Festival headliners this year are Ikari Taiko. No fewer than 15 members of the group will be making a special trip to the UK Taiko Festival for their first ever performance in Europe. Established in Osaka in the 1980s, Ikari Taiko are not just a phenomenally exciting group to watch, they are a group with an important story. This story is told in a film to be shown before the evening concert.
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Film - Angry Drummers: a Taiko Group from Osaka, Japan
Filmed in Osaka, Japan, 2006-2010. Japanese, with English sub-titles. Length: 85 minutes Director: Professor...
Mahler's Symphony No. 8, widely known as the Symphony of a Thousand because of the colossal forces employed (large orchestra, off-stage brass, organ, two adult choirs and a children's choir) is coming to Exeter Cathedral for the first time in many years. This performance follows Amadeus Orchestra's and Bournemouth Symphony Chorus' highly successful pairing for a performance of Mahler's second symphony in Exeter in 2013.
Vivie Warren, a young Cambridge graduate is horrified to learn that her education and entire luxurious life-style has been financed by her mother's career in the world's oldest profession.
Due to its frank portrayal of Mrs Warren's Profession, this groundbreaking play was originally banned in England by the Lord Chamberlain. Written in 1894, it was not allowed a public performance for the next thirty years and during its first performance in New York, the police stopped the play and arrested the cast!
Bernard Shaw's period drama is full of insight and humane understanding...
Tedburn St Mary Community Choir and guests will provide an evening's entertainment of popular songs from film and stage including Les Miserables and Fiddler on the Roof together with pop classics from the 1960s to the present day.
Just two posts on BBC Devon’s Facebook page about the departure of Judi Spiers have attracted almost 1,000 comments.
Meanwhile, another 1,000 people have backed a campaign called @bringbackjudi on Facebook and Twitter.
It appears that although BBC bosses had hoped the crescendo of complaints would die down after Judi’s last show, on Friday, they appear to be gaining momentum.
The target for most of the criticism is the station’s managing editor, Mark Grinnell.
He made the decision to axe Judi’s show just weeks after bringing in former Radio One DJ Simon...
Celebratuions are underway at Devon’s award-winning Virtual Jet Centre after staff received their 250th five star review on online travel review site tripadvisor.
The centre offers members of the public the chance to experience the feeling of actually flying in their bespoke simulator, taught by real pilots.
Captain Andy Wilkins, who founded the centre and built the 737-800 Simulator said: “We’re thrilled. For a new business to have that amount of five star reviews is incredible and gives us the motivation to continue raising the bar in the future and offering even more...
Don't throw it out! See if another organisation can use it. That's the concept being explored at a special conference at County Hall in Exeter next week.
Public sector organisations are doing more to reuse items of furniture or office equipment by passing them on to someone else rather than throwing them away.
However, it's a fairly new initiative and the Council is working with WARP-It to try and encourage more organisations to do it.
Conference organiser, WARP-It, is a reuse network which helps find, give away, or loan office furniture, equipment and other...
This summer Miracle Theatre, Exeter Phoenix and Farms For City Children are teaming up to bring a week of wild west fun to Exeter.
Across five nights, (14-18 July) the award-winning Cornish company Miracle Theatre will be performing their rootin’ tootin’ new show The Magnificent Three in the glorious outdoor setting of Rougemont Gardens.
One for all the family, the week is set to include plenty of fun extras, including workshops and a Friday night live music hoedown under the stars. There will be an excellent selection of food and drink available to open air theatre goers,...
Council holds apple tree care day for residents at new community orchard in Exmouth
Tree care and campfire cooking was the order of the day on Saturday 13 June at the Littleham Community Orchard, at Bidmead Close in Littleham. Local people came to check on the apple trees, which they had planted in February, as well as to put mulch around the tree bases and cook some bread twists on a campfire.
The site, which is behind the community centre, is part of an East Devon initiative to plant more traditional orchards across the district. The Countryside team has, to date,...
