Ashburton Arts Centre
| 0 | West Street, Ashburton, TQ13 7DT |
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| > | www.ashburtonarts.org.uk/ |
Forthcoming events
If Trees Could Talk: Artists and their Relationships to Trees
What are roles that trees play in artists' practice? Why trees? How do artists interpret the provocation, “If Trees Could Talk"?
| P | Tuesday 23rd June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Low Wave | The Juliettes
Part of Everywhere at Once - the festival that's happening all over the UK this weekend
| P | Friday 26th June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Zaid Hilal: Palestinian singer-musician-composer-producer
A welcome return from this purveyor of spellbinding Palestinian contemporary folk-pop
| P | Saturday 27th June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Tango Afternoons with Live Music for Dancing
Maximum space for dancing to Ruth Rozelaar on bandoneon with this month's special guests Michael Stone, piano & Katina Laoutaris, Violin
| P | Sunday 28th June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 1:30pm, start time: 1:30pm |
Lyric String Trio
Top SW chamber musicians playing music by Mozart and Beethoven in our studio upstairs
| P | Sunday 28th June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 2:45pm, start time: 3:00pm |
Shindig: a night of PostModern Jukebox classics - Everywhere at Once Festival
Songs you know played like you never heard them before, inspired by the global phenomenon that is Scott Bradley’s PMJ
| P | Sunday 28th June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Not Only But Also The Blues: Bad Knees Blues Band / Robert West on Dobro
Our monthly session of music inspired by the blues, featuing some of the finest local musicians
| P | Monday 29th June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
If Trees Could Talk: Arts-led Social Change
What are mechanisms of the arts that enable and accelerate change? Why does it work? What are the political arguments for arts-led processes?
| P | Tuesday 30th June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Wednesday 1st July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Moor Poets presents: An Open Mic Poetry evening • special guest, Fiona Benson
An evening celebrating poetry, featuring some of Devon's poets reading their work.
| P | Thursday 2nd July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
BD Lenz Trio
Mix together the styles of Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, and Stevie Ray Vaughan and you have the recipe for contempo-jazz US guitarist B.D. Lenz.
| P | Sunday 5th July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Ash Arts Jazz Jam Session
An excellent monthly jazz hang, where pro musicians mix with those who are on their way, and everyone has a good time.
| P | Monday 6th July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
SLO County Stumblers
From San Luis Obispo County, California — high energy, hard-driving, old time fiddle tunes and spirited songs, heavily influenced by the golden-era string bands of the 1920s and 30s, humorous stories and banter…
| P | Tuesday 7th July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
If Trees Could Talk: Trees Within Us and the MicroBiome
'Creative health' and 'Green social prescribing' are popular buzzwords, but capacity and funding are limited. Can we change the reality? What should we be asking?
| P | Wednesday 8th July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Gentle, Angry Women: Film and Discussion with Director, Barbara Santi
One march changed history. The Next will change their lives,
| P | Thursday 9th July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Aluca workshop (and concert)
A delightful and hugely talented trio from Spain, specialising in bringing the traditional polyphonic songs of Catalonia and the Balearics to life.
| P | Saturday 11th July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 2:30pm, start time: 3:00pm |
Aluca concert
A delightful and hugely talented trio from Spain, specialising in bringing the traditional polyphonic songs of Catalonia and the Balearics to life.
| P | Saturday 11th July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
If Trees Could Talk: Entrepreneurs, Creative and Green
How are creatives changing our relationship to the environment through commerce? How are they making space in our economy for their work and messages?
| P | Tuesday 14th July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
If Trees Could Talk: The Future of the Forests
Stories have framed how we see forests for millennia. Are our modern myths, coloured now by political interests and the commercial interests of both industry and NGOs the right stories for a changing, challenging and unknowable future?
| P | Wednesday 15th July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Friday 31st July, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
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 | Sunday 20th September, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Sean Taylor
Songs of love, desire, heartbreak and social commentary. “Superbly Tailored songs” Daily Mirror;
“Articulate, compelling…brilliant'” Mojo
| P | Thursday 24th September, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Thursday 1st October, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Friday 9th October, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Big Gilson & Blues Dynamite
Brazilian blues guitarist from Rio de Janeiro, Big Gilson, returns to the UK for his Back2Blues tour with his UK Blues Dynamite band
| P | Sunday 11th October, 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 |
Martyn Joseph
“Stunning, heartfelt music” Bob Harris BBC Radio 2; “Relevant, challenging and vital” Songlines; “Folk Legend” Gary Davies BBC Radio 2
| P | Thursday 5th November, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Toby Shaer, Archie Moss, Jack Warnock
These 3 musicians are each respected soloists, here bringing together English, Irish and European traditional music with fresh arrangements, powerful musicianship and heartfelt song.
| P | Saturday 21st November, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |