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Music & Art
Tavistock Festival
Plans for this year’s festival from 30th April to 21st May are well underway and we are looking forward to welcoming many well-known artists and ensembles, including Helen Porter, Mount Kelly Choral Society and Chamber Choir, North Devon Sinfonia, and Stannary Brass Band, and there will be several lunchtime concerts, a choral workshop and a children’s concert. Tavistock Library is also planning to offer a number of events and The Bedford Hotel will be hosting a tea with entertainment. Full details will be available at www. tavistockfestival.org and in the April/ May edition of Links magazines. All of this is possible thanks to a number of sponsors and we welcome any support, financial or otherwise to assist the development of the festival. Significant sponsors (£500 or above) receive complimentary tickets to all events but other sponsors also support in kind in a variety of ways. Festival chairman, Dr Sean Sweeney, would be delighted to discuss potential partnerships and can be contacted on 07732 586978 or sean. sweeney01@btinternet.com. In the meantime, and thanks to the generous financial support of our long-standing significant sponsors Alistair Kinsey and Hansford Bell, we have planned four Friends of the Festival events:
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Thursday 10 March
Dr Sean Sweeney (Organ)
One significant loss in 2020 was the diminution of the Mayflower 400 programme. Supported by Plymouth Culture, Plymouth Music Accord and Plymouth and District Organists’ Association two organ pieces were commissioned from Plymouth composer Clive Jenkins and American organist-composer Carson Cooman. This concert features both works together with music ‘from the New World’ and the Plymouth Suite by Percy Whitlock. St Andrew’s Church, Whitchurch at 1.00pm; admission free; refreshments available. Saturday 19 March
South West Chamber Choir
A Lenten feast of seasonal choral music to include works by Bach, Fauré, Ireland, Mendelssohn and others. Tavistock Parish Church, at 7.30pm; tickets available at the door; refreshments available.
Thursday 24 March
Mary, Kamila and Leslie Mazur-Park (Piano and Oboe)
This is one of the festival’s most popular events including music for solo piano, solo oboe and piano duet. Tavistock Parish Church, at 1.00pm; admission free; refreshments available.
Thursday 31 March
Rosemary Turner (Soprano) and Andrew Wilson (Piano)
A diverting compilation for voice and piano including a selection from a new set of songs ‘Stella’s Cycle’ by Andrew Wilson. Tavistock Parish Church, at 1.00pm; admission free; refreshments available.
Debut single for Silverlux
‘Two Moons’ is the debut single from Plymouth-based Silverlux, one of a collection of songs by music producer Clive Mead, which have been simmering away for almost a decade. The single was released in December 2021, along with a timeless video set in Cann Woods. ‘Silverlux makes music for those who like their lounge vibes served with a twist of now.’
Silverlux vocalist Adele Moore grew up in Tavistock, where her early music roots were heavily influenced by the local scene, the excellent music department at Tavistock College and an inspirational teacher, Rosemary Turner. Adele’s father was a Royal Marine bandsman and her grandmother was an incredible singer, and Adele learned to play the piano as a child but always preferred playing by ear to reading music. Her school years were full of singing in various choirs and school plays at St Rumon’s, St Peter’s and Tavistock College. She is now a fulltime mum living in Saltash, but singing has remained central and also a source of healing when she lost her mother 9 years ago. Adele says: “I have always loved a vastly eclectic range of music from classical to trance, I adore 60s and 80s music, anything from Aretha Franklin to Tori Amos, Fleetwood Mac to Kate Bush, and more recently London Grammar and the impressive vocal range of Miley Cyrus – a real mixed bag! Singing is a huge part of my soul and it feels like a vital part of my life going forwards.”
