PRIMARY school aged children in around the south west have a chance to experience live music, when the BSO’s Explore the Orchestra tour visits the University of Exeter on 30th January, Bristol Beacon on 27th March and Poole Lighthouse on 19th and 20th May with a series of free Explore the Orchestra concerts. With the addition…
THE third Shaftesbury Festival of Baroque takes place at the arts centre, St Peter’s Church, St James’s Church and other venues from 20th to 26th January. The programme ranges from film to dance to a “battle” of 17th century playwrights. Professional musicians from the region and beyond (even Cumbria) will be taking part in this…
YEOVIL’S intimate Swan Theatre, whose stage is home to some of the region’s finest non professional theatrical productions, is celebrating 50 years of live drama with a January festival, and it starts by allowing a multi award winning actor to realise a long held dream. Patrick Knox will takes the title role in Jeffrey Bernard…
COMEDY classical music quartet Graffiti Classics explode onto the stages of Dorset halls to launch the Artsreach 2026 programme. The three date tour starts on Thursday 8th at Wootton Fitzpaine village hall, followed by Lytchett Matravers on Friday 9th and the Corn Exchange at Blandford on Saturday 10th, all at 7.30pm. With 16 strings, eight…
BATH Festivals has announced some of the highlights of next year’s international music festival, with tickets for five concerts released early – a perfect post Christmas gift for the music-lover in your life! The international music festival will run from Saturday 30th May to Sunday 7th June, and the first of the newly released events…
SHAFTESBURY Chamber Music Series founder violinist Ruth Rogers returns home to Shaftesbury on Saturday 13th December for a sonata recital. She will be joined by pianist Simon Callaghan at the Farrington Hall at Port Regis School on Saturday 13th December for a recital that begins with Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in D, Op. 12 No. 1…
IF you love folk and traditional music with a festive flavour, you probably already know that Christmas and the Mellstock Band go together like turkey and cranberry sauce. This December, the delightful quartet, who recreate the music of Thomas Hardy’s time, come to Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday 13th December at 7.30pm. The name Mellstock…
A CRITICALLY acclaimed young pianist, Reed Tetzloff, will give an afternoon recital, The Romantic Piano, at St John’s Church, Tisbury, on Saturday 13th December at 3.30pm. The concert is raising funds for the church. Tetzloff came to international attention ten years ago at the XV Tchaikovsky Competition, where he was dubbed “the lyric hero of…
IF you think grand opera is all about very big voice, huge orchestras and vast opera houses, think again! Dorset’s Artsreach rural touring charity is bringing a small scale operatic entertainment to Yetminster on Sunday 14th December. Village halls may not have much in common with Covent Garden, the Met, Sydney Opera House or La…
CONSONE Quartet, the first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, is coming to Bridport Arts Centre, Ilminster Arts Centre and Crewkerne Dance House on 28th and 29th November, for the final Concerts in the West tour of 2025. The four musicians – Agata Daraškaite and Magdalena Loth-Hill, violins, Elitsa…