NEWTON ABBOT
June 30, Sat – Crowning of the Carnival Queen, 12 noon, St Leonards Tower. June 30, Sat – Summer Nights, 5pm-9pm, Courtenay Street & St Leonards Clock Tower. Street food, live music, Prosecco bar, children’s entertainment. July 1, Sun – Dartmoor Classic Cycle Event. Newton Abbot Racecourse. Details 01626 353235. July 6-7, Fri/Sat – Glas-Denbury Music and Arts Festival, Fairfield Farm, Denbury. Friday music headliners Motown magicians Martha Reeves and
May to mid Sept – St Leonard’s Tower open to the public. Free admission, 10am-1pm each Wed with town crier making a special cry at noon. Also open on selected Saturdays. June 2, Sat – The Newton Abbot Wellbeing Show, Newton Abbot Racecourse, 10am-5pm, free of charge. First-time holistic healing event including acupuncture, reflexology, reiki and the Bowen technique with demonstrations, treatments and product sales. Details 01626 353235. June 8-9, Fri/Sat – Lemonfest, Newton Abbot Racecourse. Eighth anniversary mix of live music and DJ sets with ‘pyro-circus rave massive’ Slamboree topping the bill on Friday and old school hip-hop group The Sugarhill Gang closing the festival on Saturday.Details
www.lemonfest.co.uk. June 9, Sat – Classic Car Motorshow, 9am-4pm, town centre. June 10, Sun – Band concert, Spectrum Music Concert Wind Band, Courtenay Park Bandstand, 2.30pm.
July 14, Sat – Carnival Day. Procession 6.30pm from Courtenay Park to St Leonard’s Tower. July 15, Sun – Band concert, Carnival Praise, Courtenay Park Bandstand (starts 1pm); Newton’s Got Talent grand finale, Coombeshead Academy. July 20-21, Fri-Sat – Chagstock Music Festival. Whiddon Down. Includes international singer Imelda May and 70s punk band The Buzzcocks. July 21, Sat – Summer Nights II, 5pm-9pm. Details see June 30. Aug 12, Sun – Band concert, Okehampton Excelsior, Courtenay Park Bandstand, 2.30pm.
the Vandellas; Saturday headliners, soul legends The Real Thing. Details
www.glas-denbury.co.uk. July 8, Sun – Band concert, Exeter Railway Band, Courtenay Park Bandstand, 2.30pm. July 9-15, Mon-Sun – Newton Abbot Carnival week.
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