. Their partnership
with Show of Hands has taken them to Exeter Cathedral, the Royal Albert Hall and
more recently headlining the St Ives Festival. ‘The gang are the real deal. If
you are into choral singing they are an exciting and innovative bunch and their
leader Sandra has a contemporary approach which makes people sit up and listen’.
Geoff Lakeman. Licensed bar. Tickets £8.50 adv, £10 door, online
www.wegottickets.com/event/481455, or Olivia James, High Street, Crediton or
call 01363 82379.
NEW
Friday 1 November 2019 8.30pm - Papa Gator and
The Levee Breakers - Buccaneers Bar, East Street, Crediton EX17 3AZ
A Voodoo All-Hallows Night ?!? The magic music of Louisiana - Cajun, N'Orlins
r'n'b & funk, and Southern soul. Papa G are a 5-piece featuring accordion/keys,
pedal steel, guitar, bass, and Devon's funkiest girl drummer! Warning: be
prepared to dance. Fancy dress would be fantastic but not necessary. £6 entry,
door only. Doors 7.30pm.
NEW Friday 8 February 2019 8pm -
Miranda Sykes - Parish Hall, Colebrooke, nr Crediton EX17 5JH
The acclaimed singer and bassist with ‘Show of Hands’ returns in 2019 with a new
album and UK tour. After a career spanning over 20 years, during which time she
has played with many of the top musicians and singers within the folk world, she
will be touring solo as she started out: One woman, one bass, and one guitar.
Building on the success of her Borrowed Places tour which opened a window into
the past, explaining where she had been, physically and spiritually, Miranda is
back with a new project: Behind The Wall, a roller coaster ride exploring where
we are going; Miranda, you, me, all of us. Powerful and hard-hitting but also
poignant and beautiful.
www.mirandasykes.com. Tickets £12 tel. 01363
84309.
NEW
Friday 13 & Saturday 14 July 2018 6.30pm - Phil Beer in Concert by Candlelight -
St Petrock’s Church, Clannaborough, nr Crediton
EX17 6DA
A rare opportunity to experience a performance by the multi talented musician
Phil Beer at this very special venue by candlelight. An audience with Phil Beer
has been described as a glimpse into his world where folk, blues, hymns, the
sea, the West Country and a life spent in music combine to make a true show. A
Phil Beer gig is one spent in the company of a true craftsman, a master musician
and consummate performer. Set within the grounds of Clannaborough Barton Farm
and on the Two Moors walk, St Petrock’s is one of only a few remaining Churches
not to have electricity. This beautiful building will only accommodate an
intimate audience (max 60). All profits will go towards The Church Wall fund.
Sadly, due to restrictions on site, there is no wheel chair access. Please
telephone 01363 82379 for more details. Tickets £15+ from
www.wegottickets.com/event/431842 (for 13 July),
www.wegottickets.com/event/431843 (for 14 July), or email
richardsmik1@gmail.com.
Singing from the shape-note tradition, singing from The Sacred Harp and The American Christmas Harp books. South West Shape Note website: www.southwestshapenote.weebly.com.
NEW Saturday 8 June 2019 - South
West Sacred Harp Singing Day - Baptist Church, High Street, Cullompton EX15 1AB
10.30am-4.30pm (registration from 10am). Singing from The Sacred Harp (Denson
1991 edition), loaners and sale copies. Bring and share lunch. Basket passed to
cover costs. Beginners, improvers and experienced singers all welcome. We sing
for ourselves and each other - no auditions, no rehearsals, no performances, no
audience. We provide music, and teach you all you need to know to enjoy this
robust and exciting music. Contact Steve or Martin, 01884 563138; Steve: 07976
605692, steve@mulberryhouse.org.uk;
Martin: 07721 451406,
catherwoodsreticule@hotmail.co.uk. For more details of this and other All
Day Singings (3 per year) at the Baptist Church, and regular Third Friday
Singings (evening) and Fifth Sunday Singings (afternoon) at Mulberry House in
Cullompton see
https://southwestshapenote.weebly.com.
Dates for 2025:
January 11th: Local bands showcase
February 8th: Godot (Jon Mills & Kate Price)
March 8th: Peter Clifton & Richard Heacock
April 12th: Poisson Groove
May 10th: Shivelight
June 14th; Sept 13th; Oct 11th; Nov 8th; Dec 13th. - guest bands to be
confirmed.
NEW Saturday 12
April 2025 7.30pm - d'Accord French & Breton dance and music -
St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter EX4 7AH (map)
With Poisson Groove.
www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876.
NEW Saturday 8
March 2025 7.30pm - d'Accord French & Breton dance and music -
St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter EX4 7AH (map)
With Peter Clifton & Richard Heacock.
www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876.
NEW Saturday 8
February 2025 7.30pm - d'Accord French & Breton dance and music -
St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter EX4 7AH (map)
We welcome back the wonderful Godot - Jon Mills (melodeon, voice) and Kate Price
(cello, recorders) - whose experience and passion in playing for dancing will be
sure to get you on your feet. It will be a great night!
www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876.
NEW Saturday 11
January 2025 7.30pm - d'Accord French & Breton dance and music -
St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter EX4 7AH (map)
Local bands showcase.
www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876.
NEW Saturday 14
December 2024 7.30pm - d'Accord French & Breton dance and music -
St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter EX4 7AH (map)
With Eelgrinders.
www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876.
NEW
Sunday 22 September 2024 2-5pm -
d'Accord Boat Trip - Exmouth
d'Accord French & Breton dance and music. Sailing from Exmouth Marina EX8
1DS. Boarding 1.30pm. Sailing 2-5pm. Musicians, Dancers and non Dancers welcome.
Tickets £18 (£15 before August 22nd); U12 £7. Adv booking only. Tickets available at d'Accord! and from members of
the committee. Contact
daccordinexeter@gmail.com.
NEW Saturday 11
November 2023 7.30pm - d'Accord French & Breton dance and music -
St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter EX4 7AH (map)
Our guest band will be Shivelight, playing for the first time at d'Accord! They
are well known on the balfolk circuit for their lovely music and played at IVFDF
in Exeter in February, so we are delighted that they are returning to the city.
www.facebook.com/groups/149787688758876.
Dartington Trust
Details
www.dartington.org/whats-on.
NEW
Saturday 17 May 2025 7.30pm - Martin Simpson -
Great Hall, Dartington
Trust, Totnes TQ9 6EL (map)
A master of his art, and one of the finest folk guitarists in the world, the
legendary Martin Simpson comes to give an intimate and spellbinding concert in
Dartington's Great Hall. One of England’s most revered folk performers, and
widely acknowledged as one of the finest acoustic and slide guitar players in
the world, Martin’s interpretations of traditional songs are masterpieces of
storytelling. Details
www.dartington.org/event/martin-simpson-live-in-concert.
NEW
Friday 7 March 2025 7.30pm - Sea Shanty Charity
Event - Dartington
Trust, Totnes TQ9 6EL (map)
With All Hands on Deck. Join us in the White Hart. Raising funds for the RNLI
with traditional and modern sea shanties, songs of the sea and sailors, tall
ships and tall stories. Details / food bookings
https://www.dartington.org/whats-on-2025.
NEW
Dartington Trust Great Lawn Sessions -
details
www.dartington.org/event/great-lawn-sessions
Multi-genre programme of music running throughout most of August.
NEW Thursday 14 March 2024 6pm
-
Anna Anise - White Hart Sessions, Dartington
Trust, Totnes TQ9 6EL (map)
Anna writes feel-good folky songs filled with lyrical storytelling and energetic
melodies. Anna is passionate about community through music and loves to bring a
room together with a sing-a-long section, and those goosepimple-inducing music
feels. Anna plays in various formats, normally some combination of guitar,
fiddle, percussion, whistles and those oh-so-sweet vocal harmonies. Free live
music in the medieval feasting hall; booking advised for food.
www.dartington.org/event/white-hart-sessions.
NEW Saturday 3 February 2024 8pm
-
The Magic and Folklore of Dartmoor - Studio 1, Dartington
Trust, Totnes TQ9 6EL (map)
Devon-based artist and writer Ethan Pennell makes a return to Dartington,
expanding his November bookshop talk to a full-length visual presentation in our
Studio 1 Theatre of some of the strange, eldritch tales of witchcraft, hauntings
and fae featured in his recently-published Dartmoor Folklore Map, a smörgåsbord
of ghoulish animals, piteous ghosts and haunted dark pools. Details
www.dartington.org/event/theatre-talk-the-magic-folklore-of-dartmoor.
NEW
Sunday 16 March 2025 7pm - Goblin Band -
Things Happen Here, Meadowbrook, Dartington TQ9 6JD
Guardian folk album of the month reviewed feerless queer folk band Goblin Band
return. Part of a new wave of young, radical folk artists, both respecting folk
tradition while pushing the genre's boundaries and norms, the band have been
picking up major coverage off the back of their acclaimed live shows and debut
album. + support. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/647827.
NEW
Saturday 26 October 2024 7.30pm - Autumn Ceilidh
with Bear's Den Dance Band - Dartington
Village Hall, Cott Road, Dartington TQ9 6HY (map)
An evening of community ceilidh dancing suitable for all ages, with four top
class musicians bringing you music and dances from across the Celtic world and
beyond. BYO snacks and drinks. Conc tickets available at your own discretion,
please pay what you can to support the artists. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/634023.
NEW
Friday 27 October 2023 7.30pm - Autumn Ceilidh - Dartington
Village Hall, Cott Road, Dartington TQ9 6HY (map)
With Griselda Sanderson, Louis Bingham and Andy MacLeod; presented by: Tunelink
South West. All ages (U16s must be accompanied by an adult). An evening of
ceilidh dancing suitable for all ages. Doors 7pm. BYO snacks and drinks. Tickets
priced on a sliding scale, please pay what you can to support the artists.
Please send any enquiries to
music.bingham@gmail.com. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/592047.
NEW
Thursday 24 November 2022
8pm - Keith James ~ The Songs of Leonard Cohen -
New Lion Brewery Taproom, Meadowbrook, Dartington, Totnes
TQ9 6JD
Keith James brings you an evening of Leonard Cohen’s amazing
material in the most intimate and sensitive way imaginable, exposing the
solitary inner strength of his greatest songs in their original perfect form. 18
and over. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/554582.
NEW
Friday 10 April
2020 - Tunelink
Spring Ceilidh - Dartington
Village Hall, Cott Road, Dartington TQ9 6HY (map)
Called dances will be led
by the Bear's Den Dance Band featuring Louis Bingham (cittern, banjo and
calling), Gris Sanderson (fiddle), Zingo Warde (uilleann pipes) Chris Brady
(guitar) and Ricardo Nunes de Noronha Lopes (percussion). There will also be
dances from across Europe and beyond, from Cornish five-steps to Bulgarian
circle dances, with live music from the Tunelink Players to kick the evening
off. Doors 7pm, called Ceilidh dances starting around 8pm, last dance around
10pm. Family friendly event, all welcome. No bar, BYO drinks and snacks to
enjoy. Tickets/details
www.wegottickets.com/event/499874.
Coming up at Folk at
the Flavel (Dartmouth) in 2025 (details
www.theflavel.org.uk):
Saturday 22
March 7.30pm - Gigspanner
Saturday 19 April 7.30pm - Harbottle & Jonas + The Wild Goose Choir
Saturday 11 October 7.30pm - Ninebarrow
Thursday 13 November 7.30pm - Flook
NEW Thursday 13
November 2025 7.30pm - Flook - The Flavel Arts Centre, Dartmouth TQ6 9ND
(map)
Folk at the Flavel: After 30 years Flook show no sign of letting-up in their
brilliance, their dynamism, or their inventive flair. The band early on evolved
an inimitable trademark sound and hold fast to their rightful reputation as
exceptional musical innovators; the whistles and flutes of Brian Finnegan and
Sarah Allen, the guitar of Ed Boyd and the bodhran of John Joe Kelly weaving and
spinning tunes rooted in tradition over precise acoustic grooves, with a rare
blend of fiery technical brilliance, delicate ensemble interaction and a bold,
adventurous musical imagination. Details
www.theflavel.org.uk.
NEW Saturday 11
October 2025 7.30pm - Ninebarrow - The Flavel Arts Centre, Dartmouth TQ6 9ND
(map)
Folk at the Flavel: Multi-award-winning folk duo who are impressing audiences
across the country with their innovative and captivating take on the folk
tradition. Described by Mark Radcliffe as sounding like ‘two halves of one
voice’, by Seth Lakeman as ‘a fantastic duo’ and by Kate Rusby as ‘absolutely
amazing’, Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere combine breath taking vocal
harmonies and melodies, delivering songs that are inspired and rooted in the
landscape and history of the British Isles. BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominees.
Details
www.theflavel.org.uk.
tbc
Fri/Sat 11/12 July 2025 - Tunes On The Sands - Blackpool Sands, nr Dartmouth
Lineup includes Old Time Sailors on Friday.
https://tunesonthesands.com/.
NEW Saturday 19
April 2025 7.30pm - Harbottle & Jonas + The Wild Goose Choir - The Flavel Arts Centre, Dartmouth TQ6 9ND
(map)
Folk at the Flavel: Partners in life and music, dynamic Devon based folk duo
Harbottle & Jonas are one of the most exciting acts on the UK circuit today,
combining a love of the richness of traditional folk with their own original and
powerful songwriting. Dave and Freya have developed a distinct and compelling
signature sound, blending concertina, keyboard, harmonium, cittern, stomp box,
acoustic guitar and banjo with their beautiful and closely intertwined vocal
harmonies. The night will be opened by Freya’s ‘Wild Goose’ stunning acapella
choir who will also join the duo towards the end of the gig. Details
www.theflavel.org.uk.
NEW Saturday 22
March 2025 7.30pm - Gigspanner - The Flavel Arts Centre, Dartmouth TQ6 9ND
(map)
The trio: Peter Knight, Roger Flack & Sacha Trochet. Described by Folk Radio UK
as one of the “most quietly brilliant sets of musicians in the folk world and
beyond”, they take self-penned material along with music rooted in the British
Isles and beyond, and with the flick of a bow, a finely chosen chord or slip of
a beat, produce richly atmospheric arrangements “with notes seemingly plucked
from the stars and rhythms from the equator” (Spiral Earth). Details
www.theflavel.org.uk.
UPDATED
Change of location & venue
Saturday 1 July
2023 7.30pm - The Lost
Sound: Dartmoor Folk Choir
- St Petrox Church, Dartmouth
Castle TQ6 0JN
Benefit concert for Friends of the River Dart. With new arrangements of songs by Steeleye Span, Ninebarrow &
Chris Hoban, the set is brimming with the energy of Summer, lusty courtship, the
triumphs of harvest and the deeply tender moments of love lost and sorrowful
homecomings. It's a wild and natural feast of unaccompanied singing, harmony and
rhythm! Tickets from
www.thelostsound.co.uk/events. This concert was originally scheduled for
Malborough.
NEW Saturday 15
October 2022 7.30pm - Sea Shanty Concert - Dartmouth Yacht Club, 22 South
Embankment, Dartmouth TQ6 9BB
A special evening of sea shanties, sea songs and music of the sea, featuring
local sea shanty crew "All Hands On Deck". Audience participation actively
encouraged. In support of Froward Point NCI lookout (National Coastwatch
Institution). Bar. This is a public concert. Tickets £10 from 01803 782701 or
dave.peace@btinternet.com.
NEW Saturday 7
December 2019 7.30pm - The Travelling People -
St. Clement's Church, Church Road, Dartmouth. TQ6 9SN
Folk trio from the Derby area who have been entertaining audiences in folk
clubs, churches and cathedrals for nigh on 50 years, mainly in the Midlands, but
have also performed in France, Ireland and the Isle of Man. But their
‘travelling’ days are over and their farewell tour will finish at the end of
this year. So this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see this very talented
trio who perform a wide variety of music including three-part harmonies,
ballads, chorus singing and monologues, on instruments including double bass,
guitars, mandolin, ukulele and washboard. Their performances are liberally
enhanced with comedy, anecdotes and the history of their songs. They provide
entertainment that all the family can enjoy. Tickets £12.50 (includes a buffet
supper). Call 01803 361370 or email:
robert.boyle7@btinternet.com.
BYO drinks.
NEW Tuesday 4 April 2017 7.30pm - Hands Across
the Sea - Caspar John Hall, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
A concert by Britannia Royal Naval College Volunteer Band: A wide variety of
music from the American Continent and the United Kingdom will be performed
suiting all ages and tastes. Entry by ticket only. Tickets £10, available from
The Britannia Association Office, email
admin@britanniaassociation.org.uk or 01803 677565. Payment can be made by
debit/credit card.
NEW Saturday 22
February 2025 - Mad Dog Mcrea - Shooters Sports Bar, Sandy Lane, Dawlish EX7 0AF
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/633399.
NEW Saturday 16
November 2024 7pm - Entente Cordiale, Anglo French Musical Evening - Strand
Centre, 32 The Strand, Dawlish EX7 9PT
Details
www.devonfolk.org/events-diary.
NEW Tuesday 31 December 2019 8pm-12.15am - New
Year's Eve Ceilidh with Mooncoin Ceilidh Band - Strand Centre, 32 The Strand,
Dawlish EX7 9PT
Caller Anne Gill. Ticket £12.50, advance only, from Anne Gill 01803 290427. No
bar, BYO drinks and food to share. In aid of Teignmouth Folk Festival.
NEW Saturday 18
December 2021 7.30pm - Maddy and the Chaps - Strand Centre, 32 The Strand,
Dawlish EX7 9PT
Final additional 10 tickets just released (on 11/11) for this show, £7.50. Email
maddyandthechaps@gmail.com. All
proceeds to the Strand Centre. Come on down for some Country, Folk and Celtic
Tunes.
NEW Monday 31 December 2018 8pm-12.15am - New
Year's Eve Ceilidh with Mooncoin Ceilidh Band - Strand Centre, 32 The Strand,
Dawlish EX7 9PT
Caller Anne Gill. Tickets £12.50, advance only, from Alan 01626 863016 or Anne
01803 290427. No bar, BYO drinks and food to share. In aid of Teignmouth Folk
Festival.
Coming later:
Sunday 27 April 2025 2pm - Hafren (Chris Roberts)
Sunday 8 June 2025 2pm - Mark Waistell
Sunday 21 September 2025 2pm - Filkins’ Drift
Sunday 16 November 2025 - Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
NEW Sunday 16
November 2025 - Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
Kathryn has a stunning voice and is a good keyboard player, whilst Sean has all
the musical skills one would hope for from a member of his dynasty taking guitar
accompaniment to the next level. Together they write much of their material,
often rooted in Dartmoor, their home. For tickets £14 / information contact
Rachel Belringer on 07751 804007, email
rachelbelringer@gmail.com.
NEW Sunday 21
September 2025 2pm - Filkins’ Drift - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
Return of the duo who so impressed us last time as part of their CD (full album)
release tour. New material following their walking tour of the whole Welsh
coastline. For tickets £12 / information contact Rachel Belringer on 07751
804007, email
rachelbelringer@gmail.com.
NEW Sunday 8 June
2025 2pm - Mark Waistell - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
Singer/songwriter from East Devon with a thoughtful way with words and some
crisp guitar playing. Currently in the process of recording his 3rd CD. For
tickets £12 / information contact Rachel Belringer on 07751 804007, email
rachelbelringer@gmail.com.
NEW Sunday 27
April 2025 2pm - Hafren (Chris Roberts) - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
One half of duo Filkin’s Drift (who wowed the audience here). Chris is a super
guitarist who comes from Wales. This performance will predominantly be his
exploration of beautiful Welsh songs. For tickets £12 / information contact
Rachel Belringer on 07751 804007, email
rachelbelringer@gmail.com.
NEW Sunday 9 March
2025 2pm - Folklaw (Acoustic Tour) - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
Folk/rock band that has toured the UK and Europe over a number of years are just
recording a new CD to coincide with this UK tour (including a member of
Cobbler’s Child who we recently hosted and enjoyed). Lively and vibrant music
rooted in the tradition, but mostly their own material. For tickets £12 /
information contact Rachel Belringer on 07751 804007, email
rachelbelringer@gmail.com.
NEW
Sunday 2 February 2025 2pm
- Silvington - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
"Powerful words - they can really tell a
story". "They blend so well together - a class act, and such well crafted
songs." For
tickets/information contact Rachel Belringer on 07751 804007. In aid of Denbury
Church.
UPDATED
Sunday 24 November 2024 2pm
- Geoff Lakeman & Ollie Wheeldon - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
Concertina maestro and singer Geoff Lakeman,
appearing together with singer, fiddler and guitarist Ollie Wheeldon
www.oliverwheeldonmusic.com. For
tickets/information contact Rachel Belringer on 07751 804007.
NEW
Sunday 13 October 2024 2pm
- Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
North Devon based fiddle duo with songs and
tunes. Some local, some self-penned. To include some material from their project
on Edward Capern, the Victorian “Postman Poet” from Bideford area. For
tickets/information contact Rachel Belringer on 07751 804007.
NEW
Thursday 15 August 2024 7pm
- Local singers and musicians - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
Featuring Denbury Folkies; Carport Extension;
Cabin Crew. Come and listen to and join in with an evening of the very best folk
songs. Donations at the door will benefit Devon Wildlife Trust Local Branch and
St. Mary’s Church. Refreshments in the interval.
NEW
Sunday 21 July 2024 2pm
- Si Barron - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
A locally based singer/guitarist with a great
reputation for his interpretations of songs and a superb guitar technique. For
tickets/information contact Rachel Belringer on 07751 804007.
NEW
Sunday 19 May 2024 2pm
- Maggie Duffy & Bob Thompson - St Mary's
Church, South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
Local singer/songwriter, Maggie leaves the
audience to entertain us along with Bob. Always a crowd pleaser. For tickets and
more information contact Rachel Belringer on 07751 804007.
NEW
Sunday 17 March 2024 2pm -
Cobbler’s Child - St Mary's Church,
South St, Denbury, Newton Abbot TQ12 6DH
4 piece band from Gloucestershire with
Melodeons, Northumbrian Pipes, various whistles, voices and guitar. For tickets
and more information contact Rachel Belringer on 07751 804007.
Thursday 14 November 2013 - Column Acoustic
presents: Dick Gaughan - Devonport Guildhall, Ker Street, Plymouth, PL1 4EL
(map)
An occasional big name gig at Devonport Guildhall, launching with one of the
great legends of folk, Scottish guitar and vocal master. Support: Crazy Arm
acoustic.
Saturday 31 January 2015 - Column Acoustic -
Devonport Guildhall, Ker Street, Plymouth, PL1 4EL (map)
www.facebook.com/pages/Column-Acoustic/210833712373509?fref=ts.
Saturday 30 November 2013 - Mad Dog Mcrea -
Devonport Guildhall, Ker Street, Plymouth, PL1 4EL (map)
Join the Mad Dogs and their friends as they celebrate the end of their 2013 UK
tour with a homecoming party in Plymouth. Tickets available from
www.maddogmcrea.co.uk.
NEW
Friday 6 May 2022 8pm - Naomi Bedford & Paul
Simmonds - Drewe Arms, The Square, Drewsteignton EX6 6QN
Duo, based in the folk and country roots genre.
They have made 4 acclaimed albums and been nominated for a Radio 2 Folk Award
(Best Original Song). Their last album (an album of Appalachian ballads
originating in England and Scotland) was featured as the Guardian Album of the
Month. Paul is also the chief songwriter with legendary folk-rock band The Men
They Couldn’t Hang. Naomi has appeared on Later with Jools Holland. Local
support. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/538872.
NEW
Saturday 17 March 2018 8.30pm - LOSt COYOTES - Drewe Arms, The Square,
Drewsteignton EX6 6QN
St Patrick’s Night! Mostly a Devon-based
4-piece band (some Jiggerypipery members) who play a bewitching mix of
Americana, Cajun, Latin-American, and Celtic songs and tunes, finding a natural
chemistry between these musical genres in a melodious blend of their instruments
and voices. From up-beat Cajun rhythms and Celtic jigs and reels, to more
soulful songs and airs, and with themes of land, migration and borders running
through much of their repertoire. £6 door.
Info: 07557 002622.
NEW
Friday 26 July 2024 - The Langan Band
- Pigs Nose Inn, East Prawle, Kingsbridge TQ7 2BY
(map)
An exciting three piece outfit offering a unique sound emerging from
Celtic, Balkan, Gypsy swing, and progressive music. They present an extravagant,
eclectic package that, though contemporary, has a traditional, acoustic
aesthetic, and a remarkably big sound for a three piece. Details
www.pigsnoseinn.co.uk/events.
NEW
Saturday 4 May 2024 - Elephant Sessions
- Pigs Nose Inn, East Prawle, Kingsbridge TQ7 2BY
(map)
Multi award winning Neo-trad quintet from the Highlands of Scotland. MG
Alba Scots Trad Music Awards: Up and Coming Act of the Year 2014, Album of the
Year 2017, Live Act of the Year 2018. Details
www.pigsnoseinn.co.uk/events/elephantsessions.
NEW
Friday 30 June 2023 - Mad Dog Mcrea
- Pigs Nose Inn, East Prawle, Kingsbridge TQ7 2BY
(map)
Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass
and ‘shake your ass’ music. From self-penned songs of adventure, drinking, love
and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless pirates and black
flies – Mad Dog never fail to capture their audience with their infectious
songs. Doors 8-10pm. Details
www.pigsnoseinn.co.uk.
NEW Tuesday
25 March
2025 7.45pm - Cara Dillon & Band - Barnfield Theatre, Exeter EX1 1SN (map)
Born from a collection of personal poems and the remarkable album and book that
followed, this acclaimed live production sees Cara skilfully interweave this
emotive new material with a carefully curated selection of her beloved classics.
Accompanied by an extraordinary band led by Sam Lakeman and featuring his
sensitive arrangements, which help to make this her most compelling live show
yet—in which profound memories and emotions are unlocked in all who see it.
Details
www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/events/cara-dillon.
NEW Friday
17 November
2023 7.45pm - Saltlines - Barnfield Theatre, Exeter EX1 1SN (map)
Taking audiences by storm, Saltlines is a prose and music collaboration between
bestselling author Raynor Winn and the Gigspanner Big Band.
Together they have created an emotional odyssey which explores the beauty,
stories and traditions of the South West Coast Path. The vibrant,
thought-provoking compositions by Raynor have been especially written for this
show, and artfully wrapped around songs and tunes gathered from the collections
of Cecil Sharp House. Offering a life-affirming experience for anyone who
appreciates beautiful words, inspiring music and above all, cherishes the social
and natural history of Britain’s coastline, and the common threads that bind its
fragile communities and wildlife. Formed by legendary Steeleye Span fiddle
player Peter Knight, the Gigspanner Big Band line-up features acclaimed
multi-instrumental duo Edgelarks (Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin – BBC Folk
Awards ‘Best Duo’), Bellowhead co-founder and melodeon player extraordinaire
John Spiers, Roger Flack on guitar and Sacha Trochet on percussion. Details
www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/events/saltlines.
Moved to Northcott 2 April
NEW Saturday 26 March
2022 7.30pm - Steve Knightley - Barnfield Theatre, Exeter EX1 1SN (map)
Pass Notes – The stories behind the songs. Following the success Steve's
intimate one man show, his latest outing is intended for anyone fascinated by
the art and craft of song writing. Exploring his extensive back catalogue and
introducing unheard, new material he explores the themes and stories that
inspire him and shows how music and words can become lyrics and chords and notes
can meld to create songs that acquire a life of their own!
www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk/steve-knightley-pass-notes
Friday 21 February 2014 7.30pm - Barnfield
Music Club Concert - Barnfield Theatre, Barnfield Road, Exeter EX1 1SN
(map)
Clifford suite. A real showcase of talent in the Southwest. The club is very
grateful that the performers have agreed to take part. I am not naming
performers, (as there are a lot!). But, for the £2 entry fee, (which is also a
raffle ticket!), it will be a great night!! Seats are limited so phone Jerry on
01626 772270 to reserve tickets. Excellent café and bar, and free parking
nearby. This concert is supporting the Barnfield Theatre music week, which is on
in all parts of the theatre, day and evening, during the week beginning Tuesday
18 February, entry is free, but main theatre performances will be payable and
bookable through the theatre
www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk.
NEW Thursday 17
November 2022 - Gaz Brookfield + Guests - Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen Street,
Exeter EX4 3RP
Acoustic, folk, rock musician
www.gazbrookfield.com.
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/542980.
NEW Sunday 11
September 2022 - Nick Harper + Guests - Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen Street, Exeter
EX4 3RP
English singer-songwriter and guitarist, son of English folk musician Roy
Harper. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/551688.
NEW Saturday 7 March 2020 - Haunt the Woods +
Guests - Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3RP
Blending sounds from alternative, prog, folk and pop and channelling
influences from the likes of Pink Floyd, Muse, Jeff Buckley and Radiohead, Haunt
The Woods have crafted a distinctive sound, glistening with ambient swells and
underpinned by expressive rhythms and masterly songwriting. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/495720.
28th Sept Crazy Goat Traditional Music [NB one-off change of venue, Clyst St
Mary Village Hall, EX5 1AA]
19th Oct American Contra (click
for details)
26th Oct Slack ma Girdle
30th Nov Spinach for Norman
28th Dec Barnstormers: Twixmas Ceilidh!
18th Jan American Contra (click
for details)
25th Jan Dartmoor Pixies
22nd Feb Phoenix
22nd Mar American Contra (click for details)
29th Mar Amber Fire
26th Apr Flash Co
31st May Skermish
28th Jun Crowdy Kit
NEW Saturday 29 June 2025 8pm - Ceilidh
with Crowdy Kit
- Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
Exeter Ceilidhs is a series of ceilidhs (barn dances) held on Saturdays. £8 - £15 (voluntary pricing);
U16 £4, U10 free. BYO water / alcohol. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing, band information etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 31 May 2025 8pm - Ceilidh
with Skermish
- Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
Exeter Ceilidhs is a series of ceilidhs (barn dances) held on Saturdays. £8 - £15 (voluntary pricing);
U16 £4, U10 free. BYO water / alcohol. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing, band information etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 26
April 2025 8pm - Ceilidh
with Flash Co. - Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
Exeter Ceilidhs is a series of ceilidhs (barn dances) held on Saturdays. £8 - £15 (voluntary pricing);
U16 £4, U10 free. BYO water / alcohol. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing, band information etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 29
March 2025 8pm - Ceilidh
with Amber Fire
- Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
Exeter Ceilidhs is a series of ceilidhs (barn dances) held on Saturdays. £8 - £15 (voluntary pricing);
U16 £4, U10 free. BYO water / alcohol. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing, band information etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 22
March 2025 7.30pm - American Contra Dance - Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
7:30pm Beginners' workshop, 8-11pm Dance. You do need a partner to dance Contra
- but you don’t need to bring one with you. Part of the tradition is that most
people swap partners each dance, and I always make sure that anyone who wants to
dance can do so. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 22
February 2025 8pm - Ceilidh
with Phoenix
- Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
Exeter Ceilidhs is a series of ceilidhs (barn dances) held on Saturdays. £8 - £15 (voluntary pricing);
U16 £4, U10 free. BYO water / alcohol. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing, band information etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 25
January 2025 8pm - Ceilidh
with Dartmoor Pixie Band
- Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
Exeter Ceilidhs is a series of ceilidhs (barn dances) held on Saturdays. £8 - £15 (voluntary pricing);
U16 £4, U10 free. BYO water / alcohol. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing, band information etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 18
January 2025 7.30pm - American Contra Dance - Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
7:30pm Beginners' workshop, 8-11pm Dance. You do need a partner to dance Contra
- but you don’t need to bring one with you. Part of the tradition is that most
people swap partners each dance, and I always make sure that anyone who wants to
dance can do so. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 28
December 2024 8pm - Twixmas Ceilidh!
with Barnstormers - Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
Exeter Ceilidhs is a series of ceilidhs (barn dances) held on Saturdays. £8 - £15 (voluntary pricing);
U16 £4, U10 free. BYO water / alcohol. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing, band information etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 30
November 2024 8pm - Ceilidh
with Spinach For Norman - Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
Exeter Ceilidhs is a series of ceilidhs (barn dances) held on Saturdays. £8 - £15 (voluntary pricing);
U16 £4, U10 free. BYO water / alcohol. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing, band information etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 26
October 2024 8pm - Ceilidh
with Slack ma Girdle
- Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
Exeter Ceilidhs is a series of ceilidhs (barn dances) held on Saturdays. £8 - £15 (voluntary pricing);
U16 £4, U10 free. BYO water / alcohol. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing, band information etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 19
October 2024 7.30pm - American Contra Dance - Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE
7:30pm Beginners' workshop, 8-11pm Dance. You do need a partner to dance Contra
- but you don’t need to bring one with you. Part of the tradition is that most
people swap partners each dance, and I always make sure that anyone who wants to
dance can do so. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
NEW Saturday 28
September 2024 8pm - Ceilidh with Crazy Goat Traditional Music
- Clyst St Mary Village Hall, Exeter EX5 1AA
Exeter Ceilidhs is a series of ceilidhs (barn dances) held on Saturdays,
usually at the Kenn Centre, Exeter Road, Kennford, Exeter EX6
7UE - but please note the one-off change of venue for this
first dance of the season. £8 - £15 (voluntary pricing);
U16 £4, U10 free. BYO water / alcohol. See www.exeterceilidhs.net
for full details of pricing, band information etc. Contact: Jeremy on 07969 297633, email
contact@exeterceilidhs.net.
www.seetickets.com/search?q=coffee+cellar
NEW Wednesday 11
December 2024 8pm - In A Bit Of A State - The Coffee Cellar, Exeter Quay
Rob Brown's 'In A Bit Of A State' with Adam Sweet, Ian Jennings and Lucy Piper.
Blues and post-blues mashup. Small licensed venue. Tickets £10(+£1) only through
www.seetickets.com/search?q=coffee+cellar. For more information, see
www.facebook.com/MusicInTheQuayOfExe.
NEW Thursday 17
October 2024 8pm - Thomas Ford & Becca Langsford - The Coffee Cellar, Exeter
Quay
A brother and sister blues duo, whose energetic live shows are driven by slide
guitar, harmonica and washboard. For fans of blues shouters, jump jive and
fingerpicked guitar. Small licensed venue. Tickets £10(+£1) only through
www.seetickets.com/search?q=coffee+cellar. For more information, see
www.facebook.com/MusicInTheQuayOfExe.
NEW Thursday 19
September 2024 8pm - James Dixon - The Coffee Cellar, Exeter Quay
With a sound that is both raw and intimate, James Dixon engages his audiences
across the country with heartfelt lyrics, soulful vocals and a guitar style
described as “red in tooth and claw” (Americana-UK). “A soul brother... got his
fingers in the mud” (Seasick Steve). Small licensed venue. Tickets £10(+£1) only
through
www.seetickets.com/search?q=coffee+cellar. For more information, see
www.facebook.com/MusicInTheQuayOfExe.
Here are a few upcoming gigs from Music in the Quay of Exe, all held at The Coffee Cellar. 8pm (doors open 7.30pm), £10 (+ £1 to See Tickets), in advance only.
NEW Thursday 13
July 2023 8pm - Lil Jim - The Coffee Cellar, Exeter Quay
Lil Jim is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist. Combining guitar, harmonica
and accordion with vocals and foot percussion to create a fresh sound of
unstoppable rhythm and unrelenting melody. Tickets (adv only)
www.seetickets.com/event/lil-jim/the-coffee-cellar/2502937.
NEW Thursday 18
May 2023 8pm - Trevor Babajack - The Coffee Cellar, Exeter Quay
Trevor Babajack’s music is influenced by his passion for early rural blues and
the sounds of rhythmic African roots. His slide guitar, harp-playing and
song-writing have earnt him nominations in the UK Blues Awards and British Blues
Awards and airplay on Blues & Roots Radio and Radio 2.
Tickets (adv only)
www.seetickets.com/event/trevor-babajack/the-coffee-cellar/2513869.
NEW Thursday 27
April 2023 8pm - Ritchie Lane - The Coffee Cellar, Exeter Quay
Playing a range of resonator, dobros and acoustic guitars, Ritchie Lane will
present a night of blues, slide and roots-inspired originals and covers. Some
rock ‘n’ roll thrown in there too! Ritchie will be joined on double bass by
Coffee Cellar regular Ian Jennings. Tickets (adv only)
www.seetickets.com/event/ritchie-lane-with-ian-jennings/the-coffee-cellar/2509359.
NEW Thursday 23
March 2023 8pm - Jess McAllister + Band - The Coffee Cellar, Exeter Quay
The music of Jess McAllister spans free-spirited nostalgic folk, thythmic, gutsy
blues, rock and pop. Her live performances are filled with spontaneity, passion
and heart. "Make no mistake, here is evidence of a ferocious emotional and
musical intelligence at work." Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music. Tickets (adv only)
www.seetickets.com/event/jess-mcallister-band/the-coffee-cellar/2513192.
NEW Thursday 2
June 2022 8pm - The Rosie Brown Band - The Coffee Cellar, Exeter Quay
Weaving folk, jazz and blues influences, with glimpses of Joni Mitchell, Nick
Drake and vintage John Martyn, the band expresses a musical sensibility all of
its own. Drawing on country, 60s surf and classical, this is beguiling and
intricate music, filmic and funky, full of emotion. Songs with surfaces light
and shimmering, evocative of landscape, love, loss, darkness and light
www.rosiebrown.com.
Tickets adv only, £8 at
www.seetickets.com/event/the-rosie-brown-band/the-coffee-cellar/2338137.
Music in the Quay of Exe is a loose collective of venues and local musicians
spawned by the First Thursday Club@The Hourglass. For more information, contact
Rob Brown: 07973 779558;
brownstheword@gmail.com.
NEW Thursday 10
February 2022 - Rob Brown's in a Bit of a State - The Coffee Cellar, Exeter Quay
Doors 7pm. Tickets in advance only: £10 at
www.seetickets.com/.../the-coffee-cellar/2207258. Rob Brown, vocals. Adam
Sweet, guitars, Lucy Piper, drums, Ian Jennings, double bass
www.facebook.com/MusicInTheQuayOfExe,
www.robbrownvoice.co.uk/music.
Eclectic (electric and acoustic) blues/post-blues/country/spoken word
performance. Music in the Quay of Exe is a loose collective of venues and local
musicians spawned by the First Thursday Club@The Hourglass. Venues such as
Exeter Brewery, The Coffee Cellar and The Hourglass are in the mix. Much more to
come.
Coming up at Exeter Corn Exchange
(details
www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on):
Wednesday 26
February 7.30pm - Fairport Convention
Friday 14 March 2025
8pm - Police Dog Hogan
Thursday 3 April 2025 8pm - The Fureys
Tuesday 8 April 2025 7.30pm - Feast of Fiddles
NEW
Tuesday 8 April 2025 - Feast of Fiddles
-
Exeter Corn Exchange, George St, Exeter EX1 1BU
2025 and Feast of Fiddles set out on their Spring Tour once again – their 30th.
This year fiddlers Garry Blakeley (Band of Two), Ian Cutler (Bully Wee), Marion
Fleetwood (Trad Arr, Sandy Denny Project), Tom Leary (Joe Brown), Brian McNeill
(Battlefield Band) and Simon Swarbrick (Merry Hell) bring a large range of
fiddle playing styles to the rock back-line – all held together by legendary
drummer Dave Mattacks. Details
www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW
Thursday 3 April 2025 8pm - The Fureys
-
Exeter Corn Exchange, George St, Exeter EX1 1BU
Legends of Irish music and song, Their emotive songs stir many emotions, tears
and laughter, sadness and joy. Details
www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Friday 14 March 2025
8pm - Police Dog Hogan -
Exeter Corn Exchange, George St, Exeter EX1 1BU
(map)
Police Dog Hogan combine guitar, fiddle, banjo, trumpet and accordion with bass
and drums to create a driving country-folk sound that has earned them a large
live following. They’ve played dozens of festivals, many of them repeatedly,
including Glastonbury, Cropredy, Cornbury, Kendall Calling, Black Deer and the
Sidmouth Folk Festival. Details
www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Wednesday 26
February 2025
7.30pm - Fairport Convention
-
Exeter Corn Exchange, George St, Exeter EX1 1BU
(map)
Since their formation
in 1967. During that time the band that launched British folk-rock has
seen many changes, but one thing has remained the same - Fairport’s passion for
performance. The band features founding member Simon Nicol on guitar and vocals,
Dave Pegg on bass guitar, Ric Sanders on violin, Chris Leslie on fiddle,
mandolin and vocals. Fairport will be joined on stage by former member Dave
Mattacks on drums. Details
www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on.
Exeter Cygnet Theatre (was 'New Theatre')
NEW Friday 7 March 2025 7.30pm -
Django Chutney - Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate,
Exeter EX2 4AZ (map)
An infectious love of performing - whether its jazz, blues, folk or Black
Sabbath - has helped propel this trio into a non-stop run of shows around the
festivals, pubs and jazz clubs of the UK. Details
www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre.
NEW Saturday 15
February 2025 7.30pm - La Vie En Rose - Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate,
Exeter EX2 4AZ (map)
The heartfelt wail of the blues; the sultry heat of the campfire; the crazy
swirl of the bal musette, all fused together with virtuosity and passion in the
melting pot of 1930’s Paris: the result was gypsy jazz. La Vie En Rose play this
exuberant, toe-tapping music with a swing and joie-de-vivre as fresh today as
when Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli first conjured it from the back
streets of Pigalle. Details
www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre.
NEW Saturday 26
October 2024 7.30pm - Ukranian Singers of Plymouth - Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate,
Exeter EX2 4AZ (map)
Commended by the Lord Lieutenant of Devon and the Ukrainian Embassy, the
Ukrainian Singers of Plymouth are dedicated to showing and sharing the best of
Ukrainian traditional culture to their UK friends. There will be happy songs,
sad songs, amazing dances and some amusing folk theatre. £12 / £8. 01392 277189.
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www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre.
NEW Saturday 12
October 2024 7.30pm - Mayor & James - Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate,
Exeter EX2 4AZ (map)
Cygnet is delighted to welcome back favourite performers: Simon Mayor
‘One of the world’s great mandolinists’ (BBC Radio 3) & Hilary James ‘One of
Britain’s finest voices’ (BBC Radio 4) who bring their wonderful music on
guitar, violin, mandolin and mandola. A fabulous evening's entertainment is in
store! 'A witty and captivating mix of folk, blues, swing and classical
showstoppers, spiced with a unique brand of off-beat humour.’ The Guardian/
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/625319.
NEW Thursday 20
June 2024 7.30pm - Tim Kitching: Where There's Brass - Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate,
Exeter EX2 4AZ (map)
Author and folk fiddler Tom Kitching launches his new book and album with a
special storytelling and music concert tour. Documenting six months living in
the London waterways community, making the long journey across England from
Manchester on a traditional narrowboat built in 1937, 'Where There's Brass'
tells the story of the contemporary London waterways; a floating slum at worst,
a bohemian, alternative, vibrant community at best. It is a love letter to the
waterways, and a rallying cry for what they can be in the future. Stories old
and new interwoven with a specially composed suite of music, underpinned by
Tom's long term accompanist, the brilliant Nordic mandola player Marit Fält.
Details
www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre.
NEW Thursday 9 May 2019 -
Wildwood Kin
- Lemon Grove, Exeter University, St
German's Road, Exeter EX4 6TG (map)
Standing. Wildwood Kin
are a family trio whose sound is characterised by extraordinary harmonies. Their
brilliant debut album, while influenced by their early folk leanings, delved
deeply into other genres, featuring both electric and acoustic instruments, and
boasted inventive sonics and spectral atmospherics alongside their hypnotic
three-part harmonies. Guitarist Emillie Key, her bouzouki/keyboard-playing
sister Beth and their drumming cousin Meghann Loney, all sing, swapping leads
and joining on harmonies. Box Office
01392 667080. Details
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/category/music.
Thursday 7 November 2013 - Ruarri Joseph -
Mama Stones, Mary Arches St., Exeter EX4 3BA
Ruarri Joseph, the indie-folk sensation, often
likened to Tom Waits, Cat Stevens and even Dylan, will be releasing his much
anticipated new album 'Brother'. His latest offering showcases his subtlety in a
way not heard before. His rich baritone voice floating right out of the speakers
and into your soul, the lyrics possessing a wisdom that wouldn’t seem out of
place next to Johnny Cash or Joni Mitchell, there’s no doubt that this is a
performer set to be around for years to come.
www.mamastones.com.
Details, tickets
www.midnightmango.co.uk/listings/events/7-nov-13-ruarri-joseph-mama-stones.
Friday 9 November 2012 7.30pm - Simon Mayor &
Hilary James - Cygnet New Theatre, Exeter EX2 4AZ (map)
A witty and captivating mix of folk, swing, blues and classical showstoppers
spiced with Simon Mayor’s unique brand of off-beat humour and Hilary’s
honey-dripping voice. There can’t be many performers who can slide easily from a
beautifully evocative Irish ballad into a mandolin and guitar version of
Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheba and finish with everyone singing one of
their own notoriously comic songs (reminiscent of Hilaire Belloc and Flanders
and Swan). Simon is one of the world’s leading mandolin virtuosos as well as a
fine guitarist and fiddle player. Box office 01392 277189
NEW Saturday
26 October
2024 7.30pm - Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers
- Northcott Theatre, Exeter (map)
Join Europe’s longest-established taiko group, Mugenkyo on their 30th
anniversary tour, with a very special show of big beats, visual treats, and
vital energy. Taking the audience on a journey ‘in time’, a thrilling ride
through their 30 years. The concert is a full theatrical experience, with
dynamic choreography and heart-pounding rhythms contrasting with atmospheric
soundscapes. Details
www.exeternorthcott.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
18 June
2023 7.30pm - Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years - Northcott Theatre, Exeter (map)
Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon &
Garfunkel Through the Years continues to delight audiences across the globe.
Featuring stunning vocal harmonies from world-class musicians, this spectacular
concert transports you on a journey through the epic songs and history of the
much-loved Simon and Garfunkel. Collectively known as Bookends, Dan Haynes and
Pete Richards have been fronting Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years since
its creation in 2011. Details
www.exeternorthcott.co.uk.
NEW Friday
14 October
2022 7.30pm - Ralph McTell - Northcott Theatre, Exeter (map)
Details
www.exeternorthcott.co.uk.
NEW Saturday
2 April
2022 7.30pm - Steve Knightley - Northcott Theatre, Exeter (map)
‘Follow me Down’ Songs from the West. A constant throughout Steve’s work is his
ability to root his songs in time and place, notably the West Country where he
was raised. Details
www.showofhands.co.uk/steve-knightley-tour-dates,
www.exeternorthcott.co.uk.
Coming later at Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street EX4 3LS (map)
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NEW Tuesday 10 June 2025 -
Josienne Clarke sings Sandy Denny - Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street EX4 3LS (map)
Acclaimed singer songwriter Josienne Clarke touring with a full band and a new
show dedicated to the immortal songs and genius of Sandy Denny. Details
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/music.
NEW Sunday 1 June 2025 -
Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings - Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street EX4 3LS (map)
Return to the live arena with their unique brand of post-apocalyptic folk played
in a traditional style vs. traditional folk played with post-apocalyptic
swagger. Details
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/music.
NEW Friday 16 May 2025 -
Phil Cooper & Jamie R Hawkins - Workshop, Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street EX4 3LS (map)
An evening of intimate Folk/Americana with Phil Cooper & Jamie R Hawkins, both
excellent singer-songwriters in their own right, possibly better known as two
thirds of harmony trio The Lost Trades. Details
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/music.
NEW Tuesday 22
April 2025 -
The Magpie Arc - Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street EX4 3LS (map)
The Magpie Arc is a cross-border band featuring acclaimed musicians Nancy Kerr,
Findlay Napier, Tom Wright, Alex Hunter, and UK folk legend Martin Simpson on
electric guitar. Formed to blend their songwriting and musicianship into a fresh
take on the British folk/rock sound of the ’60s and ’70s, the band quickly
gained recognition for its unique mix of folk, rock, country, and prog-rock
elements. Details
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/music.
NEW Fri/Sat 4/5
April 2025 -
Mad Dog Mcrea Weekender - Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street EX4 3LS (map)
Friday will see the raucous Molotov Jukebox headline, whilst Saturday will be
headlined by none other than Mad Dog Mcrea themselves + more acts to be
announced. Details
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/music.
NEW Wednesday 12
March 2025 -
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman - Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street EX4 3LS (map)
Award-winning folk duo Kathryn and Sean celebrate 30 years of their musical
partnership with the release of their first live concert album. Details
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/music.
NEW
Friday 31 May 2024 10.30am-4.30pm - National Youth Folk Ensemble Open Day -
Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street EX4 3LS (map)
NYFE Open Days are a great opportunity for young people between the ages of 12
to 18 who live in England and who have confidence playing their chosen
instrument. The event will have music workshops with skilled professionals, a
Q&A regarding the National Youth Folk Ensemble, and lots of outlets for
individual and group creativity. These Open Days will allow individuals to take
part in a band for a day, and to explore folk music with other young people
passionate about music! Full details
www.efdss.org/learning/young-people/national-youth-folk-ensemble (Open Days
link). Free, but booking required.
NEW Friday 29
September 2023
7.30pm - Mitchell & Vincent - Poltimore House, nr Exeter EX4 0AU
Westcountry folk duo Mitchell and Vincent bring
traditional and contemporary styles on fiddle and guitar to folk music from
around the British Isles, alongside original material drawing on the folk
traditions, using varied arrangements to create stories with their tunes as well
as songs.
- Bright Young Folk: "Their sound is much deeper and richer than you would
expect from an acoustic duo. … Providing skilled arrangements and expert
delivery of tunes and songs which showcase the vibrancy, and variety, of folk
music across Britain. A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable experience.” - Irish
Music Magazine: “They display a deep understanding and appreciation of their
instruments, mellifluous melodies and pulsing rhythms abound.”
www.mitchellandvincent.com. Ticketing via
www.poltimore.org/event/mitchell-and-vincent.
NEW
Saturday 15 October 2022 7.30pm - Suthering - Poltimore House, nr Exeter EX4 0AU
Inspired by strong female characters in history, mythology, and personal
experience, and with an unusual mix of cascading, dramatic piano; intricate,
fingerstyle guitar; flute, whistles and harmonium, Suthering bring an exciting
take on folk storytelling with their evocative and distinctive sound. Details
www.poltimore.org/events.
