"One of folk’s brightest talents" (****The Guardian) - Jackie Oates is celebrated for her stunning vocals, heartfelt arrangements, and expressive fiddle playing. Jon Wilks, a distinguished fingerpicking guitarist and singer, has earned recognition from Guitarist Magazine with a double-page spread and praise from Uncut Magazine for his ‘dashing sense of verve on finger-picked guitar.’ Don’t...
HELEN PORTER (Lead vocals and keyboard) & KAREN WIMHURST (Clarinet, bass clarinet & vocals) Helen and Karen’s sumptuous autumn programme interweaves original material with jazz standards you’ll know and love. Soaring vocals, mellow and gutsy clarinet tones, virtuosic improvisation - this is a collaboration spanning twenty years, infusing an evening with warmth, intimacy and good...
JIM CAUSLEY AND MIRANDA SYKES PRESENT GHOSTS, WEREWOLVES AND COUNTRYFOLK - THE SONGS AND STORIES OF SABINE BARING-GOULD Six-time BBC Folk Awards nominee Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes of Award-Winning Show of Hands and Daphne’s Flight come together for the first time to celebrate the centenary of a Victorian superstar through his music and stories....
The Tamar Valley River Festival on Saturday 26 October, Calstock, is a FREE family-friendly event celebrating the River Tamar through art, crafts, music, food and drink. Calstock Arts will be hosting a series of activities throughout the day including – Yoga at 10am Wren Music interactive session at 11am Allis the Shad hands-on family drama...
As part of a series of environmental presentations at Calstock Arts, the Calstock Parish Council environment committee invite you to meet the leaders of organisations who are locally active in nature restoration. There is a climate and ecological emergency. The evidence is clear that we must increase the speed with which we are helping nature to...
Come and join us at The Old Chapel for a puppet show, The Dragon's Tail, with optional puppet making workshop. Suitable for children ages 4-12 and their parents, carers and families. After last year's successful show, The Snow Queen, we have invited Theatrix Arts back again for two performances of the Dragon's Tail, over the...
Come and join us at The Old Chapel for a puppet show, The Dragon's Tail, with optional puppet making workshop. Suitable for children ages 4-12 and their parents, carers and families. After last year's successful show, The Snow Queen, we have invited Theatrix Arts back again for two performances of the Dragon's Tail, over the...
Perfect Days - A film by Wim Winders Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more...
Hailing from Bristol, with a sound echoing the 1960s British R'n'B bands, The Terraplanes Blues Band has been a breath of fresh air since the release of their debut EP ‘Midnight Train’ in 2020. Winning the highly prestigious ‘EMERGING BLUES ACT OF THE YEAR’ at the UK Blues Awards 2023 has cemented The Terraplanes as...
Prolific UK-based pianist & composer Simeon Walker has quickly emerged as a leading light in the burgeoning Modern Classical scene, regularly performing and touring across the UK and Europe. He has supported a variety of artists including Neil Cowley, LYR, Submotion Orchestra, S. Carey, Loscil, Erland Cooper & Niklas Paschburg, and performed notable live sets...
MARTYN JOSEPH : AWARD WINNING WELSH SINGER SONGWRITER 2024 Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind-blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling, and passionate. Be it to...
Big, messy and mysterious – crossing paths with a wild boar can conjure fear and joy in equal measure. Driven to extinction seven hundred years ago, a combination of the species' own tenacity and illegal releases from the 1980s has seen several populations of this beast of myth begin to roam English and Scottish woods...