Appledore Music

The Jazz Defenders - presented by North Devon Jazz Club
2024-04-01 20:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
The Jazz Defenders are a band committed to defending the legacy of such classic hard bop jazz greats as Horace Silver, Lee Morgan and Art Blakey will be next up at North Devon Jazz Club in The Beaver, Appledore on Monday 1 April.
Combining solid grooves and catchy horn lines with a collaborative and comprehensive sound, fusing soul, jazz, hip hop, soundtrack and groove into a masterful union, the band leaves audiences mesmerised. The result is an enthrallingly unique sound that is as danceable as it is listenable, described by Jamie Cullum as ‘absolutely storming’.
Led by top-flight pianist George Cooper the band will also include some of the UK’s finest players. The line up will be Jake McMurchie (tenor sax), Nick Malcolm (trumpet), Ian Matthews (drums), Will Harris (bass) and George Cooper (piano/keyboards).
The gig is hosted by the North Devon Jazz Club. Thank you NDJC. There is no entrance fee, however a collection is taken for the band. For a meal booking please phone The Beaver on 01237 474822

Quo Fish
2024-04-11 20:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Champ, 5 Meeting St, Appledore, EX39 1RJ, United Kingdom
London-based Pearl Fish and Rob Quo are two talented singer songriters performing as Quo Fish. They are visiting Appledore, North Devon as part of their spring 2024 tour.
The Champ is honoured to have such a talented duo perform on their fabled north stage.
Pearl Fish is an intimate and warm musician. Her sound, honed from playing with the finest musicians, is simultaneously melancholic and full of hope. She is reminiscent, at times, of Suzanne Vega.
Rob Quo’s contemporary folk songwriting is emotive and humorous in equal measure, touching on the human experience with lyrical grace and a melodic simplicity which is uniquely his own.
Give them a huge welcome to the Champ on Thursday 11 April.

Karen Sharp with the Craig Milverton Trio - presented by North Devon Jazz Club
2024-04-15 20:30 - 22:30 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
A several-times winner of the British Jazz Awards for best tenor saxophonist and a key member of the late Humphrey Lyttleton’s band appears at North Devon Jazz Club in The Beaver, Appledore on 15 April. The musician is Karen Sharp who plays baritone as well as tenor saxophones and who will appear with the Craig Milverton Trio.
A busy musician on the festival and club circuit, Karen plays saxophone in a way which harks back to the effortless, swinging styles of Zoot Sims or Al Cohn rather than the more impassioned approach of John Coltrane. Writing in The Observer the critic Dave Gelly described her sound as ‘warm and full, her improvised lines bold and clear and her compositions full of surprises’ while Downbeat Magazine commented that ‘Sharp loves melody, whether composed or improvised, as reflected in her relaxed and natural phrasing”
The gig is hosted by the North Devon Jazz Club. Thank you NDJC. There is no entrance fee, however a collection is taken for the band. For a meal booking please phone The Beaver on 01237 474822

LunaBarge
2024-04-18 20:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Champ, 5 Meeting St, Appledore, EX39 1RJ, United Kingdom
Buckinghamshire-based Lunabarge are doing a mini-tour of Devon and Cornwall – the Cream Tea Excursion tour. Which reminds us of the Devon-Cornwall rock festival a few years back. It was cancelled at the last minute. Cream and the Jam were down as headliners but the organisers couldn’t agree which should go on first.
Lunabarge are double stomping upbeat indie-folk with catchy original songs. Catch them at the Champ on Thursday 18 April.

Carnaby Street
2024-04-20 19:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | Royal North Devon Golf Club, Golf Links Road, Westward Ho!, Bideford, EX39 1HD, United Kingdom
Carnaby Street are a five piece sixties tribute act, coming to the Royal North Devon Golf Club in April.
Tickets can be purchased by calling the club on 01236 473817. The ticket price is £30, which includes dinner. Call the Royal North Devon Golf Club on 01237 473817 to book.

The Skimmity Hitchers & Cider Festival
2024-04-26 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | Palladium Club, Bideford, Lower Gunstone, Bideford, EX39 2DE, United Kingdom
Bideford is stocking up on cider ready for Friday 26th April when cult band Skimmity Hitchers roll their wagon into town. They’ll be performing their madcap Scrumpy & Western music at the Palladium Club on Lower Gunstone, supported by Somerset reggae-funk-hip-hop collective Monkey Bizzle.
The gig will also be doubling up as a mini cider festival, with real ciders on offer from local producers such as Green Man in Barnstaple.
For the uninitiated, Skimmity Hitchers blend razor sharp parodies and original material with a raucous stage show and spontaneous audience interaction. And of course Baz, their legendary dancing badger!
They have performed at hundreds of venues, festivals and cider sheds, toured with West Country legends The Wurzels and and also preached the cider gospel as far as France, Germany and North America.
Advance tickets are £10 plus fee and available online from https://www.wegottickets.com/thepalladiumclub. This gig is part of the band’s ‘Bad Town On The Coast’ tour and other dates have already sold out, so advance booking is recommended.
Any remaining tickets will be available on the door for £12. Doors open at 8pm.

