FANS of global music have a treat at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, with a month of exciting folk music, from Somaliland to Brazil via Ireland and Yorkshire, continuing on Thursday 19th, two members of one of English folk music’s greatest dynasties, Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy, come to the Marine. Now in his 80s, Martin…
CORNWALL-based singer and songwriter Sarah McQuaid is back on the road again this autumn, and comes to the Ustinov Studio at Bath Theatre Royal on Monday 30th September. Sarah’s been mentioned in a quiz question on BBC Radio 4’s Counterpoint, featured on the O2 Music Map, supported by the Arts Council, presented with a Lifetime…
THE summer folk festival programme continues with Lyme Folk Weekend, from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th August. Lyme Folk Weekend is focused with four big events at the Marine Theatre, starting on Friday 23rd with Steve Knightley, half of the West Country’s favourite folk duo Show of Hands, followed on Saturday by rising star Angeline…
VIRTUOSO musicians, led by violinist David Juritz, return to Burton Bradstock in August for the Dorset seaside village’s annual festival of music and art. The festival runs from Saturday 10th to Sunday 18th, with the annual art exhibition in the village hall throughout the week, and music, mainly in St Mary’s Church, from Sunday to…
IF your thoughts go north of the border at the mention of “the Fringe” you clearly haven’t discovered the Shaftesbury Fringe, a weekend of entertainment, comedy, music, dance, theatre, cabaret, poetry, eccentricity and all-round original creativity. This year’s Shaftesbury Fringe, running over four days, from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th July, features a massive line-up…
OPERA in beautiful rural settings is now almost as much part of the English summer (whatever the weather) as the village fete and strawberries and cream. The tiny village of Oborne near Sherborne has quietly but steadily been developing its own mini opera festival, and this year, from Friday 26th July to Sunday 4th August…
SIDMOUTH Folk Festival returns this year, from Friday 2nd to Friday 9th August – for the 70th anniversary, making it one of the world’s longest established celebration of traditional folk music and dance. Sidmouth has been at the heart of the English – and British, European and world – folk scene, championing traditional music, dance…
CRANBORNE Chase, with the Cursus, Badbury Rings and many prehistoric remains, is a magical landscape – where better to launch a new festival which aims to reconnect with nature and the rural environment, in a multi-arts programme of music, dance, storytelling and theatre for all the family? The Labyrinth Arts Festival will take place at…
POOLE Lighthouse and Pound Arts at Corsham are among the venues for a June tour that explores the stories and songs of the Isles of Scilly. Lost Songs of Scilly is a collaboration between Piers Lewin and John Patrick Elliott, creating music to celebrate and explore a sense of these very special islands off the…
ONE of the world’s finest klezmer bands, She’Koyokh, seven virtuoso musicians who play traditional music from the Balkans and Turkey, return to Dorset for two concerts with Artsreach, the county’s touring arts charity, at the Mowlem theatre in Dorset on Saturday 25th May and the Exchange at Sturminster Newton on Sunday 26th, both at 7.30pm…..