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Jun 2025
Eliana Razzino Yang: Cello Recital, with Alex Wilson, pianoSunday 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.
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.
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
Harry Diplock TrioThursday 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)
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