The Art of Sound

Barb Jungr, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen

ONE of the world’s greatest cabaret singers and a brilliant song arranger, Barb Jungr comes to Taunton Brewhouse on Thursday 8th May, and Bridport’s Electric Palace on Saturday 10th, with Hallelujah on Desolation Row, a celebration of the songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. This show features her best and award-winning interpretations of songs…

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Unusual trio on tour

A TRIO of harp, viola and flute players, who met at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama nearly 20 years ago, come to Dorset and Somerset on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th May, for a series with Concerts in the West, at Bridport, Ilminster and Crewkerne. Trio Anima are Rosalind Ventris, viola, Anneke Hodnett,…

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Puccini with Devon Opera

DEVON Opera’s young singers will tackle one of the most popular – and vocally demanding – operas for their spring production – Puccini’s La Boheme, which will be staged at the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter, on 15th and 16th May. It is so well-known that it is easy to overlook just how vocally and emotionally demanding…

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Surtierra in Sturminster and London

SINGERS from several Dorset choirs have been working with Anglo-Chilean band Quimantú on a project that ends on 15th, 20th and 22nd June with concerts at Sturminster Newton and at London’s “Actors Church”. The collaboration, organised by rural touring charity, Artsreach, has brought Misa de los Mineros (The Miners’ Mass) to audiences across the county….

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Dorset Opera Festival’s 20 years at Bryanston

DORSET Opera Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary at Bryanston School’s Coade Hall this year, following its move to Blandford from its original home at Sherborne School. This year’s festival will run from 22nd to 26th July, and will include two formal dinners in Bryanston House. The opera programme is thrilling, with Verdi’s cruel but musically…

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Rewilding in Dorset

REWILDING is quite a buzz word these days, but what does it actually mean? And did you know there is a thriving rewinding project in Dorset? Learn more about it at a Gillingham Action for Nature meeting, on Thursday 1st May, at 7pm at Gillingham Vicarage schoolrooms. Many people will have heard of, or even…

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Concerts in the West accordion-saxophone duo

THE unusual pairing of saxophone – Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi – and accordion – Spanish accordionist Inigo Mikeleiz-Berrada – is featured in the April series of Concerts in the West, at Bridport, Ilminster and Crewkerne on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th. The London-based Mikeleiz-Zucchi Duo have won a number of awards including the Royal Overseas…

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Beethoven recital at Shute

PIANIST Stephen Beville comes to Shute in East Devon for a recital at St Michael’s Church, on Friday 14th March, at 7.30pm, part of the continuing Shute Festival Acclaimed in 2010 by the Frankfurter Neue Press as “one of the most talented young musicians to emerge from the UK,” Stephen Beville is a pianist and…

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Beatson returns to Concerts in the West

THERE will be a warm welcome for Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson when he returns to Dorset and Somerset for the March series of Concerts in the West, starting as always with the coffee concert at Bridport Arts Centre, on Friday 14th at 11.30am. The tour continues that evening at Ilminster Arts Centre at 7.30, and…

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