Carn to Cove is Cornwall's rural arts touring scheme. We hope to amuse, entertain and generally bowl over communities around Cornwall with the latest live performances in our own halls. We fill local sports halls, reading rooms, galleries, chapels and our wonderfully varied village halls with poetry, laughter, music, drama and dance. Performers roll in from around the world as well as our best Cornish performers from down the road.
Carn to Cove has captured some truly world-class music performers for its coming season in Cornwall. Larry Coryell - one of the founder's of jazz rock fusion, appears with world fusion quartet Bombay Jazz - which also includes saxophonist George Brooks and Grammy award nominee flautist Ronu Majumdar. Folk legend and doyen of finger-picking and slide guitarist Martin Simpson gives three recitals. While on a theme of folk music - local folk band Dalla make a welcome return to the scheme and Hoover the Dog - from the Welsh Marches too.
We are in the middle of a huge Cornish renaissance in theatre performance. No less than five Cornish theatre companies appear this season: Rogue Theatre, Zenith Theatre, Cornish Theatre Collective, Full Moon and the Olivier Award winning Kneehigh Theatre whose international success has been a spur to other stunning creative talents in the county. Visiting the county also are Italian theatre company Il Teatrino Inside Out with a marionette version of a Grimm's Fairy Tale and Stamping Ground Theatre, whose "Hysteria" won the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Total Theatre Award in 2007. Tim Fitzhigham is also back with his latest show Don Quixote.
The success of Carn to Cove is founded on the commitment and enthusiasm of the local volunteers around the county. To keep their local hall as a centre of social and live performance activity they need the support of you and your friends in coming out for a great night out at live performances.