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Ashburton Chamber Music Festival
Festival Artistic Director and native New Yorker, David Yang, is cycling 215 miles around Devon to raise funds for the Festival.
“Standing inside a hot air balloon with a bicycle and a viola – that’s not something you do every day. But this is the official launch of my fundraising circumnavigation of Devon by bicycle. Sarah and Heather put this together, that’s a proper send-off. And a huge shout out to Gabi for lending me her viola and designing the fabulous brochure. Make sure you pick one up…
Follow his journey and donate what you can to help keep him motivated. All funds raised will support the Chamber Festival artist: David Yang circumnavigates Devon
Dartmoor Tors Festival 23 – 25 May 2025
The Arts Centre is delighted to be collaborating with local journalist and writer Sophie Pierce, and artist Alex Murdin in launching this brand new festival which celebrates Dartmoor – its landscape, people, heritage and culture. During the late May bank holiday weekend, Friday 23 to Monday 26, ticketed events will take place in Ashburton and at locations around the moor. On Friday, Martha Tilston is on here at the arts centre, and Folk music legend Seth Lakeman will be headlining on the Saturday night; other speakers and performers include the international artist Garry Fabian Miller, novelist Fiona Williams, poet/artist Sean Borodale, storytellers Sara Hurley and Lisa Schneidau, and the ‘dark and wild’ Beltane Border Morris side. Full details of the events here at the Arts Centre will be listed here very soon. Tickets will go on sale here on Saturday 22 February at 12 noon. Please don’t send emails to the box office requesting ticket reservations before noon on Saturday 22 Feb.
Events at the Arts Centre on Saturday 24 May are all here.
For more, see the festival website dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk.
Ashburton Chamber Music Festival 17 – 27 July, 2025 
The Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF), conceived by Artistic Director David Yang along with Andy Williamson, is back for the sixth year bringing world-class chamber music to the region for 10 days in July. To find out more and see the programme visit the Ashburton Chamber Music Festival
The next event at Ashburton Arts will be Blue Rose Code on Tuesday 13 May 2025 - Friday 13 June 2025 at 7:30 PM
Here’s a taste of just a few things that happened here back in 2019:
We are working on adding more pictures to this site – for now, you can see some fabulous ones on Mark Burley’s site.