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Since 2001, the Two Moors Festival has welcomed outstanding international artists and the rising stars of the next generation to perform for our large and enthusiastic audiences in one of the most beautiful and unspoilt corners of the UK.

Performances are given in beautiful and historic venues, including country houses, village halls, rural arts centres, museums, churches, cathedrals, pannier markets and even Nissen huts and railway stations across Devon and West Somerset.

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Tamsin Waley – Cohen announces this year’s Two Moors Festival, featuring Benjamin Appl, I Fagiolini, Michael Morpurgo, Albion Quartet, Fretwork, Orsino Ensemble & Consone Quartet

Celebrating the theme of friendship in music, Artistic Director Tamsin Waley-Cohen announces the 2022 Two Moors Festival this October, looking at the friendships surrounding Schumann, Schubert, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Acclaimed violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen returns to curate her third Festival in the area, in which she has strong family ties.

The internationally-renowned Festival takes place over two extended weekends in October: Dartmoor is the focus for 5-9 October 2022, while concerts taking place from 13-16 October 2022 centre around Exmoor, with concerts held in close proximity to each other in beautiful venues from rural arts centres to cathedrals around the vast and arresting wilderness of the moors of the South West.

Tamsin Waley-Cohen announces this year’s Two Moors Festival, Arcadia Unlocked, with composer-in-residence Huw Watkins

In an all-embracing celebration of wilderness in the South West, following a year of rediscovering the world outside our doors, Artistic Director and violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen announces the 2021 Two Moors Festival and its theme, Arcadia Unlocked.

The internationally-renowned Festival takes place over two weekends in October: Dartmoor is the focus for 1-3 October 2021, while concerts taking place from 8-10 October 2021 centre around Exmoor, with concerts held in close proximity to each other in beautiful venues from rural arts centres to churches around the vast and arresting wilderness of the moors.