NEW Sunday 26
October 2025 6.30pm - Fishermans Friends - Exeter University Great Hall EX4 4PZ (map)
Details
www.thefishermansfriends.com.
NEW Thursday 11
November 2021 7pm - Billy Bragg - Exeter University Great Hall EX4 4PZ (map)
Billy Bragg has been a fearless recording artist, tireless live performer and
peerless political campaigner for over 35 years. Honoured with the PRS
Outstanding Contribution to British Music award at the Ivor Novello awards in
May 2018, he is regarded a valuable statesman and activist.
www.billybragg.co.uk.
Tickets
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/elsewhere.
NEW Friday 21
March 2025 7.30pm - Ceilidh with the Dillyboys - Topsham Brewery on the Exeter
Canal Basin EX2 8GR
Caller: Jon Dyer. Get ready for a lively evening of music, dancing, and good
cheer. Whether you’re a ceilidh regular or a total novice, John will guide you
through the steps, and The Dillyboys will keep the tunes rolling all night long.
Come along for an evening of toe-tapping tunes, spirited dancing and beer
sloshing. Kilts optional, fun mandatory. See you there! Tickets £14.50 + BF.
Over 18’s – Ticket holders only.
www.topshambrewery.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 25
January 2025 7pm - Burns Night Barn Dance with Spinach for Norman - Kenton Victory Hall, Exeter, EX6 8JA0
Caller. Piping in the Haggis. Bar. Meal included. Tickets £18, U16 £9 (U5 free)
Tickets from Anne Hatcher 01626 891835 or
anne29hatcher@gmail.com. Proceeds
to Kenton Victory Hall, Kenton Twinning, Kenton WI and Kenton in Bloom.
NEW Saturday 22
February 2025 -
Seth Lakeman with full band
- Exeter Cathedral
New album The Granite Way Tour.
www.sethlakeman.co.uk.
NEW Friday 6
September 2024 8pm - Phil Beer - Kenton Victory Hall, Exeter, EX6 8JA
Details
www.philbeermusic.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 20 April 2024 8pm - Gittisham Folk Dance Club Spring Barn Dance
with Fresh Aire
- Victory
Hall, Broadclyst, Exeter EX5 3EE
Caller: Simon Maplesden. A fun evening with free light refreshments. £10 on door, or call
01404 758128 to book. Full club details see
www.gittishamfolkdanceclub.org.
NEW Friday 8 March 2024 7.30pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men - Alphington Village Hall, Exeter
EX2 8UP
A welcome return to the lovely village hall in Alphington, where you can join us
for an evening of seafaring shanty fun as we perform our ever popular - and
never the same twice - Tall Ships and Tavern Tales Concert. Tickets are priced
at £10, and you can even take your own booze to liven up the evening - not that
is should need it.
www.exmouthshantymen.com.
NEW Friday 6 October 2023
8pm - Music in the Library with Hands of the Heron
-
Exeter Library
Exeter Library presents an evening of incredible new folk music. Hands of the
Heron, a dreamfolk trio comprising 3 frontwomen, move effortlessly between
sparse choral folk and spellbinding chamber pop, richly layered with an
assortment of strings, drones and reeds. Support: Ben Morgan-Brown. Winner of
FATEA’s Instrumental Album of the Year 2021, and Instrumentalist of the Year
2022. Details
www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW
24-28 May 2023 - Heritage Harbour Festival, Exeter Quay area
www.exetercustomhouse.co.uk/event/heritage-harbour-festival
NEW 3-5 February
2023 - Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival (IVFDF) - Exeter
A weekend of events in and around the city, including workshops, ceilidhs,
Contra, Playford, Bal, Balkan, Morris. See
https://ivfdf2023.com for
more details and tickets.
NEW
Saturday 19 March 2022 3pm - Jim Causley's 'Cream Tea Concert' - Shillingford
St George Village Hall, nr Exeter EX2 9QL
A concert of traditional Devonshire songs followed
by a delicious Devonshire cream tea! Contact nrh047[at]gmail.com for
further information.
NEW
Saturday 12 March 2022 7pm - The Children of Lir:
Gaelic songs and stories of Ireland - Farringdon Church, East Devon EX5 2HY
A unique melding of traditions with Gaelic songs and stories of Ireland by
Patrick Devine-Wright and friends. Patrick has won several prizes for the solo
singing of Gaelic songs, including the All-Britain Feis Ceoil. He was an
understudy in the Riverdance show during its first West End run in the
Hammersmith Apollo theatre and his musical influences include Iarla Ó’Lionaird,
Muireann Nic Amhlaidh, Séamus Begley and Martin Hayes. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/538849.
NEW
Saturday 16 May 2020 8pm - Velvet & Stone, Jenna Witts, Emily Davies -
Evangelical Church, School Road, Silverton, EX5 4JH
A special evening of live music. Velvet & Stone: "Dark and haunting folk-noir”
Folk & Tumble; “Sonic bliss” Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6 Music; “Haunting” Clare
Balding, BBC Radio 2. Jenna Witts: "Staggering maturity, winning delivery, and
an abundance of natural talent. An irresistible example of superior acoustic
music" Daily Telegraph. Emily Davies: "A pure and supremely talented songwriter:
spend a little time in her presence and drift away somewhere else entirely."
Green Man Festival.
www.velvetstonemusic.com,
www.jennawitts.com,
www.emilydavies.co.uk. £10+.
www.wegottickets.com/event/500790.
NEW
Monday 24 February 2020 7.30pm - Ciaran
Algar & Jamie Francis - M&D Room, Devonshire House, Exeter University, Stocker
Rd, Exeter EX4 4PZ
Acclaimed folk musicians Ciaran and Jamie will be performing a variety of tunes
and songs. Tickets £12 (£6 Exeter Folk Society members). Details
www.facebook.com/events/570597930354344.
NEW
Thursday 6 February 2020 - Gets/z Loose -
First Thursday Club at The Hourglass, 21 Melbourne Street, Exeter EX2 4AU
Fronted by Rob Brown, Gets/z Loose is a high-energy ensemble of amplified
acoustic slide guitar, bass, harmonica and congas. Playing old blues tunes in
their own way, the band has given getting on for 1,000 gigs in London and across
the UK. The Hourglass is an indie gastropub just above Exeter Quay. Hosted by
singer and TV voiceover Rob Brown, the club presents blues, roots and folk bands
in the pub’s welcoming basement room. Think Paris in the sixties without the
smoke.
www.robbrownvoice.com,
www.hourglassexeter.co.uk. £5 entry. Doors 8pm.
NEW
Saturday 5 October 2019 7.30pm - Matthew
Falloon & Mischa Bray: Sound Mind Sessions - All Saints Church, 8 Church St,
Kenton, Exeter EX6 8LU
Sound Mind Sessions is a venture providing spine-tingling original live acoustic
music in beautiful Devon venues, while raising awareness and funds for Mental
Health issues in the creative industries. Show headlined by Matthew Falloon &
Mischa Bray. R2 magazine has described Matthew Falloon's songwriting as
"exceptional" and "breathtakingly beautiful", while Uncut compares his music to
Jackson Browne and Paul Simon. Mischa Bray is the virtuoso violinist, guitarist
and mandolin player, talented songwriter, in-demand arranger and electric
performer. Supporting are two fantastic and unique acts strongly championed by
BBC Introducing, Matthew Gordon-Price and Jamie Yost. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/473453.
NEW
Saturday 15 June 2019 8pm - Dumbo's Feather
- The Stand Off, Portland House, Longbrook Street, Exeter. EX4 6AH
As always, the fiery and inspired fiddling of Alice McShane shall be augmented
by the dynamic duo of multi-instrumentalists that is Mike Cosgrave on accordion,
acoustic guitar, low whistle and vocals, and Richie Evans on Lead vocals,
bodhran, acoustic guitar, bouzouki and harmonica.
NEW
Friday 1 March 2019 - Jacob &
Drinkwater - The Exeter Brewery, Cowley Bridge Road, Exeter EX4 4NX
'This Old River' tour. UK alt -folk duo Jacob & Drinkwater have been called
‘stand out new Folk’ by BBC6 Music and ‘inventive and thrilling’ by R2 Magazine.
Jacob's sweeping vocals never fail to captivate, delivering many a
spine-tingling moment; the fluidity and precision of his finger-picking
underpinned by Drinkwater's nimbly rhythmic double bass; at times sweetly
soaring, haunting, percussive and driving, the layers of depth a perfect
counterfoil. Featured numerous times on BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music and lauded by
their musical peers as one of the most accomplished acts touring the circuit
today.
www.jacobanddrinkwater.com. More details
www.wegottickets.com/event/456398.
NEW
Saturday 15 December 2018 7.30pm - Exmouth
Shanty Men -
Countess Wear Village Hall, Exeter EX2 6LB
A pre-Christmas concert - but without any carols! £8. For ticket information see
www.countesswearvillagehall.co.uk.
NEW
Thursday 13 December 2018 7.30pm - Swedish
St Lucia Procession - St Michael's Mount Dinham Church, Exeter EX4 4EB
Across Scandinavia, the darkest part of the year is marked by celebrating St
Lucia, bringer of light, in a special candlelit musical procession. Exeter's
very own Swedish choir, ExeSwedes - with friends - will be donning their
candles, crowns and Lucia robes and performing a magical concert featuring
seasonal Swedish songs. Led by Rosa Rebecka. Free of charge.
NEW Friday 31 August 2018 8pm - Rory McLeod
(solo) - America Hall, De La Rue Way, Pinhoe, Exeter EX4 8PX (map)
WeGotTickets. Ticket enquiries - 07903
125606 or email. johnzeallyis[at]hotmail.com. Bar and free car parking.
NEW Saturday 1 September 2018 7pm - Sound Mind
Sessions: Harbottle & Jonas - All Saints Church, Kenton, nr Exeter EX6 8LU
Harbottle & Jonas
NEW Wednesday 22 August 2018 7pm - Vic Shepherd
& John Bowden - Church of Our Lady, Upton Pyne nr Exeter EX5 5JA
John Bowden & Vic Shepherd Tickets: £7.50 from Linda Findlay 01392 841402
lindafindlay99@yahoo.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 14 July 2018 9.30pm - The O'Marleys
- Bowling Green Pub, 29-30 Blackboy Rd, Exeter EX4 6ST
4 piece band with guitar, fiddle, bodhran and banjo.
NEW
Sunday 17 September 2017 7.30pm - Phil Beer - Exminster Victory Hall, Main
Road, Exminster EX6 8DF
Online tickets
www.wegottickets.com/event/394554. Bar. A car park is situated on Deepway
Lane at the recreation ground.
NEW ?? 17
October 2025 - One Night In Dublin - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ
NEW
Friday 25 April 2025 7.30pm - Exmouth Shanty Men - Exmouth Rugby Club
'Tall Ships & Tavern Tales'. In aid of 3rd Exmouth Scouts. Details
https://www.3rdexmouthscouts.org.uk/exmouth-shanty-men-2025/.
NEW Sunday 4 May 2025
7.30pm - Track Dogs - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ
Track Dogs’ music is a mix of various styles, from folk to pop/rock, bluegrass
and even some country, all perfectly measured, without clearly defining with any
of them, giving a result filled with positivity and joy, which they transmit
from the very first minute, turning their performance into an authentic party. Details
www.exmouthpavilion.co.uk/whats-on/track-dogs-2025.
NEW
Wednesday 19 March 2025 7.30pm - Keith James:
The Music of Yusuf / Cat Stevens -
Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ
Keith James presents an honest and loving reflection of the timeless and
insightful music of Yusuf - Cat Stevens. Details
www.exmouthpavilion.co.uk/whats-on/the-music-of-cat-stevens.
NEW Tuesday 17
December 2024 8pm - The Unthanks In Winter - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ
When December draws near, The Unthanks will release and tour In Winter - an
abstract new work that captures the warmth and nostalgia of the festive season,
the chill and darkness of the winter months, and the reflective ritualisms of
the turn of the year; the end and beginning of the circle of life. In Winter
features a new sound palette for The Unthanks, incorporating vibraphone,
clarinet and saxophone into the core band that features vocal harmony, piano,
violin, double bass, guitars and percussion. Details
www.exmouthpavilion.co.uk/whats-on/the-unthanks-in-winter.
NEW Sunday 24 November 2024
7.30pm - The Phil Beer Trio - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ
Multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer will be joined by exquisite singer and bass
player Miranda Sykes, solo performer, and frequent collaborator with Show of
Hands. Completing the line-up is highly accomplished drummer AMA-UK
Instrumentalist of the Year 2020, Siân Monaghan. The Phil Beer Trio promises an
exciting evening of combined talent and musicianship not to be missed! Details
www.exmouthpavilion.co.uk/whats-on/phil-beer-trio.
NEW Tuesday 22
October 2024 7.30pm - One Night In Dublin - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ
The ultimate feel-good Irish music tribute show! Award winning tribute band the
Wild Murphys cover all of your favourite sing-along Irish classics ("the best
Irish band to never come from Ireland") with live fiddle and accordion. Let them
take you to 'Murphy's Pub' for two hours of music, songs and humour. It's like
St. Patricks day every night! Details
www.exmouthpavilion.co.uk/whats-on/one-night-in-dublin-2.
NEW 19-21 July 2024
- Exmouth Festival
Multi-genre (free) festival, including (Sat) Suthering; Hazaar; Freedom Fields
Ceilidh - (Sun) Exmouth Shanty Men; Bow Creek; India Electric Co. Details
www.exmouthfestival.co.uk.
NEW
27-30 June
2024 - Song & Ale Festival - Bicton Inn, 5 Bicton Street, Exmouth EX8 2RU
(map)
Details
here.
NEW Thursday 16 May 2024 7.30pm -
RNLI Fundraising Concert: Exmouth Shanty Men with Lympstone Brass Band - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ (map)
It's the 200th year since the founding of the RNLI, and there are lots of events
nationwide to celebrate and to raise funds for the next 200 years! As part of
such events, we will be joining with Lympstone Brass Band for a special concert.
Tickets £12, £10 concs)
www.exmouthpavilion.co.uk/whats-on/200-years-of-the-rnli-concert.
NEW Sunday 12 May 2024 7.30pm -
The Fureys - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ (map)
Details
www.exmouthpavilion.co.uk/whats-on/the-fureys.
NEW Tuesday 7 May 2024 8pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men - The Beach Pub, Exmouth EX8 1DR
Summer is (maybe) on the horizon, the nights are warmer and longer, so why
not step out and join us in another of our home port - free! - mini-shanty
concerts at the Beach pub, adjacent to the Marina. Hope to see you there!
www.exmouthshantymen.com.
NEW Friday 26
April 2024 7pm -
Charity Concert
-
Open Door Centre, Church Street, Exmouth EX8 1PE
Charity Concert “With and Without Music” in aid of Open Door Exmouth.
David Woolger (Poet) (Recent collection: “Into the South Westerly”) and Mark
Waistell (singer-songwriter) “Mark’s voice is soft, clear, smooth and
distinctive; his lyrics are evocative of a life’s experiences ..his
finger-picking guitar is sophisticated ….and vocals as clement and serene as a
dappled golden water-meadow ….. Beautiful!” FolkCast. Free entry (donations to
Open Door).
NEW Saturday 9
March 2024 - Charity Barn Dance - Exmouth Town Football Club, 19 Southern Road,
Exmouth EX8 3EE
Mayor's charity event. Doors 6.30pm. Details
www.devonfolk.org/events-diary.
NEW Tuesday 5 March 2024 8pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men - The Beach Pub, Exmouth EX8 1DR
A free event at ESM's home port. The Beach serves great food and drink - so why not
come along and make a night of it!
www.exmouthshantymen.com.
NEW Tuesday 6
February 2024 8pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men - The Beach Pub, Exmouth EX8 1DR
A free event at ESM's home port. The Beach serves great food and drink - so why not
come along and make a night of it!
www.exmouthshantymen.com.
NEW Tuesday 2
January 2024 8pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men - The Beach Pub, Exmouth EX8 1DR
Why not shake off the Christmas and New Year torpor and join us for our very
first shanty session of 2024 - one of our FREE events at our home port of the
the Beach Pub in Exmouth. The Beach serves great food and drink - so why not
come along and make a night of it!
www.exmouthshantymen.com.
NEW Friday 15
September 2023 7.30pm - Exmouth Shanty Men - Blackmore Theatre, 10 Bicton St,
Exmouth EX8 2RU
The Blackmore Theatre in Exmouth is an amazing place - looks like a terraced
house from the outside, but a 100-seater tiered theatre on the inside (the
Romans could not have done any better!). ESM will be doing their bit to help
keep the theatre in good shape, by way of this fundraising concert. £10. Details
www.blackmoretheatre.co.uk.
NEW Show of Hands
Final Tour - Full Circle Part I - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8
2AZ (map)
Thursday 30 November 2023 7.30pm
Friday 1 December 2023 7.30pm
Saturday 2 December 2023 7.30pm
Details
www.exmouthpavilion.co.uk/whats-on/show-of-hands-full-circle-tour.
NEW Tuesday 14
November 2023 7.30pm -
A Taste of Ireland
- Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ (map)
The Irish Music & Dance Sensation returns with a performance that is
‘Celtic ―for this decade’. Laugh, cry and jig into the night with a show that
has entertained thousands. Details
www.exmouthpavilion.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Wednesday 13
September 2023 7.30pm -
Sea Song Sessions - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ (map)
A collection of British maritime folk songs and sea shanties, performed by a
collective of some of British folk music’s leading lights: Jon Boden, Seth
Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman and Jack Rutter. Details
www.exmouthpavilion.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW
28-31-July 2023 - Exmouth Festival
Multi-genre (free) festival. Includes various folk, shanties, old time /
bluegrass, Shooting Roots ceilidh (+workshops), and much more. For full
programme and artists see
www.exmouthfestival.co.uk/schedule and
www.facebook.com/ExmouthFestival.
NEW
22-25 June
2023 - Folk & Ale Festival - Bicton Inn, 5 Bicton Street, Exmouth EX8 2RU
(map)
See East Devon Folk FB page for details:
www.facebook.com/groups/784599064912904.
NEW Tuesday 4 April 2023 8pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men - The Beach Pub, Exmouth EX8 1DR
Another of our monthly free shanty concerts at our home port of the Beach Pub
(at the end of the esplanade, adjacent to the docks and marina).
www.exmouthshantymen.com.
NEW Friday 2 June 2023 7.30pm -
One Night in Dublin - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ (map)
The Wild Murphys will set up Murphy’s Pub at Exmouth Pavilion, guaranteeing one
glorious night of high-energy Irish Music and more than a little bit of Irish
Craic. Details
www.ledleisure.co.uk/exmouth-pavilion.
NEW Sunday 12
February 2023 7.30pm - Spirit of the Dance - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade,
Exmouth EX8 2AZ (map)
21 fabulous years as one of the most successful dance shows ever and now, their
new spine tingling anniversary show is touring the world. The blockbuster hit
show is Irish in origin and bursting with raw energy. One of the most exciting
dance shows ever, this high octane extravaganza takes dance to the next level,
in an explosive fusion of heart pounding Irish Dance combined with dance styles
from round the world. Scottish, Flamenco, Latin, Salsa, Street Dance, Hip Hop,
Techno Can Can and American Tap are all set to the same dynamic rhythms. This
spectacular show takes you round the globe. Details
www.ledleisure.co.uk/exmouth-pavilion.
NEW Friday/Saturday
2/3 December 2022 7.30pm - Show of Hands - Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade,
Exmouth EX8 2AZ (map)
Final two nights of the Autumn Tour in which for the first time in five years,
folk supergroup Show of Hands are once more sharing the stage with double bass
player and singer, Miranda Sykes. Their opening set will see them perform as
soloists and in the second set the trio will play a host of their award winning
festival favourites plus one or two hitherto unheard surprises. Details
www.ledleisure.co.uk/exmouth-pavilion/book-now/show-of-hands-with-miranda-sykes.
NEW
Saturday 19 November
2022 6.30pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men -
Holy Ghost Church Hall, Raddenstile La, Exmouth EX8 2JH
Performing their popular ‘Tall Ships and Tavern Tales’ stage show. Tickets £15
to include 2-course sausage supper. BYO drinks. Last date to book is Friday 14
November. Details
www.holyghostexmouth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/22.10.2022.pdf (page
4).
NEW
Friday 20 October
2023 - Trafalgar Night at the
Bicton Inn, 5 Bicton Street, Exmouth EX8 2RU
(map)
An evening of shanties, songs, poetry and music.
NEW
Thursday 17 March
2022 8pm - St Patrick's Night - Bicton Inn, 5
Bicton Street, Exmouth EX8 2RU
(map)
Continuing an afternoon of celebrations, in the Railway Club, The Park
and the Strand...the party continues from 8pm. Musicians, singers and
enthusiastic audiences welcome.
NEW
Thursday 24 February
2022 8pm - Folk and Acoustic Night - Bicton Inn,
5 Bicton Street, Exmouth EX8 2RU
(map)
An evening of song, music and fine ale. Led by Jeff Lewis.
NEW
Saturday 2 February 2019 7.30pm - Velvet &
Stone: Sound Mind Sessions - St. John in the Wilderness, St John's Road, Exmouth
EX8 5EG
Sound Mind Sessions is a venture providing spine-tingling original live acoustic
music in beautiful Devon venues, while raising awareness and funds for Mental
Health issues in the creative industries. Show headlined by stunning alt-folk
group Velvet & Stone whose brand of contemporary folk combines wide-open
soundscapes with catchy pop hooks and great songs, and has been described as
“haunting” by BBC Radio 2, and “superb” by BBC Introducing. Led by the ethereal
combination of Lara’s vocals, and Kathryn’s violin;Velvet & Stone’s music draws
upon personal stories, melancholy tales and rugged landscapes, taking their
audiences on an unforgettable journey through stunning melodies and soundscapes
to foot-stomping folk-rock.. Support: two brilliant and unique acts, Georgia
Omarah and Ben Morgan-Brown. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/455337.
details tba For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
27 July 2025 7.45pm - The Salts -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
tba For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
13 July 2025 7.45pm - John Ward Band -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
tba For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
29 June 2025 7.45pm - John Kirkpatrick -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
tba For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
15 June 2025 7.45pm - Tom Lewis -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
tba For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
1 June 2025 7.45pm - Richard Grainger & Chris
Parkinson -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
tba For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
tbc Sunday
18 May 2025 7.45pm - tba -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
tba For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
11 May 2025 7.45pm - Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow
-
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
Really wowed us here last February. Using folk
music of the British Isles as a catalyst, Kit and Aaron create dynamic
interpretations of centuries-old material as well as original compositions,
whilst celebrating the timeless aural quality of a guitar, fiddle and vocals
duet. They display
astonishing dexterity and musicianship, playing with great energy and passion.
“Mightily impressive” (R2 mag). For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
27 April 2025 7.45pm - Magpies -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
Combine three highly accomplished musicians (Bella
Gaffney on guitar, banjo and vocals, songwriter Ellie Gowers on guitar and
vocals and Holly Brandon on fiddle and vocals), with excellent songwriting
skills, and you get a top-drawer trio, who provide a captivating blend of
British folk and Bluegrass. There are also original interpretations of
traditional pieces, with influences from Eastern Europe and Quebec. For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
13 April 2025 7.45pm - Ukraine Night -
Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
A/V presentation by Nightingales UK and free
Ukrainian snacks (they really are delicious!). Drinks from the bar. Great
Ukrainian singers plus your usual Folk on the Moor hosts. Please book, for
catering purposes; email
nightingalesUK@gmail.com. £10 pp donation requested.
NEW Sunday
6 April 2025 7.45pm - Liz Simcock -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
Hailed as one of the country’s finest female
singer/songwriters (AcoustiCity), Liz’s songs are often autobiographical and
highly personal – immediately accessible to audiences and injected with poetry,
emotion and splashes of humour. She counts Richard Thompson, Clive Gregson (with
whom she toured), Boo Hewerdine and Joni Mitchell among her songwriting
influences and she has released 5 albums. For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
23 March 2025 7.45pm - Jim Reynolds Trio (The Hats)
-
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
Jim is a familiar face at the Club, showpiecing his
terrific guitar technique across a wide variety of styles (blues, ragtime,
rhythm and blues, music hall and folk) and he is now joined by songwriter Hilary
Pavey on guitar and vocals and outstanding musician Dave Griffiths on jazz
mandolin and double bass. They provide a fascinating mix of material, sometimes
poignant, often quirky and funny. For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
9 March 2025 7.45pm - Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
The wizard squeezebox player/singer (Anglo
concertina and melodeon) from Granny’s Attic. He is rooted in the English
tradition with a particular interest in the music of the West Midlands, where he
spent many of his formative years. Traditional ballads, songs and tunes form the
basis of Cohen’s material, with a smattering of baroque, renaissance, ragtime,
and music hall thrown in. For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
23 February 2025 7.45pm - Chris Newman & Maire Ni
Chathasaigh -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
Both musical supremos, they combine effortlessly
and will wow you with their dexterity and sublime musicianship. Chris’s playing
on guitar has variously been described as “utterly breathtaking” (Folk Wales)
and “life affirming” (RnR magazine) and Maire as "the doyenne of Irish harp
players" (Scotland on Sunday) and “an absolute legend” (The Irish Echo - USA). For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
2 February 2025 7.45pm - Maggie Duffy -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
A wonderful singer/songwriter and poet in her own
right, Maggie has supported a plethora of top names in the folk world, such as
Bob Fox, Phil Beer and Aly Bain/Phil Cunningham. From the Westcountry, she has a
superb voice and has written many topical songs, including “Cheap Daily Life”,
about the constant battle between farmers and the supermarkets. For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
12 January 2025 7.45pm - Mike Silver -
Folk on the Moor, Moorland
Hotel, Wotter, Plymouth PL7 5HP
Always and justifiably popular at Folk on the Moor,
Mike’s songwriting abilities are renowned. But he has also gained a reputation
for fine interpretations of others’ songs, with covers, for example, of Dylan’s
“Boots of Spanish Leather” and Eric Bogle’s “Safe in the Harbour”. Mike is also
a fine guitarist and has been more widely lauded by (amongst others) Terry Wogan
and Cerys Matthews. For reservations please contact
folkonthemoor1@gmail.com.
www.moorfolk.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 25
September 2021 7.30pm - Silvington & Ben Campbell - Sparkwell Village Hall,
Sparkwell, Plymouth PL7 5DD
CD Launch Concert. Come along and hear what Tricia, John and Ben have been
working on during lockdown. 2 CDs of brand new material. Free entry (pass the
hat to pay for hall). BYO drinks. To reserve tickets contact John
johnfconnor@aol.com or Ben
benguitar1@hotmail.co.uk. There
may also be an additional surprise guest!
Note for Gmail users:
Please note that Gmail may well put the Harberton Folk circulars in your
Promotions inbox folder, rather than your Primary folder, if you see these
separately. Gmail may also 'clip' long emails, such as my circulars, and you
might need to select the 'View entire message' option to do just that.
Slightly more distant venue:
Occasionally I'll list events outside my normal coverage area if these are
perhaps the only West Country dates on a tour by a particular artist, so this
week's venue is the Plough Arts Centre in Gt. Torrington which has
upcoming The Unthanks on 27/4 and Lunasa on 18/5, the first of which is listed
on
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk, while the latter is not yet
NEW Saturday 15
June 2024 7.30pm - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir- Central Methodist Church,
Castle Street, Launceston PL15 8BA
Details
www.thelostsound.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 13
July 2024 8pm - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir- Plough Arts Centre, Gt.
Torrington
Details
www.thelostsound.co.uk.
Events at Halsway Manor, Somerset
(national centre for the folk arts)
Details
www.halswaymanor.co.uk/courses-and-events.htm.
NEW Friday 22
November 2024 7pm - Bal Folk - Harberton Parish Hall, Tristford Road, Harberton,
Totnes TQ9 7SD
Traditional French and Breton dancing with live music by Dragonsfly, a
Westcountry band known for their upbeat Celtic and world folk music; playing
their exhilarating French dance repertoire. A super fun evening of joyful music,
dance and community togetherness with a wonderful variety of traditional couple
and circle dances. Dance workshop 7-8; main dance 8-11 with support and
instruction to make it fun and easy for all. BYO drinks. Teas available for
donation. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/637263.
NEW Saturday 12
November 2022 7.30pm - Ceilidh / Barn Dance with Worts ‘N All - Village Hall,
Woodcourt Rd, Harbertonford, Totnes TQ9 7TY
Band FB page:
www.facebook.com/groups/209800689619782. Adults £10, accompanied children
U16 free. Tickets on the door. Raffle. Bar and light refreshments available.
Proceeds to support the Village Hall.
NEW
Sunday 18 November 2018 7-9pm - LOSt COYOTES -
Church House Inn, Harberton, Totnes TQ9 7SF
Devon-based band LOSt COYOTES play songs about the American south,
traditional celtic tunes from Ireland and Scotland, cajun songs from Louisiana,
and a sprinkling of songs from Latin America. With acoustic instruments -
fiddle, cittern, accordion, and percussion and the odd howl - this is
atmospheric music to evoke a mood, or lively music to get up and dance. Free
entry.
Info: 07557 002622. Sunday night is pizza night at
the Church House Inn.
www.lostcoyotes.co.uk/home-page
NEW
Friday 7 October 2016 - Tinpickle Sessions -
Tinpickle and Rhum, Haytor, Dartmoor TQ13 9XT
Very friendly folk and acoustic tune and song session. Steady and sure from 7pm.
New to seesions? Why not give us a try? From 8.30pm anything goes!
www.tinpickleandrhum.com.
NEW
Saturday 5 October 2024 6pm - Legendary Ceilidh in a Real Barn with Spinach for
Norman - Beechleigh
Farm, Furzeleigh Lane, Hennock, Bovey Tracey, TQ13 9LU
Last year was a sell out (in advance) success... nearly 500 people had a
brilliant evening dancing, eating, drinking and laughing. Cash and card payments
accepted on the night. Event opens at 6pm, with the band starting at 6.30pm.
Well stocked bar available as well as refreshments including burgers, hot dogs
and cakes! All proceeds support the Hennock Community Primary School PTFA.
Tickets:
www.pta-events.co.uk/hennock.
NEW
Saturday 8 October 2022 6pm - Barn Dance/Ceilidh in a Real Barn - Beechleigh
Farm, Furzeleigh Lane, Hennock, Bovey Tracey, TQ13 9LU
Band (from 6.30pm): Spinach for Norman. Bar, burgers, hot dogs and cakes
will be available. Proceeds support Hennock Community Primary School PTFA.
Limited tickets: Adult £8 adv (£10 door); 12-17 £3 adv (£4 door); U12 free adv
(£2 door). Details
www.pta-events.co.uk/hennock/#.YzNf-HbMLIU.
NEW
Friday 11 November 2022 7.15pm - Carrie Tree and Kusni Bear - Hillyfield nr
Harbourneford
An intimate night with two exceptional musicians in a traditional timber
framed barn out in the woods. A slice of magic and warmth to brighten these
winter nights. Singer-songwriter Carrie Tree offers songs with an honesty and
devoted love for this earth; Kusñi Bear is a musician and medicine man,
channelling powerful songs connected to the magik of this land, and traditions
from South America. Bar and nibbles through the night: Booking essential!
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/560258.
NEW
Friday 30 September 2022 - Martha Tilston - Hillyfield nr Harbourneford
Martha Tilston is launching her Autumn Tour with her full band - they've
toured the globe and we are blessed to host them by a crackling fire hidden in
the woods. “She has probably the purest voice I have heard and at times it
sent shivers up and down my spine” BBC. A gig like no other... Enjoy a beautiful
night in a traditional timber-framed barn nestled in a secluded wooded valley.
Exquisite performances, Fine Wine, Local Ale.... Good People... DJ / Silent
Disco & Star-gazing by the fire. Strictly by pre-booked ticket. Limited tickets
available. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/535310.
NEW Saturday
6 April 2019 - Greg Hancock’s Songwriters Circle
- Holbeton Village Hall, Brent Hill, Holbeton PL8 1LW
Part of Greg Hancock’s ’The State Of My Hair’
album tour: three Devon singer-songwriters in one evening. Holbeton’s own Steve
Jenner brings a wide range of influences from jazz, classical and pop/rock and
writes melodic songs that catch revealing details of human experience both
personal and general. Katie Whitehouse is a major mover and shaker in the music
scene in Devon and beyond - she is an artist manager, a choir leader, a composer
and arranger and also a fine singer-songwriter in her own right. Her subtle and
inventive songs are poetic and resonant and deeply moving. Greg Hancock is a
widely admired guitarist, singer and songwriter who takes an oblique look at the
human condition in the modern world. He can switch from comedy to tragedy in a
moment. Through stories and portraits he reveals the uniqueness of individual
experience, but also the commonality of all life and emotion. Tickets
www.wegottickets.com/event/460548 or call 07447
745871.
Holcombe Burnell Church / Longdown
tbc
Saturday 7 June 2025
7.30pm - John Kirkpatrick
-
Holcombe Burnell
Church, Longdown, Exeter EX6 7RZ (map)
Tickets 01392 811593 or 01392 811816.
UPDATED
Friday 6 December 2024 7.30pm - Elizabeth Jane Baldry
-
Holcombe Burnell
Church, Longdown, Exeter EX6 7RZ (map)
An evening of magical harp music. Tickets £12.50. Details
here.
NEW Thursday 10 October 2024
7.30pm - Jim Causley
-
Holcombe Burnell
Church, Longdown, Exeter EX6 7RZ (map)
An evening with Jim Causley.
www.jimcausley.co.uk.Tickets
£12.50 from Mike 01392 811593 or Sue 01392 811816.
NEW
Friday 2 August 2024 7pm - Barn Dance with Spincah for Norman
- Village Hall, Chapel Hill, Longdown, nr Exeter EX6 7SN
Proceeds in aid of Hospiscare. Details
here.
NEW
Saturday 22 June 2024 7.30pm - Cosgrave & Banks - Holcombe Burnell
Church, Longdown, Exeter EX6 7RZ (map)
A wonderful smorgasbord of folk music from across Europe. Mike and Steve have
played at this delightful little church at Longdown, outside Exeter, twice
before. "Superb musicians bringing unexpected gems for our delight. Soulful and
fun" - Maddy Prior. Tickets £12.50 from Mike 01392 811593 or Sue 01392 811816.
NEW
Friday 30 June 2023 7.30pm - Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll - Holcombe Burnell
Church, Longdown, Exeter EX6 7RZ (map)
An evening of traditional English music and song. All proceeds go towards the
Church Bell tower restoration fund. Tickets £15 from Mike 01392 811593 or Sue
01392 811816. The map link above shows the precise location of the church;
this map link
www.streetmap.co.uk/map?X=285886&Y=91564&A=Y&Z=126 shows Longdown in a wider
context, just a couple of miles west of Exeter.
NEW
Friday 28 April 2023 7.30pm - An evening of Dartmoor tales and traditional
songs - Holcombe Burnell
Church, Longdown, Exeter EX6 7RZ (map)
With Bill Murray & 'Titch' Scott; Adrian & Lucy Wynn. Tickets £12.50 from Mike
01392 811593 or Sue 01392 811816. In aid of Holcombe Burnell Bell Fund. Raffle
and refreshments. The map link above shows the precise location of the church;
this map link
www.streetmap.co.uk/map?X=285886&Y=91564&A=Y&Z=126 shows Longdown in a wider
context, just a couple of miles west of Exeter.
NEW
Sunday 28 August 2022 2-6.30pm - Dance for Nigel
- Village Hall, Chapel Hill, Longdown, nr Exeter EX6 7SN
An opportunity to remember and celebrate the life of Nigel Thomas,
combining French/Breton, Irish set and Cajun dancing. A warm welcome to all. No
partner or dance experience needed. Both live music and CD's. Bring and share
afternoon tea (tea and coffee provided). Donations appreciated - any excess to
charity.
Coming later at
Beehive Arts Centre, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14
1LZ
Details
www.beehivehoniton.co.uk.
8/12
Seth Lakeman; 2022: 11/3
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman; 23/4
Noble Jacks
Wednesday 15 March 2023 7.30pm The Beehive Folk Café. Perform or listen in the Beehive bar. Free entry. The Beehive Honiton www.beehivehoniton.co.uk 01404 384050.
NEW Saturday 26 July 2025
7.30pm - The Salts -
Beehive Arts Centre, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14
1LZ
The Salts perform sea shanties, songs from the sea, celebrating maritime
classics that we all know and love. A great night out which will appeal to all
ages. One of the most exciting and energetic concept bands around, performing
original material alongside interpretations of traditional songs. Incredibly
gutsy stuff with a big sound" Mike Harding. Details
www.beehivehoniton.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 28 June 2025
7.30pm - SykesMartin -
Beehive Arts Centre, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14
1LZ
The exciting new collaboration from two of British folk's finest voices. Miranda
Sykes (Show of Hands) and Hannah Martin (Edgelarks, Gigspanner Big Band) join
forces to present a set of songs that take them back to their shared roots. Details
www.beehivehoniton.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 22 March 2025
7.30pm - Reg Meuross -
Beehive Arts Centre, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14
1LZ
Quartet with Phil Beer, Geraint Watkins and Marion Fleetwood,
Commissioned by Pete Townshend (The Who) and created by Reg Meuross, Fire & Dust – The
Woody Guthrie Story is a journey into the heart and soul of one of America’s
finest folk musicians. “Reg Meuross is a purist…he sings in the neutral accent
of an Englishman who travels the entirety of the British Isles, and tastes all
its flavours, influenced by all its most profound national colours. In this he
reminds one of Roy Harper or Ewan McColl, recent greats who went before him.”
Pete Townshend. Details
www.beehivehoniton.co.uk.
NEW Friday 7 March 2025
8pm - Moscow Drug Club -
Beehive Arts Centre, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14
1LZ
...where certain elements of 1930s Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club de France, Nuevo
Tango & Gypsy Campfire meet, have a few to drink and stagger arm in arm into the
darkness of some eastern European cobbled street on a mission to find the bar
where Django Reinhardt & Tom Waits are having an after hours jam with the local
Tziganes… Details
www.beehivehoniton.co.uk.
NEW
Friday 26 November 2021 ???-
Jim Causley: A Causley Christmas!
- St Mary the Virgin Church, Payhembury, Honiton EX14 3HR
Join Jim in celebrating the Christmas season as he entertains you with lesser
known West Country carols, medieval and secular carols from around the British
Isles, his own settings of moving Christmas poems by his relative, the late
Cornish poet Charles Causley as well a gurt dollop of festive fun with songs of
over-indulgence and even a spot of panto too!
See
www.jimcausley.co.uk/concerts for contact details.
??? bi-monthly 'Beehive Folk Café
The Beehive Folk Café - Bi-monthly at Beehive Arts Centre,
Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ
Free, mostly acoustic session of folk, blues and roots hosted by folk singer
Sue King. Everyone welcome to come along to perform or have a drink and listen
to some very talented local musicians.
www.beehivehoniton.co.uk. Tel: 01404 384050. Next date: Wednesday 15
March 2023 7.30pm .
NEW Saturday 31 August 2019 8pm -
An Evening with Jim Causley - Doug's Shed, Splatthayes, Buckerell, nr Honiton
EX14 3ER
Tickets £10 adv from David Wayne 01404 850637,
david.wayne@care4free.net. BYO
drinks and glasses.
NEW
Friday 12 October 2018 7.30pm - Alaw - Sheldon
Village Hall, Church Lane, Honiton EX14 4QU
Described by Songlines magazine as a “Welsh supergroup”, Alaw is three leading
musicians who bring a wealth of experience to a shared passion – the traditional
music of Wales. Whether unearthing rare gems or reimagining a well-loved melody,
they treat their music with a deftness and sensitivity that is thoroughly
absorbing. Combined with powerful song writing and original tunes, this makes
for a musical experience that will stay with the listener long after the concert
has ended. More details
http://villagesinaction.co.uk/events/alaw.
NEW
Friday 15 July 2022 7.30pm - Ninebarrow - St John The Baptist Church,
Walkhampton Road, Horrabridge PL20 7RF
Ninebarrow are a multi-award-winning folk duo, who are impressing audiences
across the country with their innovative and captivating take on the folk
tradition. Described by Mark Radcliffe as sounding like ‘two halves of one
voice’, by Seth Lakeman as ‘a fantastic duo’ and by Kate Rusby as ‘absolutely
amazing’, Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere combine breath taking vocal
harmonies and melodies, delivering songs that are inspired and rooted in the
landscape and history of the British Isles. Nominated in the 2017 BBC Radio 2
Folk Awards for Best Emerging Artist and most recently picking up Best Duo in
the Folking.com awards 2019, their latest album, ‘A Pocket Full of Acorns’
(released in March 2021) was released to wide-spread critical acclaim including
coverage on BBC1’s Countryfile and BBC Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’. Details
www.ninebarrow.co.uk/horrabridge.
NEW Saturday 27
July 2024 6-11pm - Barn Dance with Red Shed - West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter EX2 9TG
All proceeds to benefit the educational charity organicARTS. Adult £15, child
(5-16) £5, U5 free. Includes meal of veggie chilli and rice plus extras. Dancing
starts at 7.30, preceded by stories and other activities in the Community
Garden. Tickets:
www.fixr.co/organiser/organicarts. Queries:
info@organicarts.org.uk or 01392
811080.
www.organicarts.org.uk/projects/date/barn-dance-fund-raiser-2024.
NEW Saturday 14
July 2023 6-11pm - Barn Dance with Red Shed - West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter EX2 9TG
organicARTS Fundraiser. Join us for an evening full of food, drink, dance and
music. All proceeds go towards our charitable projects, such as the running of
community events, our community garden group project, and the upkeep of our site
for all to enjoy. 6pm Barn and Bar open. Food served (veggy chili, included in
price). Fireside stories and creativity in the Community Garden. 7.30pm dance
starts. Book online here:
https://fixr.co/event/organicarts-barn-dance-fundraiser-2023. Adult £15;
child £5; U3 free. Email
info@organicarts.org.uk if you have any questions or you can’t afford a full
price ticket but would still like to come.
NEW
Saturday 15 June 2019 8pm -Edgelarks
Album Launch Party! - West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter EX2 9TG
Join Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin to launch their new album, Feather, with a
party at beautiful West Town Farm. In April 2018, Edgelarks retreated to a
remote cottage in Ulpha, western Cumbria. They breathed in the mountain view,
banked up the fire, and took their instruments out of their cases. Then they sat
down, and wrote. Tired of the navel-gazing tendencies of sad song writing, and
the terrible events frequently depicted in the folk ballad tradition, they
decided to turn their attention to an oft overlooked but vital facet of our
lives: hope. Swiftly, a set of songs and tunes emerged. Stories of wonder from
the natural world; tales of rejoicing and long lost returns; and simple
thanksgiving for their own surroundings and place in the landscape. Informed by
world rhythms, British folk roots, and the duo's penchant for making as much
noise as possible with only two people, the album is an upbeat celebration, an
incitement to hope. Details
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/exeter/west-town-farm/edgelarks-album-launch-party.
NEW Saturday
12 October 2024 8pm - While & Matthews -
Village Hall, Silver Street, Ipplepen, Newton Abbot TQ12 5SB (map)
30th Anniversary Celebratory Tour, with special guest Miranda Sykes.
www.whileandmatthews.com. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/616268.
NEW Sunday 26 May
2024 7.30pm - Miranda Sykes -
Village Hall, Silver Street, Ipplepen, Newton Abbot TQ12 5SB (map)
“Out of the woods” new album tour.
www.wegottickets.com/event/608979.
NEW Sunday
17 September 2023 8pm - Daphne’s Flight -
Village Hall, Silver Street, Ipplepen, Newton Abbot TQ12 5SB (map)
Daphne’s Flight was created 25 years ago by five of the leading singer
songwriters of their generation - Chris While, Julie Matthews, Melanie Harrold,
Helen Watson and Christine Collister. Described as one of the most exciting
vocal groups to emerge on the acoustic music scene, their energy on stage is
matched only by their collective talents, Daphne’s Flight are unrivalled and sit
firmly in a class of their own as singers, musicians and writers. Miranda Sykes on vocals and double bass
now replaces Christine Collister.
www.daphnesflight.co.uk.
For tickets (£21), please email Sarah Tobin on
sarah.tobin@plymouth.ac.uk. Doors 7.30pm. Bar.
NEW
Saturday 26 November 2022 8pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men
- Village Hall, Silver Street, Ipplepen, Newton Abbot TQ12 5SB (map)
Tickets £8 from
trevorashford321@gmail.com or 07860 134154. All profits go to Ipplepen
Scouts’ trip to South Korea. The girls will be providing the food on the
evening. Bar, Raffle and Food are cash only.
NEW
Saturday 20 November 2021 8pm - Exmouth Shanty Men
- Ipplepen Village Hall, Newton Abbot TQ12 5SB (map)
A concert fundraiser for Ipplepen Church. Let's hope the Lord does not take
offence at our sometimes bawdy songs of the sea! Doors 7.15pm. For ticket
information contact the local organiser: Licensed bar with very reasonably
priced beer, cider and wine. Tickets £8 from
trevorashford321@gmail.com.
NEW
Sunday 19 September 2021 7.30pm - Miranda Sykes & Hannah Martin
- Ipplepen Village Hall, Newton Abbot TQ12 5SB (map)
Debut Tour - A new collaboration from two of the UK's finest folk singers.
Although both artists have worked for many years within the folk world, neither
felt they had dedicated enough time to purely traditional material. Discovering
a magical alchemy in singing together, the pair formed a duo and plan to tour
for the first time in September 2021. For tickets (£15), please email Sarah
Tobin on sarah.tobin@plymouth.ac.uk.
NEW Saturday
18 October 2025 7.30pm - Ceilidh
with Freedom Fields Ceilidh Band
- The Watermark, Erme Court, Leonards Road,
Ivybridge PL21 0SZ
(map)
Part of the City of Plymouth Pipe Band's 50th anniversary celebrations. Ceilidh
and mini concert event.
Details
www.ivybridgewatermark.co.uk.
NEW Friday 9 May 2025
7.30pm - Daphne's Flight - The Watermark, Erme Court, Leonards Road,
Ivybridge PL21 0SZ
(map)
Chris While, Julie Matthews, Helen Watson, Melanie Harrold, Miranda Sykes
Featuring 5 of the finest singer-songwriters of their generation, the music of
Daphne's Flight is a unique and magical blend of their individual styles, but
together they create a unique and unparalleled force, empowering audiences of
all ages, producing music that is relatable, moving and uplifting and creating a
chemistry on stage that is both joyful and contagious. Details
www.ivybridgewatermark.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 26
April 2025
7.30pm -
Gigspanner Big Band - The Watermark, Erme Court, Leonards Road,
Ivybridge PL21 0SZ
(map)
A unique force in British folk music... Having spent much of the past two years
touring alongside best-selling author Raynor Winn (The Salt Path) with their
massively successful prose and music collaboration SALTLINES, the Gigspanner Big
Band return to their six-piece format, showcasing material from their new album.
Their high-energy, virtuosic performances appeal equally to traditionalists and
to those looking for something more experimental, and they have garnered praise
from publications as varied as fRoots, The Telegraph and The Wire, where they
were described as ‘melodically folk-rooted yet open and innovative beyond the
constraints of genre’ Beginning life as a trio - with legendary Steeleye Span
fiddle player Peter Knight being joined by percussionist Sacha Trochet and
guitarist Roger Flack - the line-up has been expanded to form the Gigspanner Big
Band, with acclaimed multi-instrumental duo Edgelarks (Phillip Henry and Hannah
Martin - BBC Folk Awards 'Best Duo') and Bellowhead co-founder and melodeon
player extraordinaire, John Spiers.
Details
www.ivybridgewatermark.co.uk.
NEW Thursday 12
December 2024 8pm - St Agnes Fountain - The Watermark, Erme Court, Leonards Road,
Ivybridge PL21 0SZ
(map)
Chris Leslie, Chris While, Julie Matthews) Affectionately known as 'The Aggies'
and 'The Christmas Band'. The beloved 'St Agnes Fountain' have toured every
December since 2001 bar one, and we all know which one that was! Now they are
ready to tread the tinsel boards once more this December, bringing Christmas to
the nation. Christmas, as they say, starts with St. Agnes Fountain. Presenting
carols with a curve. Details
www.ivybridgewatermark.co.uk.
NEW Friday 6
December 2024 8pm - Mad Dog Mcrea - The Watermark, Erme Court, Leonards Road,
Ivybridge PL21 0SZ
(map)
Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy
jazz, bluegrass and ‘shake your ass’ music. From self-penned songs of adventure,
drinking, love and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless
pirates and black flies – Mad Dog never fail to capture their audience with
their infectious songs. In constant demand and having played just about every
festival and two-bit, jibe-arsed dive in Christendom, Mad Dog Mcrea are, in
every sense of the word, a live, band. Details
www.ivybridgewatermark.co.uk.
NEW Friday 15
December 2023 7.30pm - St Agnes Fountain - The Watermark, Erme Court, Leonards Road,
Ivybridge PL21 0SZ
(map)
Christmas, as they say, starts with St. Agnes Fountain: Chris While, Julie
Matthews and Chris Leslie. Carols with a curve. ‘The Aggie’s’ latest album,
Night Of A Million Stars was released in time for the December 2021 tour with 9
brand new songs from the band. Although the albums accompany the putting up of a
thousand Christmas trees throughout Britain and around the globe as their
reputation reaches further afield, it is, without question, their magical live
performances that have endeared them to an ever-growing audience. Details
www.ivybridgewatermark.co.uk.
NEW Friday 30 May 2025
6.30pm - Barn Dance/Ceilidh
- Kingsbridge Rugby Club, High House,
Kingsbridge TQ7 1JL (map)
In aid of
https://www.pricklesinapickle.co.uk. Adv tickets only, £20 to include
homemade pasty. Professional caller Jeremy Child, providing recorded music.
Licensed bar. Please Whatsapp Janice on 07941 346798 to book tickets.
