Ashburton Arts Centre
| 0 | West Street, Ashburton, TQ13 7DT |
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| > | www.ashburtonarts.org.uk/ |
Forthcoming events
Gavin Fairhall Lever
Superb and innovative British folk trio: James Patrick Gavin, violin; Tim Fairhall, bass; Adrian Lever, guitar & vocals
| P | Thursday 23rd April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Talking Spirits
Talking Spirits blends world music, folk music, jazz and Anglo-Caribbean rhythms, inspired by different musical traditions.
| P | Friday 24th 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 |
| P | Saturday 25th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Tango Milonga: Live Music for Dancing with Orlando Dibelo & Ruth Rozelaar plus Tango DJ
Maximum space for dancing to the two bandoneonistas Orlando and Ruth
| P | Sunday 26th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 1:30pm, start time: 1:30pm |
Just East of Jazz
…a uniquely off-beam take on contemporary music, incorporating world, folk, prog and classical influences in their impressionistic style…
| P | Sunday 26th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
NOBATB: Ahmed Eid band / Gigi & the Grits : East West Special
Ahmed Eid is a pioneering Palestinian artist, his music tells stories of resistance, hope, and freedom – this will be a very special night!
| P | Monday 27th April, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
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! Folk trio Craven, with music and visuals from Stone Club
| 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: Art, Place and the Ancients: Remaking the past with artist Robin Sullivan
This replaces the originally-advertised talk by Peter Randall-Page who is unwell.
| 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 (In Main Hall, ground floor))
| 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, (Upstairs in Studio)
| 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 |
Liz Simcock
“one of the country’s finest female singer songwriters…Her understated songwriting style & performances are always faultless, cliché free & moving” acousticity.co.uk
| P | Tuesday 5th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Un|Earthed — Of Mothers, Grandmothers and Freedom
Magical storyteller Inez Aponte follows a fragile thread back through time to meet the mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers who carried her family to safety and freedom.
| P | Wednesday 6th 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 |
| P | Friday 8th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
People's Emergency Briefing: A film and discussion
A 45 minute film based on the National Emergency Briefing that happened in Westminster on 25 November 2025, the national implications of climate and nature breakdown.
| P | Sunday 10th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 2:30pm, start time: 3:00pm |
The Inner Sea - Film
“Really beautiful...masterfully woven. A restraint that surfaces with the ache of an artist, and the control required to not be in control.” Dr. James DeMasi
| P | Wednesday 13th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Tannahill Weavers
Firmly established as one of the premier groups on the concert stage; from reflective ballads to foot-stomping reels and jigs, the variety and range of the material they perform is matched only by their enthusiasm and lively Celtic spirits.
| P | Thursday 14th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Friday 15th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Introductory Javanese Gamelan Workshop
An afternoon workshop 2-5pm with no previous musical experience necessary / Part of Tinners Moon Festival 2026
| P | Saturday 16th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 1:45pm, start time: 2:00pm |
| 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 |
Martha Tilston
“She has probably the purest voice I have heard and at times it sent shivers up and down my spine” BBC
| P | Monday 18th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Lalkhori - folk choir from Georgia
Lalkhori are a young, mixed ensemble, from the Svaneti region of the rugged North Caucasus mountains of Georgia. They perform unique and beautiful, UNESCO listed polyphonic songs of Georgia.
| P | Tuesday 19th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Jazz Club: Emile Hinton Trio
Jazz Club: Join Emile and his trio, with special guests/ Part of Tinners Moon Festival 2026
| P | Wednesday 20th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Swing from Paris
Inspired by the music of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s: from the cafés and cabarets of Montmartre to Artie Shaw, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli
| P | Thursday 21st May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Talk: Sharon Blackie – Ripening
Drawing on mythology, folklore and psychology, Blackie reclaims the old tales as guides to courage, confidence and personal renewal.
| P | Friday 22nd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 6:30pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Living Room Theatre: The Uncertainty Principle - a play by Simon Stephens
This intimate 80 minute, two actors, comedy is for curious people, exploring connection and chaos theory through truths, dares and plenty of lies.
| P | Saturday 23rd May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Exeter Opera: Rossini La Cenerentola
Exeter Opera Group will perform Rossini’s La Cenerentola - a variation on Cinderella
| P | Sunday 24th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 2:45pm, start time: 3:00pm |
Not Only But Also The Blues: Vince Lee & Sophie Lord / Xtra Tacos
Five of the top blues players in the south west – this'll be a great night!
| P | Monday 25th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
David Celia & Co
From the outskirts of Toronto, Canada, David Celia is an innovative singer/songwriter and astonishing guitar player, known for his spontaneously driven live performances.
| P | Tuesday 26th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
| P | Wednesday 27th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Fowl (Hugh Nankivell and Graham Browning)
Hugh and Graham became Fowl during lockdown when they wrote and recorded Humankindweed, an album full of sense, nonsense, wordplay, music with words, and words with music
| P | Thursday 28th May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Tango Afternoons with Live Music for Dancing with Hugo Satorre and Ruth Rozelaar (bandoneon)
Come and enjoy a unique TANGO experience, in the company of Bandoneon Maestro Hugo Satorre from Argentina and Ruth Rozelaar.
| P | Sunday 31st May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 1:30pm, start time: 1:30pm |
Sarah Harris Quartet - with Will Butterworth, piano; Marcus Vergette, bass and Ronnie Jones, drums
Sarah has recently arrived in the South West and has been impressing audiences at several recent gigs, and our monthly jazz jam session.
| P | Sunday 31st May, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Katie Spencer
“Katie’s guitar playing has echoes of my dear friend the late great Bert Jansch. Like a musical weaver she threads her poetic lyrics through the guitar's strings and produces little tapestries of song” Ralph McTell
| P | Wednesday 3rd June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |
Under The Surface
This extraordinary Dutch band has performed around the world – they came here in 2024 and were amazing! Highly recommended.
| P | Thursday 4th 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 | Friday 5th June, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:30pm, start time: 8:00pm |
| 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 | Friday 16th October, 2026 |
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| N | Door time: 7:00pm, start time: 7:30pm |