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The Dorset Folk Project

The Dorset Folk Project

Spring 2024

During the Spring term we will be rolling out much of The Dorset Folk Project.

Monthly Folk Sessions with Colin and Ruth Thompson at the Chalk and Cheese, an evening with Tim Laycock and Colin Thompson celebrating Nature and Landscape.
Spring time walks with Alastair Simpson.

We will have our Schools performance on 22nd March in Blandford Parish Church, featuring our Fiddles and Whistles pupils, The Rural Village Schools Choir, Storytelling and more!

Keep checking the calendar for events and email the office for bookings and further details.

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Share a Tune !

Share a Tune !

Come along and share your latest tune with family and friends.

Sunday 26th November

Saturday 2nd December

Venue: The Dorset Rural Music School

All Share a Tunes at 10am in the Recital Room.

This is the perfect opportunity to play a new piece, however long or short, whether you are a Beginner or a Professional, these are always happy times to make new friends and reconnect with each other.

Our last Share a Tune of the term will have a special Christmas atmosphere not to be missed!

Tell your teacher if you would like to play, or simply come along on the day to hear your friends.

Tea, juice and cookies 🙂

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When Harvest Comes On

'When Harvest Comes On'

Friday 17th Nov, 7pm

Venue: The Dorset Rural Music School

Pay what you can afford. All welcome.

As part of our Music and Local Heritage series, Tim Laycock and Colin Thompson perform Dorset folk songs, poetry and stories from Dorset for an autumn evening.

Not to be missed, book early for this very special celebration of our Dorset Folk heritage.

Please book via the school email as seats are limited.

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Christmas Concert!

Christmas Concert!

Monday 4th December, 7.00pm

Venue: Blandford Parish Church

Pay what you can afford, all welcome.

Join us for our Christmas Concert.

Pupils and Staff welcome you to a celebratory programme for Christmas.

Party refreshments during the interval.

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Folk who Walk

Folk who Walk

Subject to weather conditions, £10, under 18s free.

Doggies on leads welcome !

Following our hugely successful Summer stroles, join Dorset-born folk singer Alastair Simpson for a countryside walk accompanied by traditional folk songs from the county and further afield.

Many folk songs belong in the outdoors, especially when they tell stories of the people who live and work there. Alastair is becoming known for his unaccompanied singing of traditional and modern folk songs, and is a lover of the Dorset countryside and nature which inhabits it. These walks will take in some beautiful scenery, bringing an opportunity to learn something of countryside ways, as well as meeting with the past to hear these old songs.

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Thursday Market Day lunchtime music series

Thursday Market Day lunchtime music series

Blandford Parish Church, 1.30pm

Pay what you can afford, all welcome.

Music while you Lunch.

Take a breather from Market Day and enjoy Live performance with your butties.

Dates for this ever popular series to be announced shortly.

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Caprice of Fancy

Caprice of Fancy

Music by Masters of the Classical Era series

Friday 10th November, 7.30pm

Venue: St. Mary's Parish Church, Shroton, DT11 8RF

Free entry, Donations welcomed, refreshments provided.


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