Clive Mead has been obsessed with music his entire life and been creating it in the studio for almost 30 years. He started his career as a DJ aged 13 at a youth club disco in 1988, later focusing on learning to play instruments and writing songs. Since the early 90s he has been creating electronic club music in various styles, under numerous aliases, working with well-known artists such as The Stranglers and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He studied music production in Newcastle and Brighton and is now nearing the end of a PhD at the prestigious ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) at The University of Plymouth. After relocating to the south west of England, he finally found the time and inspiration to get Silverlux off the ground during the 2021 lockdown. His music is informed by diverse influences, including artists from the more chilled side of electronic music, such as Zero 7, Air and Morcheeba, to Pink Floyd, 60s and 70s easy listening, soul and soundtracks, and even surf guitar music. At the time of going to press, the next single, ‘Born to Chase the Sun’ is due for release in January 2022, followed by the debut album ‘Grace in Lieu of Virtue’ this spring. For more information visit silverlux.net or Facebook: silverlux. music and watch the Two Moons video at youtube.com/watch?v=dd4s0BxzK4g or stream it at artists.landr. com/692531251176
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Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 March Yelverton Art Festival
The idea of a Yelverton Art Festival came from local enthusiasts wanting to celebrate and share their enjoyment of art in all its forms. Those enthusiasts cover all levels of aptitude - from the novice to the very experienced. This year’s art and local craft exhibition including a display of Willow and Tissue art will be in Yelverton War Memorial Hall on Saturday 12.30 - 6pm and Sunday 10am - 4pm – entry is free. You will be able to:
• View and appreciate local art (mixed media) • Buy any of the displayed art displayed on the exhibition boards (approx. 90) • Wander along other table top displays. In previous years the
selection included great examples of felting, glass and ceramic ware, resin moulding, fine plaster work, woodwork, miniature flower montages, lino cutting, bespoke jewellery etc. • Participate in workshops facilitated by
West Devon Art Workshops • Enjoy ‘home-made’ refreshments in the café, run by volunteers from the
Plymouth & Cornwall Cancer Fund support group • Support the nominated charity by buying into the raffle. Great prizes have been donated by individuals and businesses in the local community • Meet and chat to the enthusiastic artists • Buy greetings cards with designs such as local views, minerals, flora and fauna etc. The organisers have agreed that any profits from the festival should benefit local initiatives and have chosen to support Plymouth and Cornwall Cancer Fund this year. In previous years the festival has raised just under £1,000 each year for the nominated charity. For more information email yelvertonartfestival@gmail.com
Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 March Who Did You Say You Were?
The Brentorians present ‘Who Did You Say You Were?’ - an award-winning play by Giles Scott. It’s supposed to be a murder mystery weekend at a guest house, but one of the guests is psychic and has discovered the ghost of a REAL murder victim. The others are having trouble keeping straight who they are, who everyone else is - and what they’re supposed to be doing. Then the murderers arrive…. Performances are on Thursday 24th, Friday 25th & Saturday 26th March at Brentor Village Hall. Doors open at 7.00pm and a bar will be available, curtain up at 7:30pm. Tickets £5.00, available from Helen de Carles on 01822 810412.
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The Box
26 February to 5 June Another Crossing
Four hundred years ago, the Mayflower embarked from Plymouth, England. Many aboard were non-conformists, leaving their homeland for fear that their religious community would otherwise perish. On arriving in what seemed to them a ‘new world’ they established a settlement, but this land was already long inhabited by the Wampanoag people. The voyage is both a national origin story and, given the widespread devastation of the Indigenous population that resulted, an event to mourn.
The premise of the exhibition is simple: each participating artist has created work utilising only tools, materials and processes that existed in 1620. It’s a concept that highlights the sophistication of historic craft practices like beadwork, joinery, metalsmithing, leatherwork and pottery. The project is a transatlantic collaboration organised by
Plymouth College of Art, The Box and the Fuller Craft Museum in Massachusetts, USA, and the artists travelled to both sites to better understand the historical context, visit key locations and meet historians, academics and curators. It also has a metaphorical intention: the art works inhabit two moments in time across four centuries, suggesting the Mayflower’s journey is still in progress and we’re still trying to get to a better place. Until 27 February
Pilgrim Flask, 2019 by Michelle Erickson. Image by Robert Hunter. Courtesy of Fuller Craft Museum
Wood, Water, and Distance, 2020 by Annette Bellamy. Image by Chris Arend. Courtesy of the Artist and Anchorage Museum
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters
Experience ancient stories from the world’s oldest continuing culture, told through more than 300 paintings, ceramics, sculpture, installation and film by over 100 different artists, with The National Museum of Australia’s award-winning exhibition.
