Update Sunday 4 May: No Community Cabaret tonight
If you looked closely, the Tinners Moon Festival brochure lists a Communuity Cabaret as happening this evening. This has never been well-publicised, and as a result, nobody has offered to come and perform. It’s been a really busy few days already, and there’s more great stuff coming next week, so we’re going to cancel this tonight, and have a quiet night in. Do come and see Kevin Figes Quartet tomorrow night (listen here to some of their music on Bandcamp).
Also, Pizza Amoré IS open until 8.30pm serving woodfired pizza, chips and garlic bread in the forecourt. The same on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week (to 10 May).
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215 miles by bike…
Can you donate to our Ashburton Chamber Music Festival fundraiser?
Festival Artistic Director and native New Yorker, David Yang, is cycling 215 miles around Devon to raise funds for the festival. We’d love you to follow his journey and donate what you can to help keep him motivated. All funds raised will support the Chamber Festival artist. Donate now and follow his crowdfunding bike ride from Wednesday, 14-19 May 2025: David Yang circumnavigates Devon
Tinners Moon Festival 2025 
Our annual Tinners Moon Festival starts on Friday 25 April, for 2 weeks of fabulous music, talks, film, May Day madness, and much more! The line up is:
★ Liza Pulman & Gareth Williams ★ Justin Adams and Mauro Durante ★ Tune Storm ★ Rebeca Ortega Flamenco ★ Sally Pomme Clayton ★ Pennsylvania Railroad ★ Stompin’ Dave ★ Liane Carroll ★ People.Community.Forest ★ GRICE & the Polarchoral Band ★ Ashburton and District Garden Association ★ Field System ★ Libby Bove’s Museum of Roadside Magic ★ Mayday Morris ★ Molly No Mates Morris ★ Dartmoor Calling ★ Lunatraktors ★ Orlando Dibelo & Ruth Rozelaar Bandoneon Duo ★ Community Cabaret ★ Kevin Figes Quartet ★ The Call of the Loon ★ Prof Joe Foweraker & Pip Harris: A Life Well Lived ★ Härva Trio ★ Living Room Theatre: Samuel Beckett omnibus ★ Angelheart Theatre: Sam O’Shanty ★
★ Wake The River ★
wegottickets.com/tinnersmoon2025 has all the info, and you can book tickets there (10% fee) or email boxoffice@ashburtonarts.org.uk to reserve and pay on the door on the night.
Dartmoor Tors Festival 23 – 25 May 2025
The Arts Centre is delighted to be collaborating with local journalist and writer Sophie Pierce, and artist Alex Murdin in launching this brand new festival which celebrates Dartmoor – its landscape, people, heritage and culture. During the late May bank holiday weekend, Friday 23 to Monday 26, ticketed events will take place in Ashburton and at locations around the moor. On Friday, Martha Tilston is on here at the arts centre, and Folk music legend Seth Lakeman will be headlining on the Saturday night; other speakers and performers include the international artist Garry Fabian Miller, novelist Fiona Williams, poet/artist Sean Borodale, storytellers Sara Hurley and Lisa Schneidau, and the ‘dark and wild’ Beltane Border Morris side. Full details of the events here at the Arts Centre will be listed here very soon. Tickets will go on sale here on Saturday 22 February at 12 noon. Please don’t send emails to the box office requesting ticket reservations before noon on Saturday 22 Feb.
Events at the Arts Centre on Saturday 24 May are all here.
For more, see the festival website dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk.
Ashburton Chamber Music Festival 17 – 27 July, 2025 
The Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (ACMF), conceived by Artistic Director David Yang along with Andy Williamson, is back for the sixth year bringing world-class chamber music to the region for 10 days in July. To find out more and see the programme visit the Ashburton Chamber Music Festival
The next event at Ashburton Arts will be Roland Arnison: The Call of the Loon on Wednesday 7 May 2025 at 7:30 PM
Here’s a taste of just a few things that happened here back in 2019:
We are working on adding more pictures to this site – for now, you can see some fabulous ones on Mark Burley’s site.