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Jul 2025
Adam Dyer QuartetThursday 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
What Makes A Village? Movement and Discussion WorkshopSaturday 2 August 2025 at 2:30 PM
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A free, 2 hour discussion and gentle movement workshop for local residents to explore what rural life means to them
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 2 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. NB – happening in the studio upstairs, no lift.
Sam Richards Trio: Without Borders
Friday 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.
Time Travel to a Future Democracy with Rob Hopkins
Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Now that 16 and 17 year olds will be eligible to vote at the next general election, what better time to explore the future vision the upcoming generation has for politics, democracy and the planet.
If you are aged 25 and under and will be eligible to vote by July 4 2029, this event is for you. With the guidance of experienced time traveller and author of How to Fall in Love with the Future, Rob Hopkins, we invite young people to help shape a narrative for positive change. Rumour has it that Rob might even bring his actual time machine with him!
Rob has written several books on community-led change, has spoken at TEDGlobal, in front of 7,000 people at Boomtown Festival, to 700 chefs in Copenhagen and is currently creating a comic book about time travel.
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.
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.
Taradiddle
Thursday 28 August 2025 at 7:30 PM
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A multinational folk trio based in Switzerland, specialising in vocal close harmonies, trad and originals with the occasional pop classic.
Sep 2025
Eliza Marshall: Eternal Birth TourFriday 5 September 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Join Eliza as she releases her debut album Eternal Birth this September, celebrating the cycle of life, mother in earth, and our eternal nurture through nature.
“I was kind of blown away” Mark Radcliffe BBC R2 Folk Show
Weaving layers of haunting flute melodies, hypnotic rhythms, percussion and electronics, spoken word and guitars — as well as her huge array of whistles and bansuris — Eliza draws on global traditions and profound inner reflection for these intimate and soul stirring performances.
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