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  • Choral Evensong

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    Join us for our monthly, cathedral-style service of choral evensong on Saturday 25 June at 4.30pm in St Peter's Church, Dorchester. Music includes: Bruckner 'Locus iste', Radcliffe 'Responses', Purcell 'Magnificat […]

    Free

  • Carmen by Regents Opera

    The Mowlem Shore Road, Swanage

    Regents Opera is a leading fringe Opera Company specialising in the larger works of the 19th & 20th centuries. The now touring company offers emerging and established singers a platform to perform major repertoire not often staged outside the major houses. Directed by Paul Higgins of Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House, this […]

    £8 – £18

  • Jazz for a Summer’s Evening

    Sherborne Music school

    Jazz for a Summer's evening - The Music School, Sherborne School Wednesday 29th June 7.30pm Come to hear the Dixieland Jazz band and the swing Band in an open air […]

    £10

  • Old Baby Mackerel

    Winterborne Stickland Village Hall Winterborne Stickland

    Old Baby Mackerel play high-energy, foot-stomping Bluegrass featuring a dizzying line-up of renowned musicians from some of the UK’s best folk, Americana and festival bands, including Artsreach favourites Flats & […]

    £5 – £27

  • Quinfest Charity Festival

    The charity event will take place at Milborne St Andrews Sports Pavilion. Quinfest is a family music festival in memory of Amy Quin to be held on 8/9th July 2022 ( Saturday as the main day ) to raise much needed funds for the Poole Hospital Charity and Marie Curie. Quinfest was formed in 2019 […]

  • Old Baby Mackerel

    Marnhull Village Hall Burton St, Marnhull

    Old Baby Mackerel play high-energy, foot-stomping Bluegrass featuring a dizzying line-up of renowned musicians from some of the UK’s best folk, Americana and festival bands, including Artsreach favourites Flats & […]

    £5 – £18

  • Music in the Park

    Pageant Gardens Sherborne

    Sherborne Town Band are pleased to be back in the beautiful Pageant Gardens for an exciting concert.

  • Choral Evensong

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    You are warmly invited to our monthly cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 23rd July at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. Music includes: Philip Stopford 'God be in […]

    Free

  • John Devine’s “Notions”

    Tolpuddle Village Hall Main Road, Tolpuddle

    An original live music performance presenting John's latest album "Notions" a brilliant cross genre body of work featuring the poetry of Seamous O'Rourke with traditional and modern instrumentation, as featured […]

    £10.00

  • Family Musicals

    St Cuthberts Church Oborne, Sherborne

    An hour of family friendly music including Disney Classics.

    £5 – £7.50

  • Bees a-Swarmen!

    North Dorset Beekeepers Associa1on Bees a -Swarmen! Traditonal Music and Song With Tim Laycock and Colin Thompson A country garland of dance tunes and folksongs collected in Dorset, played on fiddle, viola, guitar, concer&na and melodeon. Readings from William Barnes, Thomas Hardy and other Dorset writers https://buy1ckets.at/northdorsetbka/717111 All proceeds to the North Dorset Honeybee Centre. […]

    £12.00

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