WHAT'S ON AT THE ASHBURTON ARTS CENTRE, ASHBURTON
What's On at the Ashburton Arts Centre, Ashburton
Most Popular Shows and Events at Ashburton Arts Centre, Ashburton
What's On at the Ashburton Arts Centre, Ashburton
Justin Adams & Mauro Durante
Saturday 26 April 2025
Guitarist, producer, and composer Justin Adams has been a chief collaborator with Robert Plant in his band, the Sensational Spaceshifters - co-writing a series of four albums and touring the world. His production on landmark albums by Tin...
Tune Storm - Tinners Moon Special
Saturday 26 April 2025
A NIGHT OF DJS & DANCING TO KICK OFF TINNERS MOON FESTIVAL Tune Storm is returning with massive tunes from the 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond8pm - 11.30am...
Flamenco Dance Workshop with Rebecca Ortega
Sunday 27 April 2025
Discover the beauty of traditional flamenco with Rebeca Ortega in this dynamic dance workshop. Bring tap shoes or heels, a skirt or comfortable clothing. Liberate your body, enhance strength, and embrace beauty and sensuality through flamen...
Flamenco Guitar Workshop with Ramón Ruiz
Sunday 27 April 2025
This is a rare chance to work closely with a real master of the art of playing flamenco guitar. It's aimed at all levels. Participants will work on their technique, falseta, and variations to accompany the dancing and singing. For the last ...
Silences: Rebeca Ortega Flamenco Company from Spain
Sunday 27 April 2025
FLAMENCO - SILENCIO - Rebeca Ortega from SpainJoin us for an evening of passion, rhythm, and intensity - an unforgettable authentic flamenco performance by Seville's elegant and accomplished dancer, Rebeca Ortega, UK's leading flamenco guit...
The Mighty Goddess - performed by Pomme Clayton
Sunday 27 April 2025
Sly, subversive, spectacular storytelling by pioneer Sally Pomme Clayton evoking goddesses from across the globe. She mixes myths with memories, spells with songs, comedy with ceremony. These stories have not been tamed and are x-rated for ...
NOBATB: Pennsylvania Railroad Stompin Dave solo
Monday 28 April 2025
Pennsylvania RailroadRay Kemp just can't resist playing the blues... he has been playing?more years than he cares to remember. in the 70's he toured Europe with many of the? big names in the rock and blues world and was a founder member of ...
Liane Carroll
Tuesday 29 April 2025
One of the UK?s most accomplished ?jazz singers and outstanding pianist Liane Carroll performs jazz classics and original compositions. Well-known for her powerful, highly emotional voice and superlative improvising skills, Liane has enjoye...
People.Community.Forest: film and panel discussion
Thursday 1 May 2025
A short film exploring the evolving relationship between people and their local forests. Journey from Scotland to Nepal, across Germany and England. Witness communities engage with, manage, and benefit from surrounding forests.A movement to...
GRICE & The Polarchoral Band
Friday 2 May 2025
Art-rock artist, singer, songwriter, guitarist GRICE presents his unique brand of sonic alchemy through a deeply personal set of powerful and intricate songs. GRICE and the Polarchoral Band set co-ordinates for a journey through dark and so...
Lunatraktors
Saturday 3 May 2025
Broken folk' duo Carli Jefferson and Clair Le Couteur rework Anglo-Celtic traditional music with influences from post-punk, trip-hop and queer cabaret. Lunatraktors strip folk down to the bare bones, mixing tonal percussion, tapdance and ha...
Mayday Morris Workshop
Saturday 3 May 2025
In this workshop centred on dance as protest, members of Mayday Morris will share their history and ethos, and host a discussion on the importance of activism. You will discover how they bring positive energy to protest while bearing witnes...
Molly No Mates Morris Workshop
Saturday 3 May 2025
Molly No-Mates is hosting this hour-long Molly dancing workshop for anyone who would like to give Morris a go. They will be teaching their own dance to ?Hal-an-Tow?, a traditional May Day song (whose lyrics we have reworked). Singing along ...
Orlando Dibelo & Ruth Rozelaar Bandoneon Duo
Sunday 4 May 2025
The Bandoneon is the instrument at the heart of the inimical sound of Tango music. Following their amazing performance at the Arts Centre last year, Ruth Rozelaar has invited Orlando Dibelo - the great Bandoneon Maestro from Argentine to pl...
