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Jul 2025
Matt Holborn Quartet: For StuffSaturday 12 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Join Matt Holborn and his quartet for a concert dedicated to jazz violin legend Stuff Smith. A major figure in jazz from the 1930s onward, Smith played with greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Nat King Cole, and Ben Webster, and appeared in the iconic 1958 photo, “A Great Day in Harlem.”
Sky: Katie Duck & Sharon Smith (dancers), Ben Roberts (cello) and Andy Williamson (saxes)
Sunday 13 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Katie Duck has been a professional performer and maker since the early 1970s. She describes herself as an “experimental dance artist” and she’s been an influential figure in how she placed improvisation as an intricate element in composition and performance, inspiring generations of dancers, musicians, singers and actors.
Indian Classical Music with Mayukh Gangopadhyay (sarod) and Jyotirmoy Chakrabarty (tabla)
Wednesday 16 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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A last-minute addition to our programme: two remarkable Indian musicians on a short UK tour.
Ashburton Chamber Music Festival 2025
Friday 18 July 2025 - Sunday 27 July 2025 at 12:00 AM
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We’ve confirmed the dates and programme for the Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF) 2025, This series of concerts, hausmusiks (where the musicians sight-read what the audience chooses) and other events are hosted around Ashburton from 18 – 28 July 2024. To see the preliminary information, that is subject to change, read the ACMF 2025 webpage. If you want to hear when the dates and venues are announced and tickets are available, please sign up to the Ashburton Arts Centre’s mailing list here.
ACMF 2025 Hausmusik # 1: 25 East Street
Friday 18 July 2025 at 7:00 PM
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What is a Hausmusik? An informal event where the audience decides what’s played from a selection of chamber music, and the musicians will sight-read it together for the first time.
This is part of Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF) 2025 – a series of concerts, hausmusiks (where the musicians sight-read what the audience chooses) and other events in and around Ashburton from 18– 27 July 2024. To see everything that’s happening, and more about the music and the musicians go to ACMF 2025
Quirky Bird & PAD Summer Sale
Saturday 19 July 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Loads of bargains from the brightest, glitzyest emporia in Ashburton’s West End as they take over our hall once again for a mega sale!
Admission Free
What Makes A Village? Movement and Debate Workshop
Saturday 19 July 2025 at 12:30 PM
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As part of the development of a new dance-theatre work, VILLAGERS, by Rachel Elizabeth Coleman, this free workshop is open to anyone with lived experience of rural living. The 3 hour session will see participants taken through a series of gentle movement and discussion exercises, these opening up creative conversations with strangers on belonging, identity and connection for rural communities.
ACMF 2025 Hausmusik # 2: Bigadon Cottage, Buckfastleigh
Saturday 19 July 2025 at 7:00 PM
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What is a Hausmusik? An informal event where the audience decides what’s played from a selection of chamber music, and the musicians will sight-read it together for the first time.
This is part of Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF) 2025 – a series of concerts, hausmusiks (where the musicians sight-read what the audience chooses) and other events in and around Ashburton from 18– 27 July 2024. To see everything that’s happening, and more about the music and the musicians go to ACMF 2025
ACMF 2025 Meet the Musicians: Ashburton Arts Centre
Sunday 20 July 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Richard Gonski, moderator Introduces the musicians, & selections from the programme.
This is part of Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF) 2025 – a series of concerts, hausmusiks (where the musicians sight-read what the audience chooses) and other events in and around Ashburton from 18– 27July 2025. To see everything that’s happening, and more about the music and the musicians go to ashburtonarts.org.uk/acmf.
ACMF 2025 Family Concert: Ashburton Arts Centre
Tuesday 22 July 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Hear short selections from the week
This is part of Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF) 2025 – a series of concerts, hausmusiks (where the musicians sight-read what the audience chooses) and other events in and around Ashburton from 18– 27July 2025. To see everything that’s happening, and more about the music and the musicians go to ashburtonarts.org.uk/acmf.
