Ashburton Arts Centre
| 0 | West Street, Ashburton, TQ13 7DT |
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| > | www.ashburtonarts.org.uk/ |
Forthcoming events
| P | Friday 13th March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Dartmoor Strings: Young Performers’ Platform
Music by Copland, Corelli, Mozart, Arriaga, Effenberg, Pachelbel, Humperdink, Frank…
| P | Sunday 15th March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 1:45pm, start time: 2:00pm |
| P | Monday 16th March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Heap of Sinners: A performance by James Richardson
Field System Gallery presents this evening of Dartmoor tales, haiku, curious found objects and colourful puppetry (NB not a children's show)
| P | Friday 20th March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Josi Costi Trio plus Blue Sky July
“Music stitched from slow days, open skies, and the spaces between things”
| P | Saturday 21st March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Nicholas Walker – piano recital
Playing pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Balakirev and Liszt on our 1908 Blüthner grand piano
| P | Sunday 22nd March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 2:30pm, start time: 3:00pm |
Jimbino Vegan And The Jazz Cannibals
Jimbino is a musician, songwriter, poet, break dancer and showman extraordinaire!
| P | Monday 23rd March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Thursday 26th March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Tango Afternoons with Live Music for Dancing with Los Tangoleros
Maximum space for dancing to Ruth Rozelaar on bandoneon with this month's special guest Oscar Acebras on guitar
| P | Sunday 29th March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 1:30pm, start time: 5:30pm |
| P | Sunday 29th March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Not Only But Also The Blues: Quique Bonal and Kid Carlos (Spain)
Two great musicians returning from Spain, plus Open Mic Spots and the monthly Blues Jam Session
| P | Monday 30th March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Boomslang: jazz-fusion for the 21st century
“twisting complex harmony, breakneck rhythms and deep grooves into something unpredictable and electrifying…”
| P | Tuesday 31st March, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 2:00pm, start time: 2:00pm |
Tryani Collective / Dartsong Chorus
Bristol's excellent 6-voice collective meets a local choir singing intricate modern and traditional arrangements by director Anna Ling
| P | Friday 3rd April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Saturday 4th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 1:30pm, start time: 2:00pm |
Jeremy Capey and Anne Willie cello and piano recital
Sea and Sky. Classics meet British Folk music in a recital for Cello and Piano
| P | Sunday 5th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 2:45pm, start time: 3:00pm |
Michael Kevin Jones, cello and John Bryden, piano
Music by Beethoven, Martin Berteau and Cesar Frank
| P | Wednesday 8th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Meet Mayor Max
Max is the Mayor of Idyllwild, California. He’s also a Golden Retriever Labrador. It might seem far-fetched, but this story is true!
| P | Friday 10th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Garfield Jackson, viola & Winnie Wu, piano
The Endellion String Quartet's violist plus Winnie Wu, Piano playing music by Bach, Prokofiev, Brahms and Elgar
| P | Sunday 12th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 2:40pm, start time: 3:00pm |
| P | Tuesday 14th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Sailor Swift – from the artist formerly known as Pete Morton
An unruly mix of storytelling, comedy and popular song!
| P | Wednesday 15th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Talk: The Wild Within with author Brigit Anna McNeill
“What plants taught me about life, recovery and renewal”
| P | Thursday 16th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Winterreise: James Way & Natalie Burch perform Schubert's iconic song cycle
Devon Song Festival Returns with World-Class Art Song Events in Devon
| P | Friday 17th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Cushion Concert: A relaxed event with Camilla Harris and Natalie Burch
Devon Song Festival Returns with World-Class Art Song Events in Devon
| P | Saturday 18th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 10:45am, start time: 11:00am |
Quiet Music with Bethany Horak-Hallett
Devon Song Festival Returns with World-Class Art Song Events in Devon
| P | Saturday 18th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 3:45pm, start time: 4:00pm |
Extraordinary: A Celebration of the Life & Music of George Butterworth
Devon Song Festival Returns with World-Class Art Song Events in Devon
| P | Saturday 18th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Thursday 23rd April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
The Persano Trio: Rodolfo Richter and Pierre Joubert, violins with William Carter, Lute
Three top baroque musicians come together again to play music by Henry Purcell, Ennemond Gaultier, Jean-Pierre Guignon…
| P | Saturday 25th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 2:30pm, start time: 3:00pm |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: Cole Stacey
After a decade touring with Midge Ure and India Electric Company Cole Stacey shares his acclaimed solo album ‘Postcards From Lost Places’ — recorded in atmospheric locations around Dartmoor.
