Devizes Arts Festival: An Evening of Tango Calor

8pm Assembly Room, Town Hall | £12

Tango Calor is one of the most exciting tango bands performing in the UK. The trio was started by bandoneon player Mirek Salmon in Bristol in 2016 with jazz pianist and film composer Daan Temmink and Cuban vocal sensation Indira Roman.

Devizes Arts Festival: Sue Stockdale – A Life of Adventure

1pm St Johns Church | £10

Polar adventurer and motivational speaker Sue Stockdale has spent her life exploring. She has travelled to over 70 countries and taken part in expeditions to some of the world’s most remote environments including Greenland, Antarctica, and Chile.

An Evening with Sir Willard White with the Kymaera Duo

8pm Corn Exchange | £28

One of the best-loved and most versatile opera stars of the last 40 years, Sir Willard White’s illustrious career has taken him to the most prestigious opera houses and concert halls throughout the world.

Devizes Arts Festival: Festival Walk: Roundway Down – walking a civil war battlefield

Briefing 10.20am – Start 10.30am | £10

An opportunity to explore the historic landscape of Roundway Down and Oliver’s Castle, guided by local professional archaeologist Martin Brown.

Texas Tick Fever FREE FRINGE

2pm Three Crowns, Maryport Street

TEXAS TICK FEVER are a firm fixture on the roots music circuit with a “down home” sound. Banjo and guitar complement each other perfectly to give an authentic taste of the music of the mountains and backwoods of America. Don’t be surprised to hear music from any genre given the hillbilly treatment, from intimate melodies to full-on hoe-down hollerin’!

Ajay Srivastav

7pm Cellar Bar, Bear Hotel

FREE FRINGE

Ajay Srivastav is a critically acclaimed musician and song writer who reflects the life and lessons learnt as a British born artist of Indian heritage, with uplifting songs of protest and change.

Devizes Arts Festival: Graham Short: My life as a Micro-Artist

8pm Assembly Room, Town Hall | £12

Graham Short is the worlds most talented living micro-artist. His pieces take between three and nine months to make, and the work is so tiny, it’s indiscernible to the naked eye.

Devizes Arts Festival: Onarole Theatre: Jesus, My Boy!

8pm Merchant Suite, Corn Exchange | £13

This is the story of Jesus seen through the eyes of Joseph, an ordinary and down-to-earth man, dismayed about how his image is later portrayed in Christian art work! Both humorous and moving, it is a beautifully-written one-man one-act play originally performed by Tom Conti.

Devizes Arts Festival:  Aglica Trio

8pm Assembly Room, Town Hall | £16

The Aglica Trio was created in 2016 in the Guildhall School of Music & Drama when Carys Gittins, Agnieszka Żyniewicz and Lise Vandersmissen graduated with Distinction. Bringing their Welsh, Polish and Belgian influences together, they enjoy exploring exciting works by lesser-known composers as well as delving into the standard classical repertoire.

Devizes Arts Festival: Dieci Corde – Cello and Guitar duo

12:30pm Town Hall | £10

Clare Deniz and Mihael Majetic both have thriving independant musical careers, and they regularly perform together as Dieci Corde (ten strings) as it lets them explore interesting ways of performing with their respective instruments. The cello and the classical guitar blend uniquely and not surprisingly are generally considered two of the most loved instruments.

Lucy Stevens is Gertrude Lawrence – A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening

7:30pm Assembly Room, Town Hall | £12

Gertrude Lawrence: A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening is the latest collaboration between “Superbly gifted” actor and singer, Lucy Stevens and pianist Elizabeth Marcus.

Devizes Arts Festival: Marcus Brigstocke

8pm Corn Exchange | £22

Marcus Brigstocke is a major British comedy talent as writer, actor, presenter and performer. It’s said he is heard on Radio 4 more frequently than the shipping forecast. His talent was noted early in 1996 when he won the BBC New Comedian Award at the Edinburgh Festival.

Devizes Arts Festival: Tessa Dunlop

3pm Town Hall | £10

75 years after the landmark wedding of Elizabeth and Philip, on 20th November 1947, Tessa Dunlop returns to Britain’s most famous marriage and discovers not all is what it seems.

Noble Jacks

8pm Corn Exchange | £22

Noble Jacks are a rip-roaring alt.folk band with roof raising energy, whose warm electro-acoustic interactions fuse together a mixture of folky footstompin’ rhythms and engaging lyricism.

With the fiddle leading the charge, Noble Jacks are out to take no prisoners. Nominated Live Act Of The Year 2023 by the Americana Music Association UK, Noble Jacks are considered by many to be the finest purveyors of folk-influenced americana.

