North Devon Festival 2008

This year the North Devon Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary in style with an expanded programme including even more special commissions and innovations.

When the festival began it ran for 16 days involving just 27 events; now it has become an amazing large scale ‘festival of festivals’, spanning the whole of June and featuring over 200 events in hundreds of locations throughout the region.

What makes the festival so special is the mix of top-quality arts and entertainment, the familiar and eagerly anticipated blockbuster events and the variety of community involvement, all set against the most spectacular landscape and coastline that any festival could offer.

Highlights this year include:

Paul Merton’s Impro Chums – Fri 13th & Sat 14th June
TV funny-man performs ad lib sketches with a collection of comedians and special guests

Barnstaple Fringe Festival including:
Guy Barker & Ian Shaw – Sat 31st May
Achanak – Fri 6th June
Courtney Pine – Thurs 12th June
Eduardo Niebla – Tues 24th June
Toots and the Maytals – Tues 24th June
Led Bib – Weds 25th June
James Taylor Quartet – Sun 29th June

Simon Amstell – Sat 21st June

Blood Brothers – Mon 2nd – Sat 7th June

GoldCoast Oceanfest – Fri 20th – Sun 22nd June

Lynton and Lynmouth Music Festival (LLAMA) – Fri 13th – Sun 15th June

Appledore Visual Arts Festival – Thurs 29th May – Sun 1st June

North Devon Fringe Theatre Festival – Thurs 26th – Sun 29th June

For more information and full listings of events during the North Devon Festival visit the website at www.northdevonfestival.org.uk or call the box office on 01271 32 42 42.