Ashburton Live

International close harmony folk trio with spellbinding tri-lingual folk songs and tales

Music carries dreams amid the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in this powerful hip-hop drama (made in 2017)

Four of the most exciting modern bluegrass musicians in the UK today come together in this new band.

Arabic and South Asian poetic music

The songbird of Palestine and his band en route to the Glastonbury Festival folk-jazz-rock-beyond… (NB 3pm Start)

Formidable Vegetable's Charlie Mgee and artist-activist Brenna Quinlan (illustrator of the permaculture books 'RetroSuburbia', 'Milkwood' and more)

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.

Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and a world première by Gabrille Mills

A night of folk music and more, from around the world

Robert West Band & Jackdaw Road

Tales, legends, myths, anecdotes, intimate memories and stories gleaned from a life spent travelling by internationally-acclaimed French/Norwegian storyteller Abbi Patrix

Klonk bring their trademark East European hootenanny to the Arts Centre.

Maximum space for dancing to Ruth Rozelaar on bandoneon with this month's special guest Mark Wyman

A celebration of the great jazz violinist Stuff Smith with some top UK jazz musicians

Katie Duck is a mover and maker from Amsterdam. This one hour performance involves live music, film, sound, movement and text

Richard Gonski, moderator Introducing the musicians, & selections from the programme.

Hear short selections from the week

This concert features music by: Bach, Shostakovich, Knussen

This Concert features highlights from the Festival

[This is now happening on Sat 23 August] 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)

A master of his art

Music that folds in elements of jazz, post-rock and chamber classical music while raiding the folk music toolbox. Call it what you want: post-folk. Trad-noir. Folk nihilism.

“Lyrics and musical arrangements crackle with wide-eyed curiosity.” Jude Rogers, The Guardian