Music

Local music and events

For music events happening over the next few days, please take a look at:

• Our Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/exmoutharts/ - and at

• The Lemonrock Gig Guide - https://www.thelmahulbert.com/~thelmahu/ (and click on "Guide" and then "Gigs Near Me", or key in "Exmouth")

Are you aware of any local events or news about music? Please let me know by emailing contact@exmoutharts.co.uk

Events

Saturday 21 May 2022: 7.30 pm at Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth: Sacred Jazz with the Exeter Philharmonic Choir

In an exciting new departure for Exeter Philharmonic Choir, the summer concert of our 175th anniversary year, ‘Sacred Jazz’, will fuse sacred texts with music from the jazz idiom, accompanied by saxophone, piano, bass and drums.

We are honoured to be giving the first performance of a work Stephen Tanner has written for and dedicated to the choir, called Jazz Te Deum and Jubilate Deo. This new setting for chorus and jazz quartet of Psalm 100 combines jazz idioms with references to the timeless ancient melodies of plainsong. Stephen Tanner is well known in the South West and beyond as both a classical and a jazz musician and is EPC’s associate director of music.

English composer Will Todd's compositions also merge classical and jazz traditions. His Songs of Peace is not a conventional requiem but a beautiful work about love and loss dedicated to his mother. The concert also features a jazz-inspired piano duet by Richard Rodney Bennett and three spirituals arranged for choir by Stephen Tanner.

Joining us for the concert will be the quartet of Andrew Downton (piano), Steve Wiltshire (saxophones), Phil Williams (bass) and Ryan Carter (drums).

• Coming up soon from Thursday 2 June to Sunday 5 June is the very welcome return of the Exmouth Festival: Details at https://exmouthfestival.co.uk/ and https://exmouth.nub.news/news/local-news/exmouth-set-to-celebrate-queens-platinum-jubilee-weekend-132095

Saturday 11 June - Saturday 18 June: Exmouth Musical theatre Company in 'That's Jazz', Exmouth Pavilion. Details at https://www.facebook.com/exmouthmusicaltheatrecompany/

Saturday, 8 July until Friday, 16 July: Budleigh Music Festival. Further details at https://www.budleighmusicfestival.co.uk/

Monday 18th to Friday 22nd July: Exmouth Youth Theatre in 'We will Rock You', Exmouth Pavilion. Further details at https://exmouthyouththeatre.co.uk/shows/wewillrockyou

Recent news

Local music organisations

(For music venues, see the Venues section)

• Exmouth A Capella - https://www.exmouthacappella.co.uk/

• Exmouth Choral Society - http://www.exmouthchoral.org/

• Exmouth Centre Stage - http://centrestage-exmouth.co.uk/

• Exmouth Folk Club - http://www.flaxey-green.co.uk/Pages/Devon%20Folk/Song/Exmouth_Folk_Club.html

• Exmouth La La Choir - https://www.lalachoirs.co.uk/exmouth-choir/

• Exmouth Light Orchestra - http://www.exmouthlightorchestra.co.uk/

• Exmouth Musical Theatre Company - http://www.emcoexmouth.co.uk/

• Exmouth Music Centre - http://www.exmouthmusiccentre.co.uk/

• Exmouth Rock Choir - https://rockchoir.com/

• Exmouth Town Concert Band - https://www.exmouthtownconcertband.org.uk/

• The Bank Jam Night Community - https://www.facebook.com/oldbarreljam/

What's on - larger venues and regular activities

Larger venues

(For all music venues, see the Venues section. Music in cafes, pubs, bars and clubs is in a separate section below. Please scroll down to see this section and also a section on how you can listen to free music via Devon Libraries).

• Exmouth Pavilion - https://www.ledleisure.co.uk/exmouth-pavilion/whats-on

• Savoy Cinema, Exmouth (includes films featuring music and live music screenings) - https://exmouth.scottcinemas.co.uk/

• Blackmore Theatre, Exmouth (mainly theatre but some music), home of the Exmouth Players - https://blackmoretheatre.co.uk/

• The Ocean, Queens Drive, Exmouth - https://www.oceanexmouth.co.uk/

• Queen's Drive Space, Exmouth seafront - https://www.queensdrivespace.co.uk/

Regular music activities - but please check with the organisers:

• Every Monday at 7.30 pm: Exmouth Choral Society rehearsal, Glenorchy Church, Exmouth. Currently looking for new members. There are no auditions, and singers can come to a few 'try before you buy' free sessions. Just turn up. See http://www.exmouthchoral.org/ . For more information email katewilcox32@gmail.com or call her on 01395 273 297.

• Every Tuesday at 7.30 pm: Exmouth Ladies A Capella Chorus, Christchurch Hall, North Street, Exmouth. See https://www.exmouthacappella.co.uk/

• Every Wednesday at 7.00 pm: Exmouth La La Choir, Glenorchy Church, Exmouth. See http://www.lalachoirs.co.uk/exmouth-choir/

Is there anything that we have left out that you would like to see included? Please let us know by emailing contact@exmoutharts.co.uk.

What's on - music in cafes, pubs, bars and clubs

(For all music venues, see the Venues section)

Most local music events and gigs are listed in the excellent Lemonrock Gig Guide - https://www.thelmahulbert.com/~thelmahu/ (and click on "Guide" and then "Gigs Near Me", or key in "Exmouth"). Details there are updated very frequently.

Regular gigs - Please note: these events may still be suspended. Please check with the organisers:

• Every Thursday from 7.45 pm: Ocean Jazz Night with All Jazzed Up, Ocean Engine Room, The Ocean, Queens Drive. Details at https://oceanexmouth.co.uk/events/ocean-jazz-nights/ and https://all-jazzed-up.co.uk/

• Most Sundays from 6.00 pm: Jazz evening at The Point, Exmouth Marina. Details at https://www.thepointbarandgrill.com/events/ and https://my.lemonrock.com/pointbarandgrill

Is there anything that we have left out that you would like to see included? Please let us know by emailing us - contact@exmoutharts.co.uk.

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