SALISBURY’S Autumn vocal festival is all ready to Celebrate Voice again from 19th to 28th October in the city, marking its tenth year by welcoming the BBC Singers to the Italianate church in Wilton, and all other events to the Guildhall. Founder and director, Lynsey Docherty is delighted that the festival, which has recently become…
IT seems hard to believe that it is ten years since the first performances of the Ridgeway Singers and Band, and the anniversary is being celebrated with a concert at Bridport on Sunday 29th October. The group’s concerts of traditional (and new) Dorset songs and tunes feels like an ancient part of the cultural fabric…
STRODE Theatre at Street opened on 5th October 1963 with its first public event, a concert by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and marked the start of its diamond jubilee year with a return visit by the BSO on the actual 60th birthday. The theatre, which is part of Strode College and one of the…
THE brilliant Rheingans Sisters will be at Honiton Beehive on Saturday 23rd September. The sisters – Rowan and Anna – are two of the UK’s leading contemporary folk musicians. They are coming to the Beehive Centre at Honiton on Saturday 23rd September on a short tour which includes John Wesley’s New Room in Bristol on…
FIVE folk singers and musicians – a veritable “super-group” of the British folk scene – are on a short tour in September, recreating a programme of maritime songs that they recorded on an album last year. The local dates are at Clevedon’s Princes Hall on 27th and the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, on Thursday 28th…
THE love life of Henry VIII has been the stuff of song, play, documentary, novel, television reconstruction and Fringe musical for centuries and, in its latest manifestation, has been packing out in theatres across the UK, Broadway and beyond. Now SIX has returned to an almost sold-out Bath Theatre Royal until 26th August. This all-female…
FOLK singer Anna Tam is coming to Shaftesbury Abbey on Saturday 5th August for an evening concert starting at 6pm. Anna gives traditional British folk songs her own personal twist. She sings with a clear, bright voice and accompanies herself on a selection of traditional and historical string instruments, including the nyckelharpa, viola da gamba,…
A CHANCE meeting in a small Russian cultural cafe in Glasgow led to the formation of the Tim Kliphuis trio, now regarded as one of the finest string ensembles, comes to the Corn Exchange at Dorchester on Friday 19th May at 8pm. The trio, which was founded after the meeting in Café Cossachok in 2006,…