THE award-winning young early music ensemble Le Jardin Secret will be performing in Totnes on Friday.

Winners of both the first prize and the audience prize in the Early Music Network International Young Artists' Competition in York in 2007, the members of Le Jardin Secret are post-graduates of conservatories in Basel, The Hague and Brussels, and are based in Paris.

Their performance at St Mary's Church, Totnes, at 7.30pm is the fifth in a series of concerts put on by the Totnes Early Music Society in conjunction with The Arts at Dartington.

Tickets are available through the Dartington Box Office or on the door for £10, with a reduced price for students and young people of £5.

THE National Youth Jazz Collective is staging a free concert at Dartington's Great Hall on Sunday.

The performance, which begins at 5pm, is by National Youth Jazz Collective's regional members led by three of the Collective's most celebrated educators — acclaimed composer, baritone player and NYJC's chief executive Issie Barratt, award-winning singer/pianist Pete Churchill and nationally-renowned saxophonist Mick Foster.

DARTINGTON is playing host to a bit of Stuff and Nonsense — with strings attached.

Stuff and Nonsense is a puppet group presenting Across the Deep Blue Sea at the Barn Theatre on Saturday.

Aimed at anyone aged three or above the family show is at 11.30am and the next show is at 2pm.

THE Exeter Chamber Choir and Devon Baroque will be presenting Bach's The Passion of St John BVW 245 at Dartington's Great hall on Saturday starting at 7.30pm.

The performance will be conducted by Andrew Daldorph with the Exeter Chamber Choir and Devon Baroque led my Margaret Faultless.

Soloists are Rebecca Yates (soprano), Andrew Sullivan (counter tenor), Nicholas Yates (tenor), Thomas Guthrie (bass) and David Web (evangelist/narrator).