Smash plates at Broadwindsor Fun Day
SIMON Emmerson, founder of the international folk band The Imagined Village, will be playing at this year’s Broadwindsor Fun Day this Saturday 11 June. Simon and some of his musician friends will be performing at the event, which has ‘Global Village’ as its theme. Stallholders will be representing countries from around the world as the fun [...]
Lush Places: From Screen to Page
Kazuo Ishiguro came on with Jonathan Coe to rapturous applause.
‘I’m missing Spurs v. Real Madrid for this?’ Mr Grigg said.
‘In the literary world, Mr Grigg, this man is bigger than Pat Jennings’s hands,’ I said, showing my age and also my ignorance of 21st century football.
Mr Grigg settled back and attempted to enjoy the interview…
Bridport: Good book, great film
The novelist Jonathan Coe on Bridport’s forthcoming film festival From Page to Screen.
Dorset’s Mash Hit returns with Drimpton’s 4th Potato Day
You Tubers: on the World Wide Web it means video-makers. In Dorset it means something else.
Folk musician returns to Dorset for Christmas concert
THE LOVELY soaring voice and fiddle of award-winning folk artist Jackie Oates can be enjoyed again in Broadwindsor just before Christmas.
Lyme Regis curator reveals home of Victorian internet
IF YOU THOUGHT the world wide web was a 20th-21st century phenomenon, think again. Better still, come to the Woodmead Hall in Lyme Regis next Thursday, 11 November at 2.30pm, and hear all about the Porthcurno Museum in deepest Cornwall, home of the Victorian Internet. Did you know, for instance, that Porthcurno Valley down near Lands [...]
Revived: Dorset tunes of the 1820s
BASED ON on a recent chance discovery of an 1820’s manuscript book of fiddle tunes from the Blackmore Vale, acclaimed local folk musicians Tim Laycock and Colin Thompson have put together a new musical show and are touring it around the Artsreach circuit. Tim and Colin’s show, Benjamin’s Book, named after the manuscript’s author Benjamin [...]