NEW Saturday 18
January 2025 7.30pm
- Silvington
- Dodbrooke Parish Hall, Church Street,
Kingsbridge TQ7 1NW
Winter folk evening with‘Silvington’ folk duo. Tickets/entry£10 (to include warm
savouries). Doors 7pm. Bar. Raffle: All proceeds to 'Fight the Fungus' campaign,
a major renovation project to combat dry rot in Dodbrooke Parish Church.
NEW Sunday 21 July 2024
7-9pm - Banned from the Moor - Globe Inn, Frogmore, Kingsbridge
TQ7 2NR
Details
here.
NEW Saturday 22 June 2024
- Katie Grace Harris
- Walled Garden, Cookworthy Museum, 108 Fore St,
Kingsbridge TQ7 1AW
With Andy Nice (cello). Doors 6pm. Katie is a multi-tasking singer, piano,
dulcimer and accordion player with a fast-growing reputation. Her sound has been
described as ‘earthy, spine tingling English Folk’. Songs based on real stories
from social history. Part of a collaborative project to record and film Katie's
Haul Away Hallsands song. 'A rising start on the contemporary folk scene' Mike
Davies folking.com.
www.katiegraceharris.com. Tickets £12.50 to include a ploughman's platter:
hello@kingsbridgemuseum.org.uk
or 01548 853235.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/moonhoney-meadery-ltd
Music venue update:
The Old Warehouse (TOW), Prince of Wales Road,
Kingsbridge TQ7 1DY
Following on from the success of the recent “All Folkin’ Week” Beer & Music
Festival, and their fully established free entry live music events (“Every
Folkin’ Tuesday”), TOW are very pleased to announce the launch of “The Sunday
Sessions”! From May, TOW will become a dedicated live music ‘venue’ on the last
Sunday of each month, playing host to some amazing artists from across the
UK…and even further in some cases! Each of the shows will be ticket-only and
mostly standing (limited seating will be available/bookable in advance) – doors
and taproom will open at 7.00pm on the Sunday evening and all shows will end by
10.00pm at the latest. 'Sound of the Sirens' will launch The Sunday
Sessions on May 26.
See
https://theoldwarehousekingsbridge.co.uk/theoldwarehouse-events for details
of all music events at TOW.
NEW
Tuesday 3 June 2025 8pm - "Every Folkin’
Tuesday" at The Old Warehouse, Prince of Wales Road, Kingsbridge TQ7 1DY
Featuring James Dixon. Details
www.theoldwarehousekingsbridge.co.uk/theoldwarehouse-events. Free entry.
NEW
Sunday 23 February 2025 7pm - "Sunday
Sessions": The Dunwells - The Old Warehouse, Prince of Wales Road, Kingsbridge TQ7 1DY
Successful Leeds based indie-folk-pop band with strong vocals, powerful melodies
and heartfelt lyrics. Details/tickets (£18.50+)
www.theoldwarehousekingsbridge.co.uk/theoldwarehouse-events.
NEW
Tuesday 18 February 2025 8pm - "Every Folkin’
Tuesday" at The Old Warehouse, Prince of Wales Road, Kingsbridge TQ7 1DY
Featuring HiddenCoves: Acoustic duo known for their catchy melodies and
reflective lyrics. Details
www.theoldwarehousekingsbridge.co.uk/theoldwarehouse-events. Free entry.
NEW
Friday 8 March 2024 7.30pm - Silvington - West
Alvington Village Hall, Townsend Rd, West Alvington, Kingsbridge TQ7 3PZ
£5 adv, £7 door. Book with John 07939 411985 or
johnfconnor@aol.com.
NEW Friday 17
March 2023 7.30pm - Kingsbridge Live Music: Anthony John Clarke - Regal Club, Church
Street, Kingsbridge TQ7 1DD
Celebrate St Patrick's Night in the company of genial Irish singer-siongwriter
Anthony John Clarke. In support - Silvington, with their new album "Shadows on
the Sand". Tickets £10 adv, £12 door. Bookings: John 07939 411985.
NEW Saturday 23
December 2023 7.30pm - Jim Causley & Sally Sedgman - Endecott House, High
Street, Chagford TQ13 8AY
Details
www.jimcausley.co.uk/product/chagford-23-dec.
NEW
Thursday 21 December 2023
7.30pm -
Jim Causley & Sally Sedgman - The Great Hall, Dartington Estate, Totnes TQ9 6EL (map)
Award-winning folk-singer and songwriter, Jim Causley and acclaimed after dinner
speaker and entertainer, Sally Sedgman team up to present this festive Devonian
double bill. Details
www.dartington.org/event/jim-causley.
NEW
Tuesday 19 December 2023
7.30pm - Jim Causley & Sally Sedgman - St Nicholas Priory, The Mint,
Exeter EX4 3BL
Chaos at Christmas: Sally Sedgman will perform her ‘Chaos at Christmas’, or
to give it its fuller title: “The Chaos Theory of Life after Christmas!” an
hilarious guide to putting the festive season into perspective that everyone in
the family will relate to! Join Jim Causley in celebrating the Christmas season
as he entertains you with lesser known West Country carols, medieval and secular
carols from around the British Isles, his own settings of moving Christmas poems
by his relative, the late Cornish poet Charles Causley as well a gurt dollop of
festive fun with songs of over-indulgence and even a spot of panto too! Details
https://nicholaspriory.com/events/causley_christmas_23.
NEW
Sunday 29 October 2023
7.30pm - Jim Causley’s Allhallowtide! - St Nicholas Priory, The Mint,
Exeter EX4 3BL
Folk singer Jim Causley (BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards) and folklorist Mark Norman
(The Folklore Podcast) bring you a seasonal evening of spooky Devonshire
folklore and song that will make you tingle with delight on this most memorable
night! See
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW
Thursday 22 December 2022
7.30pm - A Causley Christmas - Gidleigh Village Hall, Dartmoor
TQ13 8HR
A concert of Devon songs with a Christmas twist
with Jim Causley. Tickets £12 (incl. mulled
wine and mince pies) on the door or from
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW
Wednesday 21 December 2022
8.30pm - A Causley Christmas - St Nicholas Priory, The Mint,
Exeter EX4 3BL
A concert of Devon songs with a Christmas twist
with Jim Causley. Tickets £8 from:
www.nicholaspriory.com..
NEW Friday 6
December 2019 - A Causley Christmas - The Heart of Devon, Bow Village Hall, nr
Crediton EX17 6HU (map)
Join Jim Causley in celebrating the Christmas season as he entertains you with
lesser known carols from the West Country and around the British Isles. Jim
takes you for a journey through Christmas past that will be guaranteed to get
you in the festive spirit! 'A natural gift for entertainment’ The Guardian.
Tickets £10. Booking essential. available online
www.wegottickets.com/event/485369 or call 01363 82379.
www.theheartofdevon.co.uk
NEW Monday 17 March 2025
7.30pm
-
Gigspanner Trio -
Saint Andrew's Church, 14 St Andrew's Pl,
Cawsand, Torpoint PL10 1PH
The trio: Peter Knight, Roger Flack & Sacha Trochet. Described by Folk Radio UK
as one of the “most quietly brilliant sets of musicians in the folk world and
beyond”, they take self-penned material along with music rooted in the British
Isles and beyond, and with the flick of a bow, a finely chosen chord or slip of
a beat, produce richly atmospheric arrangements “with notes seemingly plucked
from the stars and rhythms from the equator” (Spiral Earth). Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/638675.
NEW Thursday 16 May 2024
-
Gigspanner Trio - Maker with Rame Community
Hall, Fore St., Kingsand, Cornwall PL10 1NS
(map)
Gigsapanner: Peter Knight, Roger Flack, Sacha
Trochet. “With the flick of a bow, a finely chosen chord or slip of a beat,
Gigspanner produce richly atmospheric arrangements with notes seemingly plucked
from the stars and rhythms from the equator” - Spiral Earth. “Gigspanner are
marking out a distinctive zone of their own, melodically folk-rooted yet open
and inventive beyond constraints of genre. It is Intelligent, multi-lingual
music making" The Wire. ticketing details tba
NEW Sunday 11
February 2024 4.30pm - Peter Knight & John Spiers - Maker with Rame Community
Hall, Fore St., Kingsand, Cornwall PL10 1NS (map)
“An extraordinary collaboration between two musicians at the absolute top of
their game. This is an adventure that takes in musical detours you'd be mad to
ignore” Tradfolk; “A beautiful snapshot of two musicians at the pinnacle of
their craft. Listeners will find themselves lost in something magical; anyone
will struggle to find something as masterful as this for a long, long time”
Bright Young Folk. The exquisite explorations of the liminal space that exists
between traditional and classical music is what makes the music of Peter Knight
and John Spiers so compelling and beguiling, ultimately rendering genres
irrelevant. As a duo, they have developed into the most thrilling exponents of
traditional tunes and songs, repurposing the material as jumping-off points into
the most enchanting exploration. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/598490.
NEW Sunday 27
November 2022 4pm - Gigspanner Trio - Maker with Rame Community
Hall, Fore St., Kingsand, Cornwall PL10 1NS (map)
The 'Farewell For Now Tour'.
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/555531.
NEW Sunday 20 March
2022 7.30pm - Peter Knight & John Spiers - St Mary's and St Julian's Church,
Maker with Rame,
nr Torpoint, Cornwall PL10 1JB
(map)
The pairing of violin and melodeon is not a new one, but in the hands of Knight
and Spiers, Improvisation and invention meet the listener at every turn.
Together they have created a musical document that resonates with history, but
also something that should inspire future generations of musicians to engage
with Britain’s folk dancing heritage, and the beautiful, mysterious tunes that
can be found within that heritage. These uniquely gifted musicians make a
sublime pairing, and create a live performance to be remembered for a long time.
www.peterknight.net/knight-and-spiers. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/530882.
Tickets will be available from Mac's Village Store, Kingsand and Millbrook News, Millbrook.
NEW Sunday
13 May 2018 8pm - Peter Knight's Gigspanner
-
Maker Church, nr Torpoint, Cornwall
(map)
The advent of Gigspanner has introduced a whole new audience to the
extraordinary musicianship of Peter Knight, a violinist whom many consider to be
in a league of his own. The late author Sir Terry Pratchett in praising Peter's
great gift wrote with typical lyricism "Peter Knight can spin the world on his
Bow". Peter is joined by Roger Flack on guitar and Sacha Trochet on percussion,
both powerful and intelligent musicians in their own right. The captivating
nature of their set stems not only from their creative ability and vision, but
the eclectic nature of the material chosen. There are eddies and undercurrents
drawn from a whole palette of influences which engage and enthral audiences to
the closing notes. Ticketing see
www.gigspanner.com/live.html.
Kingston, Reading Room. Kingston, Kingsbridge
NEW
Wednesday 16 December 2020 - Belshazzar's Feast - Reading Room, Kingston,
Kingsbridge TQ7 4QE (map)
Their final Christmas tour, with seasonal material. £15 adv, £18 door. Support:
Silvington. Call 01548 810806 for Details.
NEW Saturday 8 March 2025
7pm - Music and Song to Welcome the Spring - Littlehempston Community Space, St John the Baptist Church, Grattons Lane,
Littlehempston, Totnes TQ9 6LY
Join Louis Bingham and Griselda Sanderson for an evening of tunes and songs
to welcome in the new season. An intimate concert in the beautiful acoustics
of Littlehempston church featuring a feast of stringed instruments from
across Europe, including hardanger, nyckelharpa, cittern and tambura.
www.wegottickets.com/event/650198.
NEW
Saturday 8 February 2020 7.30pm - Ceilidh with Stargazey Pie - St John
the Baptist Church, Littlehempston, Totnes TQ9 6LY
Caller: Hugh Edwards. £10 to include supper. Call 01803 866133 for details.
Church car park above the church..
NEW
Saturday 7 December 2019 7.45pm - Whinwhistle Hill: Midwinter Concert -
St John the Baptist Church, Grattons Lane, Littlehempston, Totnes TQ9 6LY
Doors 7.30pm. A midwinter celebration of traditional music and song. Ancient
melodies and uplifting lyrics to warm us through the long nights, performed in
the atmospheric setting of Littlehempston's 15th Century village church. Festive
treats, mulled apple juice, tea and coffee will be available during the break.
Combining strong vocals and resonant instrumentation the Whinwhistle Hill
dynamic trio will take you on a winding journey across oceans, along rivers and
over snowy peaks, including some wintery repertoire put together especially for
this concert. Featuring: Louis Bingham (cittern, guitar & voice), Phil Hogg
(piano & voice) and Griselda Sanderson (nyckelharpa, hardanger & fiddle). Adult
£10+, U16 £5+, family 2+2 (U16) £25+, online:
www.wegottickets.com/event/488218. Contact email:
tunelinksouthwest@gmail.com,
phone 01803 864286. Parking outside church.
NEW
Friday 29 March 2019 - Harbottle & Jonas - Tally Ho, Littlehemspton,
Totnes
Their music is always accompanied with a great
story. Together the husband and wife duo combined the rich traditions of folk
music with original and contemporary interpretations through a mix of closely
intertwined vocal harmonies and compelling and authentic musical arrangements.
www.harbottleandjonas.com. 01803 862316,
www.tallyhoinn.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 30 March 2019 - Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll: Concert / Workshop -
Littlehempston Community Space, St John the Baptist Church, Grattons Lane,
Littlehempston, Totnes TQ9 6LY
An acoustic concert with English folk duo Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll, part
of their 'Beautiful Spaces' tour. Tickets £8 adv, £10 door. Nick and Becki will
also be running an instrumental music workshop at Littlehempston from 3-5pm.
Learn a new tune created especially for the workshop. £5 adv, £6 door.
Advance tickets from
www.wegottickets.com/englishfiddle.
Liskeard (incl Carnglaze; Piggery, both at St Neot)
Coming up at
The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot, Liskeard (details
www.carnglaze.com):
NEW
Friday 2 May 8pm
- Old Time Sailors
NEW
Saturday 30 August 8pm
- Spooky Men’s Chorale
NEW
Friday 26 September 8pm
- Old Time Sailors
NEW
Saturday 11 October 8pm
- Barrett's Privateers
NEW Saturday 22
November 8pm - Sound of the Sirens
NEW Saturday 22
November 2025 8pm - Sound of the Sirens - The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall (map)
Singer-songwriting duo based in Exeter, Devon comprising of Abbe Martin & Hannah
Wood. Honing their craft over the past decade, Martin & Wood have cemented
themselves as firm favourites as “one of the UK’s finest folk acts” not only on
the Westcountry scene, but nationally, and internationally too. Details
www.carnglaze.com.
NEW
Saturday 11 October
2025 8pm
- Barrett's Privateers -
The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall (map)
From the deep, resonating notes of the father and son bass to the high notes of
the girls, Barrett's Privateers have delighted audiences throughout Cornwall and
well beyond with their broad, rich harmonies. Songs of the sea, shanties,
traditional folk, Cornish and mining songs all feature regularly on their set
lists. Despite being so varied in age, Barrett’s Privateers take each song and
make it their own, with each of the voices finding a way to complement its
neighbour, through the joy of just singing together.
Details
www.carnglaze.com.
NEW
Friday 26 September
2025 8pm
- Old Time Sailors
-
The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall (map)
Standing. You are invited to board the Sailorette and join the plentiful crew,
'The Old Time Sailors', for a night of footstomping, dancing and singing! You
will be sailing back to the 19th century for an immersive experience of
traditional seafaring music performed in a way you have never seen before. The
Motley Crew and their plethora of traditional and eclectic instruments will take
you back to the time of clashing tankards, and drunken debauchery.
Details
www.carnglaze.com.
NEW
Saturday 30 August
2025 8pm
- Spooky Men’s Chorale -
The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall (map)
Australia's Spooky Men’s Chorale is a vast, rumbling, steam powered and black
clad behemoth, seemingly accidentally capable of rendering audiences moist eyed
with mute appreciation or haplessly gurgling with merriment. Based on the twin
pillars of grand foolishness and the quest for the perfect subwoofer-rattling
boofchord, the Spooky Men seek to commentate on the absurdity and grandeur of
the modern male armed only with their voices, a sly collection of hats and
facial hair, and a twinkle in the eye.
Details
www.carnglaze.com.
NEW
Friday 2 May
2025 8pm
- Old Time Sailors
-
The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall (map)
You are invited to board the Sailorette and join the plentiful crew, 'The Old
Time Sailors', for a night of footstomping, dancing and singing!
You will be sailing back to the 19th century for an immersive experience of
traditional seafaring music performed in a way you have never seen before. The
Motley Crew and their plethora of traditional and eclectic instruments will take
you back to the time of clashing tankards, and drunken debauchery.
Details
www.carnglaze.com.
NEW Friday 20 December 2024 -
Mad Dog Mcrea
- The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall (map)
Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy
jazz, bluegrass and ‘shake your ass’ music. From self-penned songs of adventure,
drinking, love and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless
pirates and black flies – Mad Dog never fail to capture their audience with
their infectious songs. In constant demand and having played just about every
festival and two-bit, jibe-arsed dive in Christendom, Mad Dog Mcrea are, in
every sense of the word, a live, band. Details
www.carnglaze.com.
NEW Friday 1 November 2024 -
Peatbog Faeries
- The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall (map)
Hailing from the Isle of Skye, the legendary Scottish trailblazers have
created a glorious mixture of traditional sounds and dance-floor grooves that
have been embraced worldwide. Drawing upon a dazzling myriad of influences from
jigs and reels through Dance Music, Jazz, African, and more, they bring the
sound of Scotland fresh-faced and breathless to the new audiences around the
world. Their mainly instrumental music allows the band to develop exciting
themes and soundscapes, as well as locking into their trademark hypnotic sound
that no-one can resist dancing to! Details
www.carnglaze.com.
NEW Saturday 5
October 2024 -
Police Dog Hogan
- The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall (map)
"Since they made their album debut back in 2010, Police Dog Hogan have
been building a reputation as one of the country’s finest live bands and
folk-country acts," said Folk Radio in 2022. Police Dog Hogan combine guitar,
fiddle, banjo, trumpet and accordion with bass and drums to create a driving
country-folk sound that has earned them a large live following.
Details
www.carnglaze.com.
NEW
Sunday 6 August 2023 3pm - Reg Meuross - The Piggery, Hole Farm, St. Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall PL14 6PD
Reg's work can be described as folk music in the living tradition. He writes
about real people and their lives, delivering his songs on stringed instruments
– primarily a restored 1944 Martin 017 guitar – that are often played in a
fingerpicking style. His subject matter is varied and his repertoire includes
songs about historical characters and events, protest songs, political and
social commentary, love songs, and flights of imagination inspired by personal
experiences. Details
www.regmeuross.com.
Coming up at...
The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot, Liskeard,
Cornwall (map)
Unique venue in former underground slate workings.
Details of events:
www.carnglaze.com.
NEW Friday 19 May 2023
8pm - Skerryvore - The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot, Liskeard, Cornwall (map)
“Skerryvore are a joy to watch and listen to, each band member a consummate
musician and, together, they provide one of the best nights of live music you
are likely to see”. With a mix of fiddle, accordions, pipes and whistles,
alongside guitar and vocals, underpinned by driving bass, drums and keys,
Skerryvore represent the best in contemporary Scottish traditional music. Their
6 studio albums demonstrate the wide range of influences the individual
musicians bring to the mix – a unique fusion of folk, trad, rock and Americana,
with even some jazz in there! Details
www.carnglaze.com.
NEW Saturday 15
October 2022 7.30pm - Barn Dance with Spinach for Norman - Village Hall, Luppitt,
Honiton EX14 4RT
Food included; sweet shop. Adult £12; child £5. Contact Claire 07709 706112
Proceeds to Upottery Primary School & Pre-school. Details also here
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159271917474677&set=a.10158909581414677.
NEW
Friday 13 October 2017 8pm - Churchfitters -
Village Hall, Luppitt, Honiton EX14 4RT
Doors 7pm. £12 adv from Steve, 01404 891268 or 07796 021639, £15 door. Bar, with
coffee, tea and snacks also available.
www.churchfitters.com.
www.facebook.com/Luppitt-Events-1589492987990744/timeline
Saturday 12 December 2015 8pm - The Churchfitters Christmas Cracker -
Luppitt Village Hall, nr Honiton
Info Robin 01404 892785 or Steve 01404 891268.
www.facebook.com/Luppitt-Events-1589492987990744/timeline
NEW
Saturday 29 June 2024 noon - Baklava - St John's Church, Melrose
Terrace, Lustleigh TQ13 9TA
This experienced duo have a unique combination of instruments and sounds to
bring you evocative, stirring and lively music and song from the Mediterranean
region, both contemporary and ancient. Performing together for over ten years,
Russell Harris and Julia Thomas have developed a wide repertoire of music from
Turkey, Spain, Greece, Morocco and Egypt, as well as the British Isles, with
instruments ranging from the oud to bagpipes. The resulting sound from these
South Devon musicians is distinctive and compelling. First of a series of
lunchtime summer concerts. Free entry and no booking, but donations towards the
Church Fabric Fund and Lustleigh Entertainment & Arts Project most welcome.
Lunch and other refreshments available at The Primrose Tea Room, The Cleave Inn
and Lustleigh Dairy. Further information from Alexa 01647 277498.
NEW
Friday 26 April 2024 7.30pm - 'Behold, Ye Ramblers' -
Lustleigh Village
Hall TQ13 9TA
Townsend Theatre are bringing to Lustleigh a new play with music and songs,
celebrating the famous Clarion Ramblers and their mission to escape their
overcrowded homes and factories. These Edwardian pioneers campaigned for the
Right to Roam on their surrounding moors, which brought conflict with the local
landowners and gamekeepers, but huge benefits to ordinary working people. Using
the songs of and words of the ramblers, cyclists and choirs that were inspired
by the campaign, this will be a fascinating evening that entertains and informs
and with a story relevant to our need to embrace the countryside as it is today.
Presented by the The Lustleigh Entertainment and Arts Project (LEAP). Tickets
£12 (U16 £6) from The Dairy or
ticketsource. Licensed bar.
NEW
Saturday 16 September 2023 7.30pm - Meridianum
Ensemble -
Lustleigh Village
Hall TQ13 9TA
The Lustleigh Arts and Entertainments Project brings you a concert like no
other, with a unique collaboration of players from Portugal, Morocco and the
U.K., inspired by traditions from Iran, Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean to
Scandinavia and beyond. Their instruments include the Persian santur, the
nyckelharpa, oud, hurdy-gurdy, cittern and tambura. You are promised a
cross-cultural feast of musical styles – not to be missed!
Tickets £10 from
ticketsource. More info from Alexa 01647 277498.
NEW
Saturday 22 October 2022 7.30pm - The Dartmoor Concert - Lustleigh Village
Hall TQ13 9TA
Jim Causley, award winning songwriter, musician and proud Devonian, needs no
introduction to Dartmoor audiences. At this concert, celebrating the best of
Dartmoor music and musicians, he’ll be joined by the all-round entertainer, Bill
Murray, Geoff Lakeman, the ‘Concertina Crooner’, and Rob Murch, the celebrated
banjo player. Bar, supported by the Dartmoor Brewery. Tickets £12 available from
Lustleigh Dairy and
www.ticketsource.co.uk (search 'Dartmoor'). Further information from
leap.lustleigh@gmail.com. Presented by the Lustleigh Entertainment and Arts
Project (LEAP).
NEW
Thursday 15 November 2018 7pm - The Churchfitters ~ Folk Unlimited - Nicholls
Hall, Lydford, Okehampton EX20 4BH
The Churchfitters is a folk band like no other. A double bass made out of a
motor bike petrol tank. Heart-wrenching vocals accompanied by a musical saw.
Foot-stompingly fast fiddle mixed with infectious funk-rock rhythms and
traditional tunes reinvigorated with mesmerising jazz sax! Throw in some
exquisite harmonies, a slew of startlingly original songs and a few jokes that
create instant rapport and you’ve got a high energy show that always leaves
audiences cheering. How do you adequately describe such a musically diverse,
uplifting band? You leave it to Mike Harding, a self-confessed ‘huge, huge fan’.
He calls their music ‘totally brilliant and beautiful’. Details, bookings etc.
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
NEW 25-27 August 2023
8pm - Lyme Folk Weekend concerts -
Marine Theatre, Church St, Lyme
Regis DT7 3QA
Friday 25th: Mad Dog Mcrea; Saturday 26th: Billy Bragg; Sunday 27th: Ninebarrow
& Friends. Details
www.marinetheatre.com/category/music.
NEW Friday 28 April 2023
8pm - Cara Dillon -
Marine Theatre, Church St, Lyme
Regis DT7 3QA
Cara Dillon occupies an enviable position at the very top of her genre. This
extraordinary Irish singer has been captivating audiences and achieving
exceptional acclaim for over 20 years. She has (according to Mojo magazine)
"Quite possibly the world's most beautiful female voice". Details
www.marinetheatre.com/category/music.
NEW
Thursday 27 April 2023 8pm -
Knight and Spiers
- Marine Theatre, Church St, Lyme
Regis DT7 3QA
Peter Knight, as part of Steeleye Span’s classic
1970s line-up, helped invent a brand of folk rock that is still influential
today, John Spiers as co-founder of the almighty Bellowhead has had an equally
profound impact on the landscape of traditional music over the last two decades.
Details
www.marinetheatre.com/category/music.
Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis
I've always thought of Lyme Regis being well outside my normal coverage
(loosely defined as "within a 30-mile radius of Totnes as the crow flies" or
"the southern half of Devon), but Google Earth tells me that the town is only
about 39 miles in the former category - and the Marine Theatre is putting on a
great programme of major folk concerts these days, with some of the acts
probably not coming any further west on their tours, so I will give the venue a
listing from time to time. The main one below caught my eye in Steve Cunio's 'Sadfolk'
(www.sadfolk.co.uk)
latest Somerset & Dorset email circular listings as Harberton Folk put on Blazin'
Fiddles at the Ariel Centre in Totnes way back in 2003 and 2005:
One of the world’s most prolific fiddle groups, Blazin’ Fiddles, formed for a
one-off tour of the Scottish Highlands in 1999 are still raising roofs far and
wide well over two decades later.
www.marinetheatre.com/blazin-fiddles
A quick scan of
www.marinetheatre.com/category/music reveals all these goodies too:
Saturday 23 October 2021 - Martin & Eliza Carthy
Saturday 27 November 2021 - The Strawbs
Sunday 19 December 2021 - The Young’uns
Friday 18 February 2022 - Lau
Thursday 10 March 2022 - Chris Wood
Friday 8 April 2022 - Jon Boden & The Remnant Strings
Thursday 19 May 2022 - Martin Simpson & Andy Cutting
Lympstone Folk
Lympstone Folk has changed venue yet again. We've now used every pub in
Lympstone and are back where we started at the Swan Inn, The Strand, Lympstone, Exmouth
EX8 5ET - on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Singers, musicians and
audience welcome. Join the Facebook page
www.facebook.com/groups/130235653662071.
NEW Sunday 10
November 2024 7.30pm - Budapest Cafe Orchestra - Lympstone Village Hall, School Hill, Lympstone, Exmouth EX8 5JY (map)
The refreshingly unconventional and snappily attired boutique orchestra are
back! BCO bring you gypsy and folk-flavoured music in their own fresh and
surprising way. From Balkan and Russian traditional pieces to artful
distillations of the masterpieces by the great Romantic composers to Gaelic folk
anthems their infectious music will get into your veins and stay there forever.
Details
www.lympstone-entertainments.net.
NEW Saturday 15
April 2023 7.30pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men - Lympstone Village Hall, School Hill, Lympstone, Exmouth EX8 5JY (map)
Another outing for our "Tall Ships and Tavern Tales" concert (but
remember no two concerts have the same songs!), this time in Lympstone (or North
Exmouth as we Exmothians like to call it....). Details
www.lympstone-entertainments.net.
NEW
Saturday 5 October 2019 7.30pm - Fake Thackray + Paul Downes - Lympstone Village
Hall, School Hill, Lympstone, Exmouth EX8 5JY
Tickets £12.50 from Demelza on 01395 272243 or at
boxoffice@lympstone-entertainments.net.
NEW
Saturday 25 March 2017 8pm - Steve Knightley
- Parish Church, Church Road, Lympstone EX8 5JU
As the songwriting force behind Show of Hands, Steve needs little introduction.
He has previously won the Best Original Song category in the BBC Radio 2 Folk
Awards and, as part of Show of Hands, the categories of Best Live Act and Best
Duo. Support: popular local group The Exmouth Shanty Men. Tickets £18, £10 U16,
from Lympstone Entertainments Box Office on 01395 272243 (answerphone) or email
at
lympentsboxoffice@gmail.com. Car parking in the village car park, and
it is hoped also the nursery opposite the church. Venue is 10 minutes' walk from
both Lympstone Village Station (Exeter to Exmouth line) and the number 57 bus
stop (service runs between Exeter and Exmouth).
Maggie Duffy (Churston, Galmpton)
Phil Beer Galmpton Village Hall Sunday September 14th Doors 2pm concert 2.30
NEW Thursday
2 October 2025 7.30pm - Reg Meuross - Brixham
Methodist Church
Reservations: Maggie Duffy on 01803 855961 / 07770 806083 or email
scotcraft@msn.com.
NEW Sunday
14 September 2025 2.30pm - Phil Beer - Galmpton Village Institute Hall,
Greenway Road, Brixham TQ5 0LT (map)
Reservations: Maggie Duffy on 01803 855961 / 07770 806083 or email
scotcraft@msn.com.
NEW Saturday
12 July 2025 7.30pm - Jim Causley - Caroline's Kitchen, Churston
Farm Shop, Dartmouth Rd, Brixham TQ5 0LL
(map)
Reservations: Maggie Duffy on 01803 855961 / 07770 806083 or email
scotcraft@msn.com.
Postponed due to unforeseen circumstances
Sunday 24 February 2019 7.30pm - Fake Thackray - Caroline's Kitchen, Churston
Farm Shop, Dartmouth Rd, Brixham TQ5 0LL
(map)
John Watterson returns to us with songs and stories from the late, and much
missed, Jake Thackray. Fear not however, as Jake truly lives on in John as he
lovingly retells the stories and sings the songs.
www.fakethackray.com.
Tickets £10. Lots of free parking. Selection of beverages and snacks available.
Maggie and Bob will be doing a half hour set prior to John taking to the stage.
Reservations: Maggie Duffy on 01803 855961 / 07770 806083 or email
scotcraft@msn.com.
NEW 27-29 May 2022
- Trad at The Tor: Arranging Traditional Music Course - Leighon House, Manaton,
Newton Abbot, TQ13 9UP
Weekend residential course with tutors Louis Bingham, Tom Oakes and Griselda
Sanderson for intermediate to advanced instrumental musicians who would like to
develop the tools for arranging traditional music for ensemble. Each of the
three tutors will explore different techniques, rotating groups of players to
produce dynamic arrangements of traditional music from Scandinavia, Brittany,
Ireland and beyond. Set in a beautiful location a stone's throw from Hound Tor,
this is a weekend of oral learning. Participants will be expected to learn
quickly by ear and memorise with the aid of a recording device. Camping is free,
and chef-prepared meals are included in the price. For more information email
gris_sanderson@hotmail.com; More
details:
www.wegottickets.com/event/542951.
NEW
Thursday 5 July 2018 7.30pm - Sarah McQuaid - Parish Hall, The Green, Manaton,
nr Bovey Tracey TQ13 9UJ
Sarah's second visit to Manaton. Recently honoured
with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Ards International Guitar Festival in
Northern Ireland, Sarah’s also drawn critical praise for her voice (which has
been variously likened to malt whiskey and melted chocolate) and her engaging
rapport with audiences: “One voice, one guitar, and the wondrous reminder of the
magic of music. Sarah has the gift.” – The Huffington Post. Music etc.
www.sarahmcquaid.com.
Tickets £8. Call to reserve: Jenny 01647 221600 or Rie 01647 221671.
NEW Saturday
5 April 2025 6.30pm - Shanty Concert - Village Hall,
Village Rd, Marldon, Paignton TQ3 1SJ
A joint shanty concert with the Marldon Wonky Donkeys and the Exmouth Shanty
Men. Tickets £12 (incl. Devon Cream Tea) available locally at the Marldon
Newsagents, or online via eventbrite
here.
NEW Saturday
16 March 2024 7.30pm - Ceilidh with Dawntreader Ceilidh Band - Village Hall,
Village Rd, Marldon, Paignton TQ3 1SJ
A New Marldon WI event. Details
www.devonfolk.org/events-diary.
NEW Saturday
16 March 2024 7.30pm - Barron Brady - Marldon Christmas Tree Farm, Totnes Rd,
Marldon, Paignton TQ3 1RR
Nationally acclaimed and locally revered dynamic folk duo comprising Ros Brady
and Si Barron who blend traditional English folk songs with their own poignant
compositions. Their acoustic style is a testament to a decade of nationwide
touring, showcasing a synergy of Si's renowned finger-style guitar work and Ros'
emotive vocals, accompanied by the Appalachian dulcimer, harmonium, and
whistles.
Support: Time & Tide. Tickets £12 adv from Paul on 07894 961010; £14 door.
Cafe/bar. Ample free parking. A Folk Plus Promotions
(www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063679143279) presentation.
NEW Saturday
16 December 2023 7.30pm - The ContraBand - Marldon Christmas Tree Farm, Totnes Rd,
Marldon, Paignton TQ3 1RR
details tba
Support: tba / One Accord. Free parking. A Folk Plus Promotions
(www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063679143279) presentation.
UPDATED
Saturday 30
September 2023 7.30pm - Jackie Oates Trio - Marldon Christmas Tree Farm, Totnes Rd,
Marldon, Paignton TQ3 1RR
Line up: Jackie Oates (voice, fiddle), Mike Cosgrave (guitar, piano accordion),
John Parker (double bass). Jackie is an outstanding English folk musician and
song-writer. Winner of two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. ‘One of folk’s brightest
talents. Oates’s vocals are light but mellifluous’ The Guardian. ‘Always
enchanting, captivating and spiced with surprises.’ Folking.com. ‘Assured and
enthralling’ Folk Radio UK. Free parking. Cafe/bar open. Tickets and further
information from Paul Woodhouse on 07894 961010 or email
p.woodhouse47@sky.com.
www.facebook.com/folkplus2. A Folk Plus Promotions
(www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063679143279) presentation.
Folk Plus Acoustic Music Club - Ye Olde Smokey House, Vicarage Rd, Marldon,
Paignton TQ3 1NN (map)
Our extremely popular Folk Plus Acoustic Music club meets at 7pm on the 3rd
Friday of the month, the next 2 sessions being:
Fridays 18 February and 18 March.
We operate a book in advance system, with the number of players and audience
limited, to help make planning the evenings easier and safer. We are taking
bookings for February and March - by email, Facebook Messenger or phone to 07894
961010. The bar in our room is open for our private use and we follow the pub's
Covid safety rules strictly, which means masks must be worn on arrival and when
moving through the building.
Paul & Chris Woodhouse
NEW Friday 18
February 2022 7.30pm - Folk Plus Acoustic Music Club - Ye Olde
Smokey House, Vicarage Rd, Marldon, Paignton TQ3 1NN
(map)
Regular 3rd Friday meetings. We operate a book in advance system, with the
number of players and audience limited, to help make planning the evenings
easier and safer. We are taking bookings by email
p.woodhouse47@sky.com, Facebook Messenger or phone to 07894 961010. The bar
in our room is open for our private use and we follow the pub's Covid safety
rules strictly, which means masks must be worn on arrival and when moving
through the building. See
www.facebook.com/folkplus2 for
all 2022 dates.
NEW
Saturday 18 September 2021 7pm - The Country Diary in Song with Broomdasher
- St Peter’s Church, Meavy
A musical celebration of Edith Holden’s Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
with traditional folk songs of the day. The Diary was a worldwide phenomenon
when published in 1977, with Edith’s beautiful paintings and words creating an
exhilarating journey through the seasons. Details etc.
www.meavy.org.uk/events.htm.
NEW
Friday 20 September 2019 8pm - Geoff Lakeman & Rob Murch - Parish
Hall, Meavy PL20 6PJ
The “ Titan of Twang “ and the “ Concertina Crooner” team up in a dynamic
new duo. Geoff has a rich, melodic voice and teases English and Irish folk,
Americana and jazz songs out of his rare vintage Crane duet concertina. Rob
brings the “ wow factor” to the banjo, with his unique, punchy fingerstyle
playing. Both live on Dartmoor, so it was inevitable they’d gang-up musically.
Expect self-written and West Country songs, rattling folk tunes and
foot-stomping ragtime and cakewalk riffs. Rob’s percussive finger-ballet up and
down the fret board of his 100 year-old instrument is mesmerising. He’s revered
throughout the UK for his long-time work with the renowned Dartmoor Pixie Band
and The Watch trio. The duo’s relaxed yet sparkling stage presence together is
bubbling with the “feel -good” factor. £10. Licensed bar. Details etc.
www.meavy.org.uk/events.htm.
NEW
Friday 26 January 2018 7.30pm - Tamar - Royal Oak Inn, Meavy PL20 6PJ
Multi-instrumental folk and roots duo Oliver Wheeldon and Barney Kenny from
Devon. Tamar's music covers folk, bluegrass, traditional.
www.facebook.com/tamarband. £8.
Licensed bar.
www.meavy.org.uk/events.htm.
NEW
Saturday 11 December 2021 7.30pm - Flats and Sharps - Membury Village Hall,
nr Axminster EX13 7AF
Four-piece bluegrass outfit from Penzance. Delivering energetic, enthusiastic
and spirited music to audiences all around the world. Their shows include a wide
variety of influences, from a fresh and modern outlook on foot-stomping
Bluegrass material through to their powerful and well-crafted original songs,
with beautiful moments everywhere in between. Their music perfectly blends
strong harmonies and stonking solo, and their incredible stage presence will
have you dancing, laughing and singing all evening. Details
www.villagesinaction.co.uk/event-listings.
NEW
Friday 17 March 2017 8pm - Jon Heslop - Milton Abbot Folk Club,
Milton Abbot Village Hall PL19 0PA (map)
£5 entry. MA's Folk Club, midway between Launceston and Tavistock (01822
870247). Club meets every 3rd Friday.
NEW
Saturday 9 November 2024 8pm - Millbrook Folk Club: The Rheingans Sisters -
Village Hall, The Parade, Millbrook PL10 1AX
Tickets £18 (plus fee)
www.ticketsource.co.uk/millbrook-folk-club, or in person at Millbrook Folk
Club 3rd Friday each month.
NEW
Saturday 27 April 2024 - Millbrook Folk Club: Wildwood Jack -
Village Hall, The Parade, Millbrook PL10 1AX
Husband and wife Adam Piggott and Jayne Freeman, brought together by a love of
music in 1991. With their genuinely expert blend of Americana, bluegrass and
world music, they've been travelling the world since selling their home in 2013
to live the life as troubadours bringing an intimate, heartwarming and
adventurous spirit to their music and to audiences wherever they play.
Unreserved seating. Inexpensive bottle bar. Tickets £12 from Millbrook News, at
Millbrook Folk Club on 19 April, or on door (subject to availability). Online
tickets
www.ticketsource.co.uk/millbrook-folk-club. Doors/bar 7.30pm.
NEW
Saturday 29 April 2023 - Millbrook Folk Club: Harbottle & Jonas -
Village Hall, The Parade, Millbrook PL10 1AX
See
www.facebook.com/MillbrookFolkClub.
NEW Saturday 3 November 2018 -
Lucy Farrell - Village Hall, The Parade, Millbrook, Cornwall PL10 1AX
A Millbrook Folk Club Event - all welcome. Doors 7.30pm.
Multi-instrumentalist and singer Lucy is a 2017 BBC R2 folk award winner, a
member of the highly acclaimed Furrow Collective, a member of Eliza Carthy's
Wayward Band and Her early work collaborating with Jonny Kierney brought her to
immediate public attention when they were invited to be the regular opening act
for the Unthanks. Lucy is now embarking on a solo career alongside her highly
critically acclaimed collaborations offering audiences her exquisite renditions
of traditional ballads and quietly moving original songs. Tickets £8 online:
www.facebook.com/events/293643941237896/?ti=ia or email
millbrookfolk@gmail.com.
NEW Friday
21 February 2025 - Jim Crawford - Milverton Music, Victoria Rooms, Fore St,
Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
We are very much looking forward to a return visit from this wonderful musician
and singer. Blues legend Jim Crawford is a phenomenal blues guitarist whose
left-hand dances along the frets as if by magic. He has toured much of Europe
and the USA captivating audiences with his intimate folk/blues style. Full
details
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk/page6.html.
NEW Friday
6 December 2024 8pm - Urban Folk Quartet - Milverton Music, Victoria Rooms, Fore St,
Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
Joe Broughton fiddle, guitar, and mandolin; Paloma Trigás fiddle and vocals; Tom
Chapman cajón, percussion, and vocals; Dan Walsh banjo, guitar, and vocals: UFQ
have ignited audiences across the world with their cross-genre, contemporary
take on folk music for over a decade. Rooted in Celtic tune forms and
traditional song, UFQ also take influence from Afrobeat, Indian classical, funk,
rock and a whole lot more. Ticket price includes a delicious buffet supper.
Details
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk/page5.html.
NEW Friday
18 October 2024 - Guy Davis - Milverton Music, Victoria Rooms, Fore St,
Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
Bluesman Guy Davis on tour from the USA. Full details
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk.
NEW Friday
21 June 2024 - The Haar - Milverton Music, Victoria Rooms, Fore St,
Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
Traditional Irish singer Molly Donnery combined with 3 of the most exciting
instrumental talents on the folk & Traditional music scene, Cormac Byrne,
bodhran; Adam Summerhayes, fiddle; Murray Grainger accordian. Details
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk/page6.html.
NEW Friday
1 December 2023 - Johnny Coppin - Milverton Music, Victoria Rooms, Fore St,
Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
25th anniversary tour of All On A Winter's Night. Johnny is joined by Dik
Cadbury (ex Decameron) and Paul Burgess (ex John Kirkpatrick band) in a feast of
traditional carols and new songs, together with stories and folklore. Prize quiz
and a superb buffet. What a great way to start the Christmas season. Details
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk/page11.html.
NEW Friday
20 October 2023 - Clive Carroll - Milverton Music, Victoria Rooms, Fore St,
Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
With special guest Dariush Kanani. Clive last played here in 2016. This time he
plays the music of John Renbourn. It promises to be a very special concert.
Clive is regarded as the most accomplished finger stylist in the world today.
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk.
Milverton Music Club - Victoria Rooms, Fore St, Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
Outside our normal coverage area really, but anyway...
Monthly open mic sessions on the First Friday - seats must currently be booked
in advance: email
milvertonmusicclub@gmail.com.
See
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk for details of these future guest nights
NEW Friday 17
February 2023 - The Stonegallows - Milverton Music, Victoria Rooms, Fore St,
Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
A final World tour for this Wiltshire super group. Over the years they have
played at major Folk Festivals, clubs and concerts and supported bands
including: - The Strawbs, Steeleye Span, Gallagher & Lyle etc. This promises to
be a memorable evening of good old folk entertainment.
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk.
NEW Friday 22
October 2022 - Daoiri Farrell - Milverton Music, Victoria Rooms, Fore St,
Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
A first time at the club for this outstanding musician and singer from Ireland.
We booked him on the spot when we saw him in 2018 and we're still really looking
forward to seeing him again four years later!
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk.
NEW Friday 17 June
2022 - Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman - Milverton Music, Victoria Rooms, Fore
St, Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
We welcome back this very popular, multi award-winning husband and wife duo who
exude timeless class with their exquisite brand of traditional and contemporary
music. They last played for us back in 2017 and we are really looking forward to
hearing them again.
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk.
NEW Friday 3 June
2022 - Special Jubilee Concert - Milverton Music, Victoria Rooms, Fore St,
Milverton, Taunton TA4 1JU
The Silver Street Band guest singers & musicians play a Jubilee concert. All
ticket money at £5 to the Ukraine appeal. Doors 7.30pm. BYO drinks and food.
www.milvertonmusic.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 2 December
2023 7.30pm -
The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir
- Memorial Hall, Back Street, Modbury PL21 0RF
A hearty selection of Winter and seasonal songs of festivities, feasting and
jollyment! Join us for a rousing celebration of the season with 40+ singers
raring to sing!
Tickets from
ticketsoource.
NEW Sunday 8
September 2019 7.30pm - Phil Beer - Memorial Hall, Back Street, Modbury PL21 0RF
Phil Beer hardly needs any introduction, suffice to say it will be a great
evening's entertainment and you'll be supporting a very worthwhile cause:
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
www.hearingdogs.org.uk.
Information and tickets £15 are available from John Bower,
johnbower@btinternet.com, 07711
814718, or by collection from Pickles Hardware Store, Modbury, or send a cheque
and sae to John Bower, Low Mead, Traine Paddock, Modbury PL21 0RH.
NEW
Saturday 23 March 2024 - Devon Folk Day - Morchard Bishop
Devon Folk invite you to a full day of mostly participatory workshops to choose
from: Dartmoor Step Dancing; The Baring-Gould Collection; The Spoken Word; A
Taste of Morris; Devon Songs; Devon Folklore; Mumming in Devon; Devon Tunes;
Songwriter’s Circle. ~ Devon Folk AGM open to all. ~ Evening: Concert with
Gadarene, or Ceilidh with The Mooncoin Ceilidh Band.
Click here for full details and Booking Form (PDF).
www.devonfolk.org.
NEW
Saturday 10 June 2017 7.30pm -
The Travelling Talesman
- London Inn,
Morchard Bishop, Crediton EX17 6NW
Performance storyteller presents 'Oi Sunshine!': Details
www.thetravellingtalesman.co.uk. £6.50 adv, £20 table of four. 16 plus.
Speak to Jo or Cliff, call 07766 342147, email
talesman@thecatspaw.co.uk.
NEW Sunday
7 July 2024 - Moreton
Music Day - Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor (various venues)
Details
www.facebook.com/MoretonMusicDay.
NEW
Saturday 8 October 2022 7.30pm - Reg Meuross - St Andrew’s Church,
Greenhill, Moretonhampstead TQ13 8NN
The line up - Reg Meuross (guitar, vocals, banjo);
Jali Fily Cissokho (kora); Jaz Gayle (vocals); Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
(concertina, vocals). The show - is a narrated song cycle - written by Reg, and
arranged collaboratively - unfolding the history of England (in particular the
SW)’s involvement in the Transatlantic slave trade. With extensive evidence of
the slave trade across the South-West of England, and a real need for the
stories to be uncovered, Reg Meuross has written a powerful set of songs ‘Stolen
From God’, with narration to tell the challenging and often harrowing tales of
England's past. Details
www.regmeuross.com/event/stolen-from-god-moretonhampstead-church.
NEW
Friday 6 May 2022 7pm - Jim Causley with Bill Murray - St Andrew’s Church,
Greenhill, Moretonhampstead TQ13 8NN
Songs of Dartmoor. A fund-raising event for Moreton Archives. See
www.moretonhampstead.org.uk.
NEW Sunday 23 June 2019 - Moreton
Music Day - Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor (various venues)
details tba Annual multi-genre free music event of over 20 years standing...
www.facebook.com/MoretonMusicDay.
12.30pm: Short set from Dartmoor Folk Choir Lost Sound Chorus
NEW Thursday 9 May 2019 7.30pm -
John Doyle - St Andrew’s Church,
Greenhill, Moretonhampstead TQ13 8NN
‘One of the World’s best acoustic guitarists’ (Wall Street Journal). John Doyle
is one of the biggest names in Irish music - a position confirmed when he was
asked to perform for President Obama on St Patrick’s Day 2009. A founding member
of the highly acclaimed super group Solas, he has subsequently played with
dozens of greats including Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Linda Thompson and
Kate Rusby. Since 2001 he has released three solo albums and has appeared on
albums by the Transatlantic Sessions artists among others. Entrance £10 in
advance or £12 on the door. Available from
www.eventbrite.co.uk and
Moretonhampstead Information Centre.
www.johndoylemusic.com.
NEW Monday 10 September 2018 - Kevin Burke - The
Horse, 7 George St, Moretonhampstead TQ13 8PG
Kevin Burke is an Irish master fiddler considered one of the finest living Irish
fiddlers. For nearly four decades he has been at the forefront of Irish
traditional music and Celtic music, performing and recording with the seminal
groups The Bothy Band, Patrick Street, and the Celtic Fiddle Festival.
Sunday 9 September 4.00-6.30pm - Workshop with Kevin Burke. Limited
places. Cost £45. Further information from
marikatylerclark@gmail.com. Venue: Moretonhampstead Parish Hall, Fore Street
TQ13 8LL.
NEW Saturday 14 July 2018 7.30pm - Dartmoor folk
choir - The Lost Sound,
Parish Hall, 12 Fore Street,
Moretonhampstead, Devon TQ13 8LL (map)
The a cappela choir's summer season continues. 'In this heart' is a beautiful
collection of songs of love, joy and bravery from England, Appalachia, Haiti and
more. TLS will be ending their tour at Sidmouth Folk week on Sunday Aug 5th in
the Manor Garden pavilion theatre. With a newly expanded choir, a strong,
natural and powerful sound, they are earning a well deserved reputation for
exciting singing. " Best choir in the region" Phil Beer. Tickets £8.50 via
www.thelostsound.co.uk,
email info@thelostsound.co.uk or at
the Newsagents Moretonhampstead - A Moreton Music Day fundraiser.
NEW Wednesday 6 June 2018 7.30pm - Nancy Kerr -
St Andrew's Church, Greenhill, Moretonhampstead TQ13 8NN
Music in Moretonhampstead
www.musicinmoretonhampstead.com are delighted
that Nancy will be performing for us in the medieval St Andrew’s Church with its
amazing acoustics. Nancy is one of the most celebrated folk musicians of her
generation and BBC's Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year 2015. Tickets £13.50
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nancy-kerr-tickets-44792705187?aff=es2,
Moretonhampstead Information Centre, or on the door if any remaining.
