Internationally acclaimed musicians will be coming together at two venues in Teignbridge next month for an innovative musical experience combining poetry, music, percussion and song.

The Becoming Tour is an Arts Council funded producution featuring the sea and all its creature characters.

Directed by author, poet and singer Nicola Harrison, this show features selkies, mermaids, pirate girls, seahorses, dancing crabs dance and starfish singing of outer space.

The Becoming band creates the music of the sea with intriguing percussion by folk musician Jo May and virtuoso guitar playing by Gerard Cousins.

This oceanic music weaves around poetic words and singing by its creator, Nicola Harrison and the extraordinary sea odyssey that is the centrepiece of this show is shaped by Pete Watson’s accordion soundscape.

Shanty singing at the beginning, middle and end of the show, is made doubly exciting by the accompanying accordion and drums, while audiences are invited to participate in free shanty singing workshops.

With singers from different parts of Devon and Cornwall coming together and fronted by Brixham’s shanty group Missin’ Tackle, The Becoming is musical storytelling at its most imaginative and inclusive.

The show can be caught at Ashburton Arts Centre on October 10, Brixham Theatre on October 15 and at Pavilions Teignmouth on October 16.