Anita O'Day Tribute - presented by North Devon Jazz Club
2024-04-29 20:30 - 22:30 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
American singer Anita O’Day’s unique sound and swinging rhythmic sense put her in the upper echelon of jazz singers, as skilful with ballads as with scatting and liberal interpretations of standard songs.
Anita’s career spanned the late swing and bebop eras, inspiring many singers who followed her. Bristol-based Lucy Moon is just one of these singers and on 29 April she will perform a tribute to the great lady with her quartet at North Devon Jazz Club in The Beaver, Appledore. Lucy will not just perform O’Day’s songs but also relate stories about the great vocalist’s “hard times and high times” and the jazz greats she collaborated with along the way.
To see Lucy Moon in action performing Anita O’Day, check out this YouTube video. Or come along to the Beaver on 29 April.
The gig is hosted by the North Devon Jazz Club. Thank you NDJC. There is no entrance fee, however a collection is taken for the band. For a meal booking please phone The Beaver on 01237 474822

Hoolie
2024-05-03 21:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Champ, 5 Meeting St, Appledore, EX39 1RJ, United Kingdom
Hoolie are a high energy rock, pop and indie covers band from North Devon. Hear them at the Champ on Friday 3 May, and have a ball.

The Barefoot Bandit + Captain Accident
2024-05-04 20:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | St Mary’s Hall, Churchfield Road, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RL, United Kingdom
The Barefoot Bandit are coming to Appledore on Friday 4 May. These guys are amazing.
The Barefoot Bandit is an explosion of reggae, dub and world music based in Exmouth. Check out the band and their music at their website
The Barefoot Bandit have spread their sounds far and wide. Appledore is lucky indeed that they are paying a visit. They have appeared at Glastonbury Festival, Boardmasters, Boomtown Fair, Beautiful Days.
TBB have received substantial support across national radio from legendary DJ David Rodigan on BBC Radio 1 Extra and have had numerous airplay from Craig Charles on BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Introducing.
They will be supported by Captain Accident and the Disasters
Tickets £10 advance or £14 on the door. Buy tickets from MusicGlue.

Manic Jammer
2024-05-06 20:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
We at Appledore Music know nothing about Manic Jammer, save that they (he? she?) are at the Beaver on Monday 6 May.
If you know anything please get in touch and we’ll add it here.

The Sultans
2024-05-11 19:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | Royal North Devon Golf Club, Golf Links Road, Westward Ho!, Bideford, EX39 1HD, United Kingdom
Royal North Devon Golf Club presents a night of jump, jive, swing, rock and Latin with The Sultans.
This is a dinner dance event. Tickets are £30 including dinner. Contact the club on 01237 473817 to reserve your place.

Art Themen Trio - presented by North Devon Jazz Club
2024-05-13 20:30 - 22:30 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Veteran Jazz Maestro at the Beaver
Art Themen has been a beloved character of the British jazz scene for sixty years, famously combining his role as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with saxophone duties in the bands of Alexis Korner and Stan Tracey among many others. This exciting, playful and inventive saxophonist will appear with his Organ Trio at North Devon Jazz Club in The Beaver, Appledore on 13 May.
Art has travelled a long way musically. He was involved in the Manchester traditional jazz scene in the 1950s, then became part of the London blues scene in the 1960s and went on to develop his present very characterful saxophone style which originally owed much to that of Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins but then came under such disparate influences as Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane. To quote Dave Gelly in The Observer “Themen is one of the very few totally original, utterly engaging jazz musicians around’ and to quote London Jazz News ‘in any other country he’d be regarded as a national treasure.”
Joining Art will be George Double on drums and Pete Whittaker on organ
The gig is hosted by the North Devon Jazz Club. Thank you NDJC. There is no entrance fee, however a collection is taken for the band. For a meal booking please phone The Beaver on 01237 474822

A Smile, 2 Bangs and a Legend
2024-05-17 20:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Champ, 5 Meeting St, Appledore, EX39 1RJ, United Kingdom
A Smile, 2 Bangs and a Legend The Jukes are performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on the band’s name above for more details.

Joy Machine
2024-05-18 21:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Joy Machine are performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on the band’s name above for more details.

Rock Steady Youth Group
2024-05-19 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Champ, 5 Meeting St, Appledore, EX39 1RJ, United Kingdom
Rock Steady Youth Group are performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on the band’s name above for more details.

Sophie Smiles Band
2024-05-20 20:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
The Sophie Smiles Band are performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on the band’s name above for more details.

