Ashburton Arts Centre

0 West Street, Ashburton, TQ13 7DT
> www.ashburtonarts.org.uk/

Forthcoming events

Seminar Series: Prof Joe Foweraker & Pip Harris on A Life Well Lived

Pip Harris and Joe Foweraker invite you to join them for Conversations on the Challenges of a Life Well-Lived.

P Thursday 29th May, 2025
N Door time: 5:15pm, Start time: 5:30pm
, All ages

Phil DeGreg Trio (USA)

The classic jazz piano trio with this wonderful American pianist who's back in the UK for a short vist. With Marcus Vergette (bass) and Ronnie Jones (drums)

P Thursday 29th May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Ellie Gowers

“Ellie Gowers is, quite literally, an all-singing, all-dancing folk polymath” Jon Wilks, TradFolk

P Saturday 31st May, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Ash Arts Jazz Jam Session

with host Jesse Molins (guitar) with Martin Jenkins & Tony Follano

P Monday 2nd June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

A Band Named Brian (a cycle tour)

Two parts Billy Bragg to one Part Levellers, with a touch of Johnny Cash and a side order of Beans on Toast: you’ll laugh, you’ll cry… you may even dance!

P Tuesday 3rd June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Iona Lane

“Lyrics and musical arrangements crackle with wide-eyed curiosity.” Jude Rogers, The Guardian

P Wednesday 4th June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Winter Wilson

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

P Friday 6th June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Stephen Grew – solo piano

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

P Sunday 8th June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Earl Okin - Diamond Jubilee

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.

P Thursday 12th June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Blue Rose Code (duo)

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

P Friday 13th June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh

International close harmony folk trio with spellbinding tri-lingual folk songs and tales

P Sunday 15th June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

The Charlotte Carrivick Band

Four of the most exciting modern bluegrass musicians in the UK today come together in this new band.

P Wednesday 18th June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Middle Eastern Muwashahat and Bengali Tagore music

Arabic and South Asian poetic music

P Thursday 19th June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Formidable Vegetable

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.

P Saturday 21st June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

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 23rd June, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Abbi Patrix: Journeys In Place: Time suspended above the world…what does it have to tell?

Tales, legends, myths, anecdotes, intimate memories and stories gleaned from a life spent travelling by internationally-acclaimed French/Norwegian storyteller Abbi Patrix

P Tuesday 1st July, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Tango Milonga: Live Music for Dancing from Mark Wyman (piano) and Ruth Rozellar (bandoneon)

Maximum space for dancing to Ruth Rozelaar on bandoneon with this month's special guest Mark Wyman

P Sunday 6th July, 2025
N Door time: 2:00pm, Start time: 2:00pm
, All ages

Matt Holborn Quartet: For Stuff

A celebration of the great jazz violinist Stuff Smith with some top UK jazz musicians

P Saturday 12th July, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

ACMF 2025: Meet The Musicians (Ashburton Arts Centre)

Richard Gonski, moderator Introducing the musicians, & selections from the programme.

P Sunday 20th July, 2025
N Door time: 3:30pm, Start time: 4:00pm
, All ages

ACMF 2025: Family Concert (Ashburton Arts Centre)

Hear short selections from the week

P Tuesday 22nd July, 2025
N Door time: 4:30pm, Start time: 5:00pm
, All ages

ACMF 2025 Concert # 1

This concert features music by: Bach, Shostakovich, Knussen

P Wednesday 23rd July, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

ACMF 2025 Concert #5: Ashburton Arts Centre

This Concert features highlights from the Festival

P Sunday 27th July, 2025
N Door time: 4:30pm, Start time: 5:00pm
, All ages

Wake The River

P Saturday 23rd August, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

Martin Simpson

A master of his art

P Sunday 21st September, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

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
N Door time: 7:00pm, Start time: 7:30pm
, All ages

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