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

Session of Irish Trad music, takes place in December on 3rd, 10th and 17th at Totnes Brewing Company and subsequently every week in January onwards, at either Totnes Brewing Co or Bay Horse pubs.

Singing Class every Tuesday.
A fun class, open to beginners or singers who want a fun non-performance group to sing in. We sing a mix of world music, contemporary, classical, folk. The session also includes some gentle physical, vocal & breathing exercises, rhythm and soundplay.
A lovely group, which has been a starting place for some singers to find confidence to progress to more demanding choral classes and also is a loved singing, social and uplifting point of the week for many members, some of whom have been members 10 years.

Arrive at 1.15pm if you fancy a cuppa beforehand.
Singing starts 1.40pm-3pm
£6 for participants coming every week and £7 for drop in.

Dartington Village Hall.
Cott Rd, Dartington, Totnes TQ9 6HH
Parking available.
Buses: 165, 88, & Stagecoach Gold, to Shinners Bridge, Dartington

Further Enquiries :
You are welcome to find out more by contacting –
Karen Benson 07932168179 01803 867222
Email – soundswonderful@hotmail.co.uk

A tutored street community activist choir singing songs to inspire creative change for a more socially and environmentally just world.

Voices of Freedom is open to all people of all singing abilities, no prior experience necessary!

Totnes Market Choir is an informal drop-in choir, we do not practice for performances but rather spend our time opening up and exploring our singing voice and enjoying the experience of singing together in harmony, here and now! The invitation to enjoy this moment allows us to settle into a different state of being to the usual ‘fight-flight-freeze’ mentality that many of us fall into in our daily lives as we go about getting from A to B as fast as possible. It allows us to explore 2-3 songs each week in a relaxed, playful frame of mind.

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.

£8 adv.

An evening of music with Diane Cluck and The Diamond Family Archive. For more information and tickets please follow the link.
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4062485

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.

“If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing” – African Proverb

What? Drop-in singing fun, suitable for all levels of ability

When? Fridays 2pm-3pm

Where? Birdwood House, next to Totnes Market Square

How much? Sliding scale £6-10 per session with low wage/unwaged @ £donations

Join the phenomenal Friday market singers for an hour of uplifting harmony singing. All ages and abilities welcome. Sing songs from around the world and laugh while you learn…

What our Participants say About Totnes Market Choir…

“Heart-full singing…loads of encouragement and freedom to ‘play’ with the sound with firm guidance…”

“uplifting!”   “that was GREAT!”  “relaxing and ENERGISING”

“Rob is fantastic at creating a caring environment for learning”

“AFFINITÉE” – Chansons with the Sounds of Paris!
French accordion based songs and music
Basil Bunelik – Accordion
Gilly Anderson – Vocals
Will Tyler – Guitar
French Trio bringing to life the romance and atmosphere of Paris Cafe culture. Classics from Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Georges Brassens.
“A refreshing return to an age gone by . . . a nostalgic trip through the cobbled streets of Montmartre and Paris beyond. The atmosphere and romance of Paris is evocatively brought to life with the heart warming performance of these class French Chansons”

DEEP RHYTHM
with Christian de Sousa or Jo Hardy

Deep Rhythm is a new space for expansive dance journeys, bringing together the focus of conscious dance & movement meditation practice with the magical freedom of DJ-led journeying. Music will be our container, guide and medicine. There will be a warm-up and a deep dives into the waves. No talking on the dancefloor; dancing solo, in relationship and as a tribe are all possible and encouraged.

Music policy – deep sounds from immersive to soulful, electronic to organic, ancient to future.

The School Hall is nr. Totnes Library, back Part of the Mansion
£10 / Concession by arrangement
deeprhythm@dancingtao.net
Christian: 07974 911670 / Jo: 07905 493956

Deep Rhythm is a collaborative offering from Christian de Sousa and Jo Hardy, both internationally-known movement teacher-facilitators and DJ’s with decades of holding deep dance spaces. Maps for the journey: 5Rhythms, Movement Medicine and a weave of subcultural, shamanic and conscious practice.

www.dancingtao.net
www.consciousdancespace.com
www.ecstasyradio.net

Background Info:
These pop-up sessions will travel through a rich diversity of musical landscapes while also occasionally varying venues and time-slots. Christian and Jo will alternate in holding the space, with occasional longer sessions featuring both of them and special guest DJs & musicians.

Sessions at the Mansion House are held in association with Soul Motion Fridays. See https://www.consciousdancespace.com/index.php/classes-2/friday-dance-mansion/

Albert Jones returns with his band after releasing his debut album last year.

Doors 8pm / £5 adv. £7 OTD

Totnes Early Music Society

This concert is part of the Totnes Early Music Society Season 2018/19. Music for shawms, dulcians, oboes and bassoons from this outstanding wind band, a guaranteed good night!

From 14th-18th century, wind music could be heard everywhere from grand state occasions to the humblest village dance. Syrinx aim to recreate this impressive tradition playing shawms, dulcians, oboes and bassoons: their repertoire covers the rise of the professional wind band, with music from early anonymous masters, Dufay and Morley through to Handel and Telemann.

Syrinx received acclaim for their first album, The Saxon Alternative. Members play with leading period orchestras including the Academy of Ancient Music, The OAE, and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and in ensembles such as I Fagiolini, Mediva, Blondel and Concentus VII. Guaranteed to be a fun evening with a mix of sounds from the raucous to the refined!

This is the sixth and final concert in the new season from Totnes Early Music Society (TEMS) – see below for further concerts in this series. TEMS Members save at least one third on ticket prices: for more information see totnesearlymusic.org.uk.

