Ashburton Arts Centre

Devon twins Laura and Charlotte have together become one of the UK's top young bluegrass and folk acts, as well as gaining a great international reputation.

Our monthly focus on blues and blues-inspired music feraturing some of the best of the bands around the South West

Nigel is probably the top jazz guitarist in the UK right now, with Tom Ball (piano), Kev Sanders (bass) and Gary Evans (drums)

Emphatically experimental, from Verona, Italy

Maximum space for dancing to Ruth Rozelaar on bandoneon, and Greg Vorster on cello

This is not fiction. This is not a documentary. This is a warning. Live Q&A/discussion afterwards with director Asif Kapadia and George Monbiot

Unforgettable music from the likes of  Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Duke Ellington, Nelson Riddle  and vocal swing from The Rat Pack. Audiences of all ages will be thrilled by the sound of this amazing big band.

This unique quartet's music reaches a broad audience, including adventurous rock listeners. Jazz, rock and electronics

Music by Holst, Smetana, Queen and Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins & Cello, Saint-Saens, trad folk

Eclectic moods, from meditative raag-inspired improvisations to high-energy celtic dance tunes

Pine Martens Bounce Back – talk, pics and film clips about the reintroduction of Pine Martens to Dartmoor and Exmoor

Storytellers Sara Hurley and Lisa Schneidau tell of ancient creation myths and medieval legends, folktales, and everyday adventures in a show that blurs the boundaries between folklore and reality.

The God of Hellfire himself

As a teenager, he found a classical guitar at home and from that moment guitar became his passion

Top Devon-based string ensemble playing works by Elgar, Finzi, Vaughan Williams and Walton

“Freak folk” created by weaving tocreates a unique sound by weaving together melodies reminiscent of English folk music and traditional Javanese musicgether melodies reminiscent of English folk music and traditional Javanese music

“A Phil Beer gig is one spent in the company of a true craftsman, a master musician and consummate performer” Spiral Earth

Perennial favourite known for Pilot of the Airwaves, and many more great songs, returns to the Arts Centre

A workshop with this grroup of Dartmoor-based Morris dancers centred on dance as protest

For anyone who would like to give Morris a go with Bristol’s premier queer, drag king Molly dancing team

Dartmoor storyteller Lisa Schneidau discusses things otherworldly, bestial and ritual with artists Libby Bove, Gemma Dunnell, Abigail Tinnion, Asha Umberio and George Radford; followed by a story and this documentary by Dartmoor Preservation Association and Clapham Film Unit

What's left when we've lost everything? stripped down to the basics of rhythm and voice, Jefferson’s hybrid of tap dance, flamenco and body percussion meets Le Couteur’s self-taught overtone singing and 3+ octave range. Unique and amazing.

“She has probably the purest voice I have heard and at times it sent shivers up and down my spine” BBC

DARTMOOR A conversation with Kate Ashbrook, Matthew Kelly, Guy Shrubsole and Lewis Winks

Wyl Menmuir in conversation with Alex Murdin and Sophie Pierce

A talk by DNP archaeologists Lee Bray and Andy Crabb

Readings by and conversation with Sean Borodale and Fiona Williams

A visual presentation and conversation with Land & Lore, Garry Fabian Miller, Matthew Shaw and Mark Jessett

Dartmoor's own singer and multi-instrumentalist, who's now known across the UK and beyond. Always a favourite, so early booking essential.

A conversation with, and performance by, Dartmoor’s wildest Morris side

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