Join us for a gallery Bar Special with Pete Canter and Tom Ball. These two fine musicians will be exploring a selection of well-loved jazz standards and some well-crafted originals in the intimate setting of the duo. Pete Canter is a highly accomplished jazz saxophonist, a prolific and original jazz composer and a double bass player. His...
The Duke was released in February 2022 and tells the story of a stolen painting. In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom...
The return of the Jazz Divas! It’s been three long years since the last Divas Night at Calstock Arts, but the divas themselves, under the guidance and tuition of vocal coach and singer Helen Porter, are eager and ready to croon, swing and scat for you once again! Eight solo singers, accompanied by Jonathan Taylor...
Unquenching Fire Tour 2022 In this exciting new collaboration from two of British folk's finest voices, Miranda Sykes (Show of Hands) and Hannah Martin (Edgelarks, GigspannerBig Band) join forces to present a set of songs that take them back to their shared roots. Having played together on numerous occasions, including in Steve Knightley's Wake the...
The Outfit is a 2022 American crime drama film directed by Graham Moore in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Moore and Johnathan McClain. The film stars an ensemble cast including Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O'Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Simon Russell Beale. The plot centers around an English tailor, or, as he prefers to be called, a "cutter", (Rylance) in Chicago whose primary customers are...
Olly 'Mississippi' MacDonald grew up in Albaston and went to school in Callington and Tavistock. He is coming 'home' and will be joined on stage by Adam Herring from the Countrymen. He’s been nominated three times in the British Blues Awards. He’s hit the top spot in the Independent Blues Broadcasters Association’s charts. He’s had...
Liane Carroll is one of the hottest singers on the UK jazz scene. Double BBC jazz-award winner, she has also won Best Female Jazz Vocalist at the first Ronnie Scotts Jazz Awards, presented by Tony Bennett and Michael Parkinson, and she made a head-line appearance at the Glastonbury Festival. Featuring bassist Roger Carey. 'Swinging like...
The Rheingans Sisters make playful, powerful and richly connecting music that is wholly contemporary while deeply anchored in folk traditions. The award-winning multi-instrumentalists, composers and folk scholars are nominated for 'Best Duo/Group' at 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Over the last five years, three critically acclaimed albums and a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award...
A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the movies remain. Starring: Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds,...
Brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn grew up playing music together around their hometown of Carlow, a small town in the southeast of Ireland. After moving to Dublin in 2012, they quickly became a staple of the live music and session scene in Ireland, playing their own original songs as well as folk songs from...
“One of the UK’s most gifted and versatile musicians in any genre, John McCusker is equally in demand as a multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer”. The Guardian 30th Anniversary Tour The pandemic delayed the celebrations for John McCusker’s 30th Anniversary as a professional musician but John is excited to get to perform music from across those...
Juan, guitarist and composer, plays and introduces his compositions within the forms of the great tradition of flamenco. His exquisite style is enhanced through minimal amplification to capture his very pure flamenco sound. He has recorded 20 albums, appeared in a Spanish film at 17 and has since made three films with his dance company....