Ashburton Arts Centre
| 0 | West Street, Ashburton, TQ13 7DT |
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| > | www.ashburtonarts.org.uk/ |
Forthcoming events
Liane Carroll
One of the UK’s most accomplished jazz singers and outstanding pianist Liane Carroll performs jazz classics and original compositions.
| P | Wednesday 1st October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Baka Beyond
Bring your dancing shoes, for this legendary band playing a fusion of music influenced by the Baka people of Cameroon, African rhythms & Celtic tunes
No tickets available
| P | Saturday 4th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Ash Arts Jazz Jam Session
with house band: Jesse Molins, guitar (and your host for the evening), Mike Cosgrave on Piano and James McPhail on bass
| P | Monday 6th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Gabriel Moreno and the Quivering Poets
"An offshoot of Leonard Cohen and Neil Diamond - I love it! … The guitar is beautiful” Cerys Matthews, BBC 6 Music
| P | Tuesday 7th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Tommaso Starace Trio
Stunning saxophonist – think bebop in the style of Cannonball Adderley with a bluesy swagger
| P | Wednesday 8th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Reg Meuross: Stolen From God: Truth, Music, and Untold Histories
Reg Meuross with Suntou Susso, Cohen Braithwaite Kilcoyne & Narrator Lucy MacKeith (historian)
| P | Thursday 9th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Friday 10th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Robert Castelli & Boom
"With Castelli, you get the impression that you're in the presence of someone who's tastes are world wide, and wants to apply them to existing sounds in Jazz."
Cancelled
| P | Friday 10th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Saturday 11th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 2:30pm, Start time: 3:00pm |
Philippa Mo: Suite Fantasia Caprice
A solo violin recital with music by Bach, Telemann, Missy Mazzoli and Astor Piazolla
| P | Saturday 11th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Small Blue: jazz piano trio
The music can be by turns lyrical, atmospheric, groovy, and mischievous, with most tunes inspired by novels, poems, art, or places
| P | Sunday 12th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Woodland Trust: Temperate Rainforest Restoration in Ausewell and Buckland Woods
A free talk about these special woods near Ashburton with a chance to ask questions of site manager, Dave Rickwood
| P | Thursday 16th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
The Cret String Trio: Schoenberg, Beethoven and Greg Sandow (world première)
David Yang, viola; Stephanie Zyzack, violin; Clancy Newman, cello
| P | Saturday 18th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Spartimu: Pulifunie di Corsica
Beautiful polyphonic songs of Corsica, performed by acclaimed masters of the tradition as part of a UK wide tour
| P | Sunday 19th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
The Occasional Sextet: Spontaneous Soundscapes
Blended melodies & sound sculptures, imaginative explorations…
| P | Sunday 26th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Not Only But Also The Blues
Delta Variant | Big Mouth Blues Band feature in this month's Not Only But Also The Blues
| P | Monday 27th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Spafford Campbell
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.
| P | Tuesday 28th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
One Foot In the Dark: Divija Melally & Saili Katebe
Double bill: ‘The Skeleton is White’ (dance) & duet ‘Six Degrees from Home’ (dance & spoken word): honest explorations by two artists from the global majority of what it means to navigate through life, questions and unknowns
| P | Wednesday 29th October, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Saturday 1st November, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:30pm, Start time: 8:00pm |
Soulful Singing and Mantra with Mahasukha
African, sacred, uplifting and fun day workshop led by the unique and inspiring, Mahasukha.
| P | Sunday 2nd November, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 10:15am, Start time: 10:30am |
Tamsin Elliot Trio
Tamsin is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and film-maker with roots in the traditional dance tunes of the British Isles.
| P | Friday 7th November, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Iona Lane
“Lyrics and musical arrangements crackle with wide-eyed curiosity.” Jude Rogers, The Guardian
| P | Tuesday 11th November, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Wednesday 12th November, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Opa Rosa
A feast from the east indeed: “Music that is pulsing, heart-racing and, quite simply, glorious.”
| P | Friday 14th November, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
The Inn Theatre Company presents Shakespeare's Dreams, Charms and Phantoms
Shakespearean scenes featuring ghosts, prophecies, omens, fairies, potions, magic, witchcraft…
| P | Saturday 15th November, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
No One Is Listening (A Ghost Story) by Vic Llewelyn
A thrilling tale of Ghosts, Memory loss, and feeling the fear.
| P | Friday 21st November, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Fifi La Mer: Let us take you to Paris
An immersive experience of French music, featuring iconic works from artists like Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Django Reinhardt, and Serge Gainsbourg…
| P | Sunday 30th November, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 2:30pm, Start time: 3:00pm |
Greg Coulson Band
A singer-songwriter and dynamic performer who blends soul and classic rock with the groove of blues, funk and jazz.
| P | Friday 5th December, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Kangaroo Moon
This 5-piece band weaves many strands from world, rock, folk and dance music, with acoustic and electronic influences into a funky, psychedelic, heart-lifting wall of sound.
| P | Thursday 11th December, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Tim Edey
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)
| P | Monday 15th December, 2025 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
Hedera (folk quintet)
“If I was still booking gigs and festivals… I just saw a band who would be high on my A-list” - Ian Anderson
| P | Tuesday 13th January, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm |
SykesMartin (Miranda Sykes & Hannah Martin)
A collaboration between two of British folk's finest voices: Miranda Sykes (Show of Hands) and Hannah Martin (Edgelarks, Gigspanner Big Band)
| P | Thursday 19th February, 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 |