NEW Sunday 19 June 2016
Noon-midnight - Moreton Music Day - Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor (various venues)
Annual multi-genre free music event of over 20 years standing featuring nearly
50 bands/choirs/performers over 12 hours in the Horse (2 stages), Parish Church
and Central Cafe. Folk performers include Jacob Riddall (BBC2 young folk
musician award finalist), Demalebysse and Daisyhouse (Transatlantic
collaboration), Greg Hancock, Mudskippers, Alex Kumar, Tony Bayliss (of Jiggery
Pipery), Phoenix Ceilidh Band. Around these are some truly outstanding young
performers, choirs, including the 80 strong Big Noise Chorus, and some of
Devon’s hardest working bands of all genres. A fabulous day of music and a
veritable ‘musos’ get together! All ages welcome including the very young. Free
entry - fundraising on behalf of MS society. Full programme etc.
www.facebook.com/MoretonMusicDay.
NEW Saturday 1
February 2025 - Sea Shanty Festival - Village Hall, 15 School Road, Kingskerswell
TQ12 5DJ
Featuring The Out Of Tunas, Midsummer Gurnards, Wrecked Again, All Hands On
Deck, The Sea Gals. Doors 6.30pm. Tickets £5 from Roger on 07979 237483. Details
here.
NEW Saturday 10
August 2024 11am - Singing in Nature - Langaford Farm, North Bovey, Newton Abbot
TQ13 8RH
Join music leaders Louis Bingham and Phil Hogg for a day of group singing
workshops and guided walks at a world class conservation site nestled on the
eastern edge of Dartmoor, and explore the landscape and rare habitats through
folk song inspired by the natural world. Presented by: Tunelink South West.
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/623898.
NEW Saturday 2
March 2024 7.30pm - Barn Dance with Banned from the Moor - St Mary the
Virgin Church, Waverley Road, Newton
Abbot TQ12 2ND
Details
here.
NEW
Sunday 16 July 2023
3pm - Mother's Ruin -
Ye Olde Cider Bar, 99 East Street, Newton Abbot
TQ12 2LD
Upbeat traditional and modern folk rock.
NEW Friday 29 March 2019 - Charity Barn Dance -
Buckland Athletic Football Club, Kingskerswell Road, Newton Abbot TQ12 5JU
Donations to Mind. Open to all, children welcome. Tickets £10 (to include
ploughmans + pudding) available from Becky 07809 260544 or Liam 07597 365991.
Cash bar. Doors 7pm.
NEW Friday 17 November 2017 7.30pm - Joglaresa -
The Courtenay Centre, Kingsteignton Road, Newton Abbot TQ12 2QA
5 vocalists with medieval folk instruments. Details
www.nadsa.co.uk/joglaresa-137-p.asp.
tbc Saturday 28
November 2026 -
Jim Causley & Miranda Sykes - Parish Hall, West Town Road, Newton St Cyres
EX5 5BW (5BU?)
details tba
NEW
Saturday 21 June 2025 7.30pm - Johnny Coppin & Phil Beer -
Parish Hall, West Town Road, Newton St Cyres EX5 5BW
A rare reunion gig, an evening with these renowned musicians. Do not miss! Adv
tickets £22 (door, if available £25) from Nicola 01392 851985 or Pete
exeterfolkclub@outlook.com or
01392 210983. Licensed cash bar & raffle. Organised by NSC Parish Hall and
Exeter Folk Club.
NEW Sunday 1
December 2024 7.30pm -
Johnny Coppin and Friends: ‘All On A Winter’s Night’ - Parish Hall, West Town Road, Newton St Cyres
EX5 5BW (5BU?)
With his ever-popular, special Christmas show Johnny Coppin is joined by Paul
Burgess (ex-John Kirkpatrick Band), on fiddle/recorders and stories and Dik
Cadbury on guitars (ex Steve Hackett, Decameron) to present a rich mix of
traditional carols and new songs, together with stories, folklore and
superstitions. Book early as this will sell fast. Tickets £18 adv (£20 door)
from Nicola 01392 851985 or Pete
exeterfolkclub@outlook.com or 01392 210983.
NEW
Saturday 11 May 2024 7.30pm - Ghosts, Werewolves and Countryfolk - Church of
St Cyr and St Julitta, Newton St Cyres EX5 5BN
A major concert tour, featuring Devon folk stars Miranda Sykes and Jim
Causley, will be launched with this special performance. Miranda and Jim are
joined by narrator John Palmer, producer of Country Diary in Song and Pub to
Pulpit, to celebrate the centenary of famous Devonian, Rev Sabine Baring-Gould.
In the show, folk songs he collected are interwoven with extracts from his books
and anecdotes from his life. Tickets £17 available from the Netherexe Parishes
Office
administration@netherexe.org.
NEW Sunday 10
March 2024 7.30pm -
Show of Hands: Full Circle Part II
- Parish Hall, West Town Road, Newton St Cyres
EX5 5BW
After 30 years of non-stop touring, fans across the nation are in for a treat as
Steve Knightley and Phil Beer return to where it all began, in village halls,
folk clubs, small arts centres, and community venues. This gig promises to be a
true celebration of their dedication to their roots, their music, and the
communities that have supported them. Steve and Phil will then be taking a
well-deserved break. They plan to pursue solo projects, explore new creative
horizons, and recharge their artistic batteries. This marks the end of an era,
but it also heralds exciting new beginnings for two of the folk world’s best
loved musicians, Show of Hands. Tickets £28 (no concs) from Nicola 01392 851985
or Pete exeterfolkclub@outlook.com and 01392 210983. Unreserved seating. Cash
bar & raffle.
www.showofhands.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 14
October 2023 7.30pm - Crockern – Parish Hall, West Town Road, Newton St Cyres
EX5 5BW
Folk Music of Dartmoor. A reimagining of the old, the weird and the nearly
forgotten songs and tunes from around the Moor. Performed by ‘Crockern’ and
featuring Tim Jones (fROOTS Editors Choice album of the year 2016) on voice,
guitar and synth, Jayne Boswell (Banned from the Moor, Beltane Border Morris) on
fiddle, Fin Twomey (Banned from the Moor) on keys and cello and Em Marshall (shortlisted
FATEA best debut album 2017) on voice and assorted other instruments. This is a
joint event with Villages in Action, as part of ‘From Devon with Love’. Tickets
£10, from
www.villagesinaction.co.uk/performances or from Nicola 01392 851985. Cash
bar & raffle.
NEW
Saturday 27 April 2024 7.30pm - Peggy Seeger in
Conversation - Church Hall, 4 Market Street, Okehampton EX20 1HN
An intimate conversation with a unique artist who has carved a special place
in the folk music of both the UK and the USA. Come to hear Peggy talk about her
formative years, her experiences in a musically rich family, and her
collaborations with major figures in the folk scene. Now in her late 80s,
Peggy’s light burns as brightly as ever. This is an unmissable event for fans of
folk music, and anyone inspired by the power of art to drive social change.
Admission £12 (£9 concessions). Contact Wren Music on 01837 53754;
info@wrenmusic.co.uk;
www.wrenmusic.co.uk.
NEW
Sunday 16 July 2023 - Okey Music Day - various
venues, Okehampton
Multi-genre day of music at multiple venues. See
www.okeymusicday.co.uk and
www.facebook.com/okeymusicday
for full details.
NEW
Thursday 2 February 2023 7pm - Flute Cake - Charter Hall, Market St, Okehampton EX20 1AA
Experience the unique sound of the flute with Flute Cake. This trio of
professional flautists will take you on a musical journey, performing their own
arrangements of well-known tunes - from musical medleys to Mozart overtures and
traditional folk to contemporary mommissions. Hear the stunning beauty of the
string quartet with the novelty of the flute, brought to life with the dulcet
tones of the bass flute and the playful whistle of the piccolo. No matter what
your taste in music, Flute Cake have something for everyone. Details
www.villagesinaction.co.uk/events/flute-cake.
NEW
21-25 October 2019 - Baring-Gould Song School - Okehampton
Dedicated to local folk song collector Revd Sabine Baring-Gould the annual Folk
Song School gives you time out to concentrate on your own singing: your voice,
your performance, your repertoire. The regular tutors from the Wren team are
Sarah Owen, Marilyn Tucker and Paul Wilson and they will be joined by Tim van
Eyken (photo inset). Tim is folk singer/actor (War Horse) and he is an advocate
for the Linklater Voice technique, an actor’s approach to the natural voice,
which Tim applies to singing.
www.wrenmusic.co.uk/Events-2019.
NEW
25-27 October 2019 - Baring-Gould Folk Weekend - Okehampton
We have an international line-up that includes the singers from Sardinia Sos
Cantores (whose leader Angel Pisanu made a surprise visit this year), Dandari
from Latvia and our friends from Iceland Chris Foster and Bara Grimsdottir. Full
line-up tba.
www.wrenmusic.co.uk/Events-2019
NEW Saturday 15 December 2018 7.30pm - Christmas
Concert - Charter Hall, Market St, Okehampton EX20 1AA
Wren Music presents: seasonal music and songs, with West Devon Folk Choir,
MenSing and Fiddle Orchestra of Devon in concert. Collection.
www.wrenmusic.co.uk.
Coming up at
Otterton Mill in 2024, nr Budleigh Salterton EX9 7HG
(map)
The live music events at Otterton Mill are held
outside under the stars in the courtyard during the summer. Ticket price covers
music only; pre-booking required. Doors 6pm. Food (pre-booking not required)
served 6pm to 7.30pm. Details
www.ottertonmill.com/live-music.html.
Thursdays at 8pm
6 June - Guy Tortora. Distinctive songwriter / guitarist
20 June -
The Rigmarollers. Original & classic: Ragtime, blues, jazz and jug band
music
11 July - Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman. Modern British folk
25 July - Martin Harley Trio. Roots / Blues / Slide guitar
15 August - Mark Harrison. Singer-songwriter / Acoustic blues with folk
influences
29 August - Edwina Hayes. Singer-songwriter |
English Folk and Americana
5 September - Veronica Sbergia & Max de Bernhardi. Americana,
ragtime, blues and country
NEW
Thursday 5 September 2024 8pm - Veronica Sbergia & Max de Bernhardi
- Otterton Mill, nr Budleigh Salterton EX9
7HG (map)
"When it comes to knowing about Americana these two are right up there!
Country blues, ragtime, vaudeville and even a little old time C&W. Max is a very
accomplished guitarist and a strong vocalist, whilst Veronica plays a mean
washboard, ukulele and possesses a strong vocal styling. Very uplifting music!
So if you get the chance to see this duo in concert, take it!” Mike Vernon.
Details
www.ottertonmill.com/live-music.html.
NEW
Thursday 29 August 2024 8pm - Edwina Hayes
- Otterton Mill, nr Budleigh Salterton EX9
7HG (map)
One of the finest female singer/songwriters this country has produced in
years. Edwina brings together English folk, Americana and the rich Northern
singer/songwriter tradition to create a sound that’s truly her own.
Details
www.ottertonmill.com/live-music.html.
NEW
Thursday 15 August 2024 8pm - Mark Harrison Band
- Otterton Mill, nr Budleigh Salterton EX9
7HG (map)
Singer-songwriter Mark Harrison combines with Charles Benfield on double
bass and percussionist Ben Welburn to create wonderful early acoustic blues with
folk influences. Modern lyrics, contagious energy and good humour provide a
unique and highly enjoyable experience. Mark is an excellent and expressive
vocalist and a tremendous resonator guitar player as well as being a terrific
songwriter and entertainer.
Details
www.ottertonmill.com/live-music.html.
NEW
Thursday 25 July 2024 8pm - Martin Harley Trio
- Otterton Mill, nr Budleigh Salterton EX9
7HG (map)
Martin Harley has been making music and touring the world for over two
decades. His sound has never been more down to earth. Exploring roots, blues and
slide guitar in a style The Guardian referred to as ‘Spellbinding’, Harley has
released nine albums to date, four recorded on home soil and four across the
Atlantic in Texas and Nashville. Details
www.ottertonmill.com/live-music.html.
NEW
Thursday 11 July 2024 8pm - Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
- Otterton Mill, nr Budleigh Salterton EX9
7HG (map)
The couple’s intimacy and strength of passion on stage have won them many
fans and an enviable reputation as songwriters par excellence (Froots) whose
greatly varied original songs cover such subjects as wicked mermaids, Norwegian
legends and a lonely whale. With a story that includes over 20 years of music
making with the likes of Seth Lakeman, Cara Dillon, the Levellers, Fotheringay,
Kate Rusby and Show of Hands, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman have consolidated
themselves as pillars of modern British folk.
Details
www.ottertonmill.com/live-music.html.
NEW
Thursday 20 June 2024 8pm - The Rigmarollers
- Otterton Mill, nr Budleigh Salterton EX9
7HG (map)
The Rigmarollers are filling bars, halls and dance floors with their
joyous, original and vintage music. They jump effortlessly from barrelhouse
blues, to ragtime, jazz, swing, gospel and infectious zydeco grooves. Hitch a
ride with them through uplifting roots music, all driven along by syncopated
sousaphone, blistering blues harp, sizzling string picking, and whiplash
washboard rhythms. Details
www.ottertonmill.com/live-music.html.
NEW
Thursday 6 June 2024 8pm - Guy Tortora
- Otterton Mill, nr Budleigh Salterton EX9
7HG (map)
A guitar player of some accomplishment and a distinctive songwriter. On
both acoustic and electric guitars, he plays finger style and is a fine
bottleneck and slide player. His playing is not the flashy guitar-slinger
beloved of bluesrockers everywhere but understated and leaves room for the songs
to make or impact, whether his own or the ‘covers’ he performs that include many
old standards and traditional tunes as well as songs by more recent American
writers such as Eric Bibb or Kreig Viesselman.
Details
www.ottertonmill.com/live-music.html.
NEW Monday 24
March 2025 7.30pm - Ashley Hutchings & Blair Dunlop -
Palace Theatre, Palace Avenue, Paignton TQ3 3HF
(map)
Ashley's 80th Birthday Tour. An old friend of Harberton Folk, Ashley is
celebrating by undertaking a limited tour with his son Blair Dunlop, an
established star in his own right, to present a night of songs and reminiscences
of a remarkable life in folk music. Details
www.palacetheatrepaignton.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Thursday 20
February 2025 7.30pm -
The Irish House Party -
Palace Theatre, Palace Avenue, Paignton TQ3 3HF
(map)
The original show was set up in Dublin by a group of musicians who wanted
visitors to the city to experience what a real Irish house party is like. It’s
all presented in a fun and humorous way resulting in a fabulous theatre going
experience. Incredibly talented musicians and dancers who simply want to bring
you the sound and fun of Ireland in an intimate and homely setting. The live
music, Irish dancing and banter is infectious and enters the psyche in seconds.
The show itself features All Ireland champion musicians and dancers who combine
a unique blend of light hearted audience interaction with fascinating stories
about the music and the instruments themselves. Details
www.palacetheatrepaignton.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Sunday 9
February 2025 8pm - Sound of the Sirens -
Palace Theatre, Palace Avenue, Paignton TQ3 3HF
(map)
Singer-songwriting duo based in Exeter, Devon comprising of Abbe Martin & Hannah
Wood. Honing their craft over the past decade, Martin & Wood have cemented
themselves as firm favourites as “one of the UK’s finest folk acts” not only on
the Westcountry scene, but nationally, and internationally too. Details
www.palacetheatrepaignton.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Sunday 1 February 2025 -
Burns Night - Bay Church, 4 Saint Andrews Road, Paignton TQ4 6HA
Featuring live music from the ceilidh band Banned from the Moor; Piper; 3 course
Burns supper. Details
here. Tickets £27.50. Paignton Amateur Rowing Club.
NEW
Thursday 30 March 2023 7-9pm - Spring Ceilidh - Palace Avenue Methodist Hall, 27
Palace Ave, Paignton, TQ3 3EQ
Free event - book here:
www.wrenmusic.co.uk/event/spring-ceilidh. Dance away the dark nights and
welcome the Spring Music from Folk Orchestra of Torbay. With performance from
Torbay Folk Choir. The Wren Music team look forward to welcoming you to an
informal Spring Ceilidh to celebrate the changing season. The Folk Orchestra of
Torbay will form the dance band, with complete instruction provided for dancers.
The Torbay Folk Choir will give a short performance during a break in the
dancing. Hot drinks will be available. Donations will be requested in support of
Wren Music's youth group.
NEW
Friday 6 April 2018 - Special Square Dance - Peter Tavy Village Hall, nr
Tavistock PL19 9NS
With American caller Tony Mates. Live music from some of England’s finest old
time musicians. Tickets £7 adult, £5 OAP/U16. Refreshments available by
donation. Call 01822 810868 or 01822 810243 for more information.
Coming up
at the B-Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican, Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
xxx
www.facebook.com/TheBBar/events
Entry £2 or free with a B-Card.
www.b-bar.co.uk. Tel. 01752
242021.
NEW Saturday 8
March 2025 8pm - Sound of the Sirens
- Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican,
Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
Singer-songwriting duo based in Exeter, Devon comprising of Abbe Martin & Hannah
Wood. Honing their craft over the past decade, Martin & Wood have cemented
themselves as firm favourites as “one of the UK’s finest folk acts” not only on
the Westcountry scene, but nationally, and internationally too. Their status,
and fast-growing fan-base is not only testament to the pair’s prowess as
songwriters and musicians, but as people too. Details
www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Saturday 8
March 2025 8.30pm - Paul Armer & the Bluegrass Beys - B-Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican,
Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
Expect bluegrass and old time, old and new.
£2 entry. Details
www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Friday 7
March 2025 8.30pm - Geoff Lakeman - B-Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican,
Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
£2 entry. Details
www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Thursday 27
February 2025 8.30pm - David Mitchell - B-Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican,
Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
David describes his guitar playing as “Folk-Classical fingerstyle”, combining
these genres to create a beautiful and unique take on some well known pieces as
well as performing his own original compositions. David is also a skilled
luthier, usually playing a lovely nylon-stringed Classical Guitar that he
crafted himself. David also plays other stringed instruments as well as whistles
and recorders. Upon hearing David perform at Lyme Folk Weekend Ralph McTell
said, “I wish I could play the guitar like that”. Free. Details
www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Thursday 20
February 2025 8pm - Daisy Mae - B-Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican,
Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
Singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Plymouth whose music is in the style of
acoustic jazz and folk. Most of her songs are in the form of social commentary,
with lyrics that focus on having an open mind and living without confines. She
takes inspiration from artists with soulful melodies and truthful lyrics
including Bob Marley, Julie London, Billie Holiday, and Bob Dylan. Free. Details
www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Friday 7
February 2025 8.30pm - Ciderhouse Rebellion - B-Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican,
Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
Virtuosic in-the-moment music from the originators of improvised folk. Every The
Ciderhouse Rebellion performance is uniquely magical, whether springing from a
single unplanned note or a trad tune. Masters of improvisation, the duo is
fiddle player Adam Summerhayes (“Paganini of the traditional violin.” fRoots)
and master accordionist Murray Grainger. Details
www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Friday 31
January 2025 8.30pm - Geoff Lakeman & Rob Murch - B-Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican,
Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
The “Titan of Twang” and the “Concertina Crooner” team up as a dynamic duo. £2. Details
www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Saturday 25
January 2025 8.30pm - Alex Hart - B-Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican,
Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
Described by BBC Radio 2 presenter Mark Radcliffe as “the Stevie Nicks of Folk”.
£3. Details
www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Saturday 12
October 2024 8pm - Steve Knightley
- Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican,
Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
Renowned Westcountry songwriter Steve Knightley, former Show of Hands frontman,
announces a ground-breaking nationwide solo tour - the first since the iconic
band disbanded. Focused on promoting his latest album, 'The Winter Yards', this
tour signifies a profound shift in Knightley's musical journey. Details
www.steveknightley.com.
NEW Thursday 27
June 2024 8pm - Billie Maree - B-Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican, Plymouth PL1 2NJ (map)
Billie writes and performs deep-feeling folk-esque songs, the quality of their
vocal has been likened to Sandy Denny and Judy Tzuke. They are, however, very
much their own artist with a strong and infectious sense of spirituality and
self.
Free.
Details
www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Saturday 22
March 2025 7pm - Spring Ceilidh with The Freedom Fields Band - The Box Plymouth,
Tavistock Place, Plymouth PL4 8AX (map)
Join The Box for our first ever Ceilidh! Celebrate the start of spring with
an evening you won't forget. Join us for a night of dancing, fun and music.
Details
https://www.theboxplymouth.com/events/special-events/spring-ceilidh. This
event is for over 16s and all abilities are welcome. Tickets £15 are
non-refundable.
NEW New Acoustic
Singaround - Momus Folk - Café Momus, Manor St, Stonehouse, Plymouth PL1 1TL
Launching on Tuesday 28th January 2025
Then on 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month. From 7.30pm (for 8pm start) until
10.30pm. Accompanying and solo instruments welcome. Sing a song, play a tune.
Folk, Roots and World music welcome. 20-minute feature spots, by arrangement,
for groups and/or soloists. Wide range of drinks from the bar. Free parking
available nearby. 21 bus route between Plympton and St Budeaux. More information
from Marilyn Cowan on 01752 309983.
NEW
Saturday 22 February 2025 7pm -
Plymouth Morris 53rd Annual Ceilidh
- Woolwell Community Centre, Darklake
Lane, Roborough, Plymouth PL6 7TR
With the PM Ceilidh Band. BYO snacks.
Tickets £8, available from: Marion 07837 271769 or
bagman@plymouthmorris.uk.
NEW
Saturday 8 February 2025 7.30pm - Seth Lakeman -
Quad Theatre, Marjon Arts Centre, Derriford Road, Plymouth PL6 8BH
Seth returns to Plymouth Quad in February 2025 for an intimate hometown show.
Details
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seth-lakeman-tickets-1080299497879.
NEW Thursday 12
December 2024 7.30pm - The Great Sea Choir: Sing We Joyous - St Peter's Church,
Wyndham Square, Stonehouse, Plymouth PL1 5EG
Join Plymouth's renowned contemporary folk choir for their annual winter concert
of a cappella folk songs to celebrate the winter season. The choir are
celebrated for their complex and textured arrangements and for the high quality
of their singing. Directed by Julu Irvine and Heg Brignall of folk duo Suthering,
you can expect some festive favourites alongside more unusual traditional and
contemporary folk songs as well as some original songs written by Julu and Heg.
This year, proceeds will go towards the choir making their first recording with
sales of the finished recording going to charity. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/639126.
NEW Tuesday 30 July 2024 7.30pm -
Old Time Sailors - The Stable, Little
Vauxhall Quay, Vauxhall Street, The Barbican, Plymouth PL4 0EY
Join the plentiful crew for a night of footstomping, dancing and singing,
sailing back in time to the 19th century for an immersive experience of
traditional seafaring music performed by twenty one piece band, Old Time
Sailors. Dressed in traditional attire, the Motley crew will take to our
harbourside terrace playing a collection of up-beat old folk and shanty songs
using a variety of instruments. Details
here.
NEW Thursday 18 July 2024 7.45pm -
Great Sea Choir & Wheelhouse Folk Choir - Mutley Baptist Church, Mutley
Plain, Plymouth PL4 6LB
The Great Sea Choir (Plymouth) and Wheelhouse Folk
Choir (Tavistock) join forces for an epic summer concert of a cappella folk
songs. This will be an evening of songs for the season, directed by Julu Irvine
and Heg Brignall (Suthering). The choirs sing unique arrangements written by
Julu and Heg. From traditional summer songs to folk songs by contemporary
artists like Gnoss, Salt House, The Breath, Eoghan O Ceannabhain, Karine Polwart,
Mipso and many more. Each choir will perform songs from their summer repertoire
before coming together as a ninety-strong mega choir to perform songs from the
BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning Songs of Separation album, specially arranged for
choirs. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/618284.
NEW Friday 21 June 2024 7.30pm -
Harbottle & Jonas -
Saint Werburgh's Church, Wembury, Plymouth PL9 0HP
Partners in life and music, dynamic Devon based folk duo Harbottle & Jonas are
one of the most exciting acts on the UK circuit today, combining a love of the
richness of traditional folk with their own original and powerful songwriting.
Dave and Freya have developed a distinct and compelling signature sound,
blending concertina, harmonium, cittern, stomp box, acoustic guitar and banjo
with their beautiful and closely intertwined vocal harmonies. Details
www.harbottleandjonas.com/2024.
NEW
Saturday 6 April 2024 -
Ian Bruce & Silvington
-
Bickleigh Suite,
Woolwell Community Centre, Darklake
Lane, Roborough, Plymouth PL6 7TR
£10 adv, £12 door. Book with John 07939
411985 or johnfconnor@aol.com.
NEW Thursday 21
December 2023 8pm - Songs for Wintertide - Sherwell United Church, North Hill,
Plymouth PL4 8ER
Suthering and Windjammer's Christmas collaboration. After hugely successful
sell-out performances at Barbican Theatre (Plymouth) and The Wharf (Tavistock)
in 2021 and 2022, they return with their atmospheric, winter-themed evening of
folk songs. Combining rich five-part vocal harmonies with harmoniums, whistles,
flutes, piano, guitars and accordion, this exciting and dramatic collaboration
is a show is not to be missed. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/595989.
NEW Wednesday 20
December 2023 7.30pm - Wheelhouse Folk Choir: Winter Songs - St Eustachius
Church, 5A Plymouth Rd, Tavistock PL19 8AU
Join Tavistock's Wheelhouse Folk Choir for their annual charity winter concert.
After their debut at Sidmouth Folk Festival this summer, the choir have gone
from strength to strength. This season the choir has put together a powerful
selection of songs inspired by winter; from indie-folk, to contemporary to
inspiring arrangements of traditional melodies. With contemporary songs
championing composers Karine Polwart, Alela Diane, Fox and the Bird, Lau, Hannah
James, Kate Young, The Staves and many more. All proceeds to charity. Adv
booking recommended. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/596019.
NEW Saturday 16
December 2023 from 11am (tbc) - The Great Sea Choir with Wheelhouse Folk Choir -
Great Barn, Buckland Abbey, nr Yelverton PL20 6EY
General admission fee or membership
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/devon/buckland-abbey.
NEW Thursday 14
December 2023 7.30pm - The Great Sea Choir: Winter Songs - St Peter's Church,
Wyndham Square, Stonehouse, Plymouth PL1 5EG
The Choir return for their annual charity winter concert. After a momentous
summer season, including a main stage debut at Falmouth International Sea Shanty
Festival, the choir have gone from strength to strength. This season the choir
has put together a powerful selection of songs inspired by winter; from indie-folk,
to contemporary to inspiring arrangements of traditional melodies. With
contemporary songs championing composers Karine Polwart, Of Monsters and Men,
Lau, The Staves, Asgeir and many more. All proceeds to charity. Adv booking
recommended. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/596038.
NEW Friday 27
October 2023 7.30pm - Halloween Ceilidh with Freedom Fields Ceilidh Band - Stoke
Community Centre, Blockhouse Park Plymouth PL2 1BJ
Following our Summer barn dance tour with The Theatre Royal Plymouth, Join the
band and guests for a public Halloween ceilidh. U16s must be accompanied by an
adult. Licensed bar accepting cash or card. Details
www.www.wegottickets.com/event/592991.
NEW
Plymouth Theatre Royal is Touring Barn Dances across Devon and Cornwall from
22 July to 11 August
For the very first time, the Theatre Royal is producing and touring barn dances
- fun, family-friendly events featuring the Freedom Fields Ceilidh Band - to the
following locations:
• Launceston Town Hall - Saturday 22 July - 12pm & 6pm
• Sparkwell Village Hall - Tuesday 25 July - 6pm
• Calstock Hall - Thursday 27 July - 6pm
• Tavistock Town Hall - Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 July - 12pm & 6pm
• Pensilva Millennium House - Thursday 3 August - 6pm
• Totnes Civic Hall - Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 August - 12pm & 6pm
• Ivybridge Rugby Club - Friday 11 August - 6pm
Details, bookings etc.
www.theatreroyal.com/barn-dances-2023.
NEW
Saturday 22 July 2023 12pm & 6pm - Barn Dances with Freedom Fields Ceilidh
Band - Launceston Town Hall
The first of a series of summer touring barn dances produced by Plymouth Theatre
Royal - fun, family-friendly events.
Details, bookings etc.
www.theatreroyal.com/barn-dances-2023.
NEW
Tuesday 25 July 2023 6pm - Barn Dance with Freedom Fields Ceilidh Band - Sparkwell
Village Hall
Continuing the series of summer touring barn dances produced by Plymouth Theatre
Royal - fun, family-friendly events.
Details, bookings etc.
www.theatreroyal.com/barn-dances-2023.
NEW
Thursday 27 July 2023 6pm - Barn Dance with Freedom Fields Ceilidh Band -
Calstock Hall
Continuing the series of summer touring barn dances produced by Plymouth Theatre
Royal - fun, family-friendly events.
Details, bookings etc.
www.theatreroyal.com/barn-dances-2023.
NEW
Sat/Sun 29/30 July 2023 12pm & 6pm - Barn Dances with Freedom Fields Ceilidh
Band - Tavistock Town Hall
Continuing the series of summer touring barn dances produced by Plymouth Theatre
Royal - fun, family-friendly events.
Details, bookings etc.
www.theatreroyal.com/barn-dances-2023.
NEW
Thursday 3 August 2023 6pm - Barn Dance with Freedom Fields Ceilidh Band - Pensilva
Millennium House
Continuing the series of summer touring barn dances produced by Plymouth Theatre
Royal - fun, family-friendly events.
Details, bookings etc.
www.theatreroyal.com/barn-dances-2023.
NEW
Sat/Sun 5/6 August 2023 12pm & 6pm - Barn Dances with Freedom Fields Ceilidh
Band - Totnes Civic Hall
Continuing the series of summer touring barn dances produced by Plymouth Theatre
Royal - fun, family-friendly events.
Details, bookings etc.
www.theatreroyal.com/barn-dances-2023.
NEW
Friday 11 August 2023 6pm - Barn Dance with Freedom Fields Ceilidh Band - Ivybridge
Rugby Club
Last in the series of summer touring barn dances produced by Plymouth Theatre
Royal - fun, family-friendly events.
Details, bookings etc.
www.theatreroyal.com/barn-dances-2023.
NEW
Saturday 25 February 2023 7pm - Plymouth
Morris' Annual Ceilidh, with
Dartmoor Pixie Band
- Woolwell Community Centre, Darklake
Lane, Roborough, Plymouth PL6 7TR
Band: Black Velvet Ceilidh Duo, Caller: Terry Lane. £8 (payment in advance is
preferred, even if ticket(s) are collected on the door). No pasties included in
the price this year. The venue (new management ~ new rules) is happy to allow
“own food” to be consumed on the premises, but please take away your rubbish so
we can clean up quickly after the last dance. Contact Ray at
raymond.newnham@btinternet.com.
NEW
Thursday 20 October 2022 7.30pm -
Gigspanner Big Band and Raynor Winn: Saltlines -
Quad Theatre, Marjon Arts Centre, Derriford Road, Plymouth PL6 8BH
Saltlines: A Portrait of the South West Coast Path in Old Songs and New Words.
The Salt Path is Raynor Winn’s Sunday Times best-selling memoir of walking the
South West Coast Path in its entirety…a walk that was an impulsive response to
unexpected circumstances which left her and her husbandhomeless. It has won
global praise for its 'against all odds' uplifting message, and its frank
exploration of the reality of homelessness. The Salt Path is one couple's story,
but such a well-trodden path must hold many more stories of loss, love and the
natural world. Perhaps these stories could be found in the form of traditional
songs and tunes that have been left behind and saved for us due to the diligence
of song collectors such as Cecil Sharp. This seed of an idea has developed into
an exciting collaboration between Raynor Winn and The Gigspanner Big Band, a
collective of some of the most high-profile names on the British folk scene.
Details
www.marjon.ac.uk/about-marjon/news-and-events/university-events.
NEW
Thursday 29 September 2022 from 7pm -
Flash Jack -
Jolly Jacks, Mayflower Marina, Plymouth
Live music with shanty crew Flash Jack. Details
www.facebook.com/FlashJackuk.
NEW
Thursday 26 May 2022 7.30pm - The Great
Sea Choir -
The Hook & Line, Royal William Yard,
Plymouth
Outdoors. Plymouth's contemporary a cappella folk choir directed by musicians
Heg Brignall and Julu Irvine (Suthering).
www.thegreatseachoir.co.uk.
Plymouth Community Folk Orchestra - Reminder
Tuesday mornings 3, 10, 17, 24 May, 14, 21, 28 June, 5, 12, 19 July - 11am to
12.30pm. £8 per session. Concession available
At Emmanuel Church Hall, Compton Avenue, (corner of Mannamead Road) Plymouth,
PL3 5BZ
Make a big band, make some music, have some fun! All levels of ability welcome.
Play music from Devon and beyond. Develop music skills and learning by ear. Play
in harmony. Scores and sound files provided. The Community Folk Orchestra is
‘open’ - so, there are no auditions and all are welcome to come along.
Participants can join at any time. You will, however, need an acoustic
instrument, some enthusiasm and a willingness to participate! For more
information contact David Faulkner 07967 121985 /
david.eelgrinders@gmail.com.
www.facebook.com/PlymouthCommunityFolkOrchestra.
NEW
Tuesday 2 November 2021 - Seth Lakeman &
Band -
Minster Church of St Andrew, Royal
Parade, Plymouth PL1 2AD
Freedom Fields 15th Anniversary Tour. Details
www.sethlakeman.co.uk.
NEW
16-20 June 2020 -
This Land
-
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
With text by Nick Stimson and songs written and performed by Seth Lakeman.
Theatre Royal Plymouth's first ever international community production. This
Land is an epic theatrical event marking the 400 year anniversary of the
Mayflower’s journey and its impact upon arrival in America. Created and
performed by 120 citizens of Plymouth, UK and 30 members of the Native American
Wampanoag Tribe from Massachusetts, USA, This Land is the story of what happened
then and what it means to us now. Witness the making of history with this unique
and vital piece of theatre, which brings together communities from both sides of
the Atlantic.
www.theatreroyal.com.
NEW
Friday 6 March 2020 8pm -
The Unravelling Wilburys
-
The Plymouth Athenaeum, Derry's Cross, Plymouth PL1 2SW
The Unravelling Wilburys present The Music of Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Bob
Dylan, Tom Petty and Geoff Lynne. Tickets £20. Box office: 01752 267131
(Barbican). Fulldetails, tickets etc.
https://barbicantheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-unravelling-wilburys.
NEW
Sunday 1 March 2020 -
The Simon & Garfunkel Story
-
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Direct from a week-long run in London’s West End, a sold out worldwide tour and
standing ovations at every performance, The Simon & Garfunkel Story is back!
Featuring huge projection photos, original film footage and a full live band.
www.theatreroyal.com.
NEW
Saturday 15 February 2020 - Seth Lakeman -
Minster Church of St Andrew, Royal
Parade, Plymouth PL1 2AD
Seth's new album 'A Pilgrim's Tale', telling the epic tale of the Pilgrim
Fathers on the 400th anniversary of the historic Mayflower voyage, is released
on 7 February 2020 and Seth will be playing songs from the album live in 10
towns and cities associated with the voyage, the last two being Dartmouth and
Plymouth.
www.sethlakeman.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 24
November 7.30 pm - The Lost Sound: Dartmoor Folk Choir - St Emmanuel Church, 1
Compton Ave, Plymouth PL3 5BZ
The Choir start a short winter tour entitled 'Stormy Weather' fresh from
supporting Show of Hands in Plymouth at the Theatre Royal. 'As the rain descends
and the stormy winds are howlin' - come take shelter in the warmth of our songs,
our luxuriant harmonies and the rousing rhythms that mark the passage of time.'
This show is raising funds for the local Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group.
Online ticketing via
www.thelostsound.co.uk or email
info@thelostsound.co.uk.
Plymouth Pavilions www.plymouthpavilions.com
NEW
Sunday 30 November 2025 7.30pm - Fishermans Friends
- Plymouth Pavilions
Details
www.plymouthpavilions.com/whats-on.
NEW
Weds/Thurs 19/20 November 2025 2.30pm & 7.30pm - Riverdance 30: The
New Generation
- Plymouth Pavilions
Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and
international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide.The
Grammy award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerising
choreography and breath-taking performances has left audiences in awe. Details
www.plymouthpavilions.com/whats-on.
NEW
Saturday 15 March 2025 7.30pm - The Dubliners Encore
- Plymouth Pavilions
The Official stage show celebrating the greatest folk band of all time. Produced
by The Dubliners’ John Sheahan; renowned fiddle playerand legendary Irish icon,
this new show packs 50 years of songs, stories, and craic, into one
unforgettable night. Details
www.plymouthpavilions.com/whats-on.
Plymouth - Stoke Damerel Church
NEW Saturday 12
October 2024 7.30pm - The Lost Sound: Dartmoor Folk Choir -
Stoke Damerel Church, Paradise Road, Stoke, Plymouth PL1 5QL
The final concert for this year after sell out gigs through the summer. This
'Country Matters' set has received phenomenal feedback from audiences for the
energy, expression and quality of performance from this innovative Folk choir.
With stunning new arrangements of traditional songs, classics from Pete Seager,
and newly commissioned arrangements of Geoff Lakeman & Ninebarrow tunes -
'Country Matters' is a powerful comment on how we live today. Tickets:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-lost-sound-folkchoir.
NEW
Thursday 15 December 2022 7.30pm - The Great Sea Choir: Songs for The
Longest Night - Stoke Damerel Church, Paradise Road, Stoke, Plymouth PL1 5QL
Join Plymouth's contemporary a cappella folk
choir for their notorious festive winter soiree. The choir will be singing a
selection of songs inspired by winter; from contemporary songwriters including
Johnny Flynn, Spells Songs, Icelandic artist Asgeir and the Decemberists to
original interpretations of traditional folk songs. The choir are known for
their varied and complex arrangements and the high standard of their singing.
Join them for a night of moving, dramatic folk songs to celebrate winter. All
proceeds to charity.
www.thegreatseachoir.co.uk.
www.wegottickets.com/event/559815.
NEW
Friday 10 December 7.30pm 2021 - The Great Sea Choir: Songs for Winter -
Stoke Damerel Church, Paradise Road, Stoke, Plymouth PL1 5QL
Join Plymouth’s contemporary folk choir for their long awaited in-person
winter concert. Festive folk songs for the winter season with mulled wine and
mince pies. Full of atmosphere and carefully selected songs to reflect the
season and our current times. This year's diverse and varied set includes a
selection of the finest contemporary folk and traditional music from the UK and
beyond.
www.thegreatseachoir.co.uk.
www.wegottickets.com/event/529168.
NEW
Saturday/Sunday 9/10 October 2021 - ‘A Mayflower Garland 400’ Folk
Weekend - Stoke Damerel Church, Paradise Road, Stoke, Plymouth PL1 5QL
Celebrating what would have been the 90th birthday of the late Cyril Tawney
and to commemorate Mayflower 400. Artists include Jim Causley, Shep Woolley,
Wren Music, Doc Rowe, Martin Hazell and Jon Stevens, Mad Rush, Bill Murray and
Ben Campbell, Suthering, Plymouth Morris, Fisher’s Footsteps History Walk, choir
workshop and more. Event presented by Plymouth Folk Roots, Wren Music and funded
by Mayflower Community 400 Sparks. See
www.facebook.com/plymouthfolkroots for updates and tickets.
NEW Saturday 13 April 2019 -
Ceilidh with The Lynher Band and Wreckers Border Morris - Stoke Damerel Church,
85 Paradise Road, Plymouth PL1 5QL
Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £7.50 The ceilidh is raising funds for this year’s charity
The Shamrock Restoration Appeal. Shamrock is the last working barge on the River
Tamar, and time takes its toll. The evening promises inclusive dancing, great
fun, and entertainment. Bar, but please BYO snacks or food. Phone 01752 815495
or text 07812 834 626 to book your tickets.
NEW Wednesday 20
September 2023 7.45pm - Ian Bruce and Silvington - Chaddlewood Farm Community
Ctr, Glen Road, Plympton, Plymouth PL7 2XS
Scottish singer songwriter with a wonderful voice and great guitar style, known
for his own beautifully crafted compositions, his renditions of Robert Burns'
songs and other folk classics, presented with raw emotion and backed up by a
joyful and interactive relationship with his audience. One of the best-known
faces on the Scottish folk scene and a fine ambassador for the genre in Europe
and beyond.
www.ianbrucemusic.com. Support: established local duo 'Silvington' (Tricia
Moore and John Connor). Tickets £10 from Elaine on 07834 439219. (Please ring so
we know numbers).
NEW Saturday 25 January 2020 9pm - The Kit
Hillbillies - Brook Inn, 33 Longbrook Street, Plympton St Maurice,
Plymouth PL7 1NJ
Live bluegrass in a great community pub with an impressive stage set-up - It's
very like a small arts centre, if you've never been there. Support (8pm): Local
musician Liam Ferguson.
www.facebook.com/pg/BrookInnPlympton/events.
www.brookinnplympton.co.uk.
Tel. 01752 297604 for further details.
NEW Monday 18 November 2019 7pm - Julie Felix -
Brook Inn, 33 Longbrook Street, Plympton St Maurice, Plymouth PL7 1NJ
We are absolutely delighted that Julie is returning to The Brook again this year
- it's becoming an annual event now! Julie is an absolute folk legend who has
hosted her own TV show and appeared at venues around the world. She's performed
with a huge list of the great and the good of the music world and has a host of
stories to share. An Evening With Julie Felix costs £20 each and includes a two
course meal prior to the performance. (Trip to the zoo not included!!).
www.facebook.com/pg/BrookInnPlympton/events.
www.brookinnplympton.co.uk.
Tel. 01752 297604 for further details.
NEW Saturday 19 May 2018 7pm - Medieval &
Traditional Folk Concert - St Mary’s Church, Market Road, Plympton PL7 1QW
Musicians Devnent (Steve Tyler, Katy Merchant and Jim Causley) and dancers from
the Age of Chivalry. Devnent are an exhilarating trio comprising international
Medieval musicians Steve Tyler and Katy Merchant with award winning local folk
singer Jim Causley. They’ll be bringing you a delightfully rich evening of song
and instrumental music from Devon, Dartmoor and beyond, with music and song from
Medieval Europe, traditional sources and recently written pieces, performed on
hurdy gurdy, bagpipes and other exotic early traditional instruments. Age of
Chivalry will perform a medley of Medieval dances based on the Festival themes
of War, Health and Enlightenment. This event is part of the Historic Plympton
Festival (14–20 May). Tickets £10. See
https://historyfestival2018.wordpress.com/music-and-performance for booking
details.
NEW
Friday 16 September 2022 7pm - From Devon With Love Festival - Powderham Castle
A scratch performance festival that supports some of the region’s best
talent to test new work in front of a live audience. Lineup includes Družba who
present a variety of music and songs from East Europe; Russia, Ukraine, Romania
and Hungary, with commentary on life and travel in the Soviet Union. The band
hope to promote Druzba, meaning friendship, wherever they go.
www.klezmer-devon.com.
Details:
https://villagesinaction.co.uk/events/from-devon-with-love-powderham-castle.
NEW
Sunday 19 June 2022 8pm - Chris Murphy - Powderham Castle
Los Angeles based violinist, fiddler and singer/songwriter Chris Murphy is
performing an evening of original folk, blues, and Irish music. Tickets are
available at
www.chrismurphymusic.com,
www.powderham.co.uk/events/view/chris-murphy.
NEW
Thursday 21 October 2021 7.30pm - Chris Murphy - Powderham Castle
Los Angeles based violinist, fiddler and singer/songwriter Chris Murphy
brings his critically acclaimed solo show of original Folk, Blues , Bluegrass,
Gypsy & Irish Violin music to Powderham Castle! Chris combines his love of
traditional music styles with a contemporary songwriters view of the world that
he channels through an extraordinary vocals & violin + stompboard solo
performance of profound depth & cinematic scope. Described as “Haunting &
enchanting! a talented player traveling on the edge“ -Dirty Linen Magazine.
www.chrismurphymusic.com.
www.powderham.co.uk/events/view/chris-murphy
NEW
Saturday 9 November 2024 7pm -
Ceilidh with Fox Among The Chickens - Princetown Community Centre, Tavistock Road PL20 6QE
Tickets £20. Bar and Raffle. For tickets email
nightingalesuk@gmail.com. All
proceeds to Nightingales UK Aid for Ukraine.
NEW
Saturday 25 November 2023 7pm -
Ceilidh with Fox Among The Chickens - Princetown Community Centre, Tavistock Road PL20 6QE
Caller: Rosie Longhurst. 'Nightingales UK' (a local group providing medical
aid direct to the Ukraine) host 'Dance for Ukraine' - 5 (free) dance workshops
and 2 (ticketed) shindigs in one day: from 10am - line dancing, clog dancing,
Dartmoor Border Morris, kids street dance etc; 2pm Tea Dance with High Tea
(£15); Ceilidh with Ukrainian supper (£18). Details
here on Eventbrite.
NEW
Saturday 18 November 2023 7.30pm -
The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir - Princetown Community Centre, Tavistock
Road PL20 6QE
Benefit concert raising money for Princetown Youth Club. Tickets from
ticketsource. A hearty selection of Winter and seasonal songs of
festivities, feasting and jollyment! Join us for a rousing celebration of the
season with 40+ singers raring to sing! Our current single 'Waulking Song' is
also being sold to raise funds for the youth club via our
Bandcamp page.
NEW Saturday 15
July
2023 - Jim Causley - Princetown Library
details tba Songs of Devon
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 21
January
2023 - Jim Causley & Mark Norman - Princetown Library
Devonshire folklore evening with Mark Norman. Join award-winning singer
and musician Jim Causley and folklore researcher and author Mark Norman, for ‘An
Evening of Devonshire Custom and Song’, celebrating the traditions and character
of the county. Tickets
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW
Wednesday 20 1 October
2022 7.30pm - Ceilidh with Banned from the Moor - Rattery Village Hall,
nr Totnes TQ10 9LD
Rattery, South Brent TQ10 9LD
NEW
Saturday 1 October
2022 7.30pm - Ceilidh with Banned from the Moor - Rattery Village Hall,
nr Totnes TQ10 9LD
Presented by South Brent Riding Club. Food van available from 6.30pm offering a
wide range of food from wraps to burgers, including gluten free - and Rattery's
Church House Inn will be providing the bar. All welcome - tickets £16, with any
profits going to local charities. Email
retts0106@gmail.com or call 07894 990307.
NEW
7-9 October 2022 - Salcombe Live Festival 2022 - Salcombe
The third Salcombe Live Festival is a weekend of live acoustic, folk, roots
and choral music, jazz and blues, soul, Americana, comedy etc. to be held across
15 venues in the town on Friday 7th, Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th October 2022.
Over 50 acts will be available to see free of charge including Mr Tea & The
Minions, The Cabarats, Katriona Roberts & Jamie Gilmore, Velvet & Stone, The
Newcranes, Samantics and The Hawkmen. The festival concludes on Sunday 10th
October with Wildwood Kin (+ support) in concert at the Holy Trinity Church.
Tickets (£18.50) on sale now. For further details visit
www.salcombe-live.co.uk.
NEW Friday 9 August 2019 7.30pm -
Summer Concert - Malborough Church, nr Salcombe
With Paul & Adrian, Janet & John, Folk on the Rock and Silvington. Last year's
concert was terrific ... let's do even better this year. Tickets £8 adv
available from Malborough Post Office, £10 door. Enquiries and reservations,
call Marg on 01548 853385 or 07798 665129. Details:
www.shamstrad.co.uk.
PS don’t forget about the
New Mini Folk Fest
Crabstock in Kingsbridge on Saturday 21 September:
www.crab-stock.co.uk.
NEW Friday 11
October 2024 7.30pm - Owl Light Trio
- Lamb Inn, The Square,
Sandford, Crediton EX17 4LW (map)
A double bill of instrumental folk music. Owl Light Trio: Jim Penny on
concertina, Jane Griffiths on fiddle and viola and Colin Fletcher on guitar. All
three musicians have deep roots in traditional music, share a passion for tunes
from Ireland, the UK and Brittany, and draw upon their combined influences to
create complex, compelling and heartfelt arrangements. Special guests Dusk:
playing beautiful music from these isles and France on soprano sax, guitar,
flutes, banjo and bagpipes. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/632140.
NEW Friday 22
November 2024 8pm - Third Peter Hamilton Memorial Ceilidh with Red Shed - Sandford
Parish Hall, Crediton EX17 4NA
Caller Pete Langley. All proceeds to Crediton Arts Centre. Tickets (£8+) from
www.ticketsource.co.uk/creditonartscentre, or from Crediton Arts Centre
01363 773260, or on the door. Arts Centre bar.
NEW Friday 24
November 2023 8pm - Second Peter Hamilton Memorial Ceilidh with Red Shed - Sandford
Parish Hall, Crediton EX17 4NA
Caller Pete Langley. Raising funds for Crediton Arts Centre. Tickets (£8+) from
www.ticketsource.co.uk/creditonartscentre.
NEW Friday 2
December 2022 7.30pm -
Reg Meuross - Lamb Inn, The Square,
Sandford, Crediton EX17 4LW (map)
Reg Meuross is a true modern troubadour, representing contemporary English folk
at its best. He is back at the Lamb in Sandford by popular demand.
Tickets available from The Lamb Inn and Sandford Post office and Stores.
NEW Friday 25
November 2022 8pm - Peter Hamilton Memorial Ceilidh with Red Shed - Sandford
Parish Hall, Crediton EX17 4NA
Tickets £8 from Crediton Arts Centre 01363 773260,
www.ticketsource.co.uk/creditonartscentre or on the door. Please test for
covid if attending. All proceeds to Crediton Arts Centre.
NEW Saturday 2 December 2023 8pm -
Mad Dog Mcrea -
Gateway Theatre, Fore Street, Seaton EX12 2LE
Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass
and ‘shake your ass’ music. From self-penned songs of adventure, drinking, love
and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless pirates and black
flies – Mad Dog never fail to capture their audience with their infectious
songs. Support: Man The Lifeboats. Details
www.thegatewayseaton.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Wednesday 16
November 2022 - Gaz Brookfield - White Thorn Inn, Shaugh Prior PL7 5HA
Acoustic, folk, rock musician
www.gazbrookfield.com.
www.facebook.com/whitethorninn.
www.wegottickets.com/event/548572.
