Refreshingly unconventional and snappily attired boutique orchestra BCO play gypsy and folk-flavoured music in their unique and surprising way. From Balkan and Russian traditional music to their artful distillations of Romantic masterworks to soaring Gaelic folk anthems, BCO is an infectious musical experience like none other. Fifteen albums to their name, Budapest Café Orchestra was...
After his last sell out talk at Calstock Arts, Derek Gow returns to update us on the important work he is doing in rewilding and nature renewal. Derek is a farmer turned nature conservationist who has played a significant role in the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver, the water voles and the white stork. He...
Passacaglia is an award-winning baroque chamber ensemble that performs in several guises ranging from a duo format to a multi-instrument line up, performing music by some of the greatest composers of the eighteenth century, as well as introducing audiences to new discoveries! With over 25 years of performing and recording experience, Passacaglia brings the music...
Come and spend an afternoon over half term at the Old Chapel to meet The Angel Heart Theatre and Sam O'Shanty! Suitable for all ages from pre school upwards. Sam O' Shanty has lived his whole live at sea, ever since he first stowed a’board ship when he were just a wee scrap of a...
Suthering Evocative and distinctive, folk duo Suthering (Julu Irvine & Heg Brignall) transport audiences with their exquisite vocal harmonies and their message of hope during hard times. 2024 marks the release of their second studio album Leave A Light On. Produced by BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winner, Sean Lakeman (Levellers, Seth Lakeman), the album...
This symposium provides a unique opportunity to unite science, conservation and community around sustainable solutions for our honey bee populations. Whether you’re a beekeeper, policymaker or concerned citizen, you should be alarmed that we imported c35,000 honey bee queens into Britain from Southern Europe in 2024. Most of the imports were backdoored through Northern Ireland...
Calstock Arts are pleased to welcome to The Old Chapel, Marcelo Montes a young virtuoso pianist from southern Portugal. His playing is both exhilaratingly close to the edge and elegantly tender, captivating and astounding audiences wherever he plays with an amazing repertoire (e.g. Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov……). His focus and dedication are both incredible and...
Small Things Like These is a 2024 historical drama film directed by Tim Mielants and adapted by Enda Walsh from the 2021 novel by Claire Keegan. The film stars Cillian Murphy (who also serves as a producer), Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley, Emily Watson, Clare Dunne, and Helen Behan. An international co-production between Ireland and Belgium,...
Our annual event to celebrate St Piran's weekend at Calstock Arts. The Countryment return to the Old Chapel, with their 'Cornish Folk Rock Harmony'. We look forward to two one hours sets with these five local seasoned musicians from Launceston. It’s difficult to find a musical genre that would fully describe The Countrymen, but Folk...
Kerdroya, the Cornish Landscape Labyrinth, is a work of Slow Art. The Classical Labyrinth icon is a 4,000-year-old visual symbol found across the proto-Celtic world and beyond, inviting the pilgrim along its meditative pathway. Cornish Hedges are the oldest structures on the planet still in use for their original function, an ecologically benevolent craft handed...
The Crisis in British Farming British Farming is on its knees, climate change, labour shortages and the uncertain government support are three of the numerous factors not helping. But the main issue is that farmers cannot survive the prices, trading terms and insecurity imposed on them by the Big Six supermarkets. Many farmers have already...
Nominated for Best Folk Singer in the 2024 RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards in Ireland ‘Daoirí Farrell is singlehandedly spearheading a resurgence of the authentic in Irish folk music…he is rightly in demand all over the world.’ Irish Music ‘The finest Irish male folk singer-storyteller this side of Christy Moore and Paul Brady.’ The Weekend...