Sarah McQuaid
Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street, Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Doors 7.00pm Start 7.30pm
Tickets Full price (Support the artists and arts) £14.00+ - Mid Price (A bit cheaper if you need it) £10.00+ - Low price (Even cheaper if you need it) £7.00+ Philanthropic Price (really support the artists and the arts) £20.00+ from WeGotTickets

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Sarah McQuaid puts on a superb show, original songs delivered in a distinctive, entertaining way. She got a great response when she performed here in May 2021 as part of the Tinners Moon Festival.

“Her award-winning musicianship, distinctive chocolatey vocals and mastery of the songwriting craft have led reviewers to describe Sarah McQuaid as a “triple threat”. Add to that a warm, charismatic stage presence, five critically acclaimed solo albums and a battery of instruments including acoustic and electric guitars, drum and piano — and you’ve got a one-woman powerhouse who defies categorisation because there simply isn’t anyone else out there quite like her.”

With the wind in her sails from receiving two consecutive Americana Music Association UK award nominations (2017 UK Album of the Year for Mockingbird Lane and 2018 UK Artist of the Year), singer/songwriter Danni Nicholls has embarked upon her next artistic journey – her third studio album The Melted Morning.

Over the past few years, Danni has played shows with the likes of Shakin’ Stevens (28 date UK wide tour), Lucinda Williams, Sturgill Simpson, The Secret Sisters and other notables and been invited to perform at festivals around the world, including Cambridge Folk, Tønder, Denmark, Folk Alliance
International and AmericanaFest, Nashville.

British-American-Nigerian guitarist and vocalist Toby Foyeh enjoys massive success in the USA where he is now based. He returns for a short UK tour with his Orchestra Africa.

Following his recent successful London show, this will be his first UK tour performing in London, Manchester, and Great Torrington after many years of performing worldwide.

Recent CD Releases include African Festival 2021 and Pirates of Africa 2019

The Toby Foyeh group takes you on a musical journey from Africa to Europe and America, where traditional Yoruba music, Highlife and Afrobeat meet Pop, Rock and Jazz with scintillating guitars

Though absorbing various western elements, the music is fresh and original. His band has performed in the USA, Canada, Japan, Europe and the Caribbean, entrancing audiences around the world and appearing at major festivals such as Fuji Rock Festival, Nigaata, Japan, 17 International Jazz Festivals including Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Detroit, Syracuse, Washington DC, Jamaica, Grenada, Bahamas, Curacao and Malta EU etc plus many Universities and Performing Arts Centres.The band is very visual on stage, with colourful costumes,and call and response singing in English and Yoruba

The band's live performances are very exciting, portraying a new musical vision of Africa, songs in English and Yoruba, scintillating guitars, where West African Guitar music meets Jazz and Rock all on top of African rhythms. A mini acoustic break, where Toby plays the flute, a second instrument he took up as a child punctuates the set. With the flute you’ll go on a mystical musical journey to traditional Yorubaland and back again. With the tour Toby treats the audience to an 8 piece group and an intimate performance. This may be the future of African music.

Rhythm Of The Dance -
Palace Theatre, Palace Avenue, Paignton TQ3 3H
2.30pm and 7.30pm
For tickets go to website
Internationally recognised as one of the most popular and busiest Irish step dance shows, now in its 21st year of touring the world this incredible live show enjoys continued success year after year and is a big hit everywhere. Featuring World Champion dancers and some of the finest traditional musicians and singers this show takes you on an exciting journey through the ages and is full of pure energy and packed with dance and music.

Alasdair Roberts is a Glasgow-based musician – primarily a singer and guitarist – born in Germany and raised in central Scotland. Acclaimed by Folk Radio UK as ‘one of our most talented, important and relevant songwriters and song-adapters’, he has released several critically acclaimed albums of his music via Drag City Records over the past two decades.

Alasdair draws upon the traditional song and music culture of Scotland, and further afield, to create both his own idiosyncratic and evocative compositions as well as fresh interpretations of folk songs and narrative ballads. His most recent album is The Old Fabled River (2021), recorded in collaboration with the Norwegian group Völvur; it features four new self-written songs as well as both Scottish and Norwegian traditional songs.

Alasdair enjoys a wide range of collaborations with fellow musicians, as well as with artists from other disciplines. He plays in the groups Furrow Collective, Current 93 and Green Ribbons and has toured extensively both in the UK and worldwide, both solo and with various musical companions.

Ballad singer, ground-breaking acoustic and electric-guitarist Martin Carthy is coming to Exeter Phoenix!