Applecorers Sea Shanty
2024-05-21 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Champ, 5 Meeting St, Appledore, EX39 1RJ, United Kingdom
Applecorers Sea Shanty are performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on the band’s name above for more details.

dogleg
2024-05-22 18:00 - 20:00 (Atlantic/Azores) | Coffee Cabin, 22 The Quay, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1QS
dogleg are performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on the name above for more details

Morris Dancers
2024-05-23 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
The Morris Dancers are performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on the name above for more details

Marsh & the Reluctant Friends
2024-05-23 20:30 - 22:30 UTC | The Champ, 5 Meeting St, Appledore, EX39 1RJ, United Kingdom
Marsh and, reluctantly, his friends are performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on the band’s name above for more details.

Bright Lights Collective
2024-05-24 21:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Bright Lights Collective performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on the band’s name above for more details

Waine Downing
2024-05-25 21:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Waine Downing is performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on his name above for more details

Steve the Sax
2024-05-27 20:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Steve Ellison is performing as part of the Appledore Music Festival. Click on his name above for more details

Lion Heart - Kate Bush Tribute
2024-06-01 21:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Saturday night at the Beaver sees a heartfelt Kate Bush tribute band playing – Lion Heart.
A chance to hear your favourite Kate Bush songs with a pint of freshly poured Proper Job in your hand – if you’re not dancing madly that is.

Mary and the Medics
2024-06-03 20:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Mary and the Medics play the Beaver. If you like sophisticated smoky vocals, fabulous saxophone, flute and guitar don’t miss them.
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Dave Storey Trio - presented by North Devon Jazz Club
2024-06-10 20:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Dave Storey has established himself as one of the leading drummers and first call sidemen on the London jazz scene. He is well known for his big sound on the drums and for his work as a bandleader. Dave will bring his star studded trio to North Devon Jazz Club at The Beaver, Appledore on 10 June to play contemporary straight-ahead jazz marked by a high degree of interplay and understanding between the musicians, a relationship developed through several years of playing and touring together.. To quote London Jazz News audiences can expect ‘ ‘Twisty trips around post-bop topography, fuelled by high-octane virtuoso drumming’.
Joining Dave will be two multi-ward winning musicians: saxophonist James Allsopp (‘perhaps the most gifted British saxophonist of his generation’ to quote Underscore Music Magazine ) and double bassist Conor Chaplin of whom UK Jazz News commented ‘He has a wonderful capacity to communicate the joy of having just landed on a new idea, a texture, line, a rhythmic kick, to produce endlessly the sound of surprise.’
The gig is hosted by the North Devon Jazz Club. Thank you NDJC. There is no entrance fee, however a collection is taken for the band. For a meal booking please phone The Beaver on 01237 474822

End of the Road
2024-06-14 20:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Champ, 5 Meeting St, Appledore, EX39 1RJ, United Kingdom
End of the Road are a five piece band based in Bideford. They play jazz and blues in an old-time style. Here’s a video of them on Facebook, killing it at the Joiner’s: https://www.facebook.com/endofroadjazz/videos/827505302304374/.
On Friday 10 May they’ll be laying down the groove at the Champ. Come along and enjoy!

Dixie Hicks
2024-06-15 21:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Barnstaple-based Dixie Hicks are playing on Saturday 15 June at the Beaver. Dixie Hicks are a three piece playing a myriad of sounds from country, blues & jazz to dance & burlesque.
This is their third Beaver show in as many months, which tells you how damned good they are. Come along and enjoy the groove, as well as the Beaver’s fine selection of beers, spirits and cheeky cocktails.

Julian Costello - presented by North Devon Jazz Club
2024-06-24 20:30 - 22:30 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Julian Costello is a saxophonist praised by Jazz Views as a “tenor player of gentle authority, full of passion, lyricism and invention”. He will be demonstrating these qualities with his quartet at North Devon Jazz Club in The Beaver, Appledore on 24 June.
At the gig Julian will be playing tenor and soprano saxophones and will be joined by other star musicians: pianist John Turville , double bass player Andy Hamill and drummer Tom Hooper. They will be playing music from their recent well-received album entitled And The Birds Were Set Free. Reviewing the album Jazz in Europe described Julian as “a great sax lyricist, telling his stories of life’s ups and downs with perfect alteration of tone to impart strength, humour and even frailty.”
The gig is hosted by the North Devon Jazz Club. Thank you NDJC. There is no entrance fee, however a collection is taken for the band. For a meal booking please phone The Beaver on 01237 474822

Rich Malfait and Friends
2024-07-01 20:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Paris) | The Beaver, Irsha Street, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1RY, United Kingdom
Richard Malfait returns to Appledore with his friends. We don’t yet know who they are, but likely to include Ania Job on flute, Eve Parker on violin and Ant Parker on bass. It’ll be a evening of original songs about artists and their muses, lifeboats, kites and black dogs, benches, treasure, old Victorians, clay pipes and rusty Scammells. Do stop by, it’d be grand to see you there.