Jukebox James

2pm Condado Lounge

FREE FRINGE

Solo electric & acoustic pop covers with live vocals & guitar along with custom made backing tracks

“Jukebox James” is an exciting solo act performing all of your favourite pop and rock covers, with a repertoire including classics from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, and modern favourites!

Devizes Arts Festival: Festival Walk – Wansdyke Wanderings

Briefing 10.20am – Start 10.30am | £10

Explore the ancient landscape of boundaries, burials and battles, guided by local professional archaeologist Martin Brown.

The Sisters and Brothers

2pm British Lion

FREE FRINGE

What is that sound? It’s the sweet singing, hard stompin’, bluegrassy, old-timey playing of The Sisters & The Brothers, a hard-working UK-based group of players ready to entertain you!

From sweet, slow waltzes to creepy murder ballads to hurtling, barnstorming bangers!

Devizes Arts Festival: An Evening with Will Kirk

7:30pm Corn Exchange | £18

Will Kirk is a British furniture restorer primarily known for his work on BBC’s phonemonally successful restoration programme The Repair Shop.

Since childhood, watching his grandfather working in his workshop, he has had a passionate interest in furniture. Since setting up his London based workshop in 2012, Will and his team of craftsmen have worked on a variety of commissions and he was recently honoured to become an Ambassador of the Heritage Crafts Association.

Devizes Arts Festival: Lois Pryce: Revolutionary Ride – One Woman’s Solo Motorcycle Journey around Iran

3pm The Bear Hotel | £11

Lois Pryce is an author of three books about her solo adventures in far-flung lands.Her latest book, Revolutionary Ride, a memoir about her experiences in Iran, was named as a Book of the Year by National Geographic Traveller Magazine and shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.

Elles Bailey Band

8pm Corn Exchange | £15

Elles Bailey is a smoky-voiced human dynamo, who straddles the worlds of Americana and the blues, garnering accolades in both.

She has recorded five albums since her debut with Wildfire in 2017, winning several awards for her work and she was nominated for the 2023 UK Americana Awards.

Devizes Arts Festival: Clive Anderson | Me, Macbeth and I

7:30pm Corn Exchange | £20

Clive Anderson is a barrister by training, but he is best known for being an award-winning and versatile, presenter and comedy writer. Winner of the British Comedy Award in 1991, Clive began his success during his 15-year law career with stand-up comedy and script writing, before rising to fame as the host of Whose Line Is It Anyway? on radio and then television.

Devizes Arts Festival: Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow | Folk Duo

12pm, St Andrews Church | £10

Weaving a musical dialogue between fiddle, guitar and voice, Kit Hawes (guitar, vocals) and Aaron Catlow (violin, vocals) explore the rich musical heritage of folk music from the British Isle, and create original music inspired by the traditions they grew up in.

Chris Ingham Trio : The Jazz of Dudley Moore

8pm Assembly Room, Town Hall | £18

The beloved comic actor Dudley Moore (1935-2002) was also one of the UK’s most dazzling, swinging jazz pianists and a composer of wit and depth. The Chris Ingham Trio revisit Moore’s music in their acclaimed show The Jazz Of Dudley Moore, with sounds from the fabulous 1960s Decca trio albums, the TV show Not Only But Also (1965-70) and the brilliant movie soundtracks for Bedazzled (1967) and 30 Is A Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1968).

Devizes Arts Festival: Christian Garrick and the Budapest Café Orchestra

8pm Corn Exchange | £18

Refreshingly unconventional and snappily attired boutique orchestra. Budapest Café Orchestra bring you gypsy and folk-flavoured music in their own fresh and surprising way. From Balkan and Russian traditional pieces to artful distillations of the masterpieces by the great Romantic composers to Gaelic folk anthems their infectious music will get into your veins and stay there forever.

Devizes Arts Festival: Carrie Etter Poetry Workshop and reading

2pm Cheese Hall, Town Hall

FREE FRINGE | Limited numbers so book your place

Carrie Etter is an American poet resident in England since 2001, and Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. She has published four collections – most recently, The Weather in Normal – and numerous chapbooks.

Malavita!

Corn Exchange, 8pm | £20

Malavita! are an 8-piece reggae latin funk powerhouse from Devon serving up original latin-reggae-funk music, oven ready for the dancefloor. Bursting with fun and fresh, genre-defying grooves – Malavita!’s mission is dancefloor fission!

CALIFORNIA DREAMS

@ The Wharf Theatre, Devizes

 From: June 24, 2023, till June 24, 2023,

Enjoy a trip through the music of California in the 60’s and 70’s. Recording just a stone’s throw from each other and guesting on each other’s records, a group of musical legends worked simultaneously to turn out some of the greatest songs of all time. 

Hits by The Mamas & The Papas, Eagles, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Linda Ronstatd, The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and many more.