“BEECH leaves, that yellow the noon-time, Float past like specks in the eye; I set every tree in my June time, And now they obscure the sky …” … wrote Thomas Hardy in his poem, Beech Leaves. Join folk singers and actors Tim Laycock and Alastair Braidwood at Dorchester Corn Exchange on Sunday, 15th November,…
THE hugely popular Dorset folk duo Ninebarrow have a gig with Dorchester Arts at Thomas Hardye School theatre, on Saturday 14th November. The show focuses on their recent studio album, The Hour of the Blackbird, a collection of beautiful original songs. Ninebarrow – Jon Whitley and Jay La Bouchardiere – consistently delight audiences across the…
SPRINGHEAD, the sustainability and environmental charity based at Fontmell Magna, celebrates the garden’s magical waterscape on Friday 6th November with Tales of Clear Waters: an Evening of Stories, Songs and Memories inspired by Springhead. Organised by storyteller and Springhead trustee Taprisha, it will include stories and fables from across the world and through the ages…
IMAGINE a heady and provocative blend of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Jacques Brel and Eartha Kitt … an Eastern European jazz club in the dark decades after the Second World War and the Cold War … That’s the aura created by the brilliant Moscow Drug Club, who have several local dates on their autumn tour,…
JAZZ by the Sea has a French twist on a Latin American favourite style when Bossa Definitiva comes to the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, on Sunday 8th November. The trio, led by Paris-born vocalist Véronique Joly, with Canadian saxophonist Terry Quinney and guitarist Rob Palmer, celebrate the cool Bossa Nova sounds of Stan Getz and…
TALENTED folk trio Jon Doran and The Northern Assembly draw on their varied backgrounds to create an evening of traditional folk with a contemporary edge, on a short Artsreach tour, including Cerne Abbas village hall on Thursday 22nd October, Marnhull village hall on Friday 23rd and Broadwindsor’s Comrades Hall on Saturday 24th, all at 7.30pm….
BRIDPORT Arts Centre staff and supporters have just 10 weeks to reach the fund-raising target of £400,000 to bring the South Street building into community ownership. A gala event at the arts centre on Friday 23rd October will help to boost the funds with an evening of poetry, music and good food. Local support, whether…
OVER the past 13 years, singer and artistic director Lynsey Docherty has developed the Celebrate Voice festival that she founded at Salisbury into one of the region’s most exciting and varied events. This year’s festival runs from 21st to 31st October with a line-up of world-class singers and musicians delighting audiences with 11 days of…
MILLION Dollar Quartet, the hit musical which moved from Cirencester’s Barn Theatre to a London season, is going on a national tour in 2027, with 23 major venues all across the country from January to July. After its sell-out success at the Barn in the summer, Million Dollar Quartet is at The Arts at Marble…
THE Marine Theatre at Lyme Regis moves from its successful summer rep season to a month packed with music, continuing on Thursday 24th September with a gig by John Bramwell, singer with I Am Kloot from 1999 to 2014; and Friday 25th with Andy Featherweather-Low and the Low Riders. I am Kloot achieved a Mercury…