NEW Saturday 10 October 2020 - Glymjack - White
Thorn Inn, Shaugh Prior PL7 5HA
A UK folk trio whose Show of Hands-produced current album and stellar live
line-up featuring Radio 2 Folk Award nominee Saul Bailey has seen them emerge as
one of the most exciting live acts on the UK folk scene, bringing the house down
at festivals including Cambridge, Larmer Tree and Folk East in 2019, and wowing
audiences at venues around the UK.
www.glymjack.com.
www.facebook.com/whitethorninn.
NEW
Thursday 9 March 2023 7.30pm - Ninebarrow - St Leonard's Church, Sheepstor,
Yelverton PL20 6PF
Multi-award-winning folk duo, who are impressing audiences across the country
with their innovative and captivating take on the folk tradition. Described by
Mark Radcliffe as sounding like ‘two halves of one voice’, by Seth Lakeman as ‘a
fantastic duo’ and by Kate Rusby as ‘absolutely amazing’, Jon Whitley and Jay
LaBouchardiere combine breath taking vocal harmonies and melodies, delivering
songs that are inspired and rooted in the landscape and history of the British
Isles. Details
www.ninebarrow.couk/sheepstor.
You possibly don’t know that Ninebarrow are playing at St Leonard’s church, Sheepstor, on .Tickets can usually be reserved by contacting Patrick Drennan, drdartmoor[at]doctors.org.uk. This avoids a booking fee. ?? Tickets 01822 853186
NEW Saturday 13 April 2019 7.30pm
- The Drystones - Sheepstor Village Hall PL20 6PF
The Drystones are a young duo making big waves on the UK folk scene. Combining
traditional music’s timeless instrumental union of fiddle and guitar with
technical mastery, an unexpectedly large live sound, it’s no wonder they’ve been
described as ‘indecently talented’ (Mike Harding) and earned themselves a
nomination for the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. Since forming in 2011 to
play at their local folk festival in Priddy, Somerset, they have played
festivals across the country, including Glastonbury and Sidmouth Folk Week, have
supported Seth Lakeman and Steeleye Span, produced two albums and, somehow,
squeezed in their music degrees. Tickets: adult £9, child £7, Family £25. Call
01822 853186 to book.
NEW Friday 6 April 2018 7.30pm -
Adam Bulley & Chas Mackenzie - Sheepstor Village Hall PL20 6PF
Head to West Devon for a fiery, energy-fuelled evening of acoustic music styles
courtesy of guitar duo Adam Bulley & Chas Mackenzie (formerly Wingin' It).
Weaving effortlessly between Bluegrass, Gypsy Jazz, Folk & Pop, this performance
is sure to capture your imagination and remain in your musical memory for many
months to come! Tickets call 01822 853186.
1-8
August 2025 - Sidmouth Folk Festival - Season tickets offer
All in One Week and Weekend Season Tickets are available at 2023 prices (or
Less)! only until midnight tomorrow, 31 August 2024.
See
www.sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk for details
UPDATED
Monday 28 April 2025
7.30pm - Paul Hutchinson & Karen Wimshurst - Sidmouth Acoustic Folk Club,
Blue Ball Inn, Steven's Cross,
Sidford EX10 9QL
An exciting fusion of jazz and folk music -
fascinating, eclectic and highly entertaining. Acoustic open performers nights on the third Monday of each month.
Details: Email janet.strapp [at] outlook.com, 07850 163241.
NEW
Saturday 1 March 2025 3.30pm - Irish Uilleann Piper Concert - Sidmouth
Methodist Church, High Street, EX10 8LE
Details
www.devonfolk.org/latest-news/posts/irish-uilleann-piper-concert-01-03-25.
NEW Saturday 12
October 2024 - Charity Music Event - 14 Miles East, 46 Fore Street, Sidmouth
EX10 8AG
With Michael Sykes Band; Jim Causley; Emily Davies. Doors 8pm. Details
www.devonfolk.org/events-diary.
NEW 3-7 August 2024
- Sidmouth Fringe Sessions
Details www.sidmouthfringe.co.uk.
NEW 2-9
August 2024 - 70th Anniversary Sidmouth Folk Festival
It’s the season of glad tidings! Super Early Bird Tickets are now available. See
www.sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk and join the
festival mailing list for regular updates.
NEW 16-18 February 2024 -
Middle Bar Singers Winter Reunion - Anchor Inn (Upstairs), Fore St, Sidmouth
Join us for a weekend of laughing, drinking and singing (unaccompanied). Friday
8 till closing, Saturday all day and evening non stop, Sunday Noon till 3ish.
Everybody welcome. Real ale and cider. Free entry, collection for Sidmouth Folk
Week (2-9 August
www.sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk).
NEW
Monday 19 June 2023
7.30pm - Crows - Sidmouth Acoustic Folk Club,
Blue Ball Inn, Steven's Cross,
Sidford EX10 9QL
Crows - Pete Harris (guitar), Mick Ryan (vocals),
Paul Downes (guitar, banjo) and Dave Bordeway (fiddle, mandocello)- are a folk
band (Facebook: Crows) who originated in 1977. They feature fine singing from
the English folk tradition together with masterly musicianship. Acoustic open performers nights on the third Monday of each month. See contact
details on
www.devonfolkdirectory.org.
NEW
Monday 20 March 2023
7.30pm - Coracle - Sidmouth Acoustic Folk Club,
Blue Ball Inn, Steven's Cross,
Sidford EX10 9QL
Coracle (Paul Hutchinson, Karen Wimhurst and Anna
Tam,
www.coracleband.co.uk) bring together three artists with vastly different
backgrounds. Paul Hutchinson is a BBC Folk Award Best Live Artist nominee with
Belshazzar’s Feast and a much-feted accordion player. Karen Wimhurst is a
clarinet player influenced by traditional, jazz and contemporary classical
music. Anna Tam adds nykelharpa, viola da gamba, hurdy gurdy and cello alongside
a ‘gin pure’ voice. They have come together through their love of traditional
music cut through with experimentation, boldness, humour and risk. Tickets £12.
Enquiries to Hugh Sutherland 07779 335631
hugh@hughs.plus.com.
Acoustic open performers nights on the third Monday of each month. See contact details on www.devonfolkdirectory.org.
NEW
Monday 19 December 2022
7.30pm - A Causley Christmas - Sidmouth Acoustic Folk Club, The Blue Ball,
Sidford, EX10 9QL
A concert of Devon songs with a Christmas twist
with Jim Causley. Tickets from: janet.strapp [a]
outlook.com..
NEW
Monday 22 June 2020
- An Evening with Jim Causley - 1922 Social Club, Church St, Sidmouth EX10 8LY
possibly not a public event
East Devon Grecians Supporters. More than simply a folk-singer, multi award
winning singer-songwriter and musician Jim Causley is an all-round entertainer
and his ‘Evening with’ concerts give a full night of beautiful singing, moving
ballads, hilarious ditties and everything in between. Drawing equally from
traditional repertoire, modern songs as well as his own compositions and
settings of poems by his relative, the celebrated Cornish poet Charles Causley.
All accompanied on piano and various accordions and served with a gurt dollop of
Westcountry humour, an evening with Jim is an evening not to be missed!
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW
Friday 21 February 2020
7.30pm - Hooper & Mills - Blues Wine Bar, Sidmouth EX10 8LY
An evening of acoustic blues. Contact Andy 01404 758103.
NEW
FOLK CLUB Tuesday
10 December 2019
7.30pm - Sidmouth Acoustic Folk Club -
Sidholme Hotel Lounge, Elysian Fields, Sidmouth EX10 8UJ
First night for this new folk club, meeting every 2nd Tuesday of the month
except August. Entry £2 for all. Ends 10.30-pm. For information or queries,
please call 07850 163241.
NEW
Wednesday 11 September 2019
- An Evening with Jim Causley - Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, Coburg Road,
Sidmouth EX10 8NG
An evening of entertainment with a much respected figure of the contemporary
roots and folk scene. Multi award winning singer-songwriter, musician and proud
Devonian Jim Causley brings his distinctive melodies and toe-tapping tunes to
the Cellar Bar. Tickets £10 from Kennaway House, pop in or call 01395 515551.
Bar. Doors 7.30pm.
NEW
3-7 August 2019 - Sidmouth Fringe Sessions -
Salcombe Regis
Coincides with (but independent of) the long-established Sidmouth Folk Festival.
The Sessions celebrate the very best in emerging acts, breaking artists and
under-the-radar musicians - not just locally but from across the whole UK. The
Fringe has been supported by BBC Introducing (Devon & Cornwall) over recent
years who host the shows. Plus occasional international touring artists. A
fantastic mini festival of live music. An eclectic mix of many genres - and has
included folk/roots, bluegrass, stomp, blues, acoustic, jazzfusion, world and
indie rock/pop - plus everything in-between. Details
www.sidmouthfringe.co.uk.
NEW
Thursday 9 August 2018 5.30pm - Reg Meuross
- Parish Church, Church Lane, Sidmouth EX10 8LG
With Anna Tanvir. This year he is raising funds for Gateway, for the homeless
and those who are vulnerably housed. Mark Radcliffe described Reg as a
“brilliant singer songwriter and true troubadour with a social conscience,”
writing songs which comment bravely on life as he sees it, bringing wide-ranging
stories, from the ravages of austerity and the injustice of the plight of
refugees to some of most beautifully disarming lyrics ever written, and for this
reason the church and Gateway are very excited to link up with him in this way.
Tickets £10+ adv
www.wegottickets.com/event/441913, £12 door, £5 for Sidmouth Folk Week pass
holders. All profits to Gateway Homelessness Action Group .
NEW
Friday 8 April 2016 7.30pm - Swinging the
Lead - Manor Pavilion Theatre and Arts Centre, Manor Road, Sidmouth EX10 8RP
5-man shanty crew hailing from Kent, the resident shanty crew on the Cutty Sark,
have appeared at major maritime festivals including Tall Ships 2014 and 2015 and
Falmouth. Traditional sea shanties combined with songs of the sea are their hall
mark for an entertaining evening Tickets £10 from 01395 514413.
NEW Sunday 8 May 2016 7.30pm - Sidmouth Acoustic
Sessions: Kirsty Bromley Duo - St Teresa’s Hall, Connaught Road, Sidmouth EX10
8TT (map)
[Note that the 'official' postcode, EX10 9HG, for this venue does not appear
to yield the correct location by some distance when entered in Google Maps,
Google Earth, streetmap.co.uk etc. whereas EX10 8TT does. No idea if this
affects satnavs]
with Simon Dumpleton. Kirsty Bromley is a young singer, dancer, teacher and
writer of folk music within the English Tradition. “Kirsty Bromley is a singer
of songs of social justice, traditional songs and songs from the heart. Her
voice is effortless yet stirring, at times ethereal but always earthy and with
strong roots. Musical and beguiling.” Nancy Kerr – BBC2 Folk Singer of the Year
2015. She has a most disarmingly transparent voice, but also the uncanny and
beautiful knack of drawing attention to the song rather than the messenger. Her
debut album ‘Time Ashore’ features original songs as well as carefully curated
folk gems. Licensed bar. Tickets £10 door, £8(+) advance from
www.wegottickets.com/event/355206 or Paragon Books, High St., Sidmouth.
Sidmouth storytell www.janettellsstories.co.uk
NEW Thursday 19 October 2017 7.30pm - Red Rocks
Story Open Mic - Upstairs at the Anchor, Old Fore Street, Sidmouth EX10 8LP
Come tell or read aloud your own work. Slots are 8 mins (about 1600-ish
words.) Storytellers arrive at 7pm, first come, first tell. £3, £2 storytellers.
Contact 07834 194215, email
JanetTells@gmail.com. This event
repeats in 2018: 15 February, 19 April, 21 June.
NEW
Friday 27 October 2017
7.30pm - SidMouth StoryNight - Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, Coburg Road, Sidmouth
EX10 8NG
SidMouth StoryNights for GrownUps presents: Janet Dowling and friends bring you
The Return of Fearsome Fairy Tales for Fearless Adults- the Fairies Fight Back!
These are the dark tales of the fairy world, where everything is not as it
seems… are you brave enough to listen? Be beguiled and bewitched by a shiver of
Devon storytellers telling new tales of old fears. Be warned- these tales are
not suitable for Adults of a nervous disposition. Tickets £8 adv from Paragon
Books, High Street, Sidmouth, or on door. Bar available, Good disabled access.
Not suitable for U14s. For more details call 07834 194215 or email
JanetTells@gmail.com.
NEW Tuesday 6 December 2016 2-4pm - "FirstTuesday"
Storytelling Cafe - Twyford House, Coburg Road, Sidmouth EX10 8NF
Come tell a story: personal, traditional, made up or family- or just listen to
someone else. Max 10 mins per story, and no reading aloud allowed. Just come and
have fun in a relaxed cosy, supportive setting. £3 to include refreshments.
Details from Janet on 07834 194215. Also runs on January 3.
UPDATED
Friday 24 June 2016
7.30pm - SidMouth StoryNight - Sidmouth Methodist Hall, High Street, Sidmouth
EX10 8LE
Spoken Word of SidMouth StoryNights present Storyteller Shonaleigh Cumbers
telling “The Tower of Bagel”. In medieval Odessa, a humble Jewish baker, Lemuel,
takes in a foundling who holds many secrets. He must tease out the tangled knot
of riddles and track the slow emergence of a recipe for a new kind of savoury
bread roll. Shonaleigh has travelled the world delighting audiences with this
popular mix of story, song, riddle and seeds of wisdom. She is probably the last
Drut’syla, a Jewish tradition of storytelling. Adv tickets £8 available from
Paragon Books, High Street, Sidmouth 01395 514516, or online at
https://billetto.co.uk/spoken-word-of-sidmouth-present-shonaleigh-cumbers,
or door £10. For more details call 07834 194215,
JanetTells@gmail.com.
NEW
Saturday 27
December 2025 - Twixt Christmas and
New Year
Céilidh with
The Offshoot Band -
South Brent Village Hall, Station Approach TQ10 9AQ (map)
details tba The annual ‘Twixt and Between’ ceilidh with The Offshoot Band (from
‘Spinach for Norman’).
http://southbrentfolk.org.uk.
https://www.facebook.com/SouthBrentFolk.
NEW Saturday 5
April 2025 7pm - Maggie Duffy with Bob Thomson - Old School Community
Centre, Totnes Rd, South Brent TQ10 9BP
Wonderful Brixham-based singer, songwriter and poet, Maggie Duffy, with her
long-time collaborator, guitarist Bob Thomson, draw from a varied repertoire of
songs and stories. Organised by South Brent Folk. Tickets £8; full details
http://southbrentfolk.org.uk.
https://www.facebook.com/SouthBrentFolk.
NEW
Friday 27
December 2024 7.30pm - Twixt Christmas and
New Year
Céilidh with
The Offshoot Band -
South Brent Village Hall, Station Approach TQ10 9AQ (map)
Caller Kip Pratt. Reel Ale Bar. Entry £8 (includes one free non-alcoholic
drink). Tickets on door or from artworks 01364 649424 /
shop@southbrentartworks.co.uk
in South Brent. For further information call 01364 73117.
NEW Saturday 21
December 2024 7pm - Harbottle & Jonas + Richard Trethewey - St Petroc`s Church,
12 Wellington Square, South Brent TQ10 9AG
Winter Warmer: A rare evening of winter songs, harmonies and carols. Partners in
life and music, dynamic Devon based folk duo Harbottle & Jonas are one of the
most exciting acts on the UK circuit today, combining a love of the richness of
traditional folk with their own original and powerful songwriting. Dave and
Freya have developed a distinct and compelling signature sound, blending
concertina, harmonium, cittern, stomp box, acoustic guitar and banjo with their
beautiful and closely intertwined vocal harmonies. Richard Trethewey grew up in
Cornwall surrounded by music and developed a keen interest in the traditional
music that tells the story of the remarkable history and people of this place.
Details
here.
NEW Friday 8
November 2024 7.45pm - War & Peace in Song in Devon - Old School Community
Centre, South Brent
Following their successful evening last November on the ‘Dartmoor Songmen’
and songs collected locally by Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, as Remembrance Day
approaches, musician and folk song expert Sam Richards, and
singer-songwriter-guitarist, Martin Scragg, take a look in song at Devon at War
& Peace. Organised by South Brent Folk. Tickets £8 from artworks 01364 649424 /
shop@southbrentartworks.co.uk
in South Brent, or on the door (if any left).
NEW Saturday 19 October 2024 7.30pm - Autumn
Ceilidh with Ashburton Community Folk Orchestra -
South Brent Village Hall, Station Approach TQ10 9AQ (map)
Caller: David Faulkner.
Reel Ale bar. Entry £8. Tickets on door or from artworks 01364 649424 /
shop@southbrentartworks.co.uk
in South Brent. For further information call 01364 73117.
www.southbrentfolk.org.uk.
NEW Friday 15
December 2023 7.30pm - Geoff Lakeman & Rob Murch - St Petroc`s Church,
12 Wellington Square, South Brent TQ10 9AG
The "Concertina Crooner" and the "Titan of Twang" team up in a dynamic
folk/acoustic duo. Geoff teases English and Irish folk, Americana and jazz songs
out of his vintage duet concertina. Rob brings the wow factor to the banjo, with
his unique,punchy fingerstyle playing. Expect self-written and West Country
songs, rattling folk tunes and foot-stomping ragtime and cakewalk riffs.
Details, tickets etc.
here.
NEW Saturday 25
March 2023
7.30pm -
Spring Ceilidh with Spinach for Norman -
South Brent Village Hall, Station Approach TQ10 9AQ (map)
Caller: Pam Hayes. Local ceilidh band, playing British traditional dance music
with lots of familiar jigs, reels and hornpipes (“but we sometimes crowbar a
Romanian Nut-Crushing dance and some American, Breton and Transylvanian flavours
into the mix...”). Dance your cares away - all welcome! Reel Ale bar and nibbles
available. Details, ticketing etc.
www.southbrentfolk.org.uk. This will be South Brent Folk’s first event since
the pandemic, with a concert at the beginning of July also being considered.
Keep an eye on the website.
NEW
Saturday 25 February 2017 7.30pm - Claude
Bourbon - Village Hall, Herring Street, South Pool, nr Kingsbridge
TQ7 2RP (map)
Claude is a classically trained virtuoso guitarist and a mesmerising performer.
You will find Latin, Spanish, gypsy, jazz, delta blues and mediaeval influences
throughout. Samples, videos etc.
www.claudebourbon.org.
Tickets £15, supper included. Doors open 7pm for supper at 7.30pm; concert
starts 8.30pm. For more info, ring 01548 531979 or email
madelinemarchand1@gmail.com.
Online tickets
www.reverbnation.com/show/17863442.
South Tawton Church House - ??call Andrew on 01837 840519 or 07773 321375. Details, bookings etc. www.liveandacoustic.co.uk, email andrew@frangleton.co.uk or call 01837 840775.
Feature Venue: Church
House, South Tawton, nr Okehampton EX20 2LQ (map)
Intimate cosy historical venue. Advanced booking highly recommended due to
limited capacity. See
www.liveandacoustic.co.uk for full details.
Concerts between now and the summer:
NEW Friday 9
May 2025 8pm - Keith Donnelly - Church House, South Tawton, nr
Okehampton EX20 2LQ (map)
Keith is a one-of-a-kind performer who never fails to entertain. His hilarious
stories, incredible guitar skills, and boundless energy make for a night filled
with fun, laughter, and outstanding folk music. Whether he’s spinning a tall
tale or delivering a heartfelt song, Keith’s performances are guaranteed to
leave you smiling. Dartmoor Folk Festival fundraiser. Details
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/chc/t-dvdvkme.
NEW Friday 15
November 2024 8pm - Detta Kenzie with Tobias ben Jacob - Church House, South Tawton, nr
Okehampton EX20 2LQ (map)
After her amazing performance at the Dartmoor Folk Festival, we are delighted
that Detta has been able to agree to doing a Church House Concert. It promises
to be an unforgettable evening, filled with her blend of traditional and
original material. Tickets £10. Details
www.thelittleboxoffice.com/liveandacoustic.
Friday 1 March 2019 8pm -
Edgelarks - St Andrews Church (adjacent to
the Church House), South Tawton, nr Okehampton EX20 2LQ (map)
BBC award winning duo Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin. Henry, slide
guitarist and harmonica player, has immersed himself in the music of the Deep
South of America, traditional music of the British Isles, and Indian classical
music. Specializing in lap slides techniques, his Dobro playing draws together
these diverse influences. His harmonica style combines country blues and folk
styles with beat-boxing to create a 21st-century harmonica sound heavily steeped
in tradition. Martin is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from
Devon. Writing mainly on fiddle, viola, and banjo, and drawing on the traditions
of the British Isles. The concert is one in a series of preview tours to
showcase their new album.
www.philliphenryandhannahmartin.co.uk. Venue changed
from usual Church House due to overwhelming demand for tickets. Call
01837 840775 or
email
andrew@frangleton.co.uk to book tickets @ £10.
www.liveandacoustic.co.uk.
NEW
11-13 August 2023 - Dartmoor Folk Festival - South Zeal near Okehampton
Friday & Saturday ceilidhs. Artists - Friday: Sykes Martin; Jim Causley.
Saturday: Rura; Magpie Lane; Jack Rutter; Keith Donnelly; Sara Grey & Riley
Baugus. Sunday: Harbottle & Jonas; Geoff Lakeman & Rob Murch; Mariners
Away. Morris. Step dancing. etc. Details
www.dartmoorfolkfestival.org.uk.
NEW Saturday 15 February 2020 8pm -
Winter Ceilidh with Dartmoor Pixie Band & Friends
- Victory Hall, South Zeal, near Okehampton EX20 2JT (map)
Floor spot from the fantastic
'Zeal'. Adult £8, children free. Bring & share supper, tea/coffee/squash;
no bar, BYO. All proceeds to the Dartmoor Folk Festival.
NEW Saturday 6 April 2019 8pm -
Ceilidh
- Victory Hall, South Zeal, near Okehampton EX20 2JT (map)
Organised by Ruth Frangleton as a fundraier to contribute to her trip to the
World Scout Jamboree this summer. It is a family friendly dance so all are
welcome, please bring food for the bring and share supper (if you are able to),
also feel free to bring your own drinks too. The band is mainly made up of
musicians from the Exeter based band ‘Pigs Might Fly’, with Rosie Bains calling.
Adult £8,child £4. More information at
www.facebook.com/events/2050000541780728/?ti=ia.
NEW Monday 31 December 2018 8pm -
New Years Eve Ceilidh
- Victory Hall, South Zeal, near Okehampton EX20 2JT (map)
With guest band led by Mike Palmer and Colin Andrews. Floor spots. Bring
and share buffet. BYO drinks. Tickets in advance or on the door, but it would be
really nice to know that you are coming so if possible do let us know in
advance, adult £6; child £2. If you would like to welcome in the New Year with
friends old and new please call 01837 840519 or
email
andrew@frangleton.co.uk to book tickets.
NEW Saturday 9 December 2018 8pm -
Christmas Party Ceilidh with Dartmoor Pixie Band & Friends
- Victory Hall, South Zeal, near Okehampton EX20 2JT (map)
Guest appearance from Zeal. Adult £7, child free (must be accompanied by
an adult) - Bring and Share supper - no bar so please bring your own. All
welcome a fun evening for all of the family.
tbc
Friday 19 December 2025 -
Jim Causley & Miranda Sykes - St Paul's
Church, Church Street, Starcross EX6 8QB
details tba Christmas show
NEW Saturday 26
November 2022 2.30pm -
A Christmas with Jim Causley - St Paul's
Church, Church Street, Starcross EX6 8QB
An afternoon of Devon songs with a Christmas twist to star getting us all in
the mood. Followed by mulled punch and festive nibbles (so much more enjoyable
at the start of the Christmas season). The church is the only one in the
village; disabled access. Parking on playing field and some for people with a
disability in school car park. Tickets £10 adv.
www.wegottickets.com/event/551203, £12 door (cash only).
NEW Saturday 21
May 2022 2.30pm -
Jim Causley - St Paul's Church, Church
Street, Starcross EX6 8QB
Afternoon concert of Devon songs and stories
given by a good Devon boy in the shape of Jim Causley. Concert followed by a
Devon Cream Tea (done proper). Tickets £8 on door, or £7.50 adv from 01626
890957.
Starcross Concert News
The Ange Hardy concert at St Paul's Church scheduled for 6 October has
unfortunately been cancelled, but two new concerts there have just been
announced:
Friday 25 January 2019 - Jim Causley
-
details
www.wegottickets.com/event/450530
Friday 15 February 2019 -
Jackie Oates -
details
www.wegottickets.com/event/450407
The Starcross concerts aim to raise money to keep the church going and make it a
more viable community building.
NEW Saturday 21 March 2020 7.30pm
-
Songwriters Circle with Tobias Ben Jacob -
St Paul's Church, Church Street, Starcross EX6 8QB
Songwriters Circle is Greg Hancock and Alex Seel.
www.circletour.co.uk.
Greg has known Tobias and loved his music since they first met when Greg set up
home in Exeter in 2012. Tobias can write in styles that seem simple, and equally
in more complex structures, but what always comes across is the precision and
beauty of his guitar playing supporting his passionate, ethereal singing and
extraordinarily emotional and moving lyrics. In the beautiful venue of St Pauls,
where Greg has played several times and Alex and he did a Songwriters Circle in
2019, the sound of Tobias’s vocals reverberating around the rafters will be
stunning!
www.tobiasbenjacob.com. Tickets: £10 from
www.wegottickets.com/event/490115.
NEW Tuesday 18 February 2020 - New
session, mainly Scottish tunes - Galleon Inn, Starcross
"I am setting up a new session night, focusing mainly on Scottish tunes.
It's going to take place on the third Tuesday of the month, starting February
18th at the in Starcross. All abilities welcome as we will spend the first part
learning tunes (aurally). I anticipate things will 'speed up' (or not, if it's
an Air or Waltz :-)) as the group/evening progresses. Anyone interested in
coming along please join the Facebook group 'Starcross Sessions'. Jo Hooper."
NEW Thursday 23 January 2020 7pm -
Harbottle & Jonas - Staverton Court Room, Mill Lane, Staverton, Totnes TQ9 6PD
(map)
Harbottle & Jonas will be storytelling and performing ‘Songs and Stories of The
Sea’ including the woeful story of the lost village of Hall Sands and other
historic happenings. £5 admission on door (no adv tickets), includes slice of
cake and a drink (free admission for school age children). Net proceeds to the
upkeep of the village hall and playing fields.
Sterts Theatre, Upton Cross nr Liskeard
NEW Friday 1
December 2023 7.30pm - Sarah McQuaid - Sterts Studio, Upton Cross, Liskeard
PL14 5AZ (map)
Sarah McQuaid’s lush, chocolatey voice combines with her engaging personality,
“subtle mastery onstage” (Huffington Post) and “brilliant musicianship” (fRoots)
on acoustic and electric guitars, piano and (occasionally) drum to create a
truly immersive experience.
www.sarahmcquaid.com.
Details www.sterts.co.uk.
NEW Friday 4
November 2022 7.30pm - Sarah McQuaid - Sterts Theatre, Upton Cross, Liskeard
PL14 5AZ (map)
“She reached parts other singers fail to do ... There is emotion, beauty,
passion and musically great arrangements and fab playing. ” - Rob Bozas, Bozas
International (Publisher, Peter Gabriel/Real World); “Captivating, unorthodox
songwriting … layered satin vocals ... enthralling, harrowing arrangements … a
gateway into a true innovator’s soul.” - PopMatters; “Her subtle mastery onstage
launches her straight into my fave shows ever.” - Huffington Post.
www.sarahmcquaid.com.
Details www.sterts.co.uk.
NEW
Sunday 22 September 2024 - Jim Causley:
Afternoon Tea Concert - St Mary's Church, Sticklepath EX20 2NL
Tickets
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW
Sunday 28 November 2021 3pm -
Jim Causley: A Causley Christmas!
- St Mary's Church, Sticklepath EX20 2NL
Join Jim in celebrating the Christmas season as he entertains you with lesser
known West Country carols, medieval and secular carols from around the British
Isles, his own settings of moving Christmas poems by his relative, the late
Cornish poet Charles Causley as well a gurt dollop of festive fun with songs of
over-indulgence and even a spot of panto too!
www.jimcausley.co.uk/concerts. Tickets available from early November. Call
Carol on 01837 840822 or email
carolandmikey@gmail.com.
NEW
Friday 21 February 2025 7pm - Cole Stacey - St Michael & All Angels Church,
Stockland, nr Honiton EX14 9BR
(map)
'Postcards From Lost Places' album launch. With explorations into traditional
songwriting and verse in his blood, Cole will be sharing his debut album to
audiences far beyond his Dartmoorian horizons. At its heart is a symbiosis of
‘lost’ places and forgotten words, stretching as far back as the 13th century,
paired with Cole’s distinctive lyrical songwriting and remarkable field
recordings. “Cole’s soaring vocals were a highlight of an electrifying
performance, nothing short of mesmerizing” Scottish Music Network.
www.colestacey.net.
Doors 6.30pm. Tickets £14 from
www.ticketsource.co.uk/stockland-promoters/t-jzyrxox, or call Wendy 01404
881207 for access arrangements. Parking
available at Stockland Village Hall car park EX14 9EF (bring torch).
NEW
Saturday 16 March 2024 7.30pm - Jim Causley: ‘Songs of Devon and some…’ St Michael & All Angels Church,
Stockland, nr Honiton EX14 9BR
(map)
A concert with award winning singer/musician Jim Causley including tunes
composed by Stockland fiddle player Fred Pidgeon and a special set ‘The
Stockland Stomp’ featuring Fred’s tunes with Otter Morris Dancers. Jim Causley a
proud Devonian, has dedicated much of his career to researching and reviving the
forgotten gems of songs from his native southwest. Jim is an all-round
entertainer, and his concerts give a full night of beautiful singing, moving
ballads and hilarious ditties. Adult £10 Under 25 £5 Book online
www.ticketsource.co.uk/stockland-promoters/t-yamleel.
NEW
Saturday 5 October 2019 7.30pm - Steve Knightley: Old Songs & New
Songs -
St Michael & All Angels Church,
Stockland, nr Honiton EX14 9BR
(map)
Book tickets £16 adv. from Wendy on 01404 881207, £18 door. Parking
available at Stockland Village Hall car park EX14 9EF.
NEW Friday 22
February 2019 8pm - Track Dogs - Stockland Village Hall, nr
Honiton
EX14 9EF
call Wendy: 01404 881207. Pop-Up Pub, all profits to Stockland
Village Hall.
NEW
Friday 13 June 2025 evening - Ceilidh for Ukraine with Blue Jewel Ceilidh
Band - Hunts Cider, Coombe House Lane, Stoke Gabriel, TQ9 6PU
Details tba Blue Jewel's fourth ceilidh raising funds for Ukrainian Action.
https://bluejewel.info/.
www.huntscider.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 7 June 2025 7.30pm - Cosgrave & Banks - Church of St Mary & St Gabriel,
Church Walk, Stoke Gabriel, Totnes TQ9 6SD
A rare chance to hear the delightful combined musicianship of south Devon duo
Steve Banks and Mike Cosgrave, with an intriguing smorgasbord of beautiful tunes
and songs, traditional and contemporary, from various corners of the British
Isles and Europe. Part of the Stoke Gabriel concert series. “This is a truly
captivating CD that touches the very depth of being as only music can.” - The
Living Tradition. Tickets £10 on door. Doors 7pm.
www.cosgraveandbanks.com.
NEW Saturday
18 January 2025 - The 30th Annual Stoke Gabriel Wassail
A magical evening of ‘Cider, Culture & Cheer’ organised as a fundraiser by the
‘Friends of Stoke Gabriel School’ (FOSS), the Annual Wassail is a very popular
event. Apple Wassailing is a revived, ancient tradition performed in many
villages around 'Old Twelfth Night' to bless the cider apples and orchards and
encourage a good crop in the coming year. Entertainment will include various
musicians, Beltane Border Morris; Bovey Tracey Mummers Play; Elfic the Juggler;
The South Devon Wassail Singers and other acts. Keep an eye out for more details
at:
www.facebook.com/stokegabrielwassail.
NEW
Friday 20 December 2024 6.30pm - Ceilidh For Ukraine with Blue Jewel Ceilidh
Band - Stoke Gabriel & Torquay Police Football Club, Broadley Lane, Stoke
Gabriel TQ9 6RR
Blue Jewel’s third ceilidh raising funds for Ukrainian Action, a fantastic
charity supporting the survival and development of Ukraine. A number of men from
Stoke Gabriel have been drivers for Ukrainian Action convoys taking humanitarian
aid to Ukraine over the last two years. Food and drink from 6.30pm. Full details
at www.bluejewel.info.
Tickets from
www.wegottickets.com/event/635687.
NEW Thursday 1 August 2024 7pm -
Tall Ships & Tall Tales - Village
Hall, School Hill, Stoke Gabriel TQ9 6QX (map)
Part of Stoke Gabriel's Carnival Week. An evening of fabulous sing-along songs
from All Hands On Deck and Carport Extension. Sea shanties and songs of the sea;
songs from the land and the countryside.
BYO drink, some nibbles provided. Audience participation actively encouraged
(chorus sheets will be provided). Limited tickets, book early. Tickets £10,
child £5. Call
Dave 07989 542883 or e,ail dave.peace@btinternet.com.
NEW Saturday 20
July 2024 6.30pm – Ceilidh with Blue Jewel Ceilidh Band – Broadleigh Farm, Stoke
Gabriel TQ9 6PU
Following a great success last summer, this is the second ceilidh and hog roast,
hosted by Hunts Cider, raising funds for Ukrainian Action, a charity supporting
the survival and development of Ukraine. A number of men from Stoke Gabriel have
been drivers for Ukrainian Action convoys taking humanitarian aid to Ukraine
over the last two years. Ceilidh times 7.30-10pm. Full details, ticketing info
etc. see www.bluejewel.info.
NEW Saturday 3
June 2023 7.30pm - RNLI Fundraising Concert - Village
Hall, School Hill, Stoke Gabriel TQ9 6QX (map)
A special evening of sea shanties, sea songs and music of the sea, featuring All
Hands On Deck shanty crew, Hugh & Mark, Time and Tide, Gareth & Friends. BYO
drinks, nibbles provided. Tickets £10 from 07989 542883 or email
dave.peace@btinternet.com.
NEW Thursday 4
August 2022 7.30pm - Sea Shanties, Sea Songs and Music of the Sea - Village
Hall, School Hill, Stoke Gabriel TQ9 6QX (map)
Part of Stoke Gabriel's Carnival Week. A special evening featuring the village's
own sea shanty crew 'All Hands On Deck' and several excellent local musicians.
BYO drink, some nibbles provided. Audience participation actively encouraged
(chorus sheets will be provided). Limited tickets, book early. Tickets £10: call
01803 782701 or email dave.peace@btinternet.com.
NEW Saturday 1 February 2020 7.30pm - Ceilidh
with Blue Jewel Ceilidh Band - Stoke Gabriel Football Club, Broadley Lane, Stoke
Gabriel, Totnes, TQ9 6RR
Hosted by Stoke Gabriel Boating Association. Tickets £8 adults, £3 children,
available from Roz’s, Stoke Gabriel Stores.
NEW
Friday 19 November 2021 - Ralph McTell - The Brewhouse, Taunton TA1 1JL
The only 'Hill of Beans' tour in the South-West.
www.thebrewhouse.net.
NEW Sunday 2
November 2025 7.30pm - This Flight Tonight: The Songs of Joni Mitchell - Tavistock Wharf (map)
Seated. An intimate acoustic tribute to the music of Joni Mitchell, With
a full and comprehensive performance of Joni's most beloved album 'Blue' in its
entirety. 'Blue' is regarded by audiences and critics as one of the greatest
albums of all time. Mitchell's honesty, musical prowess and iconic voice invites
the audience into Joni's experience of living and loving through the complex era
of social change of the early 1970s. Details
www.tavistockwharf.com.
NEW Saturday 29
March 2025 7pm - Lodestone 20th Birthday Ceilidh with 4 Feet First - Town Hall,
Bedford Square, Tavistock PL19 0RG
A night of song and dance to celebrate 20 years of Lodestone Border Morris.
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/638617.
NEW Sunday 22 &
Monday 23
December 2024 8pm - Mad Dog Mcrea - Tavistock Wharf (map)
Seated+standing. Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy
jazz, bluegrass and ‘shake your ass’ music. From self-penned songs of adventure,
drinking, love and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless
pirates and black flies – Mad Dog never fail to capture their audience with
their infectious songs. In constant demand and having played just about every
festival and two-bit, jibe-arsed dive in Christendom, Mad Dog Mcrea are, in
every sense of the word, a live, band. Details
www.tavistockwharf.com.
NEW Thursday 19
December 2024 7.30pm - Wheelhouse Folk Choir: Sing We All Merrily - Town Hall,
Bedford Square, Tavistock PL19 0RG
Join Tavistock's vibrant and expressive mixed-voice folk choir for their annual
winter concert of a cappella folk songs to celebrate the winter season. The
choir are celebrated for their complex and textured arrangements and for the
high quality of their singing. Directed by Julu Irvine and Heg Brignall of folk
duo Suthering, you can expect some festive favourites alongside more unusual
traditional and contemporary folk songs as well as some original songs written
by Julu and Heg. This year, proceeds will go towards the choir making their
first recording with sales of the finished recording going to charity. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/639115.
NEW
Wednesday 27 November 2024 7.30pm - Ralph McTell with Dave Pegg -
Tavistock Wharf (map)
Ralph McTell and Dave Pegg have been friends for more than 50 years. They have
played on each others albums, performed at each others concerts and have shared
family life’s ups and downs. This is the first time that they will play as a
duo. Join them for an evening of songs and stories from a lifetime on the road.
Details
www.tavistockwharf.com.
NEW/tbc
Sunday 17 November 2024 7.30pm - Big Yellow Tambourine Man Band -
Tavistock Wharf (map)
Be transported by faithful renditions of some of the most iconic songs from the
two greatest singer-songwriters of modern times, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.
The show is the brainchild of Devon-based singer-songwriter Isabelle Nutton and
Cape Town guitarist and singer Bob Thomson, conceived after discovering a shared
fascination with Mitchell’s and Dylan’s imagery, poetry and artistry. There
followed a dive into - and a subsequent obsession with - two parallel worlds of
genius: phrasings, tunings and arrangements; dulcimers, Wurlitzers and
harmonicas; histories, fantasies and rivalries; to create a show that pays
utmost respect to the craft of their musical idols. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/622081. tickets not
currently available at 240528
tbc
Sunday
17 March 2024
- Baskery -
Kings, Pixon Lane, Tavistock PL19 9AZ
Fundraiser for Whitchurch Primary School. Baskery is a Swedish alternative Americana folk
rock trio comprising sisters Greta (banjo, drums, vocals), Stella (double bass,
vocals) and Sunniva (guitar, vocals) Bondesson. Spinning outlander folk and
angrily countrified stateside traditions through an original emotion storm of
turbulent energy and magnificent, Euro-refined artistry Baskery have been
expanding minds around the globe with ear-splitting, explosive live
performances.
www.baskeryband.com/tour-dates.
NEW Sunday
28 January 2024 7.30pm - Sarah McQuaid - Tavistock Wharf (map)
Singer songwriter Sarah McQuaid’s lush, chocolatey voice combines with her
engaging personality, “subtle mastery onstage” (Huffington Post) and “brilliant
musicianship” (fRoots) on acoustic and electric guitars, piano and
(occasionally) drum to create a truly immersive experience. “One of the most
instantly recognisable voices in current music … Shades of Joni Mitchell in a
jam with Karen Carpenter and Lana Del Rey.” Neil March, Trust The Doc. Details
www.tavistockwharf.com.
NEW Wednesday 19
July 2023 7.30pm -
Wheelhouse Folk Choir - Spyder Studios,
Abbey Garden Building, Union Mine Road, Tavistock PL19 0PW
"The Wheelhouse Folk Choir in Tavistock
[a 45 strong mixed voice a
cappella choir]
create an inspiring and joyous sound, bringing together a diverse group of
people who obviously enjoy each other’s company and take delight in the shared
beauty of song. Under the talented vision and leadership of Heg Brignall and
Julu Irvine of folk duo
Suthering the choir sing a wonderful variety of material designed
to lift the spirits and soothe the soul." Kathryn Roberts. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/582151. For more info and other (free)
appearances in Tavistock see
www.wheelhousefolkchoir.co.uk.
NEW Thursday 22
December 2022 7.30pm - Wheelhouse Folk Choir: A Winter's Night - St Eustachius
Church, 5A Plymouth Rd, Tavistock PL19 8AU
The choir will be singing a selection of songs inspired by winter; from
contemporary songwriters including Olivia Chaney, The Decemberists, Karine
Polwart and The Staves, to exciting and original interpretations of traditional
folk songs. The choir are known for their varied and complex arrangements and
the high standard of their singing. Join them for a night of moving, dramatic
folk songs to celebrate winter. All proceeds to charity. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/560242.
NEW
Friday 17 December 2021 7.30pm - Wheelhouse Folk
Choir Winter Concert - Tavistock United Reform Church, Russell St, Tavistock
PL19 8BD
Presented by: Dartmoor Folk Collective. Join Tavistock’s 45 strong folk choir
for an evening of exciting a cappella music for the festive season. With mulled
apple juice and mince pies. Proceeds to a local charity.
www.facebook.com/wheelhousefolkchoir.
Session news Tuesday 24 January 2017 8pm -
Acoustic Evening, Copper Penny Inn, Chipshop, Tavistock PL19 8NT
Following on from two trial sessions held last September and October: Monthly
acoustic evening, 4th Tuesday of the month, starting 8pm. Held in the large
skittle alley next to the bar and all acoustic musicians and singers are
welcome. The format is individual or group performances and not a jam session
and absolutely no amps! For more information email mitilmusic[at]gmail.com or
call 07725 579718.
Note also: Mike & Tilly also a regular acoustic session on the second Tuesday of
each month at the Boot Inn in Calstock. The sessions start around 8.15pm and are
'around the table' sessions with singers and acoustic musicians welcome to come
along and do their stuff. We also get a few people coming along to listen, too.
We usually get a mixture of folk, blues, Americana, old time and a cappella
singers too. The sessions are friendly and informal.
NEW Saturday 18
January 2025 5pm -
Halstow Wassail - Tedburn St Mary
Jim Causley is involved. Grays Devon Cider, Halstow Farm, Tedburn St
Mary.
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
UPDATED
Saturday 25
March 2023 - The Exmouth Shanty Men - Village Hall, Crediton Road, Tedburn St
Mary, Exeter EX6 6DZ
Another outing of our Tall Ships and Tavern Tales concert. But don't
forget, no two Tall Ships and Tavern Tales concerts are the same, so no need to
limit yourself to one viewing! BYO alcohol and glasses. VH fundraiser. £10
(incl. pasty, tea/coffee); £5 child. Contact Sara Smale on 07801 535 323 or
email booking.tsmvillagehall@gmail.com.
NEW Sunday 27
November 2022 7.30pm - A Causley Christmas - St Mary Methodist Chapel, 6 School
Lane, Tedburn St Mary EX6 6AA
An evening of Devon songs with a Christmas twist
with Jim Causley. Tickets 07837 532704 or
tsmtickets@btinternet.com.
NEW Sunday 28
November 2021 7.30pm - Johnny Coppin: ‘All on a Winter’s Night’ - St Mary
Methodist Chapel, School Lane, Tedburn St Mary EX6 6AA
With Paul Burgess & Dik Cadbury Drawing on material from five Christmas albums,
Johnny will present a rich mix of carols and songs old and new, together with
stories and folklore. Tickets available from
www.wegottickets.com/event/519553, or contact Pete Privett direct for more
details or non-web bookings -
tsmtickets@btinternet.com or 07837 532704.
NEW Sunday 1
December 2019 7.30pm -
Johnny Coppin ‘All on a Winter’s Night’ - Tedburn St Mary Methodist Church,
School Lane, Exeter EX6 6AA
Carols, songs and stories with Johnny Coppin, accompanied by Paul Burgess and
Dik Cadbury. ‘Unquestionably at the top of his game’ Acoustic Magazine.
Information from Pete Privett on 07837 532704 or
tsmtickets@btinternet.com.
Tickets
www.wegottickets.com/event/484603.
NEW
Saturday 14 September 2019 - Tedburn Fair - Tedburn St Mary, Exeter EX6 6EN
On the Kings Arms Music Stage at the event: 3pm FOS Brothers 4.30m Marnie and
6pm Dirty Money with Sarah Jory. Details, band videos etc.
www.facebook.com/events/2237122276598132.
£6 on gate, U14 free.
NEW
Friday 31 August 2018 9pm - FOS Brothers - Kings Arms, Tedburn St Mary,
Exeter EX6 6EG
2 sets starting 9pm. Full 4 piece band with Sam, Dave, Pete Bingham bass and
Rom Dobbs drums. Weather looking OK so we will be outside in the fresh air!
"Highly recommended to lovers of folk with a progressive world music twist.
In full flow this band is phenomenal without losing touch of their folk
roots" (Tony Colvill).
www.fosbrothers.com.
NEW
Monday 7 April 2025 8pm
- Graham Butterfield - Teignmouth Folk Club, The Brass, Hollands Road,
Teignmouth TQ14 8SR
Guest night with Graham Butterfield. Free admission.
More details from Martyn Hillstead 07904 037812. Club Facebook page
www.facebook.com/groups/233792233306152.
NEW
Monday 6 January 2025 8pm
- Steve Gill - Teignmouth Folk Club, The Brass, Hollands Road,
Teignmouth TQ14 8SR
Guest night with Steve Gill. Free admission.
More details from Martyn Hillstead 07904 037812. Club Facebook page
www.facebook.com/groups/233792233306152.
NEW
Monday 7 October 2024 8pm
- Celtic Dawn - Teignmouth Folk Club, The Brass, Hollands Road,
Teignmouth TQ14 8SR
Guest night with Celtic Dawn. Free admission.
More details from Martyn Hillstead 07904 037812. Club Facebook page
www.facebook.com/groups/233792233306152.
NEW
Monday 1 July 2024 8pm
- Bow Movement - Teignmouth Folk Club, The Brass, Hollands Road,
Teignmouth TQ14 8SR
Guest night with Bow Movement shanty crew. Free admission.
More details from Martyn Hillstead 07904 037812. Club Facebook page
www.facebook.com/groups/233792233306152.
NEW
Monday 1 April 2024 8pm
- Silvington - Teignmouth Folk Club, The Brass, Hollands Road,
Teignmouth TQ14 8SR
Guest night with Silvington. Free admission.
More details from Martyn Hillstead 07904 037812. Club Facebook page
www.facebook.com/groups/233792233306152.
NEW
Monday 6 November 2023 8pm
- Teignmouth Folk Club, The Brass, Hollands Road, Teignmouth TQ14 8SR
Singers' & Musicians' Open Night. Free admission /
raffle / collection. Further details from Martyn Hillstead 07904 037812. Club Facebook page
www.facebook.com/groups/233792233306152.
NEW
Monday 5 June 2023 8pm
- Teignmouth Folk Club, The Brass, Hollands Road, Teignmouth TQ14 8SR
Now in its 20th year.
Singers' & Musicians' Open Night. Free. Free
admission. More details from Martyn Hillstead 01626 778071. Club Facebook page
www.facebook.com/groups/233792233306152.
NEW Fri-Sun 20-22 June 2025 - Teignmouth Folk Festival
The festival starts on Friday evening with the
first of paid three concerts and offers free dance and music in the town centre
and along the seafront on Saturday and Sunday (including the City of Plymouth
Pipe Band, The DillyBoys, Teignmouth Youth Choir, Rypen, The Out of Tunas, Devon
Youth Folk Ensemble + various workshops and sessions. Full details on the
brand-new website
www.teignmouthfolkfestival.co.uk.
Concerts at St James Church, Daimonds Lane, Teignmouth TQ14 9HX (advance
ticket prices +50p booking fee, see website):
Friday 20 June 8pm - The Rosie Hood Band - £16 adv; £18 door.
Saturday 21 June 8pm - Nancy Kerr & James Fagan - £18 adv; £20 door.
Sunday 22 June 3pm - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir - £13 adv; £15 door.
Nancy and James are also running a song workshop on Sunday. Nancy will teach
music collected in North Devon, as she's one of the co-investigators on a major
national research project called Music Heritage Place, unlocking manuscripts
held in county records across England. Information on the website.
NEW
Saturday 22 February 2025 7.30pm - Adam Guerrero - Ice Factory, 10 Somerset
Place, Teignmouth TQ14 8EN
Adam, from Seville in Spain, comes to the UK for the first time to promote his
third CD of self composed songs and tunes. Expect an evening mix of blues,
ragtime and folk mixed in with Spanish and spaghetti western influences and a
hint of Pink Floyd... . With superb musicianship... Intrigued? Tickets are
priced for you to come and see and hear for yourself! Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/636125.
NEW
Saturday 25 January 2025 2pm - Out of Tunas & Guests Shanty Festival - New Quay
Inn, New Quay Street, Teignmouth TQ14 8DA
Mini, afternoon shanty singsong.
NEW
Sunday 24 November 2024 2-5pm - Festival
Fundraising Ceilidh with Fiddling Fish - Richard Newton Hall, Higher Buckeridge
Road, Teignmouth TQ14 8QP
Afternoon ceilidh, suitable for families, fundraising for Teignmouth Folk Festival. Callers: Debs Rendell
&
Sara Dillon. Details via
www.facebook.com/TeignmouthFolkFestival.
NEW 21/23 June 2024 - Teignmouth Folk Festival
A weekend of dance and music in the Triangle and
around the town.
www.teignmouthfolkfestival.co.uk,
www.facebook.com/TeignmouthFolkFestival, email
info@teignmouthfolkfestival.co.uk:
• Friday 21 June 7.30pm - Concert with Granny's Attic - St. James Church, St.
James Precinct, Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth, Devon, TQ14 9BT Tickets £18 adv,
£20 door.
• Saturday 22 June 7.30pm - Concert with SykesMartin - St. James Church, St.
James Precinct, Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth, Devon, TQ14 9BT Tickets £18 adv,
£20 door.
• Sunday 23 June 5.30pm - Family Ceilidh with The Wren Music Folk Orchestra of
East Devon - The Strand Centre, The Strand, Dawlish, EX7 9PT Tickets £10 adult,
£5 U16 (must be accompanied). Food/drink available.