We’re delighted to welcome this London-based band with a Senegalese soul. Biram Seck’s soaring voice evokes messages of love and peace, underpinned by heavenly poly-rhythm groove explorations. Intense and spiritual Sabar Senegalese percussion and Afro-Latin drums conversations, weaving intricate guitar patterns and horn lines with catchy bass riffs. Like a spinning kaleidoscope of sounds, each tune travels on a varied musical journey, from afrobeat to soul, deep Afro-jazz to Latin. Awalé is on a mission to experience happiness together in these fractured times.

‘A truly magical and uplifting cross-cultural collaboration, bringing together Afro-latin, funk and soul elements with a Senegalese twist. The wonderful voice of Biram Seck and Thibaut Remy’s compositions make for an unmissable combo. Must See!’ – Tim Garcia (Jazz FM/Musica Macondo)

‘Most Impressive, echoes a lot of greats like Orchestra Baobab and Youssou N’Dour but with very much it’s own sound’ – Jamie Renton (DJ, fROOTS)

Admission £13 or £10 or £6 – you choose!
Doors and bar open at 7pm, talk starts at 7.30pm
Available at wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts (+10%) or in person from Rafikis Cafe and the Ashburton Information Centre and on the door.
Part of Tinners Moon Festival 2019

DJ’s Bill (DJ BeatOn) and Keeny (GoldDust, Guilty Pleasures) invite you to join them for their 10th House Double! Featuring night of choice house cuts, from early Chicago/New York to the very best of today, expect anything and everything from the house genre; with Bill’s solid house background and Keeny’s disco funk roots… Prepare to dance all night.

Singer Ann Liebeck with Julian Rowlands, bandoneon and keyboard and Rory Dempsey double bass

This London-based trio delves deeper into the European influences on Argentinian tango with an eclectic and popular programme with a Gypsy jazz twist. They perform the music of Romanian Gypsy Jazz diva Maria Tanassi, Carmen,Russian tango star Pyotr Leschenko and the ultimate popular singer Edith Piaf. Ann returns to her operetta roots with popular arias with a gypsy flavour by Lehar and Kalman.

The artists are prominent in the Latin Music scene in the UK, especially for their performances of Cuban Music and Tango music with the band Tango Siempre. They’ve been seen on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and headlined a new festival at London’s South Bank Centre in July 2018: Havana Buenos Aires.

Their tour started this year at Pizza Express Jazz Club in January and takes in the West Country, Dublin, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, ending up at the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London in September 2019.

‘…delivered with Panache’ The Times (April 2017) on Violetta’s Last Tango at Wilton’s Music Hall, featuring Ann Liebeck and Julian Rowlands.

Latin Rediscovery: www.latinrediscovery.co.uk

Doors open 3.30pm. Show starts 4pm.
Tickets £13 or £10 or £6 – you choose.
Available in advance online (10% booking fee), or in person from Rafikis cafe, and Ashburton Information Centre.
Part of the Tinners Moon 2019 Festival at Ashburton Arts Centre

A truly unique and authentic Latin extravaganza ready to transport you straight to Brazil, with melodic lines and traditional rhythms playing a potent mix of uplifting sambas and stunning bossa novas. Ecuadorian/Swedish singer Annika brings authenticity to the performances by singing the songs in their native written language of Portuguese.

A six piece band based in Devon, and brought together by a mutual love of Brazilian music, Orpheus features some of the best musicians in the area: Annika Skoogh – vocals, Martin Jenkins – Hammond organ, Steve Dow – guitar, Jade Gall – flute/sax, Gary Evans – drums and Colin Seddon – percussion.

“..Great gig, great band, everyone loved it!!” Teignmouth Jazz Festival

“…Superb gig!…so many lovely comments as folk were leaving and again the following morning…” Tuckers Jazz Club

“…A terrific gig…with the audience loving the Brazilian Latin music” Fougou Jazz

Admission £13 or £10 or £6 – you choose!
Doors and bar open at 7pm, talk starts at 7.30pm
Available at wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts (+10%) or in person from Rafikis Cafe and the Ashburton Information Centre and on the door.
Part of Tinners Moon Festival 2019

Lovely will be playing originals and a few quirky covers. Catchy tunes, wiggleable rhythms, stories that mean something and some nonsense. It’ll be lovely.

Singing Class every Tuesday.
A fun class, open to beginners or singers who want a fun non-performance group to sing in. We sing a mix of world music, contemporary, classical, folk. The session also includes some gentle physical, vocal & breathing exercises, rhythm and soundplay.
A lovely group, which has been a starting place for some singers to find confidence to progress to more demanding choral classes and also is a loved singing, social and uplifting point of the week for many members, some of whom have been members 10 years.

Arrive at 1.15pm if you fancy a cuppa beforehand.
Singing starts 1.40pm-3pm
£6 for participants coming every week and £7 for drop in.

Dartington Village Hall.
Cott Rd, Dartington, Totnes TQ9 6HH
Parking available.
Buses: 165, 88, & Stagecoach Gold, to Shinners Bridge, Dartington

Further Enquiries :
You are welcome to find out more by contacting –
Karen Benson 07932168179 01803 867222
Email – soundswonderful@hotmail.co.uk

“It’s all about the music and bringing people together for good times!”

The Black Bird Collective presents their splendid Open Mic Night, which launches on Tuesday 30th April in The Library Bar at The Totnes Brewing Company 8pm – 11pm (Free Entry)

Original material is positively encouraged at this intimate and friendly open mic night. Slots are 10 to 15 minutes per act. You can sign up to perform in advance (message The Black Bird Collective) or turn up on the night (preferably before we start at 8pm) to put your name down for a slot.

Please show your support for all the artists performing on the night!