Imperial War Museum in London keen to work with Bridport singer following album featuring songs inspired by recent conflicts

Billy Bragg and his guitar have been summoning us to the barricades for the past three decades, and today he’s more hopeful for real change than ever before

LUSH Places is building itself up to a climactic Christmas. The air is awash with rumours about the possible identity of the ‘guests’ at the winter solstice concert in the village hall this weekend. With the leader of super folk band The Imagined Village in our midst, it could be anyone. Hell, there is even talk of one [...]

THE LOVELY soaring voice and fiddle of award-winning folk artist Jackie Oates can be enjoyed again in Broadwindsor just before Christmas.

A £500 REWARD is being offered for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons who stole a guitar and banjo in Bridport. The instruments were taken from the back of a Transit van in Happy Island Way, Jessop Avenue, on or around Wednesday 27 October. The guitar is a Fender Stratocaster Sienna Burst, custom [...]

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 [...]

SOMETIMES it can seem that every school and village hall in Dorset is putting on drumming workshops. I went to one watch the end of one in Loders village hall earlier this year, and the racket was indescribable in words; it was rather like all the letters of the alphabet had been turned into acrobatic [...]