Music

We are an occasional choir which pops up to rehearse for wonderful events. This time it’s to be Reg Meuross’ backing singers for a great gig at Ashburton Arts Centre.

We’ll rehearse for 8 Monday evenings. 7.30-9pm upstairs at the Barrel House in Totnes and The gig is on November 16th. If you love singing harmonies and can hold your harmony in a crowd of singers, get in touch! We are especially short of tenors…

Text 07832 200980 or email katie@fromthewhitehouse.com for more info (especially tenors!)

Don’t worry if you miss the first one.

We are an occasional choir which pops up to rehearse for wonderful events. This time it’s to be Reg Meuross’ backing singers for a great gig at Ashburton Arts Centre.

We’ll rehearse for 8 Monday evenings. 7.30-9pm upstairs at the Barrel House in Totnes and The gig is on November 16th. If you love singing harmonies and can hold your harmony in a crowd of singers, get in touch! We are especially short of tenors…

Text 07832 200980 or email katie@fromthewhitehouse.com for more info (especially tenors!)

Don’t worry if you miss the first one.

Jazz weekend workshop under the tutelage of Lewis Riley and Sam Massey. Music is provided and the cost of £45 includes tea and coffee. It begins on Saturday at 10 am, finishing around 4 pm. Same start on Sunday culminating in a mid afternoon concert for friends and family. Book early to secure your place. Venue is Harberton Parish Hall, with parking. Please email lewis@rileymusic.plus.com for more details

Martin Carthy is a ground-breaking acoustic and electric-guitarist, He’s a ballad singer and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. He always prefers to follow an insatiable musical curiosity rather than cash in on his unrivalled position. Perhaps, most significant of all, are his settings of traditional songs with guitar, which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Martin is also been an integral collaborator and vocalist as part of Simon Emmerson’s project, ‘The Imagined Village’ which won a 2008 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for ‘Best Track’ for ‘Cold Hailey Rainy Night’. The project also features artists such as Eliza Carthy, Jackie Oates and Johnny Kalsi. The new album will be released early next year.

Martin Carthy was awarded the MBE for services to English Music and won Singer of the Year and Best Traditional Track at the BBC Radio 2 Awards 2005.

This is what the BBC website has to say about Martin Carthy and his award:

“For four decades, Martin Carthy’s work has immeasurably enriched the British folk heritage. He is regarded as one of the finest singers and interpreters of traditional music of the British Isles, as well as a highly influential and much-imitated guitarist. Awarded the MBE for services to English folk music in 1998, his drive and enthusiasm are undiminished and he continues to be one of folk music’s great innovators.”

 

`Arguably the greatest English folk song performer, writer, collector and editor of them all’
Q Magazine 

 

 

Doors: 7:30pm / Tickets: £14 adv.* £16 OTD

Master guitarists of the French jazz style, this pair are usually found heading up Hot Club of Stonehouse.

Weekly sessions for 13-21 year olds

Half-term structure:

We begin our half term by welcoming new members to the group, introducing new songs, styles, themes and tools. And individuals are encouraged to bring their songs and ideas and to start working together in groups of two or more.

Weekly sessions 5-7.30pm on Wednesdays at the Civic Hall Totnes.
for 13-21 year olds.

Autumn 1: September 12, 19, 26
October 3, 10, 17

Cost £40 for all 6 sessions. You can attend sessions 1 or 2 before committing but please email Beth at info@jammingstation.co.uk to let them know you’re coming.

Through the six or so sessions, songs develop within the group and each musician develops new skills through playing with others, practicing, finding support within the group and from the leaders and performing to the group.

Sessions run throughout the school year and are booked in half-term blocks. We require half-termly commitment. Each term ends with a special public gig at our popular local music venue, the Barrel House, which is a stones throw from the Civic Hall.

You asked and we listened…presenting Jamming station for over 18’s!

Half-term structure:

Weekly sessions 7:45-9.45pm on Wednesdays at the Civic Hall, Totnes.