Kevin Figes Quartet You Are Here
Monday 5 May 2025
Kevin Figes - Saxes/Flutes/MD(Keith Tippett, Pee Wee Ellis, Electric Lady Big Band, Musical Director Celebratory concert)Raph Clarkson - Trombone(Laura Jurd)Riaan Vosloo - Bass(Nostagia 77 (recorded with Keith and Julie), Twelves, Ed Jones)...
Härva Trio
Thursday 8 May 2025
The H?rva Trio is:Swiss/Swedish violinist Viljo BuschBritish ?talented, nimble fingered and soulful? [The Guardian UK]?accordionist, Faith Elliott-RisticSwiss-Chilean guitarist Lucien Caceres. Faith is one of the leading proponents of Serbi...
Living Room Theatre: The End is In The Beginning Beckett
Friday 9 May 2025
Starring Philip Robinson and Sarah White. Philip has performed several times at Ashburton Arts Centre (Krapp's Last Tape and The Washing Machine of Destiny) and is always brilliantly funny, poignant and entertaining. Here's what he has to s...
Angelheart Theatre: Sam OShanty
Saturday 10 May 2025
Sam O?Shanty has lived his whole life at sea, ever since he first stowed away when he were just knee-high to a kipper! Since then he?s sailed the Seven Seas: from Devonport to Durban Bay. From Nantucket to New Guinea. From Cape Wrath to the...
Wake The River
Saturday 10 May 2025
?One to watch from the South West? Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing RadioCornwall UK based Wake the River spans multiple generations in their ages and influences inviting a fresh fusion with delicate, stand-out lead vocals from Freeborn, sensitive...
Ash Arts Jazz Jam Session
Monday 12 May 2025
The first Monday of each month starting at 7.30pm. Each session will open with a couple numbers from the house rhythm section before they invite guests to join them, and the jam session begins. Admission is ?8 or ?5 or ?3 (or free if you n...
Kudu Band plus DJ Emma the Artist
Friday 16 May 2025
From the musicians who brought you legendary Afro-Cornish band Zambula, Makiwa and Wendy and the Coconuts comes this ?new and dynamic afro-reggae sensation?!Upbeat, joyful and guaranteed to get you dancing, the reggae-infused rhythms and sp...
Club Tropicana
Saturday 17 May 2025
A fundraising night with DJs Al and Vicki spinning your favourite 80s tracks. All funds raised will support South Dartmoor Community College Ten Tors Team. The monies will provide safe equipment, train children and ensure that the event is ...
The Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service Concert Band
Sunday 18 May 2025
The Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service Concert Band is in its 31st year, having been established in May 1994 to augment the existing Corps of Drums; many of the original members were serving and retired Fire & Rescue Service personnel a...
Ahmed Dickinson and Eduardo Martín: virtuoso guitar duo from Cuba
Thursday 22 May 2025
When Cuban guitarist Ahmed Dickinson C?rdenas first heard the music of fellow countryman Eduardo Mart?n, he felt euphoric. Mart?n?s style has an expansive sense of freedom that taps into pre-Columbus traditions, jazz, flamenco, pop, Afro an...
Quartet: movement / music / video / text
Thursday 22 May 2025
4 pieces, each with live improvised music4 performers working with real time composition to shape their work4 elements: movement; sound; film and text 4 ways to move the imagination . . . . Quartet is an evening of dance, music and performa...
Martha Tilston
Friday 23 May 2025
With a voice like spider-webbed hollows and lyrics that inspire and captivate, Martha has carved her niche in the English modern folk scene with sharp, original songs that dissect the modern world and established herself as a renowned artis...
Seth Lakeman
Saturday 24 May 2025
Multi award-winning folk singer Seth Lakeman was raised and still lives on Dartmoor, within sight of the sea at Plymouth, from where the Puritans sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. The Mercury Prize nominated singer, songwriter, and multi-ins...
BEYOND HUMAN: LANDSCAPES EMOTIONAL RESONANCE
Saturday 24 May 2025
What role does place play in human stories? And how can our emotional response to wild landscapes deepen our lives and those of the other beings which share our planet? From caves and rivers, to moors and marshes, join writers whose work ...