• Over 25 dance sides during the weekend in The Triangle, Teignmouth plus The
Estuary Band, Teignmouth Youth Choir, Mother's Ruin, The Back Beach Boyz and
Celtic Dawn - donations.
NEW
Saturday 27 April 2024 2.30pm - Festival
Fundraising Concert - St. James Church, Teignmouth TQ14 9BT
12 local artists performing 24 tracks. Only £5 per ticket - all moneys raised go
to the 2024 Teignmouth Folk Festival. PLUS our fundraising CD launch only £5
each Teas, coffees, cold drinks and snacks. For tickets call Martyn on 07904
037812 or
info@teignmouthfolkfestival.co.uk.
NEW
Friday 8 March 2024 - Just the B's Knees -
Bicton Park Sports Field, Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth TQ14 9DQ
Banned from the Moor and the Back Beach Boyz combine to provide an evening of
excitement and toe tapping / dancing fun. Doors 8pm. 100% charity event, free
entry, £5 suggested donation. Details
www.devonfolk.org/events-diary.
NEW
8-10 September 2023 - Teign Maritime & Shanty
Festival - Teignmouth/Shaldon
Details
www.teignshantyfestival.co.uk. Collecting donations over the festival
weekend for the RNLI, Rowcroft Hospice, Teign Heritage Centre and the Alice
Cross Centre. 50 groups.
NEW
Saturday 15 April 2023 2- 4pm - Fiddle Workshop:
Tom McConville - The Riviera, 4 Den Crescent, Teignmouth TQ14 8BQ
NEW
Saturday 15 April 2023 8pm - Tom McConville in
concert - The Riviera, 4 Den Crescent, Teignmouth TQ14 8BQ
Workshop admission £10. Limited concert tickets available £15. Advance
reservations only. Reservations and information to Hugh on 01626 775517 or email
hughdiamond1@hotmail.com.
Teignmouth - Pavilions Teignmouth
NEW Sunday 23
February 2025 7.30pm - The Irish House Party -
Pavilions Teignmouth, The Den, Teignmouth TQ14 8BG
At last, an Irish music show that has come out of Ireland without the clichés
that usually follow! There are no flat caps or twee costumes here. Instead you
get incredibly talented musicians and dancers who simply want to bring you the
sound and fun of Ireland in an intimate and homely setting. Details
www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk.
NEW
Friday 31 January
2025 7.30pm - Ceilidh with Banned From The Moor
-
Pavilions Teignmouth, The Den, Teignmouth TQ14 8BG
Suitable for all ages. Caller Jayne Boswell will talk you through all the
moves and you don’t need any prior experience to enjoy this toe-tapping
extravaganza. Details
www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk. Part of
the 3-day TeignMove Dance Festival (www.teignmove.co.uk).
NEW Saturday 2
November
2024 7.30pm - Tannahill Weavers -
Pavilions Teignmouth, The Den, Teignmouth TQ14 8BG
Traditional Celtic music at its best! With fire-driven instrumentals, topical
songs, haunting ballads and a good dose of humour, the Tannahill Weavers have
transformed traditional material and brought it into the modern world, vitally
alive and kicking. Recently they have been joined by piper Iain MacGillivray,
who is Scotland’s youngest Clan leader and has worked recently on such exciting
productions as Outlander and Men in Kilts, and has performed for a huge list of
stars and dignitaries in recent years. Details
www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk.
NEW Wednesday 9
October
2024 7.30pm - The Magpies -
Pavilions Teignmouth, The Den, Teignmouth TQ14 8BG
Transatlantic folk band The Magpies are quickly becoming one of the most
exciting and innovative acts on the contemporary roots scene. Combining sublime
harmonies with exquisite musicianship and impressive songwriting, The Magpies
traverse Anglo and American roots, drawing inspiration from traditional Celtic
folk, bluegrass and Appalachian trails, to create an effortless melting pot of
music. Details
www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk.
NEW Sunday
26 May
2024 7.30pm - Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years -
Pavilions Teignmouth, The Den, Teignmouth TQ14 8BG
The most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon &
Garfunkel. Made up of Dan Haynes & Pete Richards, Bookends have toured the globe
extensively Performing the songs in a truly captivating way, against a backdrop
of iconic imagery, their delicate recreation of the unmistakable sound of the
American folk-rock duo is something of a masterpiece. Details
www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk.
NEW Wednesday 15
May 2024 7.30pm -
Gigspanner Trio - Pavilions Teignmouth, The Den, Teignmouth TQ14 8BG
Gigsapanner: Peter Knight, Roger Flack, Sacha
Trochet. “With the flick of a bow, a finely chosen chord or slip of a beat,
Gigspanner produce richly atmospheric arrangements with notes seemingly plucked
from the stars and rhythms from the equator” - Spiral Earth. “Gigspanner are
marking out a distinctive zone of their own, melodically folk-rooted yet open
and inventive beyond constraints of genre. It is Intelligent, multi-lingual
music making" The Wire. Details
www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk.
NEW Monday 6 May 2024 7.30pm -
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman - Pavilions Teignmouth, The Den, Teignmouth TQ14 8BG
One of the UK’s favourite folk duos, husband and
wife Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman understand the importance of coming
together as they live in a small village themselves. They bring a variety of
songs and stories, based in tradition, presented in an intimate, friendly style.
With a simple setup of guitar, piano and vocals they present an evening of pure
emotion, shared experience and sheer joy in what they do. Details
www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk.
NEW Friday 3
November 2023 7.30pm - Sarah McQuaid - Pavilions Teignmouth, The Den, Teignmouth TQ14 8BG
Sarah McQuaid’s lush, chocolatey voice combines with her engaging personality,
“subtle mastery onstage” (Huffington Post) and “brilliant musicianship” (fRoots)
on acoustic and electric guitars, piano and (occasionally) drum to create a
truly immersive experience. Details
www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk.
NEW Friday 6
October
2023 7.30pm - Flats & Sharps - Pavilions Teignmouth, The Den, Teignmouth TQ14 8BG
Four-piece Bluegrass outfit from Penzance. Their shows include a wide variety of
influences, from a fresh and modern outlook on foot-stomping Bluegrass material
through to their powerful and well-crafted original songs, with beautiful
moments everywhere in between. Their music perfectly blends strong harmonies and
stonking solos, their incredible stage presence and energy create an evening
that'll have you dancing, laughing and singing along in no time. Details
www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk.
NEW Friday 19 July
2024 7pm - Miranda Sykes & Jim Causley - Providence Chapel, Throwleigh EX20 2HZ
Miranda and Jim give an intimate concert. Tickets £15 available from
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
Includes drinks and Margaret's famous home-baked hospitality!
NEW Saturday 14 October 2017 7.30pm - Nicky
Swann - St Mary's Church, Throwleigh, NE Dartmoor EX20 2HU
(map)
Award winning UK singer songwriter Nicky Swann showcases songs from her
latest album.'Tell Them Of Us' is a dark, simmering journey through family
history, based around her Uncle’s role as an RAF bomb aimer during the second
World War Burma campaign. The songs becomes a vehicle for questioning our moral
compass and how we are connected to the past. Visit Nicky's website for a taste
of her music
www.nickyswann.com. Tickets £10 to include interval refreshments can be
booked in advance on 01647 231252 or 01647 21564.
NEW
Saturday 27 April 2024 12.30-3pm - Spring into
Summer Frawsy - Village Hall, Lower Town, Sampford Peverell, Tiverton EX16 7FB
We invite you to share a free cream tea with us, also to bring along your
favourite Devon dishes, recipes, memories and stories. Entertainment by folk
musician Jim Causley. Plus - We'll be hosting "A bit of a conflab" - where we
can get together to explore what Devon means to you. Can't wait! Admission free
but contributions are welcome. Places limited - please sign up to secure yours.
Details
www.devonvoice.org/spring-into-summer-frawsy-2024.html.
tbc
Friday 30 June 2023 - Jim Causley with Mark Norman
- Tiverton Library, Phoenix House,
Phoenix Ln, Tiverton EX16 6SA
details tba The Folklore of Devon
www.jimcausley.co.uk
NEW Saturday 8 April 2023
8pm -
Richard Digance -
Tiverton Community Arts Theatre, Bolham Rd,
Tiverton Devon EX16 6SQ
BAFTA Nominated entertainer and a recipient of The Gold Award from The British
Academy of Composers and Songwriters. He is also one of a handful of
folksinger/songwriters listed in The Virgin Anthology of Songwriters.
Details
www.tivertontheatre.com.
??day ?? ?? 2015 8pm - ?? - Bridge Inn,
Topsham, Exeter EX3 0QQ (map)
Tickets £10 adv from the Bridge 01392 873862.
www.facebook.com/thebridgeinntopsham
NEW Wednesday 7 May
2025 7.30pm - Eddie Martin - Bridge Inn, Topsham, Exeter EX3 0QQ (map)
Award-winning guitar and harmonica skills, foot percussion, witty lyrics and a
strong voice have made Eddie a uniquely popular act on the international circuit
for decades. Singer-songwriter-multi instrumentalist, charismatic entertainer
and blues missionary all combine to make Eddie Martin's solo performances
special. Multi award winning, he has become known as “The Ambassador of British
Blues”. Tickets £15 / information from The Bridge Inn,
https://thelittleboxoffice.com/thebridgeinn.
NEW Saturday 29 March 2025
midday to 10pm - Devon Folk Day - Bridge Inn (Malthouse),
Topsham, Exeter EX3 0QQ (map)
Devon Folk Day is all about participation. Come to celebrate folk songs, tunes
and dance. Folk Club; morris dance display; Devon Folk AGM; Singaround; Mixed
folk session. Full details
www.devonfolk.org/events-diary.
NEW Monday 17 March 2025 7.30pm -
McCrory Brothers - Bridge Inn,
Topsham, Exeter EX3 0QQ (map)
St Patrick's Day at the Bridge. Growing up in Belfast in the 70's the McCrory
brothers fuse an eclectic mix of their own original songs with traditional Irish
sensibilities flavoured liberally with Floydian/Genesis/Horslipian spices. Their
band The FOS Brothers has now retired so this is a trip back to their roots of
playing the clubs and festivals as a duo. Tickets £15
https://thebridgeinn.littleboxoffice.com/events/103109.
NEW Saturday 8
February 2025 7.30pm - Stompin' Dave & Lucy Piper Electric Duo - Bridge Inn,
Topsham, Exeter EX3 0QQ (map)
'In other parts of the world they have cyclones, tornadoes and hurricanes, in
the UK we have Stompin' Dave. Dave is a phenomenal artist, a great guitar player
and vocalist, and an outstanding tap dancer...' Blues in the South. Dave will be
joined by Lucy Piper on Drums, 'one of the UK's leading Blues Drummers' - The
Guardian. Tickets £15 from The Bridge Inn, event website:
https://thelittleboxoffice.com/thebridgeinn. Presented by Blues South West.
NEW Wednesday 16
October 2024 7.30pm - James Oliver & friends - Bridge Inn, Topsham, Exeter EX3 0QQ (map)
Guitarist from South Wales playing a fiery mix of blues, rockabilly and rock and
roll, influenced by the likes of Duane Eddy, Link Wray and Hank Williams. At
just 31 years old, James is one of the UK's busiest acts, playing over 300 gigs
a year all over the UK, Europe, and the USA. He will be joined for his second
set by the accomplished all female rhythm section of Lucy Piper on drums and
Sophie Lord on bass. Tickets £15 from The Bridge Inn event website:
https://thelittleboxoffice.com/thebridgeinn. Presented by Blues South West.
NEW Wednesday 4
September 2024 7.30pm - Southern Fried Groove Queens (stripped back) - Bridge Inn, Topsham, Exeter EX3 0QQ (map)
With support from Jeff the Horse Horsey. Fresh from the fryer of the Deep South,
the Mississippi Hill Country/Delta inspired duo comprising Lee Hall on
guitar/vocals and renowned blues drummer Lucy Piper. Lee's slide playing and
haunting vocals combined with Lucy's hypnotic drumming make for a memorable
combination. Tickets £15 from The Bridge Inn event website:
https://thelittleboxoffice.com/thebridgeinn. Presented by Blues South West.
NEW Wednesday 13 March 2024
7.30pm - FOS Brothers
- Bridge Inn, Topsham, Exeter EX3 0QQ (map)
"Guess we will have to dig out some of the old Irish ballads as well as
our usual racket." www.fosbrothers.com.
Limited tickets, only 50 available. Traditional Irish Stew and porter cake
available from 6pm. Concert doors 7.30pm. Booking details for food and concert
see
www.facebook.com/thebridgeinntopsham or call 01392 873862. Concert
£12, food £18.
UPDATED
Wednesday
8
November 2023 7.30pm - Sarah McQuaid - Bridge Inn, Topsham, Exeter EX3 0QQ (map)
Sarah’s wonderful voice will be resounding in the Malt House once again. “One of
the most instantly recognisable voices in current music … Shades of Joni
Mitchell in a jam with Karen Carpenter and Lana Del Rey” Neil March, Trust The
Doc. www.sarahmcquaid.com.
Tickets / Details
www.thelittleboxoffice.com/thebridgeinn.
Coming later at Topsham Folk Club
(details
www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub):
Sunday 15 September 8pm - Chris Wood
Sunday 3 November 8pm - Blowzabella
NEW
Sunday 7 December 2025 8pm - The Sandy Denny Project - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
Fotheringay MkII members Sally Barker (The Poozies, BBCTV's "The Voice", IOTA)
and guitarist PJ Wright (TradArrr, The Dylan Project) are joined by multi
instrumentalist Marion Fleetwood (voice, fiddle, guitars - Feast of Fiddles,
TRADarrr, IOTA), Gemma Shirley (keyboard and vocals - TRADarrr) and the rhythm
section of bassist Mat Davies and drummer Mark Stevens from folk-rock legends
Little Johnny England to form The Sandy Denny Project. Sandy Denny’s remarkable
writing is approached not as a tribute band, slavishly copying the records, but
as a tribute in its best sense - an interpretation of Sandy's wonderful work.
Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 29 June 2025 8pm - Downes & Beer - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
Enduring musical partnership of two hugely experienced and highly respected
musicians - talented guitarist and singer of songs, Paul Downes and
multi-instrumentalist, Phil Beer. Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 18 May 2025 8pm - Huw Williams - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
From the well-loved duo Huw and Tony Williams, Huw's songs were covered by many
artists , including Fairport Convention whose version of Summer Before the War
and Simon Nicol’s version of Rosemary’s Sister brought him to a much wider
audience. Huw will be joined for this show by talented bass player Ben
Tunnicliffe. Expect foot tapping melodies, deeply moving songs and hilarious
humour. Support: Exceptional guitarist and interpreter of song, Si Barron.
Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 27 April 2025 8pm - Gigspanner Big Band - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
Characterised by riotous inventiveness, technically gifted individual playing
and subtle collaborative interaction, this coming together of several of the
biggest names on the folk-roots scene, combines a deep knowledge of roots
traditions with a ceaselessly boundary pushing approach.
Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 23 March 2025 8pm - Chris Wood - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
A welcome return from a genre-shaking musician and song-writer. 'A rarefied
talent, both as writer and interpreter' Mojo.
Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 23 February 2025 8pm - Miranda Sykes & Jim Causley - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
Two of the UK's most iconic voices have combined as a duo.
Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 26 January 2025 8pm - Exmouth Shanty Men - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
A fun evening of nautical harmony, hubris, halyards and humour with local heroes
Exmouth Shanty Men and some of Topsham Folk Club's finest forebitting fellows
tailing the falls. I think that's what they said. Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 1 December 2024 8pm - Eliza Carthy & The Restitution - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
Eliza Carthy is one of the one of the most recognisable faces of the English
folk revival and one of the most impressive and engaging performers of her
generation. Her touring band, The Restitution, is a dynamic force of
contemporary folk musicians, featuring Dave Delarre (guitars), Ben Seal (bass),
Phil Alexander (piano), and Willy Molleson (drums), and together, they create an
exciting and captivating musical experience. Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 3 November 2024 8pm - Blowzabella - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
The iconic Blowzabella return to Topsham after too many decades. Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 20 October 2024 8pm - Lady Maisery - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
The combined vocal and multi-instrumental talents of Rowan Rheingans, Hazel
Askew and Hannah James make up the uniquely captivating band Lady Maisery who
have for well over a decade enraptured audiences throughout the UK and Europe. A
welcome return to Topsham Folk Club. Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 15 September 2024 8pm - Chris Wood - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
A welcome return from a genre-shaking musician and song-writer. Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org /www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
NEW
Sunday 9 June 2024 8pm - Bryony Griffiths & Alice Jones - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
Well-known on the grassroots scene for multifarious adventures with different
outfits, this pair pitch together their fiddle and guitar and passionate vocals
with winning vitality. Songs from Yorkshire. Details
www.topshamfolkclub.org,
www.wegottickets.com/TopshamFolkClub.
It’s all change at
Topsham Folk Club
We’re very sorry to be leaving The Globe Hotel after nearly 28 years but
delighted to be welcomed by The Bridge Inn for our singers’ nights which will be
held on Tuesday evenings from 7 January 2020. Our concerts will remain at
Matthews Hall on Sunday evenings and our monthly instrumental sessions currently
at The Bridge are changing to the first Monday.
NEW
Thursday 20 February 2025 7.30pm - Adam Guerrero - Matthews Hall, Fore Street,
Topsham EX3 0HF (map)
Adam, from Seville in Spain, comes to the UK for the first time to promote his
third CD of self composed songs and tunes. Expect an evening mix of blues,
ragtime and folk mixed in with Spanish and spaghetti western influences and a
hint of Pink Floyd... . With superb musicianship... Intrigued? Tickets are
priced for you to come and see and hear for yourself! Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/636123.
NEW Friday 14 June 2024
8pm - Topette!! 10th Anniversary Tour - Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham EX3 0HF
(map)
In January 2014, Barn Stradling invited his Blowzabella bandmate Andy Cutting,
East Anglian fiddler James Delarre and two French musical friends, Tania Buisse
and Julien Cartonnet to his home in Bristol, to see what would happen. After
three days of playing music, eating, drinking and a great deal of laughter, a
new band called Topette!! happened... Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/603681.
NEW
Saturday 18 May 2024 7pm - Ceilidh with Mrs.
Midnights - Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham EX3 0HF
(map)
Details
www.paintitredproductions.co.uk/events.
NEW Saturday 27
April 2024
7pm - Mike Silver - Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham EX3 0HF
(map)
Singer songwriter of over 50 years, Mike's songs are of longing, love and loss,
perceptive and thoughtful, with haunting melodies and heart stopping lyrics.
With a voice that is as warm and inviting as the fire in the fireplace on a cold
winter’s night, Mike is an outstanding treasure amidst the crowd. Support: David
Clement & Phoebe Jane - both accomplished singers in their own right, their
journey as a duo is just beginning with an eclectic mix of genres centred around
the guitar with both thoughtful covers of well known songs and original
songwriting. Details
www.circletopsham.com. 50% of all profits donated to the Alzheimers Society
& Estuary League of Friends.
NEW Saturday 3 December 2016 - Show of Hands -
Babbacombe Theatre, Torquay (map)
Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes return with ‘Walk with Me - The Big Autumn
Tour’ (last 3 nights) with special guest Megan Henwood. Featuring songs from 25
years at the top and reunited with the exceptionally talented Miranda Sykes once
more, big sounds, uncompromising songs and stunning production make for a
evening to remember.
www.babbacombe-theatre.com,
NEW Thursday 16
October 2025 8pm - The Haar - Livermead Cliff Hotel, Torbay Road, Torquay TQ2
6RQ
The formidable singing talent of All-Ireland Scór na nÓg winner Molly Donnery
combined with three of the most exciting instrumentalists on the folk and
traditional music scene in Cormàc Byrne (Show of Hands/Seth Lakeman/FATEA
Instrumentalist of the Year), Adam Summerhayes (Zum/Red Priest/Dodo Street), and
Murray Grainger (Piers Adams/Miranda Sykes/Martin Allcock) – both of the FATEA
award-winning The Ciderhouse Rebellion. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/649802.
NEW Tues-Sun 4-9
7.45pm (&Sat 2.30pm; Sun 4pm) August 2026 - Lord of the Dance: 30th Anniversary
- Princess Theatre, Torbay Road, Torquay TQ2 5EZ
The global phenomenon that redefined Irish dance returns to the UK in 2026 to
celebrate its 30th Anniversary with an extraordinary new tour. This milestone
event promises to be a grand celebration of the production’s legacy, captivating
over 60 million fans in 60 countries since its debut in 1996. Details
www.atgtickets.com/venues/princess-theatre-torquay. Tickets from about £20!
(as at 27/1/25)
NEW Wednesday 19
March 2026 - Levellers Collective - Princess Theatre, Torbay Road, Torquay TQ2
5EZ
Following a summer of electrifying shows later this year, including their annual
headline performance at Beautiful Days Festival in August, revered British band
the Levellers will return with their much-loved acoustic Collective in spring
2025. Details
www.atgtickets.com/venues/princess-theatre-torquay.
NEW Thursday 19
February 2026 - Fishermans Friends - Princess Theatre, Torbay Road, Torquay TQ2
5EZ
Details
www.atgtickets.com/venues/princess-theatre-torquay.
NEW Thurs-Sun 6-9 November 2025 7.30pm
(&2.30pm Sat) - Riverdance 30: The
New Generation
- Princess Theatre, Torbay Road, Torquay TQ2 5EZ
Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and
international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide.The
Grammy award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerising
choreography and breath-taking performances has left audiences in awe. Details
www.atgtickets.com/venues/princess-theatre-torquay.
NEW Thursday 17
April 2025 8pm - The Jamestown Brothers - Livermead Cliff Hotel, Torbay Road, Torquay TQ2
6RQ
High energy, foot-stomping original indie-folk band from Somerset. The band’s
all-original songs combine the rich history and social tapestry of Great Britain
and Ireland with a hard-core call for social justice. “These guys bring foot
stomping revelry, storytelling, fun and audience participation rolled up in a
fantastic evening” BBC Somerset. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/643276,
https://fougoumusic.com/fougoufolk.
NEW Thursday 6
February 2025 8pm - The Ciderhouse
Rebellion - Livermead Cliff Hotel, Torbay Road, Torquay TQ2
6RQ
They've been described as, “profound and eloquent, epic and haunting, wild,
dramatic and occasionally unhinged”. “Two virtuoso musicians playing some of the
most startling and original music you will ever encounter. Compelling, exciting
and utterly original” Phil Beer. The duo brings together master accordionist
Murray Grainger and fiddle player Adam Summerhayes. The pair play some
traditional tunes, particularly from the NE of England, and compose their own
music, specialising in creating within the moment so each performance is
uniquely magical in its improvisatory focus. Details
https://fougoumusic.com/fougoufolk.
NEW Thursday 26
September 2024 8pm - Alvorada - Livermead Cliff Hotel, Torbay Road, Torquay TQ2
6RQ
Alvorada are the UK’s leading performers of choro, a rich and uplifting style of
instrumental music from Rio de Janeiro. Alvorada explore influences from all
over Brazil, playing choros with the irresistible swing of samba and maxixe from
the South to baião from the Northeast. Details
https://fougoumusic.com/fougoufolk.
NEW Thursday 12
September 2024 8pm - Charlie Dore with Julian Littman - Livermead Cliff Hotel,
Torbay Road, Torquay TQ2 6RQ
Multi award-winning singer and songwriter of worldwide hits. ‘A gift for melody,
brave, poignant, entertaining, original’ The Guardian ★★★★ On tour with the
celebrated multi-instrumentalist Julian Littman. Details
https://fougoumusic.com/fougoufolk.
NEW
Tuesday 16 July 2024 - Big Yellow Tambourine Man Band -
The Little Theatre, St Marks Road, Meadfoot, Torquay TQ1 2EL
Be transported by faithful renditions of some of the most iconic songs from the
two greatest singer-songwriters of modern times, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.
The show is the brainchild of Devon-based singer-songwriter Isabelle Nutton and
Cape Town guitarist and singer Bob Thomson, conceived after discovering a shared
fascination with Mitchell’s and Dylan’s imagery, poetry and artistry. There
followed a dive into - and a subsequent obsession with - two parallel worlds of
genius: phrasings, tunings and arrangements; dulcimers, Wurlitzers and
harmonicas; histories, fantasies and rivalries; to create a show that pays
utmost respect to the craft of their musical idols.
Details
www.toadslittletheatre.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 27 April 2024
7.30pm - Seven Drunken Nights - Princess Theatre, Torquay
A hugely talented cast of musicians and singers bring the music of The Dubliners
back to life and will have you singing and dancing in the aisles. Direct from
the West End and having sold out venues worldwide, Seven Drunken Nights - The
Story of the Dubliners returns to theatres with a brand new production for its
incredible 5th Anniversary tour. Details
www.atgtickets.com/venues/princess-theatre-torquay.
Cancelled Wednesday 4
October 2023 8pm - Martin Alvarado + Mikko Helenius - Livermead House Hotel,
Torbay Road, Torquay TQ2 6QJ
World music: Guitarist Martin Alvarado, undoubtedly one of the most significant
Argentinian tango artists in the world today, performs his unique repertoire of
tangos with a lyrically poetic and timeless appeal accompanied by pianist and
bandoneon player, Mikko Helenius, from Finland.
www.fougoumusic.com/fougoufolk.
NEW Sunday 29
January 2023 7.30pm - Bully Wee Band Farewell Tour - The Little Theatre, St
Marks Road, Meadfoot, Torquay TQ1 2EL
Bully Wee Band return to Devon for this, the last concert of the Farewell Tour.
With local boy Colin Reece (vocals and guitar), Ian Cutler from Feast of Fiddles
(fiddle, keyboard and vocals), Jim Yardley (vocals, mandolin and whistles) and
Fergus Feely (vocals and mandocello) this dynamic band performs traditional and
original songs and tunes with a hint of witty banter thrown in, making every
year a show not to be missed. Tickets £15. At the home of the TOADS
Theatre Company. Details
www.toadslittletheatre.co.uk.
NEW
Friday 27 March 2020 - Ninebarrow Band -
Plough Arts Centre, Gt. Torrington
Ninebarrow are a multi-award-winning folk duo, who are impressing audiences
across the country with their innovative and captivating take on the folk
tradition. Described by Mark Radcliffe as sounding like ‘two halves of one
voice’, by Seth Lakeman as ‘a fantastic duo’ and by Kate Rusby as ‘absolutely
amazing’, Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere combine breath taking vocal
harmonies and melodies, delivering songs that are inspired and rooted in the
landscape and history of the British Isles. For the first time the duo will not
only be joined by cellist and long term collaborator, Lee MacKenzie, but also
the extraordinary talent of John Parker on double bass and Evan Carson on
percussion. Details
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk.
NEW Sunday 11 February 2018 - Tannahill Weavers
- Plough Arts Centre, Gt. Torrington
one of Scotland 's premier traditional bands. Their diverse repertoire spans
the centuries with fire-driven instrumentals, topical songs, and original
ballads and lullabies. Their music demonstrates to old and young alike the rich
musical heritage of the Celtic people. These versatile musicians have received
worldwide accolades consistently over the years for their exuberant performances
and outstanding recording efforts that seemingly can't get better...yet continue
to do just that.
2018
Occasional Feature: Plough Arts Centre, Gt. Torrington / George
Hotel, South Molton
Out of our usual coverage area, but with programmes always worth a mention; all
events can be found on
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk:
Thursday 5 April - Andy Irvine (P)
Saturday 21 April - Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll (G)
Friday 27 April – Calan (G)
Saturday 5 May - Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman (P)
NEW Sunday 29
June 2025 2pm -
SykesMartin - Music At The Farmhouse, The Farmhouse, Lower Broomborough, Totnes TQ9 5LX
Miranda Sykes and Hannah Martin.
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/648451. Venue:
www.wegottickets.com/location/25481.
NEW Saturday 5
April 2025 7pm - Miranda Sykes & Jim Causley: Live From The Farmhouse
(online)
Jim says: At the end of our duo Spring tour, Miranda and I are giving an
online concert ‘Live from the Farmhouse’, performing our current set of songs by
some of our favourite contemporary songwriters. Tickets available from
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 22
March 10am-4pm - Song workshop with Heartwood Trio – Bowden House, Totnes TQ9
7PW
Heartwood is a trio of singers and instrumentalists from the US creating new
music born from time in wild places. With rich vocal harmonies and inviting
lyrics, they weave songs that welcome people to join in the singing. Immerse
yourself in an experience of embodied, joyful, and connected singing – original,
harmony-rich, accessible songs that speak to the wild without and within. All
songs will be taught in the oral tradition, no need to read sheet music to
participate. All voices are welcome and needed! Details/tickets etc
https://www.heartwoodtrio.com/upcoming/heartwood-in-totnes-workshop. No-one
turned away for lack of funds.
NEW Sunday 23
March 2.30pm and 7.30pm – Heartwood Trio: The Well Tree - Barrel House, 59 High
St, Totnes TQ9 5PB (map)
Join US based Heartwood Trio for an all-ages, immersive, participatory journey
through song and story. The Well Tree is a three-person musical, illustrated by
a ‘crankie’ - an illuminated, papercut, hand-cranked scroll. It is an original
'singing story' about wild journeying and remembering kinship -- the tale of a
young woman moving beyond the fog of isolation to meet songbirds, snails and
ancient trees as she travels through these unravelling times, finding her way
home. The three members of Heartwood are the actors, musicians and the crew that
runs the crankie —created by papercut artist Jennifer Jones – and audiences help
sing pieces of the story. Sample:
https://youtu.be/OIt1RSFLODM. Details/tickets etc.
https://www.heartwoodtrio.com/upcoming/heartwood-in-totnes-the-well-tree.
NEW Wednesday 19
February 2025 7.30pm -
Miranda Sykes & Jim Causley - Music At The Farmhouse, The Farmhouse, Lower
Broomborough, Totnes TQ9 5LX
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/644979. Venue:
www.wegottickets.com/location/25481.
NEW Friday 31
January 2025 8pm - John Martyn Project - Civic Hall, Market Square, Totnes TQ9
5SF
A special concert where six established artists from the world of folk, soul,
and more come together to celebrate the music of John Martyn. It features Blythe
Pepino, Kit Hawes, Pete Josef and Sam Brookes. They reinterpret the many
different aspects and eras of Martyn’s music, delivered in a sensitive and
poignant manner. Details
www.cabaretvoltaireevents.com.
NEW Friday 29
November 2024 7pm - Penguin Cafe - St Mary's Church, High Street, Totnes TQ9 5NN
Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes, bringing together a talented group of
musicians from Suede, Gorillaz, and Razorlight, to perform his father Simon
Jeffes’ legacy of world renowned Penguin Cafe Orchestra music, ten years after
his untimely death in 1997. Details
www.cabaretvoltaireevents.com.
NEW Friday 31 May
2024 -A Celebration of Devon Song
- St Mary's Church, High Street, Totnes TQ9 5NN
Totnes Pulse presents a celebration of the Centenary of two Devon folk
music pioneers. The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould and Cecil Sharp. Sam Richards
and Martin Scragg present an evening a songs and stories from these two
fascinating and important characters. £10. Details
www.totnespulse.co.uk/product/a-celebration-of-devon-song.
NEW Tuesday 9 May 2023 7.30pm -
Chris While with Johnny Heyes - Music At The Farmhouse, The Farmhouse, Lower
Broomborough, Totnes TQ9 5LX
Johnny Heyes is a stunning guitarist who has worked with Chris While and Julie
Matthews on their last 3 albums. He is a revered teacher at the Royal Northern
College of music with an impressive pedigree which includes playing with
legendary artists such as Mica Paris and Tito Jackson.Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/571007.
NEW Sunday 11
December 2022 5pm - Harbottle & Jonas - United Free Church, 56 Fore
Street, Totnes TQ9 5RU
Carols, songs and stories. Tickets see
www.harbottleandjonas.com.
NEW Sunday 8
December
2019 4pm - The Lost Sound - Dartmoor Folk Choir
-
St John's Church, Bridgetown, Totnes TQ9 5AD
(map)
Directed by Sandra Smith, an afternoon concert of winter songs, organised and
sponsored by Heart and Soul Funerals. Tickets £8:50 adv, £10 door. See:
www.thelostsound.co.uk.
Doors 3.30pm.
NEW Friday 29
August 2025 - Jake Xerxes Fussell
- Barrel House, 59 High St, Totnes TQ9 5PB (map)
Singer, guitarist, and composer .“He is a folksinger in the truest sense,
collecting ideas and melodies and lyrics from distant and disparate traditions”
The New Yorker. His intuitive creative process often draws from traditional
music and archival field recordings - incorporating elements of songs from the
past into new work. Details
www.cabaretvoltaireevents.com.
NEW Thursday 19
June 2025 - Hayden Thorpe
- Barrel House, 59 High St, Totnes TQ9 5PB (map)
Music and Nature writing meet. Hayden Thorpe is best known as the former
frontman and chief songwriter for the much-loved band Wild Beasts. He visits
Devon to perform from his beautifully singular third album Ness, in
collaboration with best-selling nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Details
www.cabaretvoltaireevents.com.
NEW Friday 28
March 2025 8pm - Oison Leech - Barrel House, 59 High St, Totnes TQ9 5PB (map)
The proud recipient of Cerys Matthews' Album of the Year on BBC 6music is coming
to Totnes. The Irish singer-songwriter performs as part of a tour for Cold Sea,
his critically acclaimed debut album which was described as a “Stunning debut”
by UNCUT Magazine with MOJO saying that Leech is “in lush, filmic mode on his
debut with John Martyn-esque mystery”. Details
www.cabaretvoltaireevents.com.
NEW Saturday 22 March 2025
8pm - Steve Knightley - Barrel House, 59 High St, Totnes TQ9 5PB (map)
Folk legend and former Show of Hands frontman Steve Knightley is back with his
eagerly anticipated solo tour, Winter Into Spring. Following the phenomenal
success of this Autumn’s Winter Yards album and tour, this brand-new show will
take Steve back to intimate, out-of-the-way venues, where he honed his craft.
Details
www.barrelhousetotnes.co.
NEW Friday 21 February 2025
8pm - Moscow Drug Club - Barrel House, 59 High St, Totnes TQ9 5PB (map)
...where certain elements of 1930s Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club de France, Nuevo
Tango & Gypsy Campfire meet, have a few to drink and stagger arm in arm into the
darkness of some eastern European cobbled street on a mission to find the bar
where Django Reinhardt & Tom Waits are having an after hours jam with the local
Tziganes…
Details
www.barrelhousetotnes.co.
NEW
Thursday 5 December 2024 7pm - Sheelanagig -
Barrel House, 59 High St, Totnes TQ9 5PB (map)
For nearly two decades Sheelanagig have brought their array of foot-stomping
folk tunes to audiences across the globe. A quintet with a well-stocked armoury
of stringed instruments– guitar, fiddle, double bass – with the added energy of
flute and drums and a bagful of joint-jumping tunes, these fine musicians create
a real dynamic which is inherent in both their furious dance medleys as well as
their thoughtfully arranged original pieces.
Details
www.barrelhousetotnes.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 23 November 2024 8pm -
Martin Harley -
Barrel House, 59 High St, Totnes TQ9 5PB (map)
Part seated (first arrivals) / part standing gig. The master of slide guitar
makes an annual return to The Barrel House. Through his road-worn song writing
style, he explores hopes and fears for fast-changing times. Slide guitar, as
always is at the root of Martins’s sound, mirroring his whisky-soaked northern
breeze vocals.
Details
www.barrelhousetotnes.co.uk.
NEW
Thursday 19 January 2023 7.30pm - Anna Anise - Bay Horse Inn, 8
Cistern Street, Totnes, TQ9 5SP (map)
An evening of live music hosted by Adrian Birtwell Straw Hat Studios featuring
Anna Anise. Anna's music is Indie Folk infused with stories and strings. Free
entry.
NEW
Friday 23 August 2019 7.30pm - Lvov Affair - Bay Horse Inn, 8 Cistern
Street, Totnes, TQ9 5SP (map)
Led by accordionist Basil Bunelik who grew up in the Ukrainian town of Lvov, his
trio plunder the richness of East European folk music and present a wonderful
variety of music and songs from Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Romania, including
klezmer and gypsy all played with authentic style and passion.
https://bunelik.wixsite.com/lvov. Free admission, part of the Bay Horse beer
festival.
NEW
Sunday 26 May 2019 8pm
- Trio of Men - Bay Horse Inn, 8
Cistern Street, Totnes, TQ9 5SP (map)
Trio of Men are municipal song-makers, a band who lead music-based
projects and performances in South Devon and beyond. Their work together
combines music with all-ages creative community involvement, projected imagery,
humour and story. As three musician/performers, they regularly sing in 7/8 time
about the Victorian engineer Oliver Heaviside, perform their own songs about
illness and neighbours, sing new adaptations from the Penguin Book of English
Folk Songs and write instant songs with festival goers.
www.trioofmen.org/about.
Sea Change Festival fringe gig. (www.seachangefestival.co.uk
24-26 May)
UPDATED
Wednesday 26 October 2016 8pm - Totnes Storytell+ - Bogan House, 43 High St,
Totnes TQ9 5NP (map)
Opposite the Civic Hall / Market Square. Open evening of stories; poems; music &
song with local performers. New performers welcome. Performers £2,
non-performers 3. BYO drinks. Contacts: Mavis 01364 72972, Ruth 01803 732312 or
Lin 01803 863558.
NEW
Tuesday 13 February 2024 8pm - Sharon Shannon Trio - Civic Hall, High
Street, Totnes TQ9 5SF (map)
Sharon is a musician who continues to surprise. While she is known for her
arrangements of traditional Irish tunes and Irish influenced compositions, she
has always been eager to explore new styles, and to meet and work with other
musicians. Sharon has recorded and toured with a who's who of the Irish and
Global Music Industry, including The Waterboys, John Prine, Steve Earle, Jackson
Browne, The RT Concert Orchestra, The Chieftains, Shane McGowan, Willie Nelson,
Nigel Kennedy, Kirsty MacColl, Bono, Adam Clayton, Sinéad OConnor, Imelda May
and- a list that is testament to Sharon's versatility as well as talent. Tickets
www.sharonshannon.com/tour.
The Society does not appear to be active (as at July 2024):
https://totnesearlymusic.wordpress.com/about.
Previously presented concerts at
St Mary's Church, High Street, Totnes
NEW Thursday 10
April 2025 7.30pm - Singers night - Totnes Folk Club, Dartmouth Inn, 28 Warland,
Totnes TQ9 5EL (map)
We re-started again last month on a high, it really was a great night and
lovely to see everyone returning so lets make this one another memorable night!
Kick off 7.30. quid or two entrance. Andy Clarke 01803 732312.
www.facebook.com/groups/144387085754131.
NEW Thursday 13
March 2025 7.30pm - Singers night - Reopening Totnes Folk Club, Dartmouth Inn, 28 Warland,
Totnes TQ9 5EL (map)
Andy Clarke writes:
We are very much looking forward to re-starting the club and seeing all
of our regular performers plus anyone who fancies singing in a traditional folk
club so please come along! As before it will be upstairs at the Dartmouth Inn.
Kick off 7.30. quid or two entrance. Andy Clarke 01803 732312.
www.facebook.com/groups/144387085754131.
tbc Thursday
14 November 2024 8pm - James Patterson &
John Dipper -
Totnes Folk Club, Dartmouth Inn, 28 Warland,
Totnes TQ9 5EL (map)
As you are aware we book very few guests but couldn't resist having the
absolutely phenomenal Patterson & Dipper as our guests at the club again as they
just blew everyone away last time they came. James has a voice that is just
lovely and John is one of the very top fiddle players in the country.
www.facebook.com/groups/144387085754131.
NEW Thursday 11
January 2024 8pm - Singers night - Totnes Folk Club, Dartmouth Inn, 28 Warland,
Totnes TQ9 5EL (map)
It's the start of a new year and hopefully you are all refreshed and
ready for the first Club of 2024. January is another singers night with songs
from our terrific floor singers. 2023 saw quite a few fresh faces at TFC as well
as lots of our regulars and the efforts that everyone made to make each club
night special were terrific. Let's do it again in 24! It would also be great to
see some of you back who didn't make it last year...... Andy Clarke 01803
732312.
NEW Thursday 8 November 2023 8pm - Singers night - Totnes Folk Club, Dartmouth Inn, 28 Warland,
Totnes TQ9 5EL (map)
Rumour has it Silvington will be in attendance. "Well worth the quid or two to get in." Andy Clarke 01803 732312.
Tradewinds Scoriton - two phones nos. 631506 on their email (also 631308)
NEW
Sunday 29 January 2017 7.30pm - Trade Winds - Tradesmans Arms, Scoriton,
nr Buckfastleigh
(map)
A Dartmoor Come-All-Ye session for
singers, storytellers, poets, musicians and everybody else. Trade a poem for a
song for a story for music for fine company. Call Simon or Sue Williams 01364
631506 for information or email
susan@farmhouse.ac.
NB:
From now on, Trade Winds will always be on the last Sunday
of the month, not the fourth as before. Hopefully, the change should make
it easier to remember in the coming months
Sunday 13 December 2015 7pm - Trade Winds Christmas Party -
Scoriton Village Hall, near Buckfastleigh (map)
More Trade Winds goodies, with a festive flourish and a buffet supper to get you
in the mood for the 25th. As every year, we ask people to bring food to share,
so we can have a grand buffet in the middle of the evening. Also, there will be
a raffle to cover the cost of hiring the hall, so we ask anybody who can to
bring a prize to bolster the raffle table. Simon and Susan, tel. 01364 631308.
A Dartmoor Come-All-Ye session for
singers, storytellers, poets, musicians and everybody else.
Sunday 23 October 2011 7.30pm - Tradewinds - Tradesmans Arms, Scoriton nr
Buckfastleigh
(map)
A Dartmoor Come-All-Ye session for
singers, storytellers, poets, musicians and everybody else. Trade a poem for a
song for a story for music for fine company. Call Simon or Sue Williams 01364
631506 for information or email
susan@farmhouse.ac.
Sunday 28 October 2012 7.30pm - Trade Winds -
Tradesmans Arms, Scoriton (map)
nr Buckfastleigh
It's that time of the month again when we all gather for another evening of
poems, songs, stories and music, collectively known as Trade Winds. It would be
great to see anybody who would like to contribute or just to sit and listen. All
are very welcome. Call Simon
or Sue Williams for information on 01364
631506
or email
susan@farmhouse.ac
NEW Wednesday 29
November 2023 7.30pm - Tunelink Fiddle Group Workshop - Bridgetown Community
Hall, Hope Close, Totnes, TQ9 5YD
Led by Griselda Sanderson. For intermediate-advanced fiddlers to explore
traditional folk repertoire in the company of others. Music will be taught by
ear, but notation will be available. You will learn new tunes and part-playing
with music from Scandinavia, Scotland and beyond. Pay what you can £8, £10, £12.
To book email
gris_sanderson@hotmail.com.
NEW Autumn Course -
Evening workshops in traditional music and dance - Totnes
Wednesday evenings 7.00-8.30pm: September 18 & 25, October 2, 9, 16 & 30,
November 6, 13, 20 & 27. Sessions held in the Pulse building behind Totnes
Library TQ9 5RP, led by Gris Sanderson and Louis Bingham. £8 pp per session, £6
pp for family groups. Contact
tunelinksouthwest@gmail.com, Gris: 07792 319809, Louis: 07708 298146 for
more information.
www.facebook.com/TunelinkSW.
NEW
Friday 19 April 2019 - Tunelink Spring Ceilidh
with Jiginaboot Ceilidh Band - Dartington Village Hall, Cott Road, Dartington
TQ9 6HY (map)
Dance in the spring with our guest ceilidh band Jiginaboot, complete with caller
and all the way from the Scottish Borders! Plus Celtic circle dances to start
the night with music from the Tunelink Players. Tickets: £8 adult, £4 U16, £20
family (2+2). Available online: search
www.eventbee.com for "Tunelink
Ceilidh". Or contact Louis and Gris to book tickets in person and pick up local
to Totnes: 01803 864286 / 07708 298146 / 07792 319809,
tunelinksouthwest@gmail.com.
Doors 7pm. BYO refreshments.
NEW Friday 23 November 2018 - Silvington and
Friends - Royal Western Yacht Club, Queen Anne's Battery, Plymouth
Featuring Ben Campbell, Anton Horwich, Keith Fennell and Claire Fielding.
Silvington is a collaboration between two established performers, Tricia
Moore and John Connor. They play folk, traditional and contemporary acoustic
music.
www.silvington.org.
Tickets £10 from 01548 810806, email
johnfconnor@aol.com, or via Folk on the Moor. In aid of Navy Wings, Fleet
Air Arm charity.
NEW Saturday 27 October 2018 - Silvington -
Village Hall, West Charleton, nr Kingsbridge TQ7 2AG (map)
Silvington is a collaboration between two established performers, Tricia
Moore and John Connor. They play folk, traditional and contemporary acoustic
music. Tickets £10 including pasty supper from
01548 531241 / 531562 in aid of St Mary's West Charleton.
NEW Friday 17
January 2025 6.30pm -
Whimple Wassail
Starts outside the New Fountain Inn 6:30pm. The wassailers are
accompanied by local folk musicians including Jim Causley (6 x BBC Radio 2 Folk
Award nominee) and Emma of the Slack Ma Girdle ceilidh band, who also provide
entertainment at the cricket club.
www.whimple.org/events/whimple-wassailing.
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW Sunday 13
October 2024 - Jim Causley:
Afternoon Tea Concert
- Talaton Parish Hall, Talaton, nr Whimple EX5 2RF
Tickets
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW Tuesday 17
January 2023 6pm - Whimple Wassail
Sent in by Jim Causley. Free event. Begins outside the Whimple Heritage Centre,
Lockyers Linhay, Church Road, Whimple EX5 2TA 6pm. Wear wellies and warm,
waterproof clothing. Bring a small mug to partake of the ‘wassail’ and something
to bag or make noise with! Finishes at Whimple Cricket Club where pasties and
other refreshments are served for a modest price. NB: the entire procession
involves walking from one side of the village to the other. For more information
visit:
www.whimple.org.
NEW Saturday 10
December 2022 7.30pm - A Causley Christmas -
St Mary’s Church, The Square, Whimple EX5 2SZ
A concert of Devon songs with a Christmas twist
with Jim Causley. With support from Tale
Valley Choir. Tickets £10 ( incl. mulled wine and mince pies) available from
Whimple Stores or
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW Friday 8 July
2022 - Jim Causley - Victory Hall, School Hill, Whimple EX5 2TS
An evening of West Country Folk Music featuring Jim Causley and support.
Doors/Bar 7 pm..This event forms part of the Whimple Week celebrations. Tickets
£10 from Village Shop; on the door; or
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jim-causley-tickets-342765339357?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch.
NEW
Sunday 23 February 2020 -
Harbottle & Jonas
- The Thirsty Farmer, Whimple EX5 2QQ
Husband and wife duo who combine the rich traditions of folk music with original
and contemporary interpretations through a blend of closely intertwined vocal
harmonies and compelling and authentic musical arrangements, blending
concertina, harmonium, banjo, cittern, stomp box and acoustic guitar.
www.thirstyfarmer.co.uk.
NEW Friday 20
December 2024 7.30pm -
Jim Causley with The Widecombe Singers - St Pancras Church, Widecombe in the Moor
"A West Country Christmas". Says Jim: “I am greatly honoured and hugely excited
to have been asked to share the bill again with the wonderful Widecombe Singers
in the ‘Cathedral of the Moor’. It’s the perfect venue to enjoy a candlelit
night of rousing West Country Christmas carols, surrounded by Christmas trees.
Choir leader Bridget Ansell and myself have had great fun looking through
collections of old local carols from Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset and
arranging a tasty selection for us to sing and bring back to life. We even have
an ancient carol from Widecombe-in-the-Moor itself! So come and join us in the
heart of Dartmoor for some mulled wine, a mince pie and some beautiful, local,
festive music.”
Tickets £14 from
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW Tuesday 10
September 2024 all day - Folk at Widecombe Fair - Widecombe in the Moor
A full programme of music on the main stage, plus more (including morris dancing) on the village green.
See
www.devonfolk.org/latest-news/posts/folk-at-the-fair for details.
NEW Tuesday 12
September 2023 9am 'til late - Widecombe Fair - Widecombe in the Moor
All the usual fun of the fair, with a full programme of great music in
various venues, including Geoff Lakeman & Rob Murch, Jim Causley & Bill Murray
and Ashburton Community Folk Orchestra. Music schedule not found online (as at
21/8/23) but may become available here
www.widecombefair.com
or here
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064659793345.
NEW Thursday 27 July 2023 7.30pm -
Jim Causley - St Pancras Church, Widecombe in the Moor
Jim will be singing a collection of Dartmoor songs and will be backed on some of
them by the Widecombe Singers, who did a similar job for Chris Hoban back in
2018.Tickets £12
from Daf Edwards on 07957 280129 or
dafedwards53@gmail.com.
NEW Friday 6 March 2020 - Nancy Kerr & Luke
Daniels & - The Cafe on the Green, Widecombe in the Moor
Tickets £13 for gig only, £25 for (pre-booked) dinner & gig. Contact Daf Edwards
on 07957 280129 or
dafedwards53@gmail.com to book.
www.widecombesailingclub.org.uk.The cafe is licensed. Doors open at 6.30 for
diners, 7.30 for non-diners.
NEW Friday 31 January 2020 - Widecombe Sailing
Club Winter Regatta - The Old Inn, Widecombe in the Moor
A lovely cosy evening of good food followed by singing, playing, recitations -
whatever you want to do! It's a non-scary occasion to try out any skills that
haven't been showcased before among old shanties, silly songs and quite a lot of
laughter. Menu: 2 courses for £16.50 (beef goulash, fish bouillibaise, lentil &
coconut curry, plus a hot pud - fruit crumble or similar - or cheese & biccies).
You don't have to choose in advance and there's nothing stopping you opting for
a spoonful of each on your plate, if that's what you want. Contact Daf Edwards
on 07957 280129 or
dafedwards53@gmail.com to book.