Autumn 1: September 12, 19, 26
October 3, 10, 17

Cost £40 for all 6 sessions. You can attend session 1 before committing but please email Jacqui at info@jammingstation.co.uk to let us know you’re coming.

All ages (18+) and abilities welcome
Any genre
Willing to do covers and original music

Have a good time playing together plugged in and support each other to progress.

Funds support our regular youth music sessions.

Call Jacqui on 07968184941 for more information.

All inclusive singing session for all-comers.

Come along and join in. – Voices only…

Steve and Lizzy, invite you to take the limelight for your own songs and if you ask nicely they will play along with you – or not as the case maybe.

Friendly, welcoming and encouraging, it’s always a good evening.

Eli hosts an Open Session on each other Thursday welcoming friends or guests, to either take over the Open Mic or to join in the session atmosphere at the end. If you want to come along and join in just come early and speak to Eli about a slot.

Dance the night away!! Good time music. JJ Cale influenced Bluesy RnB with a pinch of Rock n Roll, Reggae and a little bit of Country. We love to play at parties, weddings, pubs, festivals, in fact anywhere people love to listen and move their feet.

After last months ace #gshlive Generating Steam Heat returns to the beautiful Angel Studios (aka The Angel Gallery) in South Street, right in the centre of Totnes, for our regular final Saturday of the month blowout on Saturday October 27th-Happy Halloween!!!!

#gshlive sees a revolving cast of DJs spinning an eclectic mix of classic tunes from ultra danceable mutant disco through to your new favourite band taking in indie pop, punk rock, post punk, riot grrrl, electronic music, goth and lots more along the way.

This time around expect short and snappy sets from Ed X, Lee-J-52, Alistair and DJ MAJR.

There is a fully stocked bar on the night with quality locally brewed craft beer, lager and cider from our friends at New Lion Brewery and Barnaby’s Brewhouse Ltd alongside wine and soft drinks. We also have film projections of some cult Halloween themed classics and a quiet space to chat and discuss the sounds that confound that we play!

The night runs from 7-11 and the action starts at 7 on the dot with the first set and film starting/bar opening.

#gshlive is free entry-happy Halloween indeed!!!!

Angel Studios is on South Street by the clock tower in Totnes town centre-see you there!

Constant as the World is a new solo tour from the singer, pianist and composer Helen Porter. Known as the vocalist with the progressive jazz quartet Misbehavin’, Helen now presents a performance of her own songs and piano solos, reflecting the vagaries of our present world and interspersed with timeless classics by Cole Porter, Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim. Effortlessly crossing boundaries between jazz, music theatre and contemporary classical, the haunting vocals, wry observations and new takes on old favourites are all performed by this highly accomplished pianist and expressive singer. A mesmerising performance perfectly capturing the mood for our times.
“Helen Porter’s songs combine the emotional astringency of Sondheim with haunting melancholy of the great chanteuses like Barbara or K D Laing. Her “First Square on the Board’ circled my head for the full two hours of the drive home afterwards”…Patrick Gale, author and director of North Cornwall Book Festival
SEE AND HEAR HELEN: https://www.helenportermusic.co.uk/singer

Doors 8pm / Tickets: £6 adv.* £7 OTD

The well known Solo act ‘ Jai Rocks ‘ performs genres of Rock music from 70’s glam Rock and Pop music to the 2000’s, with a little blues thrown in.

With over 150 songs to choose from Jai Always says there is something for everyone in his play list.

Totnes Irish Session at the Bay Horse. Jigs, reels and all that. All musicians welcome.

James fronting his funk outfit Beat Belt, local Dartmouth favourites with their cool, modern & funky jazz featuring James Harris on saxophone, Paul Harris on keyboards, Al Swainger on bass and Mark Hayward on drums.

Steve and Lizzy, invite you to take the limelight for your own songs and if you ask nicely they will play along with you – or not as the case maybe.

Friendly, welcoming and encouraging, it’s always a good evening.