DARTMOOR IS THE ARTIST
Saturday 24 May 2025
Through visual presentation and conversation, find out how Dartmoor, and other places, have been leading the way for some of the most interesting human artists making art today: Lore & Land, Garry Fabian Miller, Matthew Shaw and Mark Jesset...
OPEN TO ALL - Who really holds the power on Dartmoor
Saturday 24 May 2025
As a National Park, Dartmoor is supposed to be accessible to all, and until recently was the only place in the country you could wild camp freely. But a recent court case has thrown all that into doubt. Can we feel confident about being abl...
ROCK IDOLS DARTMOORS EXTRAORDINARY TORS:
Saturday 24 May 2025
Fantastical yet natural, Dartmoor?s 280-million-year-old tors are among the most iconic landmarks in southern Britain. Victorian antiquarians described them as ?rock idols?, believing them to be stone deities worshipped by the Druids. Thous...
BELTANE BORDER: THE DARK SIDE OF FOLK
Sunday 25 May 2025
Join us for rare conversation with Beltane Border, followed by a thrilling performance outside Ashburton Arts Centre. What is behind the tradition ? and subversion ? of this legendary Dartmoor Morris side?Where do the dances come from, and ...
Milkweed
Tuesday 27 May 2025
Milkweed is two anonymous musicians. They recently appeared in a live session on Radio 3's Late Junction, where Verity Sharp said that they ?commune with the spirits of the past?[and] cast some great lo-fi spells??For three years Milkweed h...
Ellie Gowers
Saturday 31 May 2025
Emerging onto the UK folk scene with her debut album, Dwelling by the Weir, Ellie explored folklore and stories of her hometown, Warwick, through ecological, sociological, and personal themes ('full of delicacy, precision, and gentle deligh...
Iona Lane
Wednesday 4 June 2025
?Swilkie?, the new album from highlands-based songwriter Iona Lane, weaves ecology, conservation, islands and folklore into poetic songs and contemplative melodies. Written during three residencies on the Isle of Eigg, Isle of Mull and Sand...
Blue Rose Code (duo)
Friday 13 June 2025
Blue Rose Code come into 2025 with a fresh wind in their sails. The last year saw sparkling?reviews in the national press for award winning album, 'Bright Circumstance', radio play on BBC R2 & R6 as well as an appearance on the R4 instituti...
Michell Pfeiffer & Kulesh
Sunday 15 June 2025
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. Their stunning three-part vocal harmonies b...
Matt Holborn Quartet: For Stuff
Saturday 12 July 2025
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 ap...
ACMF 2025: Meet The Musicians (Ashburton Arts Centre)
Sunday 20 July 2025
Richard Gonski, moderator Introducing the musicians, & selections from the programme. Stefan Hersh, violin (USA)Maria Loudenitch, violin (UK)David Yang, viola (USA)Tristan Cornut, cello (France)Andy Williamson, Saxophone (UK)Gabrielle Mills...
ACMF 2025: Family Concert (Ashburton Arts Centre)
Tuesday 22 July 2025
Hear short selections from the weekStefan Hersh, violin (USA)Maria Loudenitch, violin (UK)David Yang, viola (USA)Tristan Cornut, cello (France)Andy Williamson, Saxophone (UK)Gabrielle Mills, Composer-in-ResidenceThis is part of Ashburton Ch...
ACMF 2025 Concert 1
Wednesday 23 July 2025
This concert features music by: Bach, Shostakovich, KnussenStefan Hersh, violin (USA)Maria Loudenitch, violin (UK)David Yang, viola (USA)Tristan Cornut, cello (France)Andy Williamson, Saxophone (UK)Gabrielle Mills, Composer-in-ResidenceThis...
ACMF 2025 Concert 5: Ashburton Arts Centre
Sunday 27 July 2025
Festival Highlights - Audience Choice concert (75 minutes long, with interval)Stefan Hersh, violin (USA)Maria Loudenitch, violin (UK)David Yang, viola (USA)Tristan Cornut, cello (France)Andy Williamson, Saxophone (UK)Gabrielle Mills, Compos...
Martin Simpson
Sunday 21 September 2025
Described by the Guardian as "One of the virtuoso instrumentalists of the English music scene", Martin Simpson's interpretations of traditional songs are masterpieces of storytelling. Nominated an astounding 32 times in the 18 years of the...
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