NEW Rescheduled from 9
June
Sunday 21 July 2019 - The Ruggle Regatta - Rugglestone Inn, Widecombe in
the Moor
Free event. Line-up: Back Beach Boyz from Teignmouth, followed by Wild Goose,
Skylark, Widecombe Singers, Raven’s Return and then Banned from the Moor.
www.widecombesailingclub.org.uk.
NEW Saturday 10
August 2024 11.30am - Westcountry Music Festival
- Muddifords Court, Willand, Cullompton EX15 2QG
A one-day festival of country and Americana, country/folk/rock music! Limited
basic camping for one night available to book.
www.westcountrymusicfestival.com,
www.backstagedevon.co.uk.
BackStage Devon - a new music venue at
Muddifords Court, Willand, Cullompton EX15 2QG
Website
www.backstagedevon.co.uk. Ticketing
www.ticketsource.co.uk/backstage-devon.
Current (folk) programme; other genres too:
Saturday 25 June - Steve Tilston
Thursday 14 July - Phil Beer
Saturday 20 August - Sarah McQuaid
Saturday 3 September - Miranda Sykes & Hannah Martin
Saturday 10 September - Steve Knightley
Saturday 24 September -
Cathryn Craig & Brian Willoughby
NEW Saturday 24
September 2022 - Cathryn Craig & Brian Willoughby
- BackStage Devon, Muddifords Court, Willand, Cullompton EX15 2QG
"Combine a consummate singer and songwriter, with an outstandingly
brilliant guitarist and you have pure magic. Their performances leave audiences
spellbound" Ann and Eddie Green, Kirkham.
www.backstagedevon.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 10
September 2022 7.30pm - Steve Knightley - BackStage Devon, Muddifords Court,
Willand, Cullompton EX15 2QG
Steve is a multi-award-winning singer-songwriter/musician and founder member of
folk/acoustic roots trail-blazers ‘Show of Hands’ described by Peter Gabriel as
‘one of the great English bands’. A constant throughout Steve’s work is his
ability to root his songs in time and place, notably the West Country where he
was raised. Details
www.ticketsource.co.uk/backstage-devon.
www.backstagedevon.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 9
November 2024 - Wren Music Events - Filleigh, nr Barnstaple EX32 0RS
Workshops: 10.30am to 4.00pm. Learn to sing some unusual village carols from
West & North Devon and Exmoor.
Concert: 8pm. Melrose Quartet, who will bring a taste of Yorkshire
village carols.
Details
www.wrenmusic.co.uk/event/devon-village-carols-event.
Read here
www.wrenmusic.co.uk about the many varied musical community based folk arts
activities run all across the county by Devon charity Wren Music.
NEW Wren Music
events as part of the Baring-Gould Centenary celebrations:
Friday 11 October 2024 7.30pm - Fiddle Tunes of William Andrews - Church Hall, 4
Market Street, Okehampton EX20 1HN
Celebrating the folk tunes of 19th century fiddle player, William Andrews. The
'Dartmoor Fiddler', as collected by Sabine Baring-Gould. A musically illustrated
presentation by Wren's Paul Wilson and Devon fiddler Ben van Weede, and a
participatory workshop.
Saturday 12 October 2024 8.30am - 'One Day in October' - Coach Tour
Take a seat on the coach to join Wren Music and the Devon Association of Ringers
as we visit the bell towers of West Devon and East Cornwall to recreate the
story of the bellringing contest from the song 'The Devon Bellringing' (from the
Baring-Gould collection).
Wednesday 16 October 2024 7pm - Folk Music session - The Blue Lion,
Okehampton
Featuring Marilyn Tucker & Paul Wilson and Martin & Shan Graebe. Singers and
players are welcome.
Full details of all:
www.wrenmusic.co.uk/news/two-unique-wren-events-to-celebrate-baring-gould-centenary.
NEW Sunday 5 March
2023 3-4.45pm - Wren Music: Songs of Her Story - Emmanuel Hall, Emmanuel Road,
St Thomas, Exeter EX4 1EJ
Special performance celebrates the lives of remarkable women. The Wren Music Her
Story Choir returns to Exeter with a free performance to mark International
Women’s Day and to herald the start of Wren Music's 40th anniversary
celebrations. Details
www.wrenmusic.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Saturday 29
October 2022 - Wren Music: Family Music Day - Okehampton
Wren Music will be hosting a selection of musical events suitable for all
ages across Okehampton town centre. Morning workshops, an afternoon ceilidh, a
lunchtime pub session and an evening concert featuring Jim Causley. No advance
booking required. Details
www.wrenmusic.co.uk/event/family-music-day.
Saturday 5 July 2014 10am-5pm - Bagpipe Day
Workshops - Fairplace Church Hall, Okehampton EX20 1DT
All day bagpipe workshop with Andy Letcher and David Faulkner £40/£30 concs).
Absolute beginners session led by Phil Williams 2-5pm, bagpipes provided,
limited spaces available, bookings preferred, £18/£13 concs). Prices include
ticket to evening dance. Details, ticketing etc. at
www.wrenmusic.co.uk or
phone 01837 53754.
Saturday 5 July 2014 7pm - French & Breton
Folk Workshop & Dance - Charter Hall, Market Street, Okehampton EX20 1AA
with WOD and The Eelgrinders. Dance workshop 7pm led by Carrie Atkinson and
Jenny Dodwell with music from Possion Rouge - Dance 8pm with bar by Ale and
Cake. Tickets £8/£6 concs), dance workshop included. Contact 01837 53754,
www.wrenmusic.co.uk.
Saturday 12 July 2014 7.30pm - Phil Beer -
Fairplace Church, Okehampton EX20 1DT
Phil Beer is the multi-instrumental half of the West Country‘s award winning
acoustic duo Show of Hands and is Patron of Wren Music’s Baring-Gould Folk
weekend and as such donates proceeds of one concert per year to help support the
event. Online ticketing
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/phil-beer-in-concert-tickets-11842367841?aff=es2&rank=0.
www.wrenmusic.co.uk or
phone 01837 53754.
Monday 26 April 2010 2.30pm - Dartington's Soundart Radio 102.5 FM
also webstreaming at
www.soundartradio.org.uk, has a folk show on alternate Mondays 2.30-3pm.
Friday
5 March 2010 8-11pm - Fest Noz French
and Breton Music and Dance - Palstone Recreation Room, South Brent (map)
Regular first Friday event at the sports field on the eastern edge of South
Brent. No previous experience necessary. £3.50. Contact
louise.scammell[at]gmail.com.
Saturday 10 December 2011 8.30pm - Martin
Harley - Devonport Guildhall (map)
Performances at Glastonbury’s Acoustic and Avalon stages have cemented his
popularity as part of the UK’s acoustic scene and the home grown, hard touring
approach he's employed over the last eight years has built a strong fan base
worldwide. The 'British Americana' sound is influenced by Delta Blues and Gypsy
Jazz and has produced a road worn style of balladry that feels as comfortable
and real as an old pair of shoes you just can’t throw away.
www.myspace.com/martinharleyband Tickets £8 adv (01752 395028) /£10 door
www.realideas.org/devonportguildhall
Saturday 1 February 2014 8pm - Blackheart -
Stokeinteignhead Village Hall (map)
Folk duo Chrissy Mostyn and Richard Pilkington, samples
www.blackheartmusic.co.uk. Tickets 01803 316993.
Friday 7 February 2014 - Blackheart - Willand
Village Hall nr Cullompton
Folk duo Chrissy Mostyn and Richard Pilkington, samples
www.blackheartmusic.co.uk. No further details available.
Sunday 23 February 2014 8pm - Blackheart -
Whipton Community Hall, Exeter
Samples
www.blackheartmusic.co.uk. Contact 01392 468319.
Saturday 13 September 2014 8pm - Blackheart -
Landscove Victory Hall, nr Ashburton
Samples
www.blackheartmusic.co.uk. details tba
Saturday 20 September 2014 8pm - Blackheart -
Tipton St John Hall, nr Sidmouth
Samples
www.blackheartmusic.co.uk. details tba
Friday 26 September 2014 8pm - Blackheart -
Broadwoodkelly Hall, N of Okehampton
Samples
www.blackheartmusic.co.uk. Contact 01837 83625.
Saturday 12 April 2014 - Steve Tilston Trio -
South Pool Village Hall, Herring Street, South Pool, nr Kingsbridge TQ7 2RP
(map)
Stuart and Keith are this talented, happy bunch who bring you a wonderful mix of
trad folk with US Blues. They make great music, combining the fiddle and
harmonica with vocals. The trio brings out the jauntier side of Steve’s writing.
They have been praised by Mark Radcliffe, Radio 2 and had an award from Mike
Harding, so they are very much in demand.
www.stevetilston.com. 7.00pm for 7.30pm prompt supper, followed by our guest
musicians. Raffle and bar. Tickets £18, available from Maddie Marchand email
madelinemarchand1[at]gmail.com, te. 01548 531979.
Sunday 25 May 2014 2-9pm - The Heart Of Devon Festival - Bow, on A3072
between Copplestone & Okehampton
A free, family friendly festival, which takes place in Bow Village Field
(EX17 6HU), with music , over 30 Craft, plant & food stalls and a display of
Vintage Vehicles. Hot food available using local produce along with a fully
licensed bar. All at non-inflated prices. We have an amazing line up this year
which includes, David Harbottle & Freya Jonas, Street Heat Samba Band, India
Electric Co (Cole Stacey & Joseph O Keefe), Michael Tinker, Reggae Band (Surface
Festival finalist's) Audio Razor, Sitting Pretty and Eat The Rich. Please feel
free to bring along a picnic but we do ask that all alcohol consumed is
purchased from our licensed bar. See
www.theheartofdevon.co.uk for more details.
Thursday 16 October 2014 8pm - Cole Stacey & Joseph O'Keefe - Exeter Golf
& Country Club, Countess Wear, Topsham Road, Exeter EX2 7AE
Support: Sarah Yeo. In aid of Hospiscare, the Exeter-based cancer charity, and
chosen charity for the year of the club's president. Tickets £14 may be obtained
by calling the Club on 01392 874139 or by contacting
info@exetergcc.co.uk.
Sunday 23 November 2014 - Scraping The Barrel - The Crown & Anchor,
The Barbican, Plymouth PL1 2LS
The tremendous trio of Nik, Les, and David, aka Scraping The (Soggy
Bottom Of The Stone Soup) Barrel, will be once again plying their trademark
Americana Blue Folk Diddlyeye for the entertainment of Plymouth's weekend
revellers.
Friday
28 November 2014 7.30pm - Wren Band: When the Moon is Full -
Stowford Community Centre, Sidmouth EX10 9YL
When the Moon is Full A programme about Werewolves! Inspired by Sabine
Baring-Gould’s Book of Werewolves, The Wren Music musicians are doing a mini
tour of Devon during November, with a touch of Gothic. Devon’s eccentric
clergyman, Sabine Baring-Gould, famous for his hymn ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’
is well-known as a Folklorist, but perhaps less well-known for giving classes
with a bat on his shoulder and for his interest in Werewolves! Champions of
local folk song and legend, the Wren Band bring a programme of rich harmonies
and top-class musicianship, which will appeal to Harry Potter fans and lovers of
Dartmoor legend alike. Tickets £12 (U18 £10). More details online ticketing see
www.wrenmusic.co.uk/wrenband.
Saturday 27 December 2014 - An Evening of Breton and French Dance -
Cadeleigh Village Hall, NW of Crediton
with Stilouen, Poisson Rouge, John Mills & Kate Price. £10 on door. Bar.
Food.
Sunday 28 December 2014 - Free For All - Chez Phil and Tania, Postcode for
satnav EX16 8HU
Metheglin ~ Le Raz ~ Pete & Karen - Stilouen Friends. Bring and share food
etc. Camping, barn camping & camper vans welcome. Further details ring 01884
242752.
Saturday 26 September 2015 8pm - Exmouth Shanty Men - Cromwell Arms, Bovey
Tracey
Part of an all-day fundraising event for Macmillan Nurses. In amongst other
events and entertainments to be held during the day, The Exmouth Shanty Men will
be giving their all from 8pm. For all further info, enquiries, etc, please see
www.thecromwellarms.co.uk.
Tuesday 15 December 2015 8pm - Exmouth Shanty Men - Bay Horse Inn, Totnes
In association with Skinners Brewery. The second of this year’s late-night
shopping evenings in the town. Expect the pub to be busy!
www.bayhorsetotnes.com.
Tuesday 26 January 2016 8pm - Exmouth Shanty Men - Clovelly Bay Inn,
Turnchapel, Plymouth
In association with Sinners Brewery. from 20.00 hrs. This delightful venue
overlooking the river Plym last hosted the ‘buoys’ two years ago and a fabulous
evening was had by all. The food at the Inn is superb!
www.clovellybayinn.co.uk.
Wednesday 14 October 2015 8pm - Red Dirt Skinners - The Red Lion,
Shobrooke
The band's rule-breaking individuality has led to them being the first band
in history to succeed at both the British Blues Awards and the British Country
Music Awards. The band’s music has wide appeal and comfortably blends Blues,
Americana, Folk and Country Music. Audiences the world over describe them as
“refreshingly different”. From the first song of the show, it is immediately
evident that they love performing live. The Skinners’ close vocal harmonies have
been described as “sublime” and “beyond perfection”. Rob and Sarah particularly
love the opportunity to interact with audiences both during and after their
shows.
www.reddirtskinners.com. Tickets £7 from The Red Lion or tel 01363 775468.
Sunday 15 November 2015 70pm - Rosa Rebecka: EP Launch 'Home' - Bike Shed
Theatre, Exeter EX4 3AT
Singer-songwriter and folk performer Rosa Rebecka launches her latest EP
Home with Folkstock records. Known for her arresting acoustic performances, Rosa
will use the Bike Shed’s intimate space to full effect, combining emotional
intensity with vocal virtuosity, and using a host of instruments to create a
journey for the listener, filled with joy, warmth and sorrow. “A lyrical,
sun-dappled and golden voice, tinged with a hint of steely moonlight that brings
to mind Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell” BBC Music. Tickets £8/£10 on 01392 434169
www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk.
VIA text
World Unlimited concerts
World Unlimted (Graham Radley), call 01803 875527 / 07815 620402.
www.wegottickets.com/worldunlimited
NEW Tuesday 5
November 2024 7.30pm -
Budapest Cafe Orchestra
- The Jolly Farmer, 8 Market Street, Newton Abbot
TQ12 2RB
The amazing, stupendous Budapest Cafe Orchestra return to Newton
Abbot for what guarantees to be one of the most energetic and entertaining
evening of gypsy & folk-flavoured music from all around the world. The BCO
deliver traditional Balkan, Russian, Hungarian and Romanian gypsy and folk music
in their own fresh and surprising way with jazz nuances and stunningly unique
arrangements. Details
www.wegottickets.com/worldunlimited.
NEW Saturday 3
June 2023 7.30pm -
Richard Durrant - St Mary the
Virgin Church, Abbotsbury, Newton
Abbot TQ12 2ND
We are excited to welcome back the most remarkable guitarist. In his
celebration of midsummer this maverick virtuoso and natural storyteller performs
his own guitar originals, choice moments from the acoustic/classical repertoire
and Bach on the ukulele. This wonderful music can be heard in venues the length
of the British Isles played by an extraordinary musician carrying his entire
show on a bicycle. Connection with the land is central to Richard’s work.
Details
www.worldunlimited.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW
Friday 21 February 2025 8pm -
Bill Murray & Friends - East Dart Inn,
Postbridge, Yelverton
Music, Stories and Song with Bill Murray and Friends. Free event. Raffle on the
night in aid of Dartmoor Rescue Group; prizes on the night or before welcome.
Pub phone 01822 880213.
NEW
Friday 28 February 2025 7.30pm - Cole Stacey - St Paul's Church,
Yelverton PL20 6AE
Visceral and lyrical songwriter, singer and musician who has roamed the highest
diverse echelons of British folk, 80s pop, spoken word and ambient electronics.
With explorations into traditional songwriting and verse in his blood, Cole will
be releasing his extraordinarily honest debut album to audiences far beyond his
Dartmoorian horizons. As one half of alt-folk duo India Electric Company
alongside Joseph O’Keefe, Cole has recently been found on prime-time live
sessions for BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music with KLOF declaring them “one of the
truly pioneering acts in folk music” and BBC Radio 1 describing them as “A full
musical odyssey”. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/637587.
NEW Saturday 28 April 2018
7pm - Charity Acoustic Band Night - War Memorial Hall, Meavy Ln, Yelverton PL20
6AL
Performances by Charlie Harris
www.facebook.com/charlieharrisofficial, Eliza Acty
www.elizaacty.com, Duo &
Pony Pony
www.ponyponymusic.com.
In aid of South West Equine Protection. Tickets £7 adv from Office or call 01822
854823, £10 door. Licensed bar. Raffle.
NEW
Saturday 7 July 2018 7.30pm - "Folk and More" - Kingskerswell Village Hall,
School Road, Kingskerswell TQ12 5DJ
On the bill are Harpingmad, the Cornelius Family, Graham Butterfield and Folk
Inspired (Chris & Paul Woodhouse). Tickets are now on sale from Chris & Paul
07894 961010, email
p.woodhouse47@sky.com and at the Garden Gate (the wool & knitting
shop) in the main street Kingskerswell, tel 01803 873534.
Saturday 16 January 2016 7.30pm - Dances with a Difference - Pinhoe
Road Baptist Church, 157-165 Pinhoe Road, Polsloe Bridge, Exeter EX4 7HZ
Dance with Richard Mason and Abacus. After the success of our first two
dances we have released two more dates for the spring. Dances with a
Difference is chance to do dances that you wouldn't normally do at a Ceilidh
or Social dance. The dances will generally be 'different' enough to confuse
complete beginners, and to make experienced dancers think twice. Some are
new contra dances, some are dances for unusual numbers or in unusual
formations - all are fun to do! Tickets £5, please call 01392 411434.
NEW
Monday 18 March 2019 8.30pm - Eliza Acty - Bread and Roses, 62 Ebrington
Street, Plymouth PL4 9AF
With her unique vocal style, singer and musician Eliza performs a wide range of
folk, blues, American old-time and contemporary songs that spans over a century
of music.
www.elizaacty.com.
NEW
Sunday 9 December 2018 4pm - Eliza Acty - Seven Stars Inn, Seven Stars
Lane, Plymouth PL5 4NN
With her unique vocal style, singer and musician Eliza performs a wide range of
folk, blues, American old-time and contemporary songs that spans over a century
of music.
www.elizaacty.com.
NEW
Monday 26 November 2018 8.30pm - Eliza Acty - Bread and Roses, 62
Ebrington Street, Plymouth PL4 9AF
With her unique vocal style, singer and musician Eliza performs a wide range of
folk, blues, American old-time and contemporary songs that spans over a century
of music.
Her early influence started close to home with her
father Peter Acty who is an accomplished American-style claw hammer and frailing
banjo player, he is also a classic, percussive finger-pick guitarist and will be
accompanying Eliza.
www.elizaacty.com.
NEW
Saturday 24 September 2016 - Ninebarrow - Downderry & Seaton Village Hall,
Main Road, Downderry, Torpoint, Cornwall PL11 3LW
Details tbc
www.ninebarrow.co.uk.
NEW
Wednesday 9 March 2016 7.30pm - Phil Beer - Colebrooke Parish Hall
Box office: 01363 84309 or
sandsgraham@talktalk.net
NEW Saturday 21 May 2016 7.30pm -
Lute Concert - St. Winifred's Church, Branscombe
Renaissance to Baroque. Lutes, songs and tunes spanning 300 years. Steve
Graham (playing a selection of lutes, including Elizabethan guitar, Renaissance
and Baroque lutes, and the fabulous Theorbo), Liz Pannell (playing a selection
of Baroque Irish (Carolan) tunes on violin and viola), Susan King (singing songs
by Dowland, Purcell, Handel, as well as Renaissance music from Italy and France,
and a couple of Elizabethan folk songs too). Tickets £10 available from Paragon
Books, High Street, Sidmouth or 01297 680297 / 01395 513345. Free glass of wine
and Baroque nibbles. Free parking at the village hall, some disabled
parking. In aid of Amnesty International.
Wednesday 20 July 2016 - Switchback - Fountain Inn, Branscombe
Brian FitzGerald and Martin McCormack of the duo Switchback from the USA
have been playing their brand of eclectic Celtic and Americana music at sold-out
concert halls, performing arts centers and festivals around the world for over
twenty years. Switchback concerts feature a mix of Irish music and original
songs from their catalog of over 300 tunes.
www.waygoodmusic.com.
NEW
Saturday 8 October 2016 - Cosgrave & Banks - Bratton Clovelly Parish Hall EX20
4JT
Mike Cosgrave (Sin é, Jackie Leven, Jackie Oates) and Steve Banks (Maddy Prior &
the Carnival Band, Blue Jewel) have pooled their considerable musical talents
and experience to form an exciting new folk/acoustic duo, performing a
smörgåsbord of beautiful music, traditional and contemporary, from Britain and
Europe (mainly France, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe). "Steve Banks and Mike
Cosgrave are superb musicians bringing unexpected gems for our delight. Soulful
and fun. What more could you want?" Maddy Prior; "Superb playing and singing,
all with a great sense of style and fun" Tom McConville
www.cosgraveandbanks.com. Bar.
www.brattonclovellyfestival.com.
NEW
Sunday 19 June 2016 1-3pm - Dumbo's Feather
- Fountain Head, Branscombe EX12 3BG
At the annual beer festival.
NEW
Friday 23 September 2016 - Home Service -
The David Hall, South Petherton
Quite a trek (1½ hours' drive from Totnes), but if you're keen to see the first
gig by the new line-up of Home Service with John Kirkpatrik as lead vocalist
(and on squeezeboxes of course) following the retirement of John Tams, you might
want to make the journey.
www.homeserviceband.co.uk. The David Hall has an ongoing programme of
top-class folk gigs.
www.thedavidhall.org.uk.
NEW
Thursday 22 September 2016 8.30pm - Seth
Lakeman and Wildwood Kin - St Peter & Holy Apostles, Wyndham Square, Plymouth
PL1 5EG
Tickets
www.seetickets.com/event/seth-lakeman-ft-wildwood-kin/st-peter-and-the-holy-apostles/1006792.
NEW
Saturday 15 April 2017 8pm - Harbottle & Jonas -
Harbour Lights, Anchor Cottages, Hope Cove, Kingsbridge TQ7 3HQ
Harbottle & Jonas are a stunning young folk duo based in Totnes, Devon. Their
music is eclectic and is always accompanied with a great story. They have
received plaudits from folk royalty including Seth Lakeman, Jon Boden, Rod
Clements, Declan Sinnott, BBC Introducing and have recently been endorsed by
Seasalt Clothing. Playing over 100 gigs each year, these troubadours are to be
found far and wide across our beautiful island.
NEW
Saturday 18 March 2017 7.30pm - Reg Meuross - St Andrew’s Church, Market
Place, Colyton, nr Seaton EX24 6JS
Reg Meuross is a true modern troubadour, representing contemporary English
folk writing at its best. 2017 heralds a new solo album to be released in the
Spring, a fresh collection of songs from Reg Meuross which comment bravely on
life as he sees it, bringing wide ranging stories, from the ravages of austerity
and the injustice of the plight of refugees, to some of most beautifully
disarming love songs ever written. Reg will preview songs from this new album at
Colyton, as well as performing a selection of old favourites from the Meuross
catalogue. “A mighty songwriter and an equally fine singer” Martin Carthy.
Details
www.regmeuross.com/event/reg-meuross-live-colyton-devon.
NEW UPDATED Cancelled
NEW
Saturday 4 February 2017 10.30am-4.30pm - South West Sacred Harp Singing
Day - Baptist Church, High St., Cullompton EX15 1AB
Bring & Share lunch. Donations to cover costs. Details from Stevie 01884
563138 /07976 605692 or Martin 07721 451406.
NEW
Friday 10 February 2017 - Cosgrave & Banks - Lydford Nicholls Hall, Lydford,
EX20 4BH
Mike Cosgrave (Sin é, Jackie Leven, Jackie Oates) and Steve Banks (Maddy Prior &
the Carnival Band, Blue Jewel) have pooled their considerable musical talents
and experience to form an exciting folk/acoustic duo, performing a smörgåsbord
of beautiful music, traditional and contemporary, from Britain and Europe
(mainly France, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe). "Steve Banks and Mike Cosgrave
are superb musicians bringing unexpected gems for our delight. Soulful and fun.
What more could you want?" Maddy Prior; "Superb playing and singing, all with a
great sense of style and fun" Tom McConville
www.cosgraveandbanks.com. A 'Villages In Action' event, see
www.villagesinaction.co.uk for booking details, venue location etc. Tickets
from 01822 820345.
NEW
Friday 24 March 2017 - Cosgrave & Banks - Sheldon Village Hall EX14 4QU
Mike Cosgrave (Sin é, Jackie Leven, Jackie Oates) and Steve Banks (Maddy Prior &
the Carnival Band, Blue Jewel) have pooled their considerable musical talents
and experience to form an exciting folk/acoustic duo, performing a smörgåsbord
of beautiful music, traditional and contemporary, from Britain and Europe
(mainly France, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe). "Steve Banks and Mike Cosgrave
are superb musicians bringing unexpected gems for our delight. Soulful and fun.
What more could you want?" Maddy Prior; "Superb playing and singing, all with a
great sense of style and fun" Tom McConville
www.cosgraveandbanks.com. A 'Villages In Action' event, see
www.villagesinaction.co.uk for booking details, venue location etc. Tickets
from 01404 841367.
NEW
Saturday 6 May 2017 - Cosgrave & Banks - Community Hall, Lamerton, nr
Tavistock PL19 8QP
Mike Cosgrave (Sin é, Jackie Leven, Jackie Oates) and Steve Banks (Maddy Prior &
the Carnival Band, Blue Jewel) have pooled their considerable musical talents
and experience to form an exciting folk/acoustic duo, performing a smörgåsbord
of beautiful music, traditional and contemporary, from Britain and Europe
(mainly France, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe). "Steve Banks and Mike Cosgrave
are superb musicians bringing unexpected gems for our delight. Soulful and fun.
What more could you want?" Maddy Prior; "Superb playing and singing, all with a
great sense of style and fun" Tom McConville
www.cosgraveandbanks.com. Tickets £10. BYO drinks. Ticketing tba
NEW
Friday 9 June 2017 - Cosgrave & Banks - Bovey Tracey Craft Fair
Mike Cosgrave (Sin é, Jackie Leven, Jackie Oates) and Steve Banks (Maddy Prior &
the Carnival Band, Blue Jewel) have pooled their considerable musical talents
and experience to form an exciting folk/acoustic duo, performing a smörgåsbord
of beautiful music, traditional and contemporary, from Britain and Europe
(mainly France, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe). "Steve Banks and Mike Cosgrave
are superb musicians bringing unexpected gems for our delight. Soulful and fun.
What more could you want?" Maddy Prior; "Superb playing and singing, all with a
great sense of style and fun" Tom McConville
www.cosgraveandbanks.com. Ticketing tba
NEW
Saturday 2 September 2017 - Cosgrave & Banks - Nourish Festival, Bovey Tracey
Mike Cosgrave (Sin é, Jackie Leven, Jackie Oates) and Steve Banks (Maddy Prior &
the Carnival Band, Blue Jewel) have pooled their considerable musical talents
and experience to form an exciting folk/acoustic duo, performing a smörgåsbord
of beautiful music, traditional and contemporary, from Britain and Europe
(mainly France, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe). "Steve Banks and Mike Cosgrave
are superb musicians bringing unexpected gems for our delight. Soulful and fun.
What more could you want?" Maddy Prior; "Superb playing and singing, all with a
great sense of style and fun" Tom McConville
www.cosgraveandbanks.com. Ticketing tba
www.nourishfestival.org.
NEW
Saturday 18 March 2017 7.30pm - Ceilidh
Evening - St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter EX4 7AH (map)
Live band and licensed bar. Tickets £7 from Tim Bayton:
tim@timbayton.co.uk, 07743 066225. St
James’ Church Exeter, sharing God’s love through worship, fellowship and
service.
www.stjamesexeter.org.
NEW
Wednesday 22 February 2017 8.30pm - La Vie En Rose - Toorak Hotel, Chestnut
Avenue, Torquay TQ2 5JS
Gypsy Jazz & Swing. The band, featuring David Jones (gtr), Laurie Light
(guitar), Rebecca Willson (vlolin), Nick White (clarinet) and Mitch Humphrys
(double bass). has a collective, wide-ranging background in classical,
traditional jazz, rock, Western swing, blues and roots but brought together by a
shared love of gypsy jazz. The fiery swing, romantic waltzes, Latin beats and
lilting melodies of Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and The Quintette du
Hot Club de France are still as engaging now, as when they first burst onto the
stage in the 1930’s and ‘40’s. A duet of guitars, a hot fiddle, soulful clarinet
and slaptastic upright bass come together to play music inspired by those ‘hot
jazz’ musician, but of course, with a few surprises from the band thrown in.
Tickets £7/£6 adv from Torbay Bookshop, Paignton or online from
www.speakeasytorquay.com/upcoming-gigs (no booking fee), £8 door.
Speakeasy Torquay, not just live jazz but an eclectic mix of stimulating
live music, all with a jazz influence. Jazz,world music, blues, funk, soul,
folk.
NEW
Saturday 11 March 2017 7.30pm - Barn Dance (& Supper) with Rumpus Ceilidh
Band - St Matthias Church Hall,
Babbacombe Road, Torquay TQ1 1HW (map)
Licensed bar. Tickets £10, family (2+2) £25, from Pat on 01803 323801.
Proceeds to TOPS Musical Productions to enable them to continue producing
full-scale musical in Torbay.
NEW
Saturday 25 March 2017 - Les Barker - Function Room, Dolphin Hotel, Fore
St,. Beer EX12 3EQ
Come and enjoy the hilarious performance of Les Barker who writes strange poems
and comes originally from Manchester, but he's now Welsh. He's written 77 books,
which sell in large numbers at his gigs because people don't quite believe what
they've just heard. His poems have spawned a number of folk heroes: Jason and
the Arguments, Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife Thrower, Captain Indecisive and
Spot of the Antarctic. Tickets £10 from the Dolphin (01297 20068) or by post
(cheque payable to Richard Scott, with SAE): Richard Scott, 23 Underleys, Beer,
Devon EX12 3LX.
NEW
Sunday 26 February 2017 5pm - Words for Voices - St. Paul’s Church, Devon
Square, Newton Abbot TQ12 2HN
'Time of our Lives' - A light-hearted look at the journey through life with
words and music, compiled and performed by Words for Voices with music from
Devon Close Harmony Quartet (DCHQ). Words for Voices are 4 actors who have
worked together for decades and produce very slick, brilliantly presented
sketches on a particular theme. “Time of our Lives” is a very humorous look at
the Seven ages of Man and gives us lots of scope to remind you of infancy,
empathise with you through adolescence, flirt with you through the wooing years,
have a crisis with you in midlife and then learn to forget about how it will all
end! DCHQ have a great selection of songs to fit the theme, mostly a cappella
and ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. "Although it’s not exactly a
folk concert (with the acting) the quartet are singing Foreign Lander and Mike
Harding's "Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls" amongst others." Tickets £10 (U16 free)
available from Torbay Hospital Main Reception, or St. Paul’s Church. (League of
Friends 01803 654520). Proceeds will benefit Rowcroft Hospice and Torbay
Hospital League of Friends.
NEW
Friday 28 April 2017 - Klezmer
Ceilidh with Kevara -
St Matthews Church Hall, Lower Summerlands,
Newtown, Exeter EX1 2LJ
Come and join Si, Ami, Martin, Pam, Tim, Joel and Howard for more East European
shenanigans. www.kevara.co.uk.
No bar, BYO refreshments. £8.50/£7. Doors 6.30pm, Music 7-10.15pm..
NEW
Saturday 13 May 2017 8pm - Special Spring Concert - Southernhay URC,
Southernhay East Exeter EX1 1QD
Wren Music presents a concert with the Melodissimo Choir from Henvic in Brittany
and the Rough Music Folk Orchestra from East Devon. Melodissimo boasts more than
65 singers. They will sing songs from their own Breton culture; contemporary
French song; songs from around the world, and songs with the call to freedom. It
will be their second visit to Devon hosted by Wren’s Rough Music who will play
music from their home in East Devon and explore repertoire from across the
county much much further afield! Rough Music’s conductor David Faulkner says,
“It is going to be a fabulous evening, I can’t wait to hear our friends from
Brittany sing again. It was fantastic when we visited them in Henvic and I am
sure it will be a repeat performance here! Rough Music is always great – they
are a joy to listen to and so much fun!”. For more information, please contact
David Faulkner on 01836 53754 or email
david@wrenmusic.co.uk. Free entry with a collection. Light refreshments
available.
NEW
Saturday 13 May 2017 7pm - Medieval and Folk Music Concert - St Mary's
Church, Plympton PL7 1QW
Featuring Mock Hobby Horse, Russell Harris and Nicholas Millington, who
specialise in early music on a wide variety of traditional/acoustic instruments,
"beautiful, haunting, timeless melodies".
www.mockhobbyhorse.co.uk. Along with Mick Bramich, a knowledgeable and
entertaining local folk musician. Mick plays traditional music and songs of the
19th and 20th centuries including some from the Sabine Baring Gould collection.
£5 on door. Part of the 'Royalty in Residence' weekend at Plympton Priory Site
St Mary's Church, which is in turn part of Plymouth History Festival 2017
running 6 May-4 June. Details
www.historyfestival2017.wordpress.com.
NEW
Saturday 13 May 2017 7.30pm - The Lost Sound with Chris Hoban - St Michaels
Church, Chagford
Dartmoor folk choir, The Lost Sound with singer/songwriter Chris Hoban. Both
acts are fresh from the Albert Hall accompanying Show Of Hands. here they
showcase their own styles of folk. The a cappella Lost Sound Chorus bring rich
and tender harmonies to trad tunes from around Britain. "The best choir in the
region" Phil Beer. Chris' self-penned songs and lyrical tenor voice bring him
back to his musical roots. Tickets £8.50. Details see
www.thelostsoundchorus.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 3 June 2017 7.30pm - The Lost Sound with Mariners Away - Tavistock
Town Hall
Dartmoor folk choir The Lost Sound with Mariners Away Shanty Singers.Strong
and vibrant harmonies from 2 different styles of folk from rousing Shanties to
heartrending calls to the land! A boisterous and warming evening of harmony
singing. Tickets £8.50. Details see
www.thelostsoundchorus.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 1 July 2017 7.15pm - Blackheart Orchestra - Goose Field, off Exton
Lane, Exton EX3 0PN
The Blackheart Orchestra are multi-instrumentalists Chrissy Mostyn and Rick
Pilkington. Their unique music has been described as “Utterly magical” by
the BBC’s John Gilmore and “One of the best things to come out of England in
recent years.” by Fatea Music Magazine. “A heavenly fusion of acoustic folk,
intelligent pop and classical composition…Enchanting”. ABC Radio Australia.
Details, sample links etc.
www.extonvillagehall.uk/black-heart-info-04-17.html.Gates 6.30pm. Adv
tickets £12. U12s free.
NEW
Wednesday 7 June 2017 8.30pm - Ensemble Baklava - Speakeasy, Toorak Hotel,
Chestnut Avenue, Torquay TQ2 5JS
With a unique combination of instruments, Ensemble Baklava blends the sounds
of the oud, bouzouki, concertina, bagpipes, Middle Eastern percussion, mandolin,
baglama, spiked fiddle, guitar, tin whistle and voices to bring evocative,
stirring and lively music and song from the Mediterranean region, both
contemporary and ancient. £7 adv (www.speakeasytorquay.com/ensemble-baklava),
£8 door.
NEW UPDATED Cancelled
NEW
Friday 20 October 2017 8pm - Red Dirt Skinners - Cadeleigh Parish Hall, nr
Tiverton EX16 8HW
Sublime genre-crossing musicianship from a multi-award winning
folk/roots duo who blend exceptional harmonies with unique instrumentation to
create a full band sound - the internationally acclaimed Skinners sound.
www.reddirtskinners.com.
Tickets £10 adv from Catherine telephone 01884 855311, online
www.wegottickets.com/event/413622, £12 door.
NEW
Friday 10 November 2017 7.30pm - Mervyn Stutter - Nicholls Hall, Lydford
An evening of fun, laughter and song.
www.mervynstutterK.com. ickets £9 from 01822 820589. BYO drink and nibbles.
NEW
Sunday 19 November 2017 - Harbottle & Jonas Tamar - Rising Sun Inn,
Gunnislake
Stunning young folk duo based in Totnes. Their music is eclectic and is
always accompanied with a great story. They have received plaudits from folk
royalty including Seth Lakeman, Jon Boden, Rod Clements, Declan Sinnott, BBC
Introducing. Playing over 100 gigs each year, these troubadours are to be found
far and wide across our beautiful island.
www.harbottleandjonas.com.
NEW
Friday 24 November 2017 9pm - LOSt COYOTES -
Rising Sun, Woodland, Ashburton TQ13 7JT
Mostly a Devon-based 4-piece band (some Jiggerypipery members) who play a
bewitching mix of Americana, Cajun, Latin-American, and Celtic songs and tunes,
finding a natural chemistry between these musical genres in a melodious blend of
their instruments and voices. From up-beat Cajun rhythms and Celtic jigs and
reels, to more soulful songs and airs, and with themes of land, migration and
borders running through much of their repertoire.
www.lostcoyotes.co.uk/home-page. More info 07557 002622.
NEW
Saturday 24 March 2018 8pm - Cosgrave & Banks - Scoriton Village Hall, nr
Buckfastleigh TQ11 0JB (map)
Folk duo Mike Cosgrave (Sin é, Jackie Leven, Jackie Oates) and Steve Banks (Maddy
Prior & the Carnival Band, Blue Jewel) have built a reputation for top quality
musicianship and entertainment. “An eclectic mix of material, underpinned by top
quality musicianship; a varied and highly entertaining programme” – Folk On The
Moor Folk Club. “One of Devon’s multi-instrumental treasures.” – Topsham Folk
Club. “A sublime concert, complete with quirky intros; a sumptuous musical
journey far and wide across the UK and Europe.” – Cheriton Fitzpaine Village
Hall. "Superb playing and singing, all with a great sense of style and fun" –
Tom McConville.
www.cosgraveandbanks.com. Tickets
£8, can be booked on 01364 631288; or pay on the door. Licensed bar.
NEW
Friday 26 January 2018 7.30pm - Burn's Supper Ceilidh with Dumbo's Feather -
Cruwys Morchard Parrish Hall, Pennymoor, nr Tiverton
Tickets £15 include a welcome drink and choice of Traditional Haggis,
Sausage Casserole or a Vegetarian Option and Dessert. Tickets and meal choices
can be purchased by contacting Angela Culverhouse on 01363 866143 or email
aculverhouse74 [at] gmail.com. As well as Dumbo's Feather performing music for
Ceilidh Dancingthey will be performing songs from the bard, and there will be
light-hearted contributions from several guests as the evening progresses. The
event is raising funds for Hospiscare.
NEW
Friday 23 February 2018 - Hooper & Mills - Broadhembury Village Hall
With special guest Clive Sheard. An evening of acoustic blues. Tickets £8 door.
Telephone 01404 758103. Doors 7.30pm. In aid of Citizens Advice.
NEW
Saturday 3 March 2018 7pm - John Smith - Broadhempston Church
Other than the name, there is nothing commonplace about John Smith. John has
played to audiences all over the world, in living rooms, festival tents and
sold-out concert halls, with a powerful singing voice that critics have compared
to the likes of John Martyn and Ray Lamontagne. John has opened shows for Iron
and Wine, Tinariwen, Gil Scott-Heron, John Martyn, and John Renbourn; and has
performed alongside the likes of Jackson Browne, Jerry Douglas, Chris Thile,
Martin Carthy, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker and Rodney Crowell. In his role as
a gun for hire in the studio and on the road, he has played with artists such as
David Gray, Lisa Hannigan, Joe Henry, Gabrielle Aplin and Lianne La Havas. It’s
all for the love of the guitar. John plays a rumbling fingerstyle and sometimes
uses a slide, sometimes plays the guitar on his lap, sometimes he detunes
mid-song. His guitar work and honey-on-gravel vocals have brought crowds to
pin-drop silence and rapturous applause.
http://devonsent.org/event/johnsmith.
NEW
Saturday 17 March 2018 9pm - Paddy's Whiskers - The Snooty Fox, St
Marychurch, 89-91 Fore Street, Torquay TQ1 4PZ
St.Patrick’s Day Party with Paignton based Irish/Celtic/American band
Paddy’s Whiskers. Banjos, fiddles, mandolins, border bagpipes, percussion,
harmonica. Fast and furious jigs and reels, and - for St. Patrick’s Day - a
night of Irish sing along favourites together with a scattering of bluegrass and
original songs and tunes written by the band. Free entry. Venue 01803 323312.
More information on Paddy's Whiskers
www.paddyswhiskers.co.uk or call Andrew on 01803 520798.
NEW Wednesday 28 March 2018 8pm -
Miranda Sykes - Uffculme Village Hall, nr. Cullompton. EX15 3AX
The acclaimed singer and bassist with ‘Show of Hands’ is returning to her roots.
After a career spanning over 20 years, during which time she has played with
many of the top musicians and singers within the folk world, she will be touring
as she started out: one woman, one bass, and one guitar. Borrowed Places is a
project that draws its inspiration primarily from the songs and landscapes of
her native Lincolnshire but seen through the eyes of someone who has lived away
for many years. The themes are not specific; the land changes, it grows, it
shrinks, it adapts and it resists but most of all it lives and breathes. With
her sensational voice, and accompanying herself, Miranda interprets the soul of
the land and takes her audience on a journey that resonates with us all,
wherever we live and it is one you won’t want to miss.
www.mirandasykes.com.
Tickets £11 Tel. 01884 840192 / 07790 774945
www.wegottickets.com/event/430647
NEW Storytelling show 'Silence' by
Rachel Rose Reid
1911, a box marked ‘Old Papers, No Value’. A manuscript discovered. An
unfolding story, Roman de Silence. Suffrage protest ignite. Could England and
King Arthur's lineage both depended on a quest for female freedom? A silenced
legend given life by contemporary storyteller Rachel Rose Reid. "Immense skill
and breathless conviction...There's no faulting Reid's command of her craft" The
Times. Rachel Rose Reid is a UK-based storyteller who has performed around the
World and for BBC Radio 3, the Crick Crack Club, and Beyond the Border.
www.silencespeaks.strikingly.com. Appearing at the following venues:
Thursday 19 April 2018 - Totnes, South Devon Storytellers - Totnes
Methodist Church, Totnes
Saturday 21 April 2018 - Topsham, Artemis Storytelling - Matthews Hall,
Fore Street, Topsham, Exeter
Thursday 26 April 2018 - Liskeard Storytelling Cafe - Liskeard Public
Hall, Liskeard
NEW Saturday 29 September 2018
7.30pm - Steve Knightley - St Johns Church, North Bovey, nr Moretonhampstead
TQ13 8QZ
'Songs & Stories' tour. Tickets: 07887 932212, email
wendymkeeson@gmail.com.
NEW Saturday 14 April 2018 9pm -
Eliza Acty - The White Thorn, Shaugh Prior PL7 5HA
With her unique vocal style, singer and musician Eliza performs a wide range of
folk, blues, American old-time, original and contemporary songs that span over a
century of music.
www.elizaacty.com Eliza says "Not only is this a brilliant music venue
regularly offering great acts but this place has the most wonderful atmosphere
and you are sure to feel very welcome. Come along and eat/drink/chill out and
see my duo set with Peter Acty adding some extra lovely clawhammer banjo and
guitar."
www.facebook.com/whitethorninn.
Session news
The regular monthly sessions at the Boot Inn, Calstock PL18 9RN on Tuesday 13
August and at the Copper Penny Inn, Chipshop PL19 8NT on Tuesday 27 August are
each cancelled due to holidays and stuff. Both sessions will resume in September
as normal. Mike & Tilly.
www.mikeandtillymusic.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 29 September 2018
7.30pm - Steve Knightley - St Johns Church, North Bovey, nr Moretonhampstead
TQ13 8QZ
Steve reprises his highly popular 'Songs and Stories' Tour in 2019 with 'Part 2
- Roadworks'. Tickets tel: 07887 932212, email:
wendymkeeson@gmail.com.
NEW Saturday 27 October 2018
7-10pm - Devon Air Ambulance charity ceilidh with Worts'n'All - Broadhempston
Village Hall, Kings Close Field, Broadhempston TQ9 6BJ
Tickets £7.50 (includes raffle), available from Kay on 01803 361829. Light
refreshments available. No bar, BYO drinks.
NEW Saturday 10 November 2018 8pm
- RSVP Bhangra Band - RatteryVillage Hall,
South Brent TQ10 9LD (map)
RSVP is a Bhangra band that blends traditional Punjabi celebratory folk music
with Western musical influences to create a sound that is unusual when heard by
mainstream listeners, but none of that matters, because their ability to perform
to a crowd is perfect. Their stage personalities are lovable, the Asian
drumbeats are infectious, and the Western slant gives the crowd something unique
to enjoy. With musicians drawn from one family, wholly rooted in an authentic
living tradition, yet unafraid to innovate, this is the ultimate celebratory
Indian music. RSVP will be bringing their Big Bhangra Beats and engaging,
interactive vibe so be prepared to learn some Bhangra grooves and moves and get
ready to party. Tickets from 01364 72597 / 07879 438769. More details, online
booking...
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
Mad Dog Mcrea Dates - they invariably sell out, so book early!
Saturday 6 October 2018 9pm - - Pigs Nose Inn Hall, East Prawle, Kingsbridge TQ7
2BY (map)
www.pigsnoseinn.co.uk
Saturday 15 December 2018 8pm - - The Rum Store,
Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot, Liskeard (map)
www.carnglaze.com
Wednesday 19 December 2018 8pm - - The Watermark,
Erme Court, Leonards Road, Ivybridge PL21 0SZ (map)
www.ivybridgewatermark.co.uk
Thursday 20 December 2018 8pm - - Beehive Arts
Centre, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LZ
www.beehivehoniton.co.uk
Sunday 23 December 2018 7.30pm - - Tavistock Wharf
(map)
www.tavistockwharf.com
NEW 2-4 November 2018 - Exploring
Folklore: Focus on Dartmoor - Halsway Manor, Halsway Lane, near Crowcombe,
Somerset, TA4 4BD
For Halsway’s second Exploring Folklore weekend, the focus is that extraordinary
wealth of folklore that was, and still is, found on Dartmoor. All our guest
contributors come from the area and, between them, demonstrate not only how we
live within our own folklore, but how closely all the different aspects of
folklore combine to define a culture by drawing on the past, living in the here
and now, and shaping the future. The team includes Dartmoor tradition bearer
Bill Murray, Dartmoor step dance champion (and singer, musician & composer) Matt
Norman, plus Tom Pearce’s Old Grey Mare will be travelling up from Dartymoor!
Doc Rowe returns along with weekend host Tom Brown, for an enjoyable weekend of
talks, presentations, practical workshops and performances exploring folklore,
folklorismus and fakelore. For Details and ticket see
https://halswaymanor.org.uk/event/exploring-folklore-dartmoor/.
NEW Saturday 13 October 2018 9pm -
The O Marleys - Rising Sun, Woodland, Ashburton TQ13 7JT
Irish band The O'Marleys (Irish / Roots / Country, 4 piece) will be playing lots
of lively Irish and Scottish music to dance and sing along to. Not to be missed.
With you favourites like lack Velvet Band, Whisky in the Jar, Rocky Road To
Dublin, Liverpool, and many more uniquely arranged The O'Marleys way, a bit of
Folk/Rock, and Reggae mix. Plus our latest single Nancy Mulligan by Ed sheeran
with an Irish feel. The O'Marleys will be setting The Rising Sun alight with
plenty of Irish Music and Craic. Free entry.
NEW
Friday 21
December 2018 8pm - Maddy and the Chaps -
Welcome Inn, Mount Pleasant Rd, Dawlish
Warren EX7 0NE
An eclectic mix of folk/country/Celtic acoustic music on guitars, ukelele,
banjolele, banjo, acoustic bass, accordion, mandolin and bits and pieces of
percussion. All five of band sing, allowing a range of singing styles and
harmonies. Think Beatles and Mumford and Sons, John Denver and REM, Dolly Parton
and Vance Joy, The Pogues and Buddy Holly.
NEW
Saturday 8 December 2018 8pm - Maddy and
the Chaps - Atmospheric Railway Inn, The
Strand, Starcross, Exeter EX6 8PA
An eclectic mix of folk/country/Celtic acoustic music on guitars, ukelele,
banjolele, banjo, acoustic bass, accordion, mandolin and bits and pieces of
percussion. All five of band sing, allowing a range of singing styles and
harmonies. Think Beatles and Mumford and Sons, John Denver and REM, Dolly Parton
and Vance Joy, The Pogues and Buddy Holly.
NEW
Saturday 20 October 2018 9pm - Maddy and the Chaps -
The Bowling Green, 29-30 Blackboy Road, Exeter
EX4 6ST
An eclectic mix of folk/country/Celtic acoustic music on guitars, ukelele,
banjolele, banjo, acoustic bass, accordion, mandolin and bits and pieces of
percussion. All five of band sing, allowing a range of singing styles and
harmonies. Think Beatles and Mumford and Sons, John Denver and REM, Dolly Parton
and Vance Joy, The Pogues and Buddy Holly.
NEW
Saturday 13 October 2018 8.30pm - Maddy
and the Chaps - South Devon Inn, Strand
Hill, Dawlish EX7 9HR
An eclectic mix of folk/country/Celtic acoustic music on guitars, ukelele,
banjolele, banjo, acoustic bass, accordion, mandolin and bits and pieces of
percussion. All five of band sing, allowing a range of singing styles and
harmonies. Think Beatles and Mumford and Sons, John Denver and REM, Dolly Parton
and Vance Joy, The Pogues and Buddy Holly.
NEW
Saturday 17 March 2018 8pm - Maddy and the Chaps - The Brunswick Arms, 10
Brunswick Place, Dawlish EX7 9PB
St Patrick's Day gig.
