Music

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Join us as listener or performer on the third Thursday of every month. Enjoy dinner, some local tipple and a great local line-up! Whatever your talent, we’ve got the stage for you!

For further info, go to facebook.com/greentablecafe or call 01803 847110. You can register in advance, or just show up on the night.

In The Whitehouse productions with Adrian Birtwell introduce new music by new and established artists on a music night dedicated to performings one set each.

Open Session for players to join in or to sit and listen as you please.
In the back bar.

Doors 8pm / Tickets £5 adv.* £6 OTD

with Sam Richards on piano and Dave on bass. We were kept busy behind the bar, with friends stepping in to keep up with the washing up and we launched our new “Batch Brew” coffee – a good way to try a long black coffee or a silky smooth coffee, a good alternative to an Americano and a million miles from the old style filter coffee we remember from the 70s.

Doors 8pm / Tickets £5 adv.* £6 OTD

Folk players, singers and listeners are all welcome to join in or sit back for the informal folk playing session. Mostly instrumental with the occasional song thrown in.

All inclusive singing session for all-comers.

Come along and join in. – Voices only…

This Autumn we begin a new venture, introducing Jazz Brew Sessions once a month to Totnes Cinema.

We have a great line up, starting with Jazz and the spoken word, then a bit of lively Gypsy Jazz and finally before we hit the busy Christmas season a mellow session from the wonderful singer Louise Parker.

26th September: Jazz Brew Trio plus Poets Jackie Juno, Sam Richards and Matt Harvey

24th October: The Hot Club of Stonehouse

28th November: The Louise Parker Quartet

Bar opens at 7pm
Music from 8pm

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.

Ordinary Extraordinary is back! The festival for everyone, curated, produced and created by young people with learning disabilities. Theatre, dance, media, music and more. A weekend of new work and creative interventions.

Theatre, dance, media, music and more. A weekend of new work and creative interventions. Full programme to be confirmed as work is devised throughout August and September.

£5 per day. Book both days for £7.50.

This is an inclusive festival. People with disabilities are very welcome. Please get in touch with us if you have any enquiries or particular access requirements. Carers go free.

Full programme to follow soon

Doors 8pm / Tickets: £12 adv.* £15 OTD

Doors 8pm / Tickets: £12 adv.* £15 OTD

Ordinary Extraordinary is back! The festival for everyone, curated, produced and created by young people with learning disabilities. Theatre, dance, media, music and more. A weekend of new work and creative interventions.

Theatre, dance, media, music and more. A weekend of new work and creative interventions. Full programme to be confirmed as work is devised throughout August and September.

£5 per day. Book both days for £7.50.

This is an inclusive festival. People with disabilities are very welcome. Please get in touch with us if you have any enquiries or particular access requirements. Carers go free.

Full programme to follow soon

Classic sounding three piece consisting of great classics from The Stone Roses – The Charlatans- Happy Monday’s – The Who – The Jam – Paul Welle r- Johhny Marr – The Smiths and many more

This Halloween get ready to float.

You all know the routine by now …..

Bring along some records –

Chalk your name up on the board –

Wait your turn –

Have a few drinkies –

Have a wiggle –

Repeat as required 🙂

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

The Black Bird Collective returns with their splendid Open Mic Nights in the intimate setting of The Library Bar at The Totnes Brewing Company downstairs from The Barrel House Ballroom.

8pm – 11pm / Free Entry…

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

Bar open at 5pm / Open Mic starts at 8pm

If you would like to book a slot in advance please message The Black Bird Collective.

We will have free slots available on the night. If you’d like to play please come and put your name on the list as early as possible on the night, as these nights have been very busy so far.

We will always try to give everyone who comes and wants to play a slot but if we can’t fit everyone in on the night, we will make sure you get to play the next one. If you are travelling from outside Totnes and want to make sure you can get a slot, please message us beforehand.

Original material is positively encouraged at this intimate and friendly open mic night.

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

This open mic is being run and organised by The Black Bird Collective with Christian Murison on the mic and Steve Rogers on the sound. Poster designed by Matthew Rochford.

Remember to let your friends know and please invite people via the facebook event page… www.facebook.com/events/1304041993078898

Helen Ivory is a poet and assemblage artist and is currently making an army of felt mice, some of them winged. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears, and is a lecturer for the UEA/National Centre for Writing online creative writing programme. Her fifth collection from Bloodaxe Books, The Anatomical Venus examines how women have been portrayed as ‘other’; as witches; as hysterics with wandering wombs and as beautiful corpses cast in wax, or on mortuary slabs in TV box sets, was published in 2019. Fool’s World, a collaborative Tarot with artist Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press), won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. A book of collage/ mixed media poems, Hear What the Moon Told Me, was published KFS in 2017, and a chapbook, Maps of the Abandoned City, by SurVision in 2019. She lives in Norwich with Martin Figura who appears to tolerate her penchant for taxidermy.

From a recent review of The Anatomical Venus by William Bedford in Poetry Salzburg Review:

‘Whether using the language of religion, science or domestic abuse, the ironies here are obvious, and Helen Ivory explores them with a linguistic and imaginative energy which is both inventive and exhilarating.’

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Martin Figura found Helen Ivory in a rhododendron bush and now lives with her and sciatica in Norwich. According to a recent hospital referral letter he’s a pleasant gentleman. According to a ten year old boy – ‘I thought old people couldn’t be funny, you are very funny’ – he believes he meant this in a good way. He makes poems and spoken word shows. His epitaph will read – ‘ He never did get on top of things’.

“Martin Figura’s show was one of the highlights of our festival this year. It had a very powerful effect on the audience; months later people still tell me how it has stayed with them.”
Eleanor Livingstone, Director StAnza International Poetry Festival

“a revelation – funny, sharp and on top form.”
Robert McCrum, The Observer

“Martin Figura’s luminous reading made the audience hold their breath as he read from a new collection rich in warmth and pathos. Strongly recommended.”
Caroline Gilfillan – Poetry-next-the-Sea

“Martin Figura’s poems are sharp and funny. One of the best performing poets on the circuit. Has never disappointed when I’ve booked him for festivals and club gigs.”
Luke Wright

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A night of exceptional poetry and music with poet Thommie Gillow coming in from Bristol. Simon Williams. Alasdair Paterson. Christina Turley. Jackie Juno and Ian Royce Chamberlain.

Musicians on this occasion will be singer songwriter PETER FARRIE and THE WOODWARD BROS.