For more than 50 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music’s greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only from within the folk scene, but also far beyond it

Richard is one of the most prolific and diverse artists on the Folk Scene today, working tirelessly to promote the music and folk arts in general to an ever widening audience. Born in Middlesbrough, he was brought up in a musical family, and sang with them from an early age. Richard served his time in Teesside Folk Clubs joining the Fettlers in 1986  before launching a solo career which has taken him round the world and produced 11 albums of original and traditional songs. He is a fine guitarist and now regarded by many, as Teesside and North Yorkshire’s best living folk-songwriter. 'Widely respected songwriter and guitarist with a clear and 'captivating' vocal style'. Many of his songs are already performed widely by artists including The Wilson Family, Flossie Malavialle, GU4, John Morris, Dick Miles, Monkeys Fist , Kimbers Men and many more...

Gigspanner Big Band and Raynor Winn: Saltlines
Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth EX8 2AZ
7.30pm
Tickets standard £25.00+ Raised £27.50. For tickets go to website
Saltlines: A Portrait of the South West Coast Path in Old Songs and New Words. The Salt Path is Raynor Winn’s Sunday Times best-selling memoir of walking the South West Coast Path in its entirety…a walk that was an impulsive response to unexpected circumstances which left her and her husbandhomeless. It has won global praise for its 'against all odds' uplifting message, and its frank exploration of the reality of homelessness. The Salt Path is one couple's story, but such a well-trodden path must hold many more stories of loss, love and the natural world. Perhaps these stories could be found in the form of traditional songs and tunes that have been left behind and saved for us due to the diligence of song collectors such as Cecil Sharp. This seed of an idea has developed into an exciting collaboration between Raynor Winn and The Gigspanner Big Band, a collective of some of the most high-profile names on the British folk scene.

Ninebarrow
St Andrew's Church, Market Place, Colyton EX24 6JS
7.30pm Doors 6.45pm)
Tickets £14.00 in advance (+ 40p booking fee) from website or £18.00 on the door (if available)
Multi-award-winning folk duo who are impressing audiences across the country with their innovative and captivating take on the folk tradition. Described by Mark Radcliffe as sounding like ‘two halves of one voice’, by Seth Lakeman as ‘a fantastic duo’ and by Kate Rusby as ‘absolutely amazing’, Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere combine breath taking vocal harmonies and melodies, delivering songs that are inspired and rooted in the landscape and history of the British Isles.

An evening of Devon Custom and Song
Crediton Library, Belle Parade, Crediton EX17 2AA
7.30pm
Tickets £5.00 from website
Please present your order confirmation at the door.

Raising money for the Folklore Library and Archive, and specifically for the formation of a special collection for Devonshire Folklore materials.

Gittisham Folk Dance Club
Caller: Simon Maplesden Band: Jeroka
Gittisham Village Hall, Gittisham EX14 3AF nr. Honiton
8.00pm

For the 2022 festival season Steve Knightley and Phil Beer are returning to the duo format that launched their stellar careers over thirty years ago. Audiences will be treated to the usual ‘Show of Hands’ classics like ‘Cousin Jack’, rousing festival anthems, instrumental virtuosity and stunning harmonies from two masters of their craft.

North Devon singer-songwriter Jenna Witts is a free spirit with an effortless natural talent. She is an accomplished keyboards player and acoustic guitarist who comes to life on stage with her infectious laugh and humor (with a west-country twang )– then silences everyone with her startlingly mature voice, sass, attitude and elegance. She delivers wonderfully melodic songs inspired by the sea, love and life. Jenna has a wealth of recording and touring experience behind her including 5 nation-wide tours with Steve Knightley (Show of Hands) as well as performing at ‘Show Of Hands’ sell out concert at The Royal Albert Hall. Jenna has also toured with Mercury prize nominee Seth Lakeman and supported Port Issac’s Fisherman’s Friends. She’s also played alongside other musicians including Elkie Brooks, REEF, Vonda Shepard, Hazel O'Connor, Newton Faulkner, The Noisettes, Nerina Pallot.

Organic Arts Barn Dance Fundraiser with Red Shed
West Town Farm EX2 9TG
7.00pm
Tickets Adult £12.00 Child £5.00 from website or on the gate Adult £14.00 Child £7.00
The barn dance is back! Join us for an evening full of food, drink, dance, and music with Red Shed ceilidh band. All proceeds go towards our charitable projects, such as the running of community events, our community garden group project, and the upkeep of our site for all to enjoy.

Parking onsite is available, follow the attendants on the night. Children under 3 go free. The ticket price includes a meal of chili, rice and salads. There will be a bar serving hot, cold, alcoholic and soft drinks. Please contact [email protected] with any questions or accessibility needs, all are welcome. We look forward to dancing with you all again!'