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Jun 2025
Michell, Pfeiffer & KuleshSunday 15 June 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh is a close harmony folk trio that brings together the exciting talents and exquisite voices of award-winning songwriters Odette Michell, Karen Pfeiffer and Daria Kulesh.
Film: Junction 48
Monday 16 June 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Udi Aloni’s Junction 48 (2017) is an immersive fictionalized portrait of an aspiring rapper struggling to find his voice amid the constant din of long-festering Arab-Israeli tensions. It was written by, and stars, Palestinian rap artist Tamer Nafar. He lives in the drug-addled city known as Lod to Israelis and Lyd to Palestinians — the site of a former railroad junction where both Jews and Muslims have been coexisting, at least in the physical sense, since 1948.
The Charlotte Carrivick Band
Wednesday 18 June 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Four of the most exciting modern bluegrass musicians in the UK today come together in this new band. With a shared passion for modern bluegrass, The Charlotte Carrivick Band brings together four of the most exciting musicians in the UK today. Charlotte Carrivick is a flatpicking guitarist of international renown, sought for her inventive lead playing and regarded as an expert fiddle tune interpreter on the guitar.
Middle Eastern Muwashahat and Bengali Tagore music: Samar Zeki and Nandita Mukherjee
Thursday 19 June 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Samar Zeki and Majid Hedayat will be performing Classical Middle Eastern songs using drums and voice. Samar Zeki is a vocalist from Iraq, she is interested in singing Classical and folk Arabic genres from the Levant and Iraq. Muwashshaḥ, (Arabic: “ode”), an Arabic poetic genre developed in Muslim Spain in the 11th and 12th centuries. From the 12th century onward, its use spread to North Africa and the Muslim Middle East.
Zaid Hilal and BEJE
Saturday 21 June 2025 at 3:00 PM
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An afternoon show by ‘The song bird of Palestine’ Zaid Hilal and his band en route to play at the Glastonbury Festival. Zaid sings of creative resistance to repeated colonisation in a wonderful array of carefully-researched songs and music that express the deep roots of Palestinian identity.
Formidable Vegetable (on tour from Western Australia)
Saturday 21 June 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Tasty swing/funk beets, brass, strings, Western Australia’s Formidable Vegetable is a fresh harvest of hope in the tangled and overgrown mess of the world, enriching the soil of our minds and planting seeds of inspiration at every show.
Eliana Razzino Yang: Cello Recital, with Alex Wilson, piano
Sunday 22 June 2025 at 3:00 PM
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American cellist Eliana Yang returns to play with pianist Alex Wilson:
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847): Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 5 (more…)
Gabrielle Mills (b. 1977): *world première* for cello and piano
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975): Cello Sonata in d minor, Op. 40
Tim Edey: Postponed to 23 August
Monday 23 June 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Apologies: this concert has been postponed to 23 August due to a bereavement.
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)
Gypsy Dreams / The Orchard Café Quartet
Wednesday 25 June 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Gypsy Dreams: Sharon Hubbocks and Tim Heming play acoustic Gypsy music from Europe and around the world, including French, Irish, Klezmer, Greek, classical, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Russian, tangos and bossas…
The Orchard Café string quartet will take you on a journey through Denmark, Norway and Sweden through contemporary folk music arrangements that sound like they could be on a film soundtrack.
NOBATB: with Robert West Band & Jackdaw Road
Monday 30 June 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The last Monday of every month here is Not Only But also The Blues where we feature some of the finest exponents in the south west, and beyond, of music whose roots are in the blues.
Jackdaw Road is a Dartmoor-based blues/Americana band formed by guitarist Chris Mann.
Robert West Band is a power trio playing guitar-driven “shameless” blues, with a nod towards rock & roll.
Along with the usual blues jam/open mic session.
Jul 2025
Abbi Patrix: Journeys In Place: Time suspended above the world…what does it have to tell?Tuesday 1 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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This performance event brings together stories gleaned by internationally-acclaimed storyteller Abbi Patrix during a whole life spent travelling.
Tales, legends, myths, anecdotes, intimate memories fill pages of his travel diary, day after day. Here, he simply offers to share his taste and love for these stories ; to take us away to an unlikely dream world, to an impossible reality. To cross the planet by means of stories.
Klonk
Thursday 3 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Klonk promises 100% certified pure industrial grade rock-n-roll dynamite, crafting stone-cold killer cuts out of klezmer, Balkan, funk, jazz, metal and hip-hop.
Expect full-tilt horns and wild strings going toe-to-toe with a powerhouse rhythm section. Expect scratching and sampling. Expect Faster Louder Klezmer.
Matt Holborn Quartet: For Stuff
Saturday 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.”
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
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: A secret venue
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 9:30 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: 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.
Aug 2025
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)
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