ACMF 2025 Concert No 1: Ashburton Arts Centre
Wednesday 23 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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This concert features music by Bach, Shostakovich, Knussen
This is part of Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF) 2025 – a series of concerts, hausmusiks (where the musicians sight-read what the audience chooses) and other events in and around Ashburton from 128– 27 July 2024. To see everything that’s happening, and more about the music and the musicians go to ashburtonarts.org.uk/acmf.
ACMF 2025 Concert No 2: Nachtmusik
Thursday 24 July 2025 at 9:00 PM
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What is a Nachtmusik? NEW for 2025, this is a concert performed in the dark, close to nature in a magical Dartmoor location.
This is part of Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF) 2025 – a series of concerts, hausmusiks (where the musicians sight-read what the audience chooses) and other events in and around Ashburton from 18– 27July 2025. To see everything that’s happening, and more about the music and the musicians go to ashburtonarts.org.uk/acmf.
ACMF 2025 Concert No 3: St Pancras Church Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Friday 25 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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This Concert features music by Bach, Shostakovich, Knussen with informal artist “Talk Back” afterwards
This is part of Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF) 2025 – a series of concerts, hausmusiks (where the musicians sight-read what the audience chooses) and other events in and around Ashburton from 18– 27July 2025. To see everything that’s happening, and more about the music and the musicians go to ashburtonarts.org.uk/acmf.
ACMF 2025 Concert No 4: St Andrew's Church, Ashburton
Saturday 26 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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This Concert features music by: Thomas with dancer Lois Taylor, choreographed with Angus Balbernie, Vignieri, Mills (world premiere), Beethoven
This is part of Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF) 2025 – a series of concerts, hausmusiks (where the musicians sight-read what the audience chooses) and other events in and around Ashburton from 18– 27July 2025. To see everything that’s happening, and more about the music and the musicians go to ashburtonarts.org.uk/acmf.
ACMF 2025 Concert No 5: Festival Highlights - Ashburton Arts Centre
Sunday 27 July 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This Concert features highlights from the Festival. If you’ve heard something that you’d really love to hear again at any of the performances, let us know – you can email boxoffice@ashburtonarts.org.uk – and it might make it into the programme.
This is part of Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF) 2025 – a series of concerts, hausmusiks (where the musicians sight-read what the audience chooses) and other events in and around Ashburton from 18– 27July 2025. To see everything that’s happening, and more about the music and the musicians go to ashburtonarts.org.uk/acmf.
Adam Dyer Quartet
Thursday 31 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The Adam Dyer Quartet consists of Duncan Eagles (saxophone), Eric Ford (drums) Jakub Cywinski (double bass) and Adam Dyer (piano). They formed at the Hideaway Jazz Club in South London back in the early 2010s where they were the house band. Their debut album, River Spirit, met with very positive reviews and airplay on BBC Radio 3. Duncan and Eric also play together in jazz supergroup Partikel, and Jakub and Adam play with premier names in the jazz world, like Gregory Porter, Ona Olubule and Andy Sheppard. A regular jazz quartet line up, but playing a real mixture of material from re-worked standards to original ballads, blues and world-music influences.
Aug 2025
Sam Richards Trio: Without BordersFriday 8 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Trio improvisations based on global traditional music, across continents, without borders. includes music from the British Isles, Ireland, Egypt, Venezuela, Trinidad, America, Turkey, Africa.
Harry Diplock Trio
Thursday 21 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Rooted in the acoustic qualities of the Selmer guitar and heavily inspired by both the French and American Jazz scene, the trio has unique sound that is distinctly original.
Tim Edey (postponed from 23 June)
Saturday 23 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Multi award-winning Tim Edey has been recognised as: BBC Musician of the year BBC ALBA/Scotland, Best Traditional musician 2020, and BBC Radio Two Musician of the year 2012 (BBC R2 FOLK AWARDS)
Wake The River
Saturday 23 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
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A perfect band to end this year’s Tinners Moon Festival, playing great songs – right up to date, with a feel from every decade since the 1960s!
“One to watch from the South West” Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing
Wake the River from Cornwall, spans multiple generations in their ages and influences inviting a fresh fusion with delicate, stand-out lead vocals, sensitive instrumentation, layered harmonies and irresistible grooves.
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