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Tickets are available from Levine’s (Calstock PO), or can be reserved at the advance price by e-mailing info@calstockarts.org.uk / telephoning 01822-834465.

Devon indie-folk band The Madding Crowd will play at our regular Friday night bar on 30th July. Formed in 1996, the band has played at festivals and in venues around the West Country. They mainly use their voices, strings and sticks (and a few boxes joined with electrical spaghetti known as "gear") to create what has been described as indie-folk and acoustic-pop.

The band has supported and played alongside Seth Lakeman, Al Stewart, Kathryn Tickell, Martin Carthy, Colin Blunstone, Savoy Brown, Julie Felix, Roy Harper and Roy Wood.

Entrance is free and the band will play from around 8.30 p.m. You can also try a cheese plate to go with your drink, featuring cheese from the West Country.

Acoustic guitarist Guy Buttery's latest album Fox Hill Lane won the 2010 "Best Instrumental Record of the Year" at the South Africa Music Award's, the most prestigious event in the South African music calendar.

Local and international press reviews have offered nothing but glowing reports on both the musicality and production of all 14 tracks. Each of these reflect a very intimate portrayal of Guy’s personal and musical journey since his previous album Songs from the Cane Fields.

Since the release of Fox Hill Lane Guy has been invited to collaborate, perform and record on a world music project in Mauritius with acclaimed artists Eric Triton and Alhousseini (from Niger’s Etran Finatawa). He has also represented South Africa at Toulouse’s Rio Loco festival in France this year before heading back to Europe for another fully fledged tour, which includes The Old Chapel in Calstock on 7th August.

Please be aware that there is an open air music event in Calstock on the same weekend as this event, with the possibility of some noise drifting up to the chapel. For this reason, we have now made this a free concert (ticket prices were originally £6 in advance, £8 on the door). So, if you’d like to come to a free gig by an amazing guitarist in a fantastic venue, but with the possibility of some extraneous noise, then come and join us.

You can obtain your free tickets before the event by collecting them from Levine’s in Calstock, or reserve them by contacting us on 01822 834465 or info@calstockarts.org.uk. You can also collect them on the door - our Gallery Bar will be open at 7.00 p.m., the concert will start at 8.00 p.m.

“Unorthodox twenty-something Guy Buttery throws down the gauntlet with an album of incredible versatility and imagination. There are times when it sounds as if there’s a seven-piece band backing Guy Buttery, so complex and rich is the sound, but it’s just him and his acoustic guitar exploring myriad textures and rhythms with an ingenious imagination and scant regard for music industry rules. It’s the kind of album that reveals something new at every turn, the kind of album that never gets old or outstays its welcome.” - JHBLive

"Guy Buttery's latest album is a true accomplishment. Layers of musical landscapes are woven together to harness the listener, note by note. Fox Hill Lane is a timeless record and of the best stuff to ever come out of South Africa."- Acoustic Image

Calstock Arts will host an exhibition about the artist JMW Turner and how he was inspired by the beauty of the Tamar Valley. The exhibition will be open along with the Chapel Cafe on Sundays in August (starting on the 8th) and throughout September. Join us for tea, coffee and cake between 2.00 and 5.00 p.m.

Spanish and flamenco guitarist Mark Barnwell returns to play at our regular Friday Night Bar on 27th August. Entrance is free and Mark will play from around 8.30 p.m. Plus, there'll be antipasti for you to enjoy with your drink in our Gallery Bar.

Saturday 4th September at 7.45 p.m. - Cocktails, Canapes and Cabaret with MusicDeco

In 1979 a trio of musicians premiered at the Wigmore Hall in London with their new ensemble, Music Deco. They delighted audiences with music from the Deco period, both classical and popular, and went on to enjoy huge success on tour. Much of the music was arranged or written for them in the style of the period.

The new Music Deco consists of one of the founder members, saxophonist and clarinetist, Chris Gradwell, along with two new members, singer Kate Walker and pianist Andrew Daldorph. Their performance at The Old Chapel will focus on the popular style of songs and melodies from the Deco period, featuring, amongst others, melodies and songs from Bix Beiderbecke, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin along with a compelling, musical setting of Dorothy Parker’s witty and cynical prose piece, “The Waltz”, written for the original MusicDeco Trio.

We are delighted to welcome Kate Walker again to The Old Chapel, following her highly successful ‘Sweet to Remember’ revue in March.

Tickets are £10 in advance, available from Levine’s in Calstock or can be reserved by contacting info@calstockarts.org.uk / 01822 834465. Tickets are £11 on the door, £5 for under 21s.

Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and wondered what you were looking at? What’s that bright star called? Where’s Orion’s belt? Why does that constellation look like a saucepan? What’s that big white shiny round thing?

Universama! is a unique blend of spectacle, storytelling and cabaret, using puppets, props, music and comedy to convey the wonder of the cosmos within an accessible, funny and informative family show.

Andrew Motion reads poems old and new, and introduces his latest books The Cinder Path and Laurels and Donkeys, a collection of war poems. He talks about his essays, Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets and his acclaimed autobiography In the Blood - A Memoir of My Childhood. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and co-founded The Poetry Archive. He held the post of Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009.

"Motion is a beautiful lyricist unpretentiously and precisely describing those things worth having even as he casts unsettling shadows across them." Robert Potts, The Guardian.

"These always absorbing essays seek out the things that matter deeply to this most English of poets and holds them up against the light." Carol Ann Duffy, Observer, on 'Ways of Life'.

‘Jo Caulfield is one of Radio 4’s treasures, with her glorious mix of bitchy friendliness, waspish likeability and foot-in-the-mouth populism – but always with charm’. bbc.co.uk June 2010.
‘Best known for her legendary one-woman shows, Jo Caulfield is definitely the rising star of British comedy.’ Evening Standard.
Tickets are £8 in advance, available from Levine’s in Calstock and can be reserved by contacting info@calstockarts.org.uk / 01822-834465. Tickets are £10 on the door.

Saturday 13th November - The Big Bang Murder Mystery
Sunday 14th November - Bombs at Teatime: A Snapshot of Britain in the 1940s

1940s weekend: Murder and Mayhem

Take a trip back in time to the 1940s. As if fighting World War II wasn’t hard enough, British people had to put up with years of rationing, baths taken in a couple of inches of water and frequent outbreaks of head lice!
Bombs at Teatime is a portrait of domestic life in Britain throughout one of the most extraordinary decades of our history. At times wry, affectionate and surprising, these rarely seen films from the British Film Institute’s National Archive show a time of great austerity and ingenuity as Britain sought to retain its sanity in the shadow of war.

Perhaps most striking is just how intimate and moving some of these films are. They paint a very touching portrait of a nation and its people.

Calstock Arts will have its regular café before this event.
Time and prices TBC.

Wednesday 24th November - An Evening with Tom Vowler, local author

Saturday 27th November - Martha Tilston