South West music charity Wren Music marks the culmination of its 30th anniversary programme with a Grand Concert at Exeter Cathedral featuring 250 musicians and singers.
Wren is blending the voices and instruments of its five choirs and four orchestras from north, south, east and west Devon for the concert, along with Wren’s county-wide youth groups, Roots Acoustic and Roots A Capella.
The 90-minute concert is entitled A World Where Every Voice is Heard, reflecting Wren’s work in reaching people in communities who might not otherwise have the opportunity to get involved in...
In recognition of the World War One centenary, Exeter University Choral Society is performing Karl Jenkins' highly acclaimed work The Armed Man (together with a chamber orchestra)
Tickets (£12 front nave, £10 rear nave, £8 side aisles) from euchoraltickets@gmail.com or buy online by clicking here
About the work
The Mass begins with a marching army and the beat of military drums, the orchestra gradually building to the choir’s entrance, singing the 15th-century theme tune – The Armed Man. After the scene is set, the style and pace changes and we are prepared for...
The Rotary Club of Exmouth & District is delighted to announce that a “Last Night of the Rotary Proms” concert at Exeter Cathedral to celebrate the Centenary of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland will be held on the evening of March 1st 2014.
Monies from the event will be going to three charities, the Childrens Hospice South West, at Little Bridge House, Barnstaple; Devon Air Ambulance Trust and the End Polio Now initiative from the Rotary Foundation, Rotary’s own charity.
Entertainment for the evening will be provided by the Military Wives choirs from...
The next Bishop of Exeter is the Rt Revd Robert Atwell, currently Bishop of Stockport in the Diocese of Chester. His appointment was announced this morning by the Prime Minister’s office.
Bishop Robert will become the 71st bishop of the Diocese of Exeter which comprises more than 500 parishes across the county of Devon.
Aged 59, he spent ten years as a Benedictine monk at Burford Priory in Oxfordshire, and then served as a parish priest in London before becoming Bishop of Stockport in 2008.
He said: “I’m immensely honoured and a little bit daunted to be chosen as...
More than 22,000 people came to Christmas services and concerts at Exeter Cathedral over the Christmas period this year.
There were more people at every service this year in the run up to Christmas, adding up to a 13 per cent rise on last year's attendances.
On Christmas Day, 1,450 people came to services, and more than a thousand came to lunchtime carols in the week before Christmas. The crib service on Christmas Eve attracted 600 people and children, and the evening service that day, known as the Grandisson, drew in 1,700 people to sing carols and hear all the choristers...
A local artist and Christmas market trader is desperately seeking help to recover her lost portfolio.
Mary Tempest, who also works for Exeter City Council’s tourism centre as an illustrator misplaced the portfolio after stopping at a busy cashpoint in the City Centre yesterday evening.
After realising she had misplaced her work Mary returned to the cashpoint but it had already gone. The portfolio held in a black A3 size Art bag held many finished and unfinished pencil drawings that Mary had sold on her stall in the Christmas market on the Cathedral Green.
The biggest ‘live’ nativity in the South West is to take place along Exeter High Street before Christmas, featuring sheep, two llamas and a donkey. Shoppers and visitors are invited to join children and members of Church congregations from across the city as the action begins at the top of the High Street at 4.30pm on Sunday 15 December. A Roman Centurion will announce to shoppers that a census is taking place and the journey will begin down the High Street to Exeter Cathedral, following Mary and Joseph, a donkey, the sheep and the Three Wise men with llamas. The Angel Gabriel will make a...
BBC Radio Devon will be recording their annual Christmas carol service at Exeter Cathedral on Tuesday 17th December, and they are inviting the people of Exeter to come along and join them.
The carol service will be one of many celebrations for the radio station this year. BBC Radio Devon celebrated their 30th birthday with a charity appeal of ‘Give a Gift’ for the Devon Community Foundation.
The carol service, which will feature music from choirs such as Choir of St Michael and All Angels at Mount Dinham, the Big Noise Chorus and many more, will be broadcast on Christmas...
The Exeter Nativity will once again be taking place on Sunday 15 December 4.30 - 5.30pm.
Come and follow Mary, Joseph and their donkey as they make their way through Exeter City Centre to find somewhere for Mary's baby to be born.
This special event begins 4.30pm outside Boots on Exeter High Street and finishes at Exeter Cathedral.
Children might like to dress up as their favourite Christmas character and join Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and other characters from the Christmas story in the Cathedral to sing a few well known Christmas carols.
