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May 2024
Exhibition: About a Lovely TreeMonday 6 May 2024 - Sunday 26 May 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Exhibition About a Lovely Tree
Boo Hewerdine
Monday 13 May 2024 at 7:30 PM
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For over 30 years Boo Hewerdine has been considered one of the UK’s finest singer-songwriters. As lead singer of seminal band, The Bible through to his subsequent solo work and long-time collaboration with the incredible Eddi Reader he has become something of a national treasure. He is in demand as a writer, producer and performer. Over a hundred of his songs have been covered by the likes of KD Lang, Kris Drever, Chris Difford, Heidi Talbot and Hannah Rarity. His last album ‘Before’ was recorded with supreme Danish multi- instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunggren. It garnered multiple five star reviews.
Jack Badcock
Monday 20 May 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Singer and guitarist, Jack Badcock is a veteran performer, having toured extensively on four continents, predominantly but not exclusively as frontman and founding member of renowned world-folk band Dallahan. A previous finalist in the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award, his 2021 EP, The Driftwood Project was nominated for Original Work of the Year at the BBC Scots Music Awards and in 2022 he was selected by Celtic Connections to write and perform an hour of original music with a full band for the prestigious New Voices commission at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall.
Not Only But Also The Blues: Alex Voysey Trio / Martin McNeill Bottleneck Bluesman
Monday 27 May 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Not Only But Also The Blues is a monthly showcase of some of the best blues and blues-inspired talent in the South West. This month features slide guitar specialist Martin McNeill and the superb Alex Voysey Trio making a return visit after their wonderful performance here in 2023. As usual the evening ends with a blues jam session, open to anyone to come and play.
Old Baby Mackerel
Friday 31 May 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Old Baby Mackerel plays high-energy, foot-stomping bluegrass featuring some of the UK’s best bluegrass musicians. Be prepared to be transported back in time to the early 20th century and across the Atlantic to North America where songs dramatized the small-town fascination with locomotion, religion and the veneration of whisky and bootleg liquor. Gathered around a single condenser microphone in the true bluegrass style, the sounds of banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and double bass blend lightning-fast rhythm, virtuosic solos and evocative harmonies to get knees bouncing and elbows swinging.
Searching for Sugarman (12A)
Friday 31 May 2024 at 7:30 PM
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In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long-romoured to be dead until two fans seek him out….
Jun 2024
Dan Whitehouse and Gustaf Ljunggren A Night of GlassThursday 6 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Accompanying himself on piano and guitar, Dan dives into songs and stories from the glass making industry and about how the glass of the screens we use everyday has changed our lives. Glass – such an artificial subject matter – is breathed into life via Dan’s sonorous Bowie-esque tenor, each tune interspersed with narrative leavened by his Black Country delivery.
Captain of the Lost Waves
Friday 7 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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The brainchild of Shaun T Hunter, Captain of the Lost Waves’ music is “…visceral music for the mind and body.” Inspired by various performers from different decades, such as Kate Bush, Genesis, Tears For Fears, Talking Heads, Zombies and Brian Eno, the Captain has a sound that is truly unique. The Captain is a troubadour, a storyteller and so it’s said, a free thinking renegade who writes songs that are at once unusual and dreamy, sometimes powerful and rocking, at other times softer, intuitive and spirited, rife with invention.
Dave Storey Trio with James Allsopp and Conor Chaplin
Sunday 9 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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The Dave Storey Trio present material from their third album ‘CIRCEO’ featuring their signature quicksilver interplay honed over almost a decade of playing and touring together. The jazz tradition brought to life for the 21st century – communication with love, humour and fire.
Wildlife Gardeners’ Question Time and Shared Supper (NB start time 7pm)
Wednesday 12 June 2024 at 7:00 PM
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How can we improve our gardens, fields and community spaces to help nature thrive? How can we make our community abundant for wildlife and people? Join our panel of amazing local experts for this special version of Gardeners’ Question Time and gather with other local wildlife lovers to ask questions, explore ideas, share food and celebrate nature. Followed by shared supper.
An evening with Martin Simpson
Thursday 13 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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One of England’s most revered folk performers, 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. His remarkable solo shows are intense, eclectic, spellbinding and deeply moving.
Occasional Liberation Music Orchestra & Viva Choir
Friday 14 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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A Concert for the charity War Child which works with & for children displaced by current conflicts
Roz Walker’s Viva Choir is a women’s collective specialising in world music & peace songs in times of conflict.
The OLMO is a jazz and improvising orchestra based on the original Charlie Haden & Carla Bley Orchestra.
Lost Songs of Scilly: Piers Lewin & John Patrick Elliott
Saturday 15 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Lost Songs of Scilly is a unique collaboration that seeks to capture the stories and essence of the Isles of Scilly in music. Foot-stomping reels blend into timeless songs and ambient immersive instrumentals — this is music infused with an unshakeable sense of place. Expect evocative island soundscapes, with samples of field recordings woven through songs of the sea, celebrating the resilience of a creative, independent island community and transporting audiences to this truly beautiful place.
The Tempest
Monday 17 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Presented by a collective of circus artists, musicians, and specialist performers, The Tempest promises a Summer’s night of murky magic and mystical mischief.
Tom Kitching and Marit Fält: Where There's Brass
Wednesday 19 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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‘Where There’s Brass’, with a storytelling a music show.
Documenting six months living in the London waterways community, making the long journey 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.
Toby Hay & Aidan Thorne After a Pause
Friday 21 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Orlando Dibelo & Ruth Rozelaar: Bandoneón: A musical journey through the heart of tango
Tuesday 25 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Orlando and Ruth are playing a series of Milongas in June, where dancers can request their favourite tunes. This will be a seated concert where they’ll be exploring the repertoire of more lyrical Tangos, of which there are so many beautiful ones.
Only Love Matters (12A)
Friday 28 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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A young woman’s discovery of a life-changing book reveals the unique life story of its intersex author, helping her to come to terms with her own past, embrace her new romance and finally reunite with her intersex mother after years apart.
ACT with the Arts Climate Festival Choral Climax
Saturday 29 June 2024 at 7:30 PM
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This is the choral climactiical finale of: ACT with the Arts Climate Festival at venues around Teignbiridge, 22nd – 29th June 2024
It features The South Devon Singers Community Choir, the Torbay Folk choir, Sing and Sign Jukebow choir and the Plymouth Climate Choir.
festival.actionclimateteignbridge.org
Jul 2024
Oppenheimer (15)Friday 26 July 2024 at 7:30 PM
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As America’s isolation from World War II ends, prominent American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer finds himself tasked with performing a miracle. Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jnr
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