Music

Live and Local

Venue: 
Modbury Memorial Hall
Event Date: 
Saturday, February 8, 2014 - 21:00
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Get your toes tapping at Modbury's annual Live and Local event.4 live bands including Hillhead and Fifty3Four, plus Street Factory Hip Hop Dance School.

All proceeds to Modbury School charity number: 1070810.

Tickets £5 in advance, £6 on the door. Bar and snacks.

Swing at its Best

Venue: 
Parkway Sports and Social Club, Ernesettle
Event Date: 
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 19:00 to 22:30
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A night of swing, Starring Mike Reynolds (Vocals and French Horn) and VEGAS NIGHTS. Tickets £2.50 on the door.

Wanted … young singers to join World Roots Choir

Are you aged 13-18? Do you love to sing? Then here’s your chance!

The World Roots Choir is coming to Plymouth and Torbay – and it needs your voices.

The good news is that, unlike the X Factor and The Voice, there are no scary auditions. Just turn up … and sing. You don’t even need to be able to read music, as all the songs are taught by ear at first.

The two new ‘...

MP Asks: Are You Ready To Rock?

Alison Seabeck MP is urging local musicians and small venues to enter national music competition.

Ms Seabeck has called for musicians and small venues in Plymouth Moor View to enter Rock the House 2014, Parliament’s biggest competition which celebrates up-and-coming British artists and the live music venues that support them.

Applications are open now and will close on 31 March...

Thomas Ford

Electrifying blues talent in the form of this harp-playing, hard blues singing solo performer. Born in a field 20-something years ago, Thomas Ford is a blues shouter, a guitar picker and a harmonica fire-breather. His energetic live shows have taken him from Bodmin to Berlin, his records have sold from the Eastern Block to the East Indies and he has been played on radio shows from Luton to Laos. Mixing delta blues traditions with nu-blues songwriting, this one man trio has been hailed as “The rising star of British blues”.

Entrance fee: £2

You Me at Six bring their spring tour to Plymouth

British rock band You Me At Six have just confirmed a date at Plymouth Pavilions on their newly announced Spring 2014 tour.

They will be heading to the city on Wednesday 2 April, hot on the heels of their second single release early in the New Year from their forthcoming album Cavalier Youth.

Fresh Start Fever is released on 20 January and is the follow up to the band’s biggest...

Leading musician to perform music of ‘Amazing West Africa’ at Museum

Under-fives and their grown-ups will be treated to yet another unique ‘Adventures in Music’ event at the City Museum and Art Gallery on Friday 29 November, when Seckou Keita leads an interactive session featuring the kora (African harp) and the djembe (African drum).

Seckou Keita is one of the leaders of the newest generation of African traditional musicians, fusing the traditional...

Plymouth Hoe hosts spectacular Bonfire Night evening of music, lights and fireworks

Plymouth Hoe is hosting a spectacular Bonfire Night fireworks display this evening.

The evening, which started at 6.00pm, includes music and lighting as well as the traditional fireworks display.

The countdown to the pyrotechnic action got underway at 6pm with entertainment from the stage on the Hoe promenade with Heart FM entertaining the crowd from its show stage until 9pm...

Daniel O'Donnell concert at Plymouth Pavilions cancelled

Plymouth Pavilions have announced the cancellation of Daniel O'Donnell's concert on 18 October.

In a message to customers they said: "It is with regret that we announce that this Friday’s Daniel O’Donnell concert at Plymouth Pavilions has been cancelled, along with the remainder of his UK tour.

"Unfortunately, Daniel’s Father-in-law is critical in hospital with a suspected...

Samba drums thump through Truro

On the 5th of October the streets of Truro came alive with the sound of drums as children and adults alike performed in the Samba Festival. I spent the day with Launceston Community Primary School who put on two wonderful performances despite reduced numbers. This group of 8-11 year olds are well known in Launceston itself and they had decided to share their Samba with a wider audience....

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