St Thomas Gospel Choir have won a national award for "Contribution to the UK Gospel Music Industry" in the choir catagory of the PraiseTek Gospel Music Awards 2014. Each year, these awards acknowledge the work of various singers, musicians, choirs, rappers, bands and media personnel working in the UK gospel music scene.
Choir director, Kathy Rufolo and her fiance, Dale Hurrell, who sings bass in the group, went to London to receive the award on behalf of the choir with nearly 50 members.
St Thomas Gospel Choir was established in 2006 and has grown steadily over...
Another sensational show from the producers of ‘Memory Lane’, Memories are made of This’ and ‘All our Yesterdays’. A stunning roller coaster ride of nostalgia.
Featuring tributes to some of the world’s greatest stars, including Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Cliff Richard, Elvis Presley, Jersey Boys, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble, Showaddywaddy, Abba and many more.
Also including a taste of the some of the greatest movies and musical numbers of all time. All beautifully choreographed along with stunning costumes.
The legendary Boomtown Rats will be playing at Exeters Lemon Grove (Previously meant to be The Great Hall, tickets remain valid) this November 9th.
Founded in 1975 in Dublin, The Boomtown Rats played with the Ramones, the Clash and many other greats in their early years. They put their stamp on the late 70's and early 80's new wave music scene.
They have gained Brit Awards, Grammy's, and Ivor Norvello's over the years and made history by being the first Irish band to get a number 1 in the UK with Rat Trap.
As old as time and as modern as the hour, the music of Tarras is impossible to pigeonhole. It draws heavily on the roots of folk and traditional music but reinterprets those themes with a freshness that is entirely contemporary.
Through driving rhythms and soaring melodies, the sound of Tarras expresses the essence of an ancient countryside and a people who still confront the same human challenges as generation upon generation over the centuries.
Normally a six-piece band with drums- the group have launched an all-venue friendly Acoustic trio version (Tarras Minor) using...
A warm welcome awaits over the weekend of Friday 24th to 26th October 2014 at the Baring-Gould Folk Festival, hosted by Devon’s folk arts charity Wren Music.
The intimate and friendly festival is firmly established in the old market town of Okehampton, nestling on the northern slopes of Dartmoor.
The Festival is inspired by the folk song collecting of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) - one of the Victorian era's great social historical researchers. He undertook the first serious and sustained attempt to collect the traditional songs of the English peasantry and workers,...
The revised Fourth Symphony is half again as long as the original work, written 17 years earlier, turning a modest symphony into a large and imposing score that matched the scale of Prokofiev’s two newly composed symphonies of the mid-1940s. Drawing upon themes and material from his ballet The Prodigal Son, it features...
A celebration and presentation in words and song that will take you on a whistle stop tour through the last 400 years or so. Our celebration will also give you an insight into the lives and work of many of the composers that held this prestigious title.
From Lanier to Boyce, Elgar to Peter Maxwell Davies - come and discover the emotions of madness, sadness, frivolity and humour, along with theatrical styles and organ works these eminent composers wrote when not composing the ‘Kings Music’!
Brings your friends and come with us on a fascinating journey
Rather than the usual bombast or snooze-inducing ‘relaxation music,’ the U.K. four-piece known as Clean Bandit mash classical music and pop forms for an airy and dreamy yet driven sound that’s like the chamber music version of house music.
Following their recent sold-out UK headline tour, Clean Bandit are very pleased to announce details of more UK headline shows, which will take place throughout October and November.
To mark the centenary of World War One, pianist Alex Wilson will perform a musical tribute to composers whose lives were cut tragically short during the Great War at his latest concert to be held in the Mint Methodist Church, Exeter on October 18th at 7.30pm. Profits from the concert will be donated to the British Red Cross.
The concert, entitled The Banks of Green Willow, features much loved favourites by Ravel, Bridge and Ivor Gurney, a new work by James Whittle and a series of rarely heard miniatures by composers all killed in action.