NEW
Thursday 8 November 2018 7.30pm - Gingang - The Horse, Moretonhampstead
Multi-instrumental trio Gingang present an evening of traditional music and
song, including material from the new EP Dwarka: A Journey. This collection of
music was inspired by the story of the horse Dwarka, ancestor of many of today’s
Dartmoor ponies. Born in the Arabian desert, taken by the British army to India,
and finally to Dartmoor and the Prince of Wales’ stud at Tor Royal, his story is
told in Ginnie Pope’s book Hooves in the Heather. Through songs of departure and
belonging, and original instrumentals evoking the landscapes of desert dunes and
windswept moorlands, Dwarka: A Journey charts this unique story. Featuring: Tony
Bayliss (cittern, guitar, vocals), Louis Bingham (cittern, guitar, vocals),
Peter Bingham (bass guitar, whistles, vocals). Tickets £8. Contact Tony
Bayliss for booking info. Phone: 07876 788988, email:
baylissringford@gmail.com.
NEW Friday 9 November 2018 7.30pm -
Gingang
- Church House, South Tawton, nr Okehampton EX20 2LQ (map)
Multi-instrumental trio Gingang present an evening of traditional music and
song, including material from the new EP Dwarka: A Journey. This collection of
music was inspired by the story of the horse Dwarka, ancestor of many of today’s
Dartmoor ponies. Born in the Arabian desert, taken by the British army to India,
and finally to Dartmoor and the Prince of Wales’ stud at Tor Royal, his story is
told in Ginnie Pope’s book Hooves in the Heather. Through songs of departure and
belonging, and original instrumentals evoking the landscapes of desert dunes and
windswept moorlands, Dwarka: A Journey charts this unique story. Featuring: Tony
Bayliss (cittern, guitar, vocals), Louis Bingham (cittern, guitar, vocals),
Peter Bingham (bass guitar, whistles, vocals). Tickets £8. Contact Tony
Bayliss for booking info. Phone: 07876 788988, email:
baylissringford@gmail.com.
NEW Sunday 11 November 2018 7.30pm - Ashburton
Arts Centre, West Street, Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Multi-instrumental trio Gingang present an evening of traditional music and
song, including material from the new EP Dwarka: A Journey. This collection of
music was inspired by the story of the horse Dwarka, ancestor of many of today’s
Dartmoor ponies. Born in the Arabian desert, taken by the British army to India,
and finally to Dartmoor and the Prince of Wales’ stud at Tor Royal, his story is
told in Ginnie Pope’s book Hooves in the Heather. Through songs of departure and
belonging, and original instrumentals evoking the landscapes of desert dunes and
windswept moorlands, Dwarka: A Journey charts this unique story. Featuring: Tony
Bayliss (cittern, guitar, vocals), Louis Bingham (cittern, guitar, vocals),
Peter Bingham (bass guitar, whistles, vocals). Tickets £16, £10 or £6.
Contact Tony Bayliss for booking info. Phone: 07876 788988, email:
baylissringford@gmail.com.
NEW Saturday 13 April 2019 7.30pm - Daria Kulesh:
Long Lost Home - Mamhead Village
Hall, Stud Hill, Mamhead, EX6 8HP
With her striking voice and strong Russian and Ingush heritage, ‘bold, exotic,
impressive’ Daria Kulesh is a rising star on the UK folk scene. Her intrepid
quest to explore her family roots in the new solo album and touring show Long
Lost Home has led Daria from the folk clubs of Hertfordshire to the mountains of
Caucasus. Mixing history and folklore in captivating storytelling songs,
performed on a selection of folk instruments, Daria will take you on an
engaging, enchanting and uplifting journey. ‘Daria Kulesh entertained us with
wonderful, charming stories and songs, one of the best voices around’ Robin
Mansfield, Cambridge Folk Club. Tickets on sale soon. Tickets: adult £9, child
£7, family £25. Call 0845 467 0529 to book, or book online,
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
NEW Sunday 20 January 2019 2-4pm
-Workshop: Celebrating the Fiddle in 2019 - Berry Pomeroy Village Hall , nr
Totnes
A workshop of music-making for intermediate to advanced players. A fun
participatory workshop for fiddle players, led by Griselda Sanderson, playing
traditional music from the UK & Sweden. Cost £10. Part 1 includes listening
exercises to get all playing as a group with a focus on techniques used in
ensemble playing. We will learn new tunes by ear. Notation can be sent in
advance. Part 2 involves arranging the tunes and part-playing. We will work on
adding drones and counter-melodies to create beautiful rich harmonies. Finally
we will sum up what we have achieved in the session with a ‘performance’ that
you can record for your future listening pleasure. Teas/coffees provided. Bring
recording devices and music stands if you wish to read notation. For advance
tickets:
https://Griselda22.eventbee.com/event?eid=164479492. Contact:
gris_sanderson@hotmail.com,
Phone 07792 319809/ 01803 864286.
NEW Friday 15 March 2019 - Nick
Wyke & Becki Driscoll - St Mary's Church, Belstone, nr Okehampton EX20 1RB
An acoustic concert with English folk duo Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll in the
beautiful setting of Belstone church. This is part of their 'Beautiful Spaces'
tour. Tea and coffee will be served in the church during the interval but the
pub is right next door if you prefer something stronger! A percentage of the
ticket price will go back to the church. Tickets £8 adv, £10 door.
www.wegottickets.com/event/459189.
NEW Friday 29 March 2019 - Nick
Wyke & Becki Driscoll - Oak Room Arts Centre, Tiverton
An acoustic concert with English folk duo Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll. This
is part of their 'Beautiful Spaces' tour in March 2019. Tickets £8 adv or £10
door. The Oak Room will be running the bar and coffee shop for the evening.
Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/460172.
NEW Saturday 29 February 2020 -
Silvington - Slapton Village Hall
Call 01548 581148 for details.
NEW Saturday 16 February 2019 -
Supper concert with Silvington - Slapton Village Hall
South Devon duo Silvington will be featuring tracks from their new album "A
Song in Every Window" - a history of Plymouth in song. Tickets £10 from Slapton
Village Community Shop. In aid of St James the Great Church.
NEW Sunday 31 March 2019 12.30pm -
Dashing Devon Dukes Spring Concert - Moreleigh Village Hall
The South Hams very own Guitar/Ukulele Band! Ukes and Guitars play folk and
traditional songs as well as rocky hits. The Dashing Devon Dukes have been
evolving for the last 5 years and are made up of keen youngsters from all over
the South Hams who love to play ukuleles and guitars and sing together. A
lunchtime concert of footstamping, singalong favourites to get the Season
started. Tickets £5, available from the New Inn Moreleigh, Harbertonford Post
Office or on the door! Proud to be supporting Devon Air Ambulance.
www.dashingdevondukes.com.
NEW Saturday 1 June 2019 11am - Arquebus - Arts
Cafe Bar, Axminster
Traditional folk mixed with original songs and tunes, performed in an upbeat
contemporary foot stomping style. Free event in the courtyard garden.
www.arquebustrio.co.uk.
NEW Wednesday 26 June 2019 8pm -
Below The Blackdowns Traditional Irish session - Honiton Inn, Awliscombe
If you like traditional Irish music or play a traditional instrument and know
some Irish tunes please come and join in the fun! A regular monthly session on
the 4th Wednesday - but no sessions July/August.
NEW Saturday 14 September 2019
7.30pm - 2nd Annual Old Time American Square Dance - Peter Tavy, nr Tavistock
With fine live band and Tony Mates dance caller from Seattle, Washington, whose
grandfather grew up here; he is pleased to donate any proceeds to the Village
Hall. The dances will be easy and fun, and the music of the very best. He has
been calling dances for nearly 40 years, at major festivals and small village
halls, bringing the joys of old time music and dance to folks of all ages. The
dance location is under review, either the Village Hall or Dodd’s barn - half
way to the local pub. £7 adult, £5 OAP/U16. For more information call 01822
810868 or 01822 810243. Refreshments.
NEW Friday 30 August 2019 8pm -
Adam Sweet Band plus Julian Piper - Mariners Hall, Beer EX12 3JH
Adam Sweet specialises in a blend of blue eyed soul and Americana with a band
that includes bassist Ian Jennings, a veteran of recording with Van Morrison and
Jeff Beck. Slide guitarist Julian Piper will be playing an acoustic set
featuring songs from his recent album 'Terlingua' mixed with dusty blues
classics. Tickets £10 door, or adv from 01392 873407.
NEW Tuesday 22
October 2019 7.30pm - Budapest Café Orchestra -
- St Mary's Parish Church, Kingskerswell TQ12 5LD
(map)
"Their virtuistic skill, hilarious sense of humour and undoubted sensitivity
kept the packed audience spellbound. amazing ....unlike any other band that I
have every heard." Ely Standard Newspaper - Rosemary Westall. Led by leading
violinist and composer, Christian Garrick, the Budapest Café Orchestra play
traditional folk & gypsy flavoured music from across the world. Raucous,
toe-tapping Balkan and Russian numbers are combined with jazz and swing
inflections whilst Klezmer, Romanian Doinas and Hungarian Czardas are awarded
fresh treatments. Check them out on YouTube! Tickets £10, call 01647 24789 to
reserve.
NEW Sunday 27
October 2019 7.30pm - Budapest Café Orchestra - Harrowbarrow & Metherell Village
Hall, School Road, Harrowbarrow, Callington PL17 8BQ
The Budapest Cafe Orchestra is a music-driven phenomenon, a specialist
performance-entertainment outfit, certified to enthral audiences everywhere. The
infectious energy of the BCO will sweep you off your feet and stay in your heart
forever. You will journey from one emotional pole to another: from a desperately
tragic evocative heart-rending ancient Jewish melody to a dance from Romania or
Russia and all the fiery exuberance that goes with it. Check them out on YouTube!
Tickets £14(+) from Harrowbarrow Post Office, or email
hmvillageorchard@hotmail.co.uk,
or online from
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/budapest-cafe-orchestra-tickets-67928200075?aff=ebdssbeac.
Proceeds to Harrowbarrow & Metherell Community Orchard. Cash bar.
NEW Thursday 24
October 2019 - Budapest Café Orchestra - Jubilee Hall, Chagford TQ13 8DP (map)
Led by British composer and violinist Christian Garrick the BCO play a
blistering barrage of traditional folk and gypsy-flavoured music from across the
Balkans and Russia, Klezmer laments, Romanian Doinas, Hungarian Czardas and
their own unique re-imaginings of some of the biggest pieces ever written by the
greats. They have won legions of fans through their magical and infectious
performances. Evoking vivid images of Tzigane fiddle maestros, Budapest café
life and gypsy campfires - plus a few surprises along the way - hugely
entertaining, immense skill and profound musicianship. Check them out on YouTube!
Tickets £10, call 01647 24789 to reserve.
NEW Sunday 15 September 2024
1pm - Sound of the Sirens - The Woodland Cafe, Staplehill Road, Liverton,
Newton Abbot TQ12 6FU
An intimate afternoon of live music from the utterly captivating Sound Of
The Sirens. Details
www.soundofthesirens.uk/web/#live.
NEW
Saturday 16 November
2019 8.30pm - Son Yambu
- Village Hall, Ley Close, Liverton, Newton Abbot TQ12 6HW
Doors 7pm, dance class 7.30pm,
band 8.30pm. Son Yambu play authentic ‘Son Cubano’ or Cuban son – the essential
Afro-Cuban music that originated in the streets of eastern Cuba at the turn of
the last century. The root of all salsa music, Son is a fusion of Spanish and
African rhythms. Son Yambu feature a new generation of mainly Cuban musicians
who are passionate about maintaining the traditions of the genre, continuing the
Buena Vista legacy that put Cuban music back on the map. £12 adult, £10 U18.
Details
www.livertonvillagehall.co.uk.
NEW
Friday 13 December 2019
7.30pm - Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir - St Peter’s Church, Ugborough
A Candlelight Christmas Concert. Tickets: adults £10 (includes a glass of mulled
wine/cider and a mince pie), U12 £5, in support of St. Peter’s Church Funds.
Tickets available from Stafford & Susan Williams 01752 896528 or Jeremy Wells
01364 72180, or on door.
NEW
Saturday 29 February 2019 -
Silvington - Slapton Village Hall
Purveyors of both
traditional and contemporary songs, multi-instrumentalist John Connor and Tricia
Moore with her delicate guitar playing and clear voice are also prolific
songwriters in their own right, and their repertoire rightly showcases some
self-penned gems. Enjoy Silvington’s trademark vocal harmonies. Their latest
album, Heva Heva, is curently available on Apple Music and iTunes, YouTube
Music, Spotify Google Play and Believe Live.
Samples etc.
www.silvington.org.
Tickets £10 to include supper. Details from Sue Staines 01548 581148.
New Advance Diary dates
While trawling my various sources for concerts of interest well into the
future, my latest researches have yielded the following (Details on
www.harbertonfolk.co.uk):
NEW Monday 24
February 2020 7.30pm -
The Fureys
- Tavistock Wharf
NEW Friday 28 February 2020 7.30pm - Steve
Knightley - The Watermark, Ivybridge
NEW Saturday
29 February
2020 7.30pm - Steve Knightley - Barnfield Theatre, Exeter
NEW Friday 3 April 2020 8.30pm - The Trials of
Cato - Calstock Arts (BBC
Folk Awards 2019 Best Album Winners)
NEW Sunday 17 May 2020 7.30pm - Julie July Band:
The Fotheringay Tour 2020 - Barnfield Theatre, Exeter
NEW Sunday 31 May 2020 8pm - Lau Unplugged -
Calstock Arts
NEW Friday 18 September 2020 7.30pm - Steve
Knightley -
Pavilions Teignmouth
and this one caught my eye as a few balcony seats are still available and
some folks like Jan and I don't do standing gigs any more:
NEW Thursday 7 May 2020 - The Red Hot Chilli
Pipers - Exeter Phoenix
Standing, but a few balcony seats are still available.
There has never been anything quite like The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, from
their formation in 2002 and a cameo appearance at T in the Park in 2004 with
the Darkness to opening the main stage in their own right in 2014. The past
fifteen years has seen the Red Hot Chilli Pipers become the most famous
bagpipe band on the planet..ever! Bagpipes with attitude, drums with a
Scottish accent and a show that carries its own health warning. The bands
achievements have reached incredible heights with their groundbreaking
fusion of traditional Scottish music and rock/pop Anthems which they proudly
call “Bagrock”. The Red Hot Chilli Pipers are a genuinely unique experience.
Box Office 01392 667080. Details
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/category/music.
NEW Saturday
21 December 2019 8pm - Show Of Hands Christmas Special - Electric Palace, 35
South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Yes, it's outside our area, but not too far away!
Show of Hands fans rejoice as Steve Knightley and Phil Beer, two undisputed
kings of the folk, roots and acoustic scene reunite with long-term collaborator
Miranda Sykes for a brand-new album and tour. And there’s more, because the trio
is expanding to include master percussionist Cormac Byrne who returns with his
infectious rhythms by popular demand. With new songs, new sounds,
heartbeats and harmonies, the quartet’s first secret gig last year at The
Electric Palace sold out overnight. Join us for this very special Christmas
show. £28.50 adv / £30 door.
www.electricpalace.org.uk/events/event/show-of-hand-christmas-special.
NEW Friday
15 May 2020 7.30pm - Ninebarrow - St Michael’s Church, Shute, Axminster
Ninebarrow are a multi-award-winning folk duo, entertaining audiences across
the country with their innovative and captivating take on the folk tradition.
Combining breath taking vocal harmonies and melodies, they deliver songs and
stories inspired by the landscape and history of the British Isles. An evening
with the duo isn’t just a concert with superb music – it’s also a night of
folklore and storytelling at its very best. Ticketing see
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
NEW Saturday
11 January 2020 7.30pm - Ninebarrow - Mary Tavy Coronation Hall, Mary Tavy,
Tavistock PL19 9QA
Ninebarrow are a multi-award-winning folk duo, entertaining audiences across the
country with their innovative and captivating take on the folk tradition.
Combining breath taking vocal harmonies and melodies, they deliver songs and
stories inspired by the landscape and history of the British Isles. An evening
with the duo isn’t just a concert with superb music – it’s also a night of
folklore and storytelling at its very best. Ticketing see
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
Wassail Theatre – Horses! Horses!
Johnny’s putting on a Big Fun fundraiser tonight at the Nags Head, though
he’s not in the mood for fun… Horses! Horses! is the darkly comical tale of a
stolen horse, wild west-country soul and the mess we make of relationships.
Landlord Johnny is desperately trying to save his pub, while his wife Susie is
hiding out on Ted’s farm. A show performed in the midst of the local boozer with
pub games, pints, crisps, heartbreak and laughter, country music, lots of
karaoke and a few surprises.
tbc Wednesday 11 March 2020 Church House Inn,
Harberton TQ10 9LD
Thursday 12 March 2020 - King's Arms, Stockland
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
Friday 13 March 2020 - Tradesman's Arms, Scoriton
www.villagesinaction.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday/Sunday 23/24 May 2020 10am-4pm - Green Man Event - Mount Edgcumbe
The giant figure of the Green Man returns to Mount Edgcumbe as a centre piece
looming over the event sitting on his throne of leaves and bark – he will be
presiding over stalls, entertainment (including Harbottle & Jonas), refreshments
and lots of activities. Entry to the event is free of charge- all day parking £5
per vehicle.
www.mountedgcumbe.gov.uk.
NEW Friday 13 March 2020 7.30pm -
Storytelling: Frankenstein -
Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter EX2 4AZ (map)
Told by Ben Haggarty with musician Sianed Jones. See
www.artemis-storytelling.co.uk for
further information. Aimed at adults - see more detailed age guidance on the
performance page.
NEW Friday 7 February 2020 -
Storytelling: The Wounded King, Fragments of Arthur for Our Times -
Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street EX4 3LS (map)
Told by Lisa Schneidau, Katy Cawkwell and Ronnie Conboy. Part of Library Lates
at Exeter Library. See
www.artemis-storytelling.co.uk for link
to information. Not an Artemis event, but recommended.
NEW Saturday 1 February 2020
7.30pm - Storytelling: The Frog Princess Punked -
Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street EX4 3LS (map)
Told by Sally Pomme Clayton. See
www.artemis-storytelling.co.uk for link
to information. Not an Artemis event, but recommended.
Jim Causley local dates, Autumn/Winter 2021/2022.
‘A Causley Christmas’
Join Jim in celebrating the Christmas season as he entertains you with lesser
known West Country carols, medieval and secular carols from around the British
Isles, his own settings of moving Christmas poems by his relative, the late
Cornish poet Charles Causley as well a gurt dollop of festive fun with songs of
over-indulgence and even a spot of panto too! If you are feeling a little
dismayed with the over-commercialisation of “Christmas present” then join Jim
for a journey through Christmas past that will be guaranteed to get you in the
festive spirit!
26th Nov – Payhembury, St Mary the Virgin. email: lesley.elford@gmail.com
27 Nov - Puddington Village Hall email: traceybaily@btinternet.com
28th Nov - Sticklepath, St Marys Church, email: carolandmikey@gmail.com
11th Dec - Wiveliscombe, Silver Street Sessions www.silverstreetsessions.co.uk
12th Dec - Folk on the Moor www.moorfolk.co.uk
16th Dec – Buckerell, Doug’s Shed www.buckerellparishcouncil.co.uk
17th Dec - Chaffcombe Village Hall www.chaffcombe.com
25th Jan 2022 - Torquay Museum, ‘History through Traditional Song’ Jim gives an
illustrated talk on how traditional English folk songs tell an alternative
history to that found in history books!
www.torquaymuseum.org
NEW Thursday 16
December 2021 ??? - Jim Causley: A Causley Christmas! -
Doug's Shed, Splatthayes, Buckerell, Honiton EX14 3ER
Join Jim in celebrating the Christmas season as he entertains you with
lesser known West Country carols, medieval and secular carols from around the
British Isles, his own settings of moving Christmas poems by his relative, the
late Cornish poet Charles Causley as well a gurt dollop of festive fun with
songs of over-indulgence and even a spot of panto too!
www.jimcausley.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 8
January 2022 ??? - Jim Causley with Bill Murray - Provident Methodist
Chapel, Throwleigh, Okehampton EX20 2HZ
Songs of Devon. See
www.jimcausley.co.uk for contact details.
NEW
9-11 December 2021 - Folk Orchestra Residential Course - Yarn Market Hotel,
Dunster, Minehead TA24 6SF
4-piece professional band Moonrakers
www.moonrakers.net will
be running a Folk Orchestra (2 days) in Dunster followed by a concert at The
Regal Theatre, Minehead. Anyone who wishes to find out more can call Jon on
01865 769206.
Arriving Thursday evening, then two full days of multi-instrumental group
arrangements, playing and tuition for intermediate players. Limited to 20
participants. Three nights full board + the course : £300-£345 depending on
accommodation. Bookings/enquiries 01643 821425.
11 December The Regal Theatre, Minehead TA24 5AY. Evening concert at 7.30pm.
Tickets £15. Tickets/enquiries: 01643 706430.
NEW Friday 19
November 2021 7.30pm - Shanties at St Andrews - St Andrews Church, Kenn, Exeter
EX6 7UR
An evening of shanties and sea songs raising money for St Andrew's Church and
Andy's Man Club (mental health charity), featuring sets from Kenn parish's own
Bow Movement and guests Batten Down the Hatches the hauntingly melodic Hot Tuna,
an all female maritime folk acapella group. Beer, wine and soft drinks will be
available. Tickets £5 available on the door, in advance from Kennford Post
Office, or by email
thebowmovement@gmail.com.
NEW
Thursday 17 February 2022 - Folk & Acoustic Music Night - Kings Arms, Strete, nr
Dartmouth
This cosy village pub was taken over as a community pub in 2020 and has held
a number of successful monthly live music events since then, focusing mainly on
folk and blues. This month we are running an open mic sing along night. Any
style welcome, all levels welcome. If you're interested please contact
info@kingsarmsatstrete.co.uk.
It would help to know in advance who is coming to play for planning purposes.
Pub opens at 5.30pm serving local ales, cider, with a full menu. Music from 7pm.
Free entry.
www.kingsarmsatstrete.co.uk. T: 01803 770027.
NEW
Thursday 18 November 2021 - Folk & Acoustic Music Night - Kings Arms, Strete, nr
Dartmouth
This cosy village pub was taken over as a community pub in 2020 and has held
a number of successful monthly live music events since then, focusing mainly on
folk and blues. After a raucous sea shanty night with the Nautibuoys last month,
November sees an acoustic and folk night with several acts from across the South
Hams. We're still looking for more performers, ideally about 20 minutes each. If
you're interested please contact
info@kingsarmsatstrete.co.uk. We will need to know in advance who is coming
to play for planning purposes.
Pub opens at 5.30pm serving local ales, cider, with a full menu. Music from 7pm.
Free entry.
www.kingsarmsatstrete.co.uk. T: 01803 770027.
NEW
Thursday 3 February 2022 - Seth Lakeman with Benji Kirkpatrick - Old Bakery
Studios, Blewett’s Wharf, Malpas Road, Truro TR1 1QH
For details see
www.sethlakeman.co.uk/live-dates.
NEW
Sunday 13 February 2022 - Seth Lakeman with Benji Kirkpatrick - The Box,
Tavistock Place, Plymouth PL4 8AX
For details see
www.sethlakeman.co.uk/live-dates.
Seth Lakeman touring with Benji Kirkpatrick
Thursday 3 February 2022 - Old Bakery Studios, Blewett’s Wharf, Malpas Road,
Truro
Sunday 13 February 2022 - The Box, Tavistock Place, Plymouth
For details see
www.sethlakeman.co.uk/live-dates.
NEW
Friday 10 December 2021 7.30-10pm - Exeter Community Folk Orchestra: Winter
Concert & Folk Session - Exwick Parish Hall, 66 Station Road, Exwick EX4 2AB
7.30-8.15pm Concert: Exeter Community Folk Orchestra led by David Faulkner;
8.15-10pm Open folk session where you can play your favourite tune, join in,
sing a song, listen and have some fun. Entrance £2.50. BYO drinks and snacks.
More info: David Faulkner, 07967 121985,
david.eelgrinders@gmail.com.
As many readers will know, some venues run their own email lists advertising
their forthcoming events, but these tend to be mostly on a relatively short-term
basis, i.e. a few weeks or a couple of months ahead. I try to periodically scan
through the website listings of venues, which sometimes stretch up to 12 months
into the future, and include all relevant dates to produce a single reasonably
comprehensive listing for all the following venues in the open-ended Diary on
www.harbertonfolk.co.uk:
Ashburton Arts, Brixham Theatre, Calstock Arts, Calstock Hall, Dartington Great
Hall, The Flavel arts centre in Dartmouth, Exeter venues (Barnfield Theatre,
Corn Exchange, Cygnet Theatre, Phoenix Arts Centre), Exmouth Pavilion, The
Beehive arts centre in Honiton, The Watermark arts centre in Ivybridge, Folk on
the Moor Folk Club in Ivybridge, Graham Radley's World Unlimited events at
Abbotsbury Church in Newton Abbot, Otterton Mill, Paignton's Palace Theatre,
B-Bar and Barbican Theatre in Plymouth, Plymouth Pavilions, The Wharf at
Tavistock, Topsham Folk Club, Barrel House Ballroom in Totnes.
I have just completed such a scan so there's a huge amount of new information
in the Diary, right up to the end of the year, and even beyond.
I am also extremely grateful to those various individuals, event organisers and
venue managers who send me information for inclusion directly.
NEW
Saturday 2 July 2022 7pm - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir - Mothecombe PL8
ILA
We are guests of John Mildmay-White and family in the stunning Flete estate,
who have been so welcoming. We are singing in the gorgeous walled garden in
Mothecombe gardens, not far from the beach. The Lost Sound are in full voice in
their outdoor 'Wild Folk' tour with an exciting concert of folk songs from the
British Isles, Europe and America in glorious a cappella harmony. With full
choir, both male and female ensembles, new singers, new soloists and new trios,
come and be serenaded in the Wild, as the sun goes down in the stunning walled
garden at Mothecombe gardens, 5 mins from the beach. Bar available, proceeds to
charity, Parking in main beach car park by the School house cafe. BYO seats /
blankets / picnic! Details, tickets
www.thelostsound.co.uk/concerts-and-gigs.
NEW
Saturday 25 June 2022 7pm - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir - YHA Dartmoor,
Bellever PL20 6TU
The Lost Sound are in full voice in their outdoor 'Wild Folk' tour with an
exciting concert of folk songs from the British Isles, Europe and America in
glorious a cappella harmony. With full choir, both male and female ensembles,
new singers, new soloists and new trios, come and be serenaded in the Wild, as
the sun goes down on the edge of Bellever Forest. Bar available bring seating
and blankets You can also book to stay over at the YHA directly with them. Full
concert for Solstice weekend. Bar available. Car park close by. Please bring own
seating/ blankets to keep warm. Details, tickets
www.thelostsound.co.uk/concerts-and-gigs.
NEW
Saturday 4 June 2022 12noon - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir - Exmouth
Short set at Exmouth Festival. Free.
www.facebook.com/ExmouthFestival,
www.thelostsound.co.uk/concerts-and-gigs.
NEW
Saturday 21 May 2022 7pm - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir - Great Ambrook,
Ipplepen TQ12 5UL
(forecourt of Great Ambrook House, on same driveway as Italian Gardens) The Lost
Sound are in full voice in their outdoor 'Wild Folk' tour with an exciting
concert of folk songs from the British Isles, Europe and America in glorious a
cappella harmony. With full choir, both male and female ensembles, new singers,
new soloists and new trios, come and be serenaded in the Wild, as the sun gently
sets. Limited to 60 tickets. Bar available - bring own seats/blankets. Details, tickets
www.thelostsound.co.uk/concerts-and-gigs.
NEW
Sunday 1 May 2022 5.15am (sunrise 5.50am) - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir -
Haytor, Dartmoor
Joining Beltane Morris, for the first time, to sing and dance in the Summer.
www.thelostsound.co.uk/concerts-and-gigs.
NEW Thursday 12
May 2022 7.30pm - Suthering - St Leonard’s Church, Sheepstor, Yelverton PL20 6PF
Suthering combines the musical talents of Julu Irvine and Heg Brignall. A couple
in life and in music, the duo are true story-tellers who champion female
characters, creating new narratives for women and unearthing the female heroines
of folk. With their wonderful chemistry and charisma on stage, natural humour
and two beautifully matched voices, an unusual mix of cascading, dramatic piano;
intricate, fingerstyle guitar; flute, whistles and harmonium, Julu and Heg bring
an exciting take on folk storytelling with their evocative and distinctive
sound.
www.suthering.com. Tickets £12 adv from 01822 853186,
drdartmoor[at]doctors.org.uk. Doors 6.45pm, food & drink refreshmentsavailable
from that time. All profits will be split between Sheepstor village hall and
Friends of St Leonard’s Church.
NEW Saturday 23
July 2022 7.30pm - Show of Hands -
Abbotsham, nr Bideford EX39 5AP
A Plough Arts Centre event in the open air at The Big Sheep. Support:
Jenna Witts. Steve and Phil are returning to the duo format that launched their
stellar careers over thirty years ago. Audiences will be treated to the usual
‘Show of Hands’ classics like ‘Cousin Jack’, rousing festival anthems,
instrumental virtuosity and stunning harmonies from two masters of their craft.
Details
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/event/show-hands-1.
NEW
Friday 9 September 2022 7.30pm - The Exmouth Shanty Men -
Village Hall, High Street, Stoke Canon, Exeter EX5 4AR
'Tall Ships and Tavern Tales': an entertaining voyage in song from the high seas
to a dockside tavern - including tradtional sea shanties from the era of tall
ships and traditional songs the sailors may have enjoyed back in the dockside
ale house! 7.30 pm. Tickets £10 (Children U16 £6) alison_bloomer [at]
yahoo.co.uk.
NEW
Saturday 29 October 2022 7.30pm - Most Truly Yours Aunt Anne - Village
Hall, High Street, Stoke Canon, Exeter EX5 4AR
A new and distinctive celebration of the English Folk Song Collector Anne Geddes
Gilchrist with Peter and Barbara Snape and Sue Burgess. The only chance you'll
get to hear this lovely, informative and entertaining presentation here in the
South West. 7.30pm Tickets £12 alison_bloomer [at] yahoo.co.uk.
NEW Tuesday 21
March 2023 7.30pm - Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham - St Austell Arts Centre
Outside our normal coverage area but...
...this is almost certainly Aly & Phil's first visit to anywhere in the West
Country since their concert in Harberton almost exactly 4 years ago - Harberton
Folk's last ever concert - and I can imagine that some fans might wish to make
the journey across the Tamar for this one!. Details
www.crbo.co.uk/whats-on.
NEW Saturday 25
March 2023 7.30pm - Jackie McShee & Kevin Dempsey - Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe
Outside our normal coverage area (once again) but...I've
been asked specially to list this gig:
Jacqui’s haunting delivery, stage presence and interpretation of traditional
music remains completely unique and very powerful. Her voice blends sumptuously
with the gorgeous guitar and vocals of her current duetting partner, Kevin
Dempsey, who is well renowned in the folk world for adding flair and a hint of
jazz to refresh and renew trad ballads and tunes. A master of the acoustic
guitar, his mellow singing, geniality and quiet presence charms and thrills
audiences. Details
https://bit.ly/LMKJacquiMcShee.
NEW
Saturday 12 March 2022 7pm - The Children of Lir:
Gaelic songs and stories of Ireland - Farringdon Church, East Devon EX5 2HY
A unique melding of traditions with Gaelic songs and stories of Ireland by
Patrick Devine-Wright and friends. Patrick has won several prizes for the solo
singing of Gaelic songs, including the All-Britain Feis Ceoil. He was an
understudy in the Riverdance show during its first West End run in the
Hammersmith Apollo theatre and his musical influences include Iarla Ó’Lionaird,
Muireann Nic Amhlaidh, Séamus Begley and Martin Hayes. Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/538849.
NEW Monday 21
April 2025 6.30-9.30pm - Barn Dance with Blue Jewel Ceilidh Band - Village Hall, Sherford, Kingsbridge TQ7 2AX
Tickets: £20, U18 £15 (includes a Devon Pasty), available from
Kingsbridge Information Centre, Salcombe Information Centre and RNLI Shop, or
email:
Salcombe_Fundraising@RNLl.org.uk with your name and phone number and we will
call you to take card payment.
Bar. Raffle. All profits to RNLI.
NEW Saturday 15
April 2023 7pm - Country Dance with Rumpus
- Village Hall, Sherford, Kingsbridge TQ7 2AX
Live music and caller. Pasty & Pud supper. Bar. Raffle. Tickets £15 from Peter
Hadley 01548 531240 or Ian Collingwood 01548 532807. The Friends of St Martin's
Church, Sherford, supporting essential fabric repairs and renovations to the
cherished, historic parish church.
NEW
Saturday 20 May 2023 7.30pm - The Lost Sound:
Dartmoor Folk Choir - Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock
PL18 9QX (map)
The first concert of their new 'Country Life' tour. With new arrangements
of songs by Steeleye Span, Ninebarrow & Chris Hoban, the set is brimming
with the energy of Summer, lusty courtship, the triumphs of harvest and the
deeply tender moments of love lost and sorrowful homecomings. It's a wild and
natural feast of unaccompanied singing, harmony and rhythm! Details
www.wegottickets.com/event/566267,
www.calstockarts.org.
NEW
Saturday 10 June
2023 7.30pm - The Lost
Sound: Dartmoor Folk Choir
- Town Hall, Buckfastleigh TQ11 0DD
Sponsored by Heart and Soul Funerals. The choir are on home turf
for their 'Country Life' Tour. With new arrangements of songs by Steeleye Span,
Ninebarrow & Chris Hoban, the set is brimming with the energy of Summer, lusty
courtship, the triumphs of harvest and the deeply tender moments of love lost
and sorrowful homecomings. It's a wild and natural feast of unaccompanied
singing, harmony and rhythm! Tickets:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/The-Lost-Sound-FolkChoir/t-pqmjkaj.
NEW
Saturday 22 July
2023 7.30pm - The Lost
Sound: Dartmoor Folk Choir
-
Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham EX3 0HF
(map)
A special concert with guest the fabulous Chris Hoban. With new
arrangements of songs by Steeleye Span, Ninebarrow & Chris Hoban, the set is
brimming with the energy of Summer, lusty courtship, the triumphs of harvest and
the deeply tender moments of love lost and sorrowful homecomings. It's a wild
and natural feast of unaccompanied singing, harmony and rhythm! Tickets:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/The-Lost-Sound-FolkChoir/t-xmaeqjl.
Wild Goose Choir - A new folk-based community choir in South Brent
Freya Harbottle writes: "I'm soon to be starting a new folk-based community
choir. The first session will be on Tuesday 6th June and the choir will
run on a regular weekly basis at The Village Hall in South Brent. We'll be
learning material from across the folk canon, from the very traditional to the
contemporary. Open to ages 18+. No previous choir experience required. Get in
touch for more info or to book a free taster session:
freyaharbottle@gmail.com.
NEW
Friday 23 June 2023 7.30pm - Tobias Ben Jacob Garden Concert - East Budleigh
If you've never seen him (or even if you have) this is a great opportunity to
catch an amazingly talented and captivating singer/songwriter in a relaxing and
intimate setting.
www.tobiasbenjacob.com. Tobias will play an intimate, unplugged garden
concert in East Budleigh. The location is revealed by Jeff the host upon ticket
purchase:
www.eventbrite.com/e/tobias-ben-jacob-garden-concert-tickets-642792177707.
NEW
Friday 10 May 2024 8pm - Exmouth Shanty Men - Sir Walter Raleigh Pub, East
Budleigh
Another trip to the community owned friendly pub.
www.exmouthshantymen.com.
NEW
Newton St Cyres Summer Music & Dance Festival
Full festival programme:
www.newtonwonder.net/music-festival.html.
Multi-genre 4-day event of music making, concerts and workshops, including:
Saturday 24 June 2pm - Ukelele Band Concert & Have-a-Go. At The Beer
Engine Newton St Cyres. EX5 5AX
Come and listen, sing, clap and play if you want to. Beginners welcome and 12
ukeleles will be available to borrow at the event. Free vvent but donations
welcome.
Sunday 25 June 1-3pm - Taiko South West Drumming Performances and ‘Have-a-Go’
Workshops. At Newton St Cyres Recreation Ground EX5 5AT
Free event. From ancient times the taiko was used in Japan for communicating
with allies, frightening pests away from crops, and inspiring morale in battling
soldiers. It also played an important role in festivals, rainmaking rituals, and
the lively dancing of the bon odori. TAIKO South West will bring 15 drums and
drummers, give 3 performances, and offer a ‘have a go’ session in between each
set. Thanks to the Devon Community Foundation for their generous grant support.
Sunday 25 June- Exeter Community Folk Orchestra. At Newton St Cyres
Parish Hall EX5 5BW
3.30-5pm Workshop - Free event, but advance booking required via Nicola
01392 851985. Suitable for all ages, no previous music experience required. BYO
instrument, or some available to borrow.
6pm Concert - Music which spans the centuries and which explores
connections with peoples from across the world. Free event but donations
welcome.
Also: Sunday 3 December 2023 8pm - Martin Harley - Hockworthy Village Hall, nr Wellington - See www.martinharley.com.
NEW
Saturday 22 July 2023 7.30pm - All Hands On Deck - Parish Hall, Thurlestone
An evening of sea shanties and songs of the sea. Audience participation actively
encouraged! Entry £5 + RNLI bucket collection. Booking essential! BYO food and
drink. Details
www.thurlestoneparish.co.uk/events.html.
NEW
Saturday 20 July 2024 - Mad Dog Mcrea -
Morwellham Quay, Dukes Drive, Morwellham, Tavistock PL19 8JL
Evening concert. Saturday night camping also bookable. Details
www.morwellham-quay.co.uk/mad-dog-mcrea-landing.
NEW
Friday 14 July 2023 7.30pm - Tashi Lhunpo Monks
- Bridgwater Arts Centre, 11-13 Castle Street, Bridgwater TA6 3DD
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Monks of the Tashi Lhunpo
Monastery and to celebrate this major landmark they bring their “Power of
Compassion” tour to the UK. The Power of Compassion is a programme of masked
dance, music and Tantric ritual. Details
www.bridgwaterartscentre.co.uk/events.
NEW
Friday 22
September 2023 7pm - Harvest Barn
Dance with Red Shed
- Ashridge Great Barn, North
Tawton EX20 2DH
Caller Pete Langley. £20 - includes meal. Booking essential. Email
info@ashridge-court.co.uk or call
01837 852025..
NEW
Saturday 18 November 2023 7.45pm -
Fundraising Ceilidh with Red Shed
- Dunsford Village Hall, nr.
Exeter EX6 7DA (map)
Caller Pete Langley. Tickets £10 from Dunsford Village Shop. Fundraising for
PTFA and Village Hall. Details
www.dunsfordvillagehall.org.
NEW
Saturday 2 December
2023 7.30pm -
The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir
- Memorial Hall, Back Street, Modbury PL21 0RF
A hearty selection of Winter and seasonal songs of festivities, feasting and
jollyment! Join us for a rousing celebration of the season with 40+ singers
raring to sing!
Tickets from
ticketsoource.
NEW
Saturday 16 December 2023 7.30pm - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir -
Lustleigh Village
Hall TQ13 9TA
A hearty selection of Winter and seasonal songs of festivities, feasting and
jollyment! Join us for a rousing celebration of the season with 40+ singers
raring to sing! Presented by Lustleigh Entertainments and Arts Project.
Ticketing details to follow:
www.lustleighvillagehall.co.uk.
I dont have the info for The Leap tickets yet - I'm hoping that Karen will send it through to you anyway!
Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre
"Exeter Phoenix is a vibrant, world-class multi-artform venue in the heart
of Exeter's city centre. Each year we host hundreds of events and artistic
activity spanning many disciplines. Live music, theatre, cinema, contemporary
art, DJ events, dance, comedy, talks, creative courses, classes and workshops,
family events ...and everything in between". Read more here:
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk, and sign
up to receive regular email updates.
I only list the ir'folkier' events, and this is what they already have lined up
for 2024:
Thursday 18
January 2024 8pm - Martyn Joseph
Sunday 11 February 2024 8pm - The Magpie Arc
Wednesday 13 March 2024 7.30pm - Spiers & Boden
Sunday 24 March 2024 - Spirit of the Drum
Friday 5 April 2024 7.30pm - The Longest Johns
Saturday 13 April 2024 7.30pm - Sound of the Sirens
Thursday 18 April 2024 8pm - John Smith
3-5 May 2024 - Mad Dog Mcrea Weekender
See
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/music for full details.
Ashburton Arts Centre
Another multi-genre arts centre, described by The Guardian as "One of the best
small live music venues in the UK". Up and running in an old chapel since 2018.
Again, I only list the folkier events there, but see
https://ashburtonarts.org.uk/ for
more information on a very busy programme.
NEW
Sunday 26 November 2023 5.30-8.45pm - Fest Noz & Bal - Belstone Village Hall, nr
Okehampton EX20 1RD
Poisson Groove (Liz Nabb, Martin Henning & Phil Wilson) will be playing. Cost:
£8, includes French onion soup, teas, etc.
NEW
Saturday 4 November 2023 4-10.30pm - Song & Dance with Musicians from Brittany -
Cadeleigh Village Hall, nr Tiverton, EX16 8HW (map)
4-6 free dance tuition, 6-7.30 bring a plate, 6.45-7.30 concert, 7.30 dance.
Concert & dance £10; U18 free. Contact: Phil 01884 242752.
NEW
16-18 August 2024 - Beautiful Days 21st Festival - Escot Park nr Exeter
Tickets on sale Monday 6 November 2023 10am
Beautiful Days is the Levellers’ family music festival organised by
DMF Music since its inception in 2003. Proudly independent, Beautiful Days has
no sponsorship or funding. In 2023 we celebrated our 20th Anniversary with
tickets selling out in April for the 17,500 capacity event – the capacity
remains the same for 2024.
www.beautifuldays.org
NEW Wednesday 6
March 2024 -
Show of Hands: Full Circle Part II
- Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham EX3 0HF
(map)
details tba
www.showofhands.co.uk.
NEW Sunday 10
March 2024 -
Show of Hands: Full Circle Part II
- Parish Hall, West Town Road, Newton St Cyres
EX5 5BW
details tba
www.showofhands.co.uk.
NEW Friday 17 May 2024
7.30pm -
Show of Hands: Full Circle Part II
- The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall (map)
details tba
www.showofhands.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 18
May 2024 7.30pm -
Show of Hands: Full Circle Part II
- Exeter Cathedral
details tba
www.showofhands.co.uk.
NEW Saturday 25 November 2023
7.30pm - Jim Causley: Songs of Devon - Village Hall, Old Road, Bickington,
Newton Abbot TQ12 6JU
Join Jim and Bickington Community Choir for a fun, folky evening celebrating
Devon! A proud Devonian, awarding winning folk singer and musician Jim Causley
has dedicated much of his career to researching and reviving the forgotten gems
of songs from his native western peninsula. Doors / cash bar open 7pm. Kids
free; concs available for locals who need them. Details
here. Profits will go to our charities ShelterBox and St Mary the Virgin
Church, Bickington.
NEW
Show of Hands: Full Circle Part II
tour dates announced
After 30 years of non-stop touring, fans across the nation are in for a treat as
Steve Knightley and Phil Beer return to where it all began, in village halls,
folk clubs, small arts centres, and community venues. This gig promises to be a
true celebration of their dedication to their roots, their music, and the
communities that have supported them. Steve and Phil will then be taking a
well-deserved break. They plan to pursue solo projects, explore new creative
horizons, and recharge their artistic batteries. This marks the end of an era,
but it also heralds exciting new beginnings for two of the folk world’s best
loved musicians, Show of Hands.
www.showofhands.co.uk. Tour dates in Harberton Folk's coverage area (also at
Taunton and Gt. Torrington):
Wednesday 6
March 2024 - Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham EX3 0HF
details tba
www.showofhands.co.uk.
Sunday 10
March 2024 7.30pm - Parish Hall, West Town Road, Newton St Cyres
EX5 5BW
Tickets £28 (no concs) now available from Nicola 01392 851985 or Pete
exeterfolkclub@outlook.com and
01392 210983. Unreserved seating. Cash bar & raffle.
www.showofhands.co.uk.
Friday 17 May 2024
7.30pm - The Rum Store, Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot,
Liskeard, Cornwall
details tba
www.showofhands.co.uk.
Saturday 18
May 2024 7.30pm - Exeter Cathedral
Tickets now available at
www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/events/show-of-hands-full-circle-tour,
www.showofhands.co.uk.
NEW Friday 26 October 2018 -
Ninebarrow - Downderry and Seaton Village Hall, Torpoint
Doors 6.30pm. Tickets:
val@glastonbury-engineering.co.uk or 01503 250536
NEW Saturday 24
February 2024
7.30pm - Sea Shanty & Folk Night - Village Hall, Cornworthy, nr Totnes TQ9 7ES
Stoke Gabriel’s Shanty Crew “All Hands On Deck” plus guest performers and folk
music. Traditional & modern sea shanties, songs of the sea & sailors, tall ships
& tall stories, sing along to songs that make you laugh & smile.
Click here for full details.
NEW
Saturday/Sunday 23/24 March 2024 - Cockwood Shanty Festival - Cockwood,
Starcross
Various venues in and around Cockwood.
www.facebook.com/p/Cockwood-Shanty-Festival-100088723793738.
NEW
Saturday 27 January 2024 7pm - The Out Of Tunas Shanty Crew - Shaldon Church
The church by the bridge. RNLI fundraising gig.
Click here for details
NEW
Saturday 3 February 2024 7.30pm - Yealmpton Village Ceilidh with Blue Jewel -
Yealmpton Primary School, Stray Park, Yealmpton
Dance the winter blues away with the incredible Blue Jewel Band! Adults £7:50
(£10 at the door) Children £2:50.
Click here for full details
https://www.facebook.com/events/1083805395983271/?active_tab=discussion&locale=en_GB
NEW
Saturday 24 February 2024 7pm - Harbottle & Jonas - The Old School, Stoke
Climsland PL17 8NY
Partners in life and music, dynamic Devon based folk duo Harbottle & Jonas are
one of the most exciting acts on the UK circuit today, combining a love of the
richness of traditional folk with their own original and powerful songwriting.
Dave and Freya have developed a distinct and compelling signature sound,
blending concertina, harmonium, cittern, stomp box, acoustic guitar and banjo
with their beautiful and closely intertwined vocal harmonies.
www.harbottleandjonas.com.
NEW
Friday 23 February 2024 7pm - Folk Music of East Europe - Winkleigh Village
Hall, Castle Street, Winkleigh EX19 8HU
Folk Music of East Europe from the Klezmer Band of Devon. Traditional
Klezmer and Gypsy music from the heart of East Europe played with passion from
the soul. Details
http://devonfolk.org/latest-news/posts/folk-music-of-east-europe.
NEW Friday 26
April 2024 7.30pm - Folk for Ukraine - St Andrew’s Church, Buckland
Monachorum, Yelverton PL20 7NA
Fundraising event featuring the Ukrainian Singers of Plymouth, Ben Campbell
and Silvington. Tickets £10 from
antonhorwich@aol.com, £12 door.
NEW Friday 21 June 2024 7.30pm -
Hannah Cumming & Jon Dyer -
St James Church, Jacobstowe EX20 3RF
Join us for a magical midsummer concert of traditional folk music and
vocal harmony from talented musicians. Our headline act is Hannah Cumming
and Jon Dyer, experienced folk musicians and performers who also work with
Devon's Wren Music. Full of life and enthusiasm, Hannah’s fiddle and voice,
and Jon’s double bass and guitar are a duo not to be missed. They will be
supported by four-part female vocal harmony group Sister Moon. Space is
limited to 70 people. Details
https://jcgmidsummerconcert.eventbrite.com. Free parking in Little
Ellacroft field opposite the church.
NEW
Saturday 1 March 2025 7.30pm - Ceilidh Night - The Institute, Ottery St
Mary EX11 2HH
Hosted by Supporters of Hospiscare. Tickets £10. Details see this date in
www.devonfolk.org/events-diary.
NEW
Saturday 15 June 2024 7.30pm - Hurdy Gurdy Concert - Ottery St
Mary Church, Paternoster Row, Ottery St Mary EX11 1DP
An evening of history and music from medieval times with Marco Cannavò & Steve
Tyler, and the Rev'd John Hall. Details
here.
NEW Saturday 3
August 2024 7.30pm - The Lost Sound Dartmoor Folk Choir - St Peters C of E
Church, Bridge Road, Shaldon TQ14 0DB
The 'Country Matters' tour continues with songs depicting both the celebrations
of the seasons and country ways alongside the hardships of life on the land and
sea. With an added tender heeding to keep our earth pure and sweet and green and
to let the land lay fallow, this is a more reflective set with exquisite moments
of wonderfully evocative singing. Expect rich, embodied unaccompanied singing
from this acclaimed Folk choir of 40 singers, rousing male and female ensembles,
haunting duets, powerful quartets and a set that tells a story of country
issues. Called 'Outstanding' by audiences and 'a true auditory delight' by Steve
Knightley! Details
www.thelostsound.co.uk/events.
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NEW Saturday 12
October 2024 7pm - Hungrytown -
Newton & Noss Village Hall, Noss Mayo PL8 1EU
Fundraising evening with American folk duo Rebecca & Ken. A delicious blend
of acoustic based folk music with harmonies to die for. Often delicate,
often reflective their music comes from the heart and the soul. “American
folk music at its zenith. Retro yet shiny & new, like a freshly minted
copper penny. If you’ve been craving folk music of substance don’t miss
their latest tour….”. Bar. Details
www.devonfolk.org/events-diary.
NEW
Saturday 1 March 2025 7.30pm - Barn Dance with Spinach for Norman - Woodbury
Village Hall, Flower Street, Woodbury, Exeter EX5 1LX
£15 incl. ploughmans, 11-16yrs £8. Bar, raffle. In aid of Hope 4 Kibera.
Details
www.devonfolk.org/latest-news/posts/barn-dance-01-03-25-.