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Where’s the Music on Sunday in Swindon? Fran Daisy at The Plough
Sometimes I believe we don’t know how lucky we are in Devizes. Sunday afternoon live music is a thing here, and we’re often spoiled for choice. This Sunday Phil Cooper played the White Bear, and it was the celebrated Jon Amor Trio monthly residency at the Southgate. But the meter was running on Dad’s taxi… Read more
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Family Easter Holiday Events
Devizine isn’t only about music and gigs for grownups, y’know? It’s about events for everyone. This Easter we’ve lots of things to do over the school holiday, you just need to scroll our event calendar to find them! Oh, okay yeah, wine o’clock already and it’s only the first day?! I’ll list what we’ve got… Read more
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Un/Common People: Folk Culture in Wessex; Latest Fascinating Exhibition at Wiltshire Museum
Stuffed my dinner, scanned the brief, headlonged out the door, forgot about the road diversion into the Market Place, made a u-turn, arrived at Wiltshire Museum only two minutes late for the preview evening to their latest exhibition, convincing myself it’s often more interesting to go in blind to what the show is all about… Read more
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Beauty & the Beast; Devizes Musical Theatre at its Best
It was a fantastically successful opening night for Devizes Musical Theatre at Dauntsey’s School for their latest show, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and I returned home still singing Be My Guest and Gaston; they’re still stuck in my head now truth be told, and I’m not usually one for musicals! Remaining faithful to Disney’s… Read more
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Junk Street Drumming Workshop in Devizes; Easter Holiday Fun for All Ages
It’s only the beginning of the Easter school holibobs and your little ones are already making a racket upstairs; what do you do? Is it wine o’clock already? Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts might have another answer – a free drumming workshop! From Monday 7th April to Wednesday 9th, DOCA have Junk Street Drumming workshops with… Read more
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UrchFunk; The Forgotten Tale of How George Clinton Created Funk Music in the Wiltshire Village of Urchfont
You’d be forgiven for believing funk music came out of Detroit in the early seventies, when it is a little known fact, obscured and deliberately hidden, likely for the prestige of the American city and the ignominy of the village, that funk music was actually created in the Wiltshire village of Urchfont…. Funk pioneer George… Read more
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