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Jul 2025
Tango Piano Workshop with Mark WymanSaturday 5 July 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Book here now: £25 full price • £20 or £15 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
Exploring the core elements of Tango on the piano, in melody & accompaniment in this 3 hour session with one of the world’s top experts
Mark Wyman writes:
“In this workshop we will talk tango piano! I will discuss the various aspects of playing tango piano effectively, using my 25+ years of learning and experience. Particularly we will focus on improvisation and using leadsheets. I will begin with a simple marcato, the most common form of rhythm piano in tango. We will add milonga and vals. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of playing Tango, but if you do, feel free to bring your questions, bring recordings you like, bring scores. Above all we will discuss, demonstrate and play RHYTHM. That is one of the most important components of tango. We will be using excerpts of my Tango Fake Book. Do bring along your copy if you have one, and it will also be available for purchase [PDF].”
Mark Wyman has played piano since age five. In 1988 he moved to San Francisco, California, to continue his musical studies, graduating from San Francisco State University (Summa cum laude), and then Mills College (Dean’s List) with a Masters in Piano Performance and Literature. Mark has a very broad musical experience, from classical to punk, from pop to avant-garde, playing anything with keys or knobs, piano, organ, accordion, and many synths. He has performed solo, and with many different groups across the entire musical spectrum, touring around the US, and all over Europe.
Tango has been his special interest for more than 25 years. While based in San Francisco, Mark played with several tango groups: Strictly Tango, Tango #9, MonTango, and his own Quartet. A trip to Buenos Aires hearing, studying and playing tango consummated his love for this music. Mark currently lives in Amsterdam, performing, accompanying and teaching. He plays with choirs, musicals, at schools, and with many different groups and individuals.
Mark also publishes The Tango Fake Book via his website https://harmonk.com.
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* We usually have three ticket prices – please pay what you can. If you can pay the full price, that’s great. If choosing a cheaper ticket allows you to come to more things, then please do! Ticket receipts are split between the artists (it’s usually their livelihood!) and the arts centre (keeps the place going). Except on the rare occasions when we have a sellout gig on our hands, it’s always better to have someone here in the audience than an empty seat, so genuinely, please pay whatever you can.
Tango Milonga: Live Music for Dancing from Mark Wyman (piano) and Ruth Rozellar (bandoneon)
Sunday 6 July 2025 at 2:00 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.
BD Lenz Trio
Sunday 6 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Mix together the styles of Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, and Stevie Ray Vaughan and you have the recipe for contempo-jazz US guitarist B.D. Lenz.
This is the third visit from this amazing trio from New York, USA. People often ask how we get such incredibly good musicians to come and play here. These three are the kind they mean. You could put them on any stage in the world, from the smallest club to the biggest stadium – they would love it, and so would their audience. You will too.
Jazz Jam Session hosted by Jesse Mollins (guitar): Jim Rintoul & Guest
Monday 7 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The first Monday of each month starting at 7.30pm. This month’s house band will be:
Jesse Molins on guitar and your host for the evening with: Tom Ball & Gary Evans
Monsterosa
Thursday 10 July 2025 - Sunday 13 July 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Melodies rooted in jazz, taking in a wider love for soul, folk, and latin music. Monsterosa emerged from a lockdown project to write songs and instrumentals for five jazz musicians based on Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo stories, using all their favourite instruments and genres.
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.”
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.
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
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.
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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