Antony Gormley: LOOK II
Antony Gormley is one of the world’s most celebrated artists working today. To commemorate Mayflower 400 and the opening of The Box, his sculpture LOOK II is a figure made from 22 blocks in one cast iron form, permanently installed on West Hoe Pier, where Sir Francis Chichester landed in 1967 as the first and fastest person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route in the Gipsy Moth.
Expressionism: Emotions Unchained
Saturday 12 to Saturday 19 March University of Plymouth presents four extraordinary evenings of pivotal music, visual art, and film with world-leading artists, created and directed by Dr Robert Taub. Further info and tickets at plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on; all events FREE for students.
2 March Concert: Scriabin and Schönberg
Robert Taub performs Alexander Scriabin’s final mystical piano sonata in an unusual pairing with Arnold Schönberg’s haunting melodrama Pierrot Lunaire, beautifully sung by Alison Wells, with the BSO Ensemble Kokoro and Mark Forkgen, conductor. Pre-concert talk: 7:00pm; performance 7:30pm at the Sherwell Centre. 14 March Film: Metropolis
Fritz Lang’s extraordinarily gripping and prescient film, introduced by Anna Navas and Dr Robert Taub. 7:00pm at Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building. 16 March Talk: Visual Art and Music
Art historian Deborah Lewer and pianist Robert Taub will discuss and illuminate the fertile – and often febrile – intersection of music and visual art that motivates Expressionism. 7:30pm at the Sherwell Centre. 19 March
Plymouth Jazz Club
The gigs are held at The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5DH starting at 7.30pm. Doors open 7.00pm and tickets are available on the door only. For further information visit plymouth-jazz-club.org. uk or phone 01752 290758. Sunday 20 February Devon Magnolia Jazz Band
The Devon Magnolia Jazz Band was formed by banjoist Pete Miller to play a wide variety of jazz era tunes in his favourite ‘revivalist’ New Orleans style that became popular throughout Britain in the late 1940s. Admission £10 (members £8, full-time students £5)
Sunday 6 March George Comer Band
Saxophonist George Comer is the ‘big man with the big sound’ who leads this quartet featuring Neil Burns, one of the finest jazz guitarists in the West Country, plus superb drummer Ric Byer and local virtuoso Martin Jenkins on piano. Classic modern jazz at its best! Admission £10 (members £8, full-time students £5) Sunday 20 March
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Tavistock Town Hall • Sat 19 March Wellbeing Fair
10.00AM-4.00PM • FREE ENTRY Relax • Recharge • Refocus
11am Mediumship Demonstration with Jo Borthwick 1pm Relaxing Meditation with Grounded By Nature Amazing Wellbeing & Health Stalls Lots of FREE Workshops & talks Vegetarian & Vegan Café NEXT EVENT 11 & 12 June • Tavistock Town Hall
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Closing Concert: Schönberg, Berg, Webern
Erika Baikoff, acclaimed soprano, joins the Marmen Quartet in a rare performance of the highly imaginative, powerful, and stirring Schönberg String Quartet no.2. Exciting and deeply expressive string quartets of Berg and Webern complete the programme. Pre-concert talk: 7:00pm; performance 7:30pm at the Sherwell Centre.
The Pedigree Jazz Band –
Led by clarinettist and broadcaster Chris Walker, this is one of the most popular shows on the traditional jazz circuit, playing to full houses at venues and festivals across the UK. Hear all the music of the ‘trad boom’ of the 50s and 60s played by perhaps the best traditional jazz band in the UK. Admission £12 (members £10, full-time students £5)
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CAFE LIAISON
Situated in the heart of Tavistock, Café Liaison is a warm, friendly café serving breakfast, lunch, cream teas, excellent coffee and homemade cakes. As well as a full menu, there is a daily specials board. Open: Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 10am-3.30pm - WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU -
