Ashburton Live

Kip Winter & Dave Wilson perform often hard-hitting original songs in stunning harmony, interspersed with self-deprecating humour.

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“This music is visceral yet also profoundly thoughtful and, indeed, highly memorable.” BBC Music Magazine

Earl Okin is now a legendary crooner/comedian in that 'cult' bracket of musicians who each generation (re)discovers, but somehow he has never quite made the big time.

“One of the country’s best live acts right now! Get out and see them wherever you can!” Americana UK

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

Spellbinding Palestinian folk-jazz-rock-beyond…

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.

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 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

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

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.

A singer-songwriter and dynamic performer who blends soul and classic rock with the groove of blues, funk and jazz.