St Thomas/West Exe Jazz Band 40 Year Celebration Concert
This September sees 40 years of the West Exe, formerly St Thomas, Jazz Band. During that time we have given well over 400 performances in many venues. To celebrate we are presenting a concert in which the current band and many performers from the total of over 500 members will be taking part.
Many ex-members are involved in the music business, locally and nationally and have performed with international names in jazz. The concert promises a lively follow up to the successful 30 year event in the Barnfield in 2006....
You’ve Got A Friend – The Music of James Taylor and Carole King
From the creators of the smash hit WEST END show ‘The Simon & Garfunkel Story’ comes a brand new theatre experience celebrating two of the World’s greatest songwriters of all time – James Taylor and Carole King.
Telling the delicate story of friendship, this musical journey intertwines all the hits including ‘I Feel The Earth Move’, ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’, ‘How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)’, ‘Fire & Rain’, ‘You Make Me Feel (Like A Natural Woman)’ and the beautiful ‘You’ve Got A Friend...
Buddy Holly & The Crickets are brought back to life as they looked and sounded on their first tour of the UK in 1958 by the outstanding Spencer J & the Copy-Cat Crickets. Taking you back to the age of the soda shop, the drive through diner and the record hop, this is a non-stop rock ‘n’ roll concert straight from the fifties with the songs that Buddy recorded such as ‘Peggy Sue’, ‘That’ll Be The Day’, ‘Oh Boy’ and ‘Heartbeat’, but also other rock n roll hits such as ‘La Bamba’, ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, ‘Rip It Up’ and ‘Shake Rattle & Roll’ which Buddy performed time and again....
A stunning two hour show with over 40 Top Ten Hits performed by Albert Hammond and his band. Albert Hammond has been writing hit songs for over forty years. Since the 1960s there has not been a single decade in which Albert has not written multiple hits songs, including more than 30 chart-topping hits and total sales in excess of 360 million! Now he is performing these songs himself. His song writing talents have made so many great careers with songs like 'The Air that I Breathe' (The Hollies), 'When I Need You' (Leo Sayer) and 'One Moment in Time' (Whitney Huston). Albert's songs have...
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (12-14 August).
CINEMA
Big Screen in the Park Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 9pm, Northernhay Gardens, Exeter With Mexican street food, local ale and ciders and delicious coffees from the BikeCaffe, grab your friends and celebrate the biggest Exeter Big Screen in The Park ever. Tickets are £5 in advance or £6 on the gate. It costs an additional £1 to bring your own chair chair. Line up: Friday – Jaws (12A); Saturday – The Martian (12); Sunday – Stand By Me (15). Gates open at 7.30pm with films starting at...
The organisers of the Nourish Festival are looking forward to this year’s festival which takes place in early September.
The Festival will bring some of the region’s top food producers and craft makers to Bovey Tracey, alongside a programme of nationally and internationally renowned musicians.
This year, Nourish Festival launches The Devon Street Food Awards in association with Devon Life, a lively competition to decide who is the Best Street producer in Devon. Devon is packed full of inspirational and exciting street food producers and Nourish celebrates our Food Heroes...
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (5-7 August).
THEATRE
Margo and Mr Whatsit Friday & Saturday, Exeter Phoenix Did you ever have an imaginary friend? A little piece of mischief only you could see? Someone that made you feel safe through new schools, new families, new homes? Sophia’s imaginary friend is called Mr Whatsit, and he’s always there with a new joke to tell and a new game to play – that is, until the day she unimagines him. Now there’s a new imaginary friend in town – the tea-drinking, lipstick-wearing, ever-confident Margo....
