LOCAL FESTIVALS & EVENTS
Festivals & Regattas
Dart Music Festival – May 15, 16 & 17 With more than 100 performers spread across 20 venues over three days the Dart Music Festival attracts artists and audiences from across the country. Music of all genres can be heard in every street with soloists and groups playing all around the town in pubs, on the Bandstand, in the Guildhall and at the historic Bayards Cove Fort.
www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk
Shakespeare Week: July 28 – August 1 Every summer local actors tread the boards in the open air at Dartmouth Castle as they recreate a Shakespeare play. The extraordinary venue means great scenery is guaranteed and the Inn Theatre Company boasts many great actors and a superb production team. Their recent successes include Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello. This year it’s Much Ado About Nothing.
www.theinntheatrecompany.co.uk
Dartmouth Royal Regatta – August 27, 28 & 29 The biggest of the town’s many events which has been running for 175 years attracting thousands of visitors for a wide range of events on and off the water. With rowing races, crabbing and pavement art competitions the town is buzzing with life. Live music, a funfair and market stalls fill the town’s embankment with lots for all the family to enjoy. Enter the popular ‘Spot the Oddity’ competition and join the crowds in marvelling at the spectacular Saturday fireworks display.
www.dartmouthregatta.co.uk
Dartmouth Food Festival – October 23, 24 & 25 A ‘must do’ for foodies. The festival started in 2002 as a few stalls and has now grown into a major event with demonstrations from some of the country’s top chefs. Described in The Telegraph as a ‘heady mix of celebrity chefs, parties, food markets…and tasting shacks’ it attracts visitors from all over the country.
www.dartmouthfoodfestival.com
Festivals & Regattas Other Events
Brixham Pirate Festival: 2 & 3 May Salcombe Crab Festival: 3 May Devon County Show: 21 – 23 May Brixfest: 23 – 25 May Kingsbridge Food & Music Festival: 29 – 31 May English Riviera Airshow: 6 & 7 June Dartmouth Classic Regatta: 26 – 28 June Tunes on the Sands: 10 – 12 July Torbay Steam Fair: July 31 – 2 August Woofstock Festival: 7 – 8 August Dittisham Regatta: 15 August Torbay Royal Regatta: 21 – 24 August Kingsbridge Show: 5 September
International Agatha Christie Festival: 15 – 19 September Salcombe Live 2020: 2 – 4 October Candlelit Dartmouth: 27 & 28 November (tbc)
For information of what’s on in Dartmouth during 2020 visit
www.bythedart.co.uk or click on the QR code opposite
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