| P | Thursday 30th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: A Dartmoor Conversation
Chris Chapman and Alan Endacott on 6000 years of people and places
| P | Friday 1st May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 3:15pm, start time: 3:30pm |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: Stone Club & Craven
Field System presents an evening of May Day revels: film & ambient music from Stone Club, then Craven's raw, dark folk musioc
| P | Friday 1st May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: Bewitched By Dartmoor: Natural Magic And Modern Paganism
Rebecca Beattie in conversation with Sarah Ransome about contemporary witchcraft and Dartmoor
| P | Saturday 2nd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 9:15am, start time: 9:30am |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: Peter Randall-Page — a life in stone
Dartmoor-based artist Peter Randall-Page in conversation with Dr Alex Murdin
| P | Saturday 2nd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 10:45am, start time: 11:00am |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: Dr Lee Bray – Traces Of Our Ancestors
12,000 Years Of Dartmoor Archaeology, from stone circles to menhirs and ancient farmsteads with Dartmoor National Park archaeologist Dr Lee Bray
| P | Saturday 2nd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 12:15pm, start time: 12:30pm |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: Love, Loss And Landscape: The Wild And The Ancient
Join writers Fiona Robertson, Sophie Pierce and Kirsteen McNish for a conversation about the human relationship with landscape.
| P | Saturday 2nd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 1:45pm, start time: 2:00pm |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: Gwenno
Welsh-Cornish musician and former member of the indie-pop group The Pipettes, Gwenno is widely acclaimed for her Mercury Prize-shortlisted solo work performed in Welsh, Cornish, and English.
| P | Saturday 2nd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: Beavers, Boar and More: Getting real about rewilding
Join Derek Gow and Chantal Lyons for a fascinating conversation about rewilding, animals, co-existence, humans and the land
| P | Sunday 3rd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 9:15am, start time: 9:30am |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: Words From The Wild: Poetry And Place
Readings and conversation from award-winning nature poets Jane Lovell and Mark Haworth-Booth
| P | Sunday 3rd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 10:45am, start time: 11:00am |
Dartmoor Tors Festival: Tor Tales – a journey across Dartmoor with storyteller Sara Hurley
Meet witch-hares and whisht-hounds, pixies, giants and Ashburton’s very own river sprite, on a wild ride to some familiar places, transformed with hair-raising stories. Suitable for all ages,
| P | Sunday 3rd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 10:45am, start time: 11:00am |
Dartmoor tors Festival: Nature Recovery On Dartmoor: Is It Too Late?
Richard Drysdale (Dartmoor National Park), Tracy May (Dartmoor Commoners Council) and Lisa Schneidau (Dartmoor Nature Alliance) with chair: Sophie Pavelle
| P | Sunday 3rd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 12:15pm, start time: 12:30pm |
| P | Sunday 3rd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 4:45pm, start time: 5:00pm |
Ranagri
“'You're unlikely to hear anything more irresistible & more folky this year” Louder Than War
| P | Monday 4th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Adrien Brandeis, Resurgence, solo jazz piano
Paris-based jazz pianist, which an eclectic range of influences, particularly from South America, and a long list of awards.
| P | Thursday 7th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Pete Allen Jazz Band
This 8 piece band will give an electrifying performance bursting with joyful jazz remembering, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet and Duke Ellington, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, Chris Barber, and Humphrey Lyttelton.
| P | Friday 8th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Saturday 16th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Soulful Singing and Mantra Workshop
African, sacred, uplifting and fun day workshop led by the unique and inspiring, Mahasukha.
| P | Sunday 17th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 10:15am, start time: 10:30am |
| P | Wednesday 27th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Wednesday 3rd June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett
The very Final Farewell Tour from two absolute legends of British music
| P | Friday 5th June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Saturday 6th June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:30pm, start time: 8:00pm |
Joe Martin - Alone in Valentine
Taking inspiration from the golden years of Americana and branding it with his own unique stamp.
| P | Thursday 17th September, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Saturday 19th September, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Friday 16th October, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |