Dorchester Festival returns to its ‘spiritual roots’ in the town's refurbished Borough Gardens. As there is no big white tent this year, ticketed events are likely to sell out quickly.
FESTIVAL 08 • The World Comes to Town
Dorchester Festival, now in it’s 8th year, always
manages to surprise and inspire, and 2008 will be
no different!
Cuba is our theme, with son, salsa and samba adding magic to a high quality programme of events that features a great mix of popular and up-and-coming performers, many of whom will play at two free events in Dorchester’s Victorian pleasure park, the Borough Gardens.
This year’s festival would not have been possible without the unwavering support of Dorchester Town Council and our management board. A big thank you goes to all our sponsors, and especially West Dorset District Council for their continued guidance and support.
Vamos a todos y fiesta!
Sharon Hayden, Artistic Director
Cuba is our theme, with son, salsa and samba adding magic to a high quality programme of events that features a great mix of popular and up-and-coming performers, many of whom will play at two free events in Dorchester’s Victorian pleasure park, the Borough Gardens.
This year’s festival would not have been possible without the unwavering support of Dorchester Town Council and our management board. A big thank you goes to all our sponsors, and especially West Dorset District Council for their continued guidance and support.
Vamos a todos y fiesta!
Sharon Hayden, Artistic Director
BUY TICKETS ONLINE!
Tickets for all paid-for events in Dorchester
Festival are now available online (10% booking fee
applies) You can click the links in each listing or
click here to view tickets by venue:
Dorchester Arts Centre
Corn
Exchange
Dorset County
Museum
St Mary's
Church
All Venues
VISUAL ART ON DISPLAY - 23 May - 8 June
Dorchester Arts Centre
Open08
23 May - 8 June
Dorchester Arts Centre, 10am - 5pm
Dorset County Hospital (North Wing, Level 2), 9am - 6pm.
Exhibition continues until 24 June at Dorset County Hospital.
Open08 is a new visual art exhibition for Dorchester Arts Centre featuring paintings, prints, photographs and other mixed media two-dimensional works by Dorset artists selected from open submission as part of this year's first Dorchester Arts Centre Open, in partnership with Dorset Art Weeks, Arts in Hospital and Evolver magazine.
‘Seeds, Fruits and Leaves’ 23 May - 8 June
Borough Gardens House, Borough Gardens, 10am - 5pm (Exhibition continues until 8 June, closed Thursdays)
A mixed media exhibition of new work by HELEN FRANCIS, SUSAN SLOAN and COLIN TRACY. Contemporary impressions of the Gardens by three artists exhibiting in the old nurseryman’s house; the first visual arts exhibition to be held in the newly restored Borough Gardens House. Stroll through the Gardens, visit the café, and enjoy this vibrant and stimulating exhibition. Discover hidden places and new perspectives through a fresh, creative look at familiar surroundings.
A partnership event with Dorchester Town Council, Dorchester Festival and Dorset Art Weeks.
23 May - 8 June
Dorchester Arts Centre, 10am - 5pm
Dorset County Hospital (North Wing, Level 2), 9am - 6pm.
Exhibition continues until 24 June at Dorset County Hospital.
Open08 is a new visual art exhibition for Dorchester Arts Centre featuring paintings, prints, photographs and other mixed media two-dimensional works by Dorset artists selected from open submission as part of this year's first Dorchester Arts Centre Open, in partnership with Dorset Art Weeks, Arts in Hospital and Evolver magazine.
‘Seeds, Fruits and Leaves’ 23 May - 8 June
Borough Gardens House, Borough Gardens, 10am - 5pm (Exhibition continues until 8 June, closed Thursdays)
A mixed media exhibition of new work by HELEN FRANCIS, SUSAN SLOAN and COLIN TRACY. Contemporary impressions of the Gardens by three artists exhibiting in the old nurseryman’s house; the first visual arts exhibition to be held in the newly restored Borough Gardens House. Stroll through the Gardens, visit the café, and enjoy this vibrant and stimulating exhibition. Discover hidden places and new perspectives through a fresh, creative look at familiar surroundings.
A partnership event with Dorchester Town Council, Dorchester Festival and Dorset Art Weeks.
Thursday 22 May • Festival Launch + Open08 Exhibition Preview
Dorchester Arts Centre, Festival Launch and Open08
preview 5.30 - 7.30pm (Presentations 6.30pm)
MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND INVITED GUESTS ONLY
MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND INVITED GUESTS ONLY
Thursday 22 May • Performed reading • Western Women
PERFORMED READING WITH MUSIC, Dorset County Museum,
7.30pm (Doors 7pm), £10 / £8 
Actress, playwright, theatre director and patron of Dorchester Arts Centre ANN JELLICOE will recreate The Western Women, her extraordinary Lyme Regis Community Play of 1984. It tells the thrilling story of the Royalist Siege of Lyme Regis in 1644, and how the women of the town begin to discover in themselves a fierce determination to help their exhausted men in defiantly repulsing the Siege. In so doing both men and women must confront challenges of gender, belief and ethics as relevant now as in 1644.
Ann
Jellicoe became identified with the Royal Court
Theatre, where she directed a number of her own
plays, including the highly successful The Knack in
1962. In 1973 Ann and her family left London for
the West Country where she began to discover and
develop the idea of Community Plays.
Assisted by musician TIM LAYCOCK on a variety of instruments, Ann brings her immense acting skill and sense of theatre to relate this utterly absorbing story of love, despair, confrontation, challenge and hope to hard won triumph.
Actress, playwright, theatre director and patron of Dorchester Arts Centre ANN JELLICOE will recreate The Western Women, her extraordinary Lyme Regis Community Play of 1984. It tells the thrilling story of the Royalist Siege of Lyme Regis in 1644, and how the women of the town begin to discover in themselves a fierce determination to help their exhausted men in defiantly repulsing the Siege. In so doing both men and women must confront challenges of gender, belief and ethics as relevant now as in 1644.
Assisted by musician TIM LAYCOCK on a variety of instruments, Ann brings her immense acting skill and sense of theatre to relate this utterly absorbing story of love, despair, confrontation, challenge and hope to hard won triumph.
Friday 23 May • Comedy night with Terry Saunders
COMEDY, Dorchester Arts Centre, 9pm (Doors 8pm), £8
/ £6 
MISSED CONNECTIONS is the story of a young woman called Ethel, who is obsessed with the ‘I Saw You’-style adverts in newspapers. She is desperate to be noticed by someone, so every day she wears or carries something outrageous, in the hope that someone will see her and write about her.
It is also the story of a down-at-heel optician called Mr Shah, an old-fashioned practitioner who still writes his prescriptions out by hand. And finally, it’s the story of Terry Saunders’s own real-life missed connections, of crying on a bus in rush hour, and about finding a kindred spirit at a bad party.
MISSED CONNECTIONS is the story of a young woman called Ethel, who is obsessed with the ‘I Saw You’-style adverts in newspapers. She is desperate to be noticed by someone, so every day she wears or carries something outrageous, in the hope that someone will see her and write about her.
It is also the story of a down-at-heel optician called Mr Shah, an old-fashioned practitioner who still writes his prescriptions out by hand. And finally, it’s the story of Terry Saunders’s own real-life missed connections, of crying on a bus in rush hour, and about finding a kindred spirit at a bad party.
He tells an exquisite story of loneliness, love and
opticians. As the yarn unfolds, his narrative is
accompanied by charming little animations projected
on a bed sheet beside him. Ethel, our hero has a
passion for reading missed connection notices on a
website, in a Desperately Seeking Susan kind of a
way.
Saunders lays out this delightful meandering story
that’s littered with gentle gags and heart-string
pullers.
It’s a show which will linger with you for much
time to come - don’t miss it and book early as he
is a dead cert to sell out!
Over the last three years Saunders has taken his
own unique style to the Edinburgh Fringe with shows
entitled Romantic Comedy, Pulp Boy and, in 2007,
Missed Connections, which is now being developed
for television. In addition, Pulp Boy is being
adapted for BBC Radio 4, to be broadcast this
autumn.
"Effortlessly
funny… a gentle but genius hour" Metro
Friday 23 May • WOW Youth Musical Theatre
MUSICAL THEATRE / CABARET, Corn Exchange, 7pm
(Doors 6.30pm), £8 / £6 
WOW
YOUTH MUSICAL THEATRE presents excerpts from their
recent show WOW That's What I Call Music with
phenomenal harmonies, intricate choreography and
the energy and enthusiasm that only this award
winning group can bring. Prepare yourself for an
evening of spectacular music.
Saturday 24 May • Frome Valley Morris and Friends
Frome Valley Morris and Friends
Borough Gardens, 10am - 1pm, FREE
Frome
Valley Morris and invited guests celebrate their
25th anniversary.
Borough Gardens, 10am - 1pm, FREE
Saturday 24 May • Street theatre and free events
A host of street theatre and musical performers
will be performing at various sites throughout the
town and Borough Gardens, including WILD
THYME
(11am at Waitrose and 3.30pm at the Borough Gardens
Kiosk)
and JAMES CHADWICK
(4pm at the Borough Gardens
Kiosk).
Supported by
DORCHESTER TOWN COUNCIL
Duende SALSA. Bandstand, 1pm. Led by Honduran-born Ramon Vallejo, this six piece band's repertoire includes uplifting salsa and merengue rhythms, romantic ballads and instrumental Latin jazz, most of which are their own compositions.
www.myspace.com/grupoduende
The Dualers have unfortunately had to cancel - we hope to book them for later in the year
Comedy Yoga - John Parkinson-Harden will be appearing on the Bandstand with his one-man "active display" Yoga for Laughs followed by eight piece local folk band Jigsaw.
Best-selling
author Lynne Reid Banks is running a story telling
session for children of all ages in the Borough
Gardens from 2-4pm. Her classic children’s novel,
The Indian in the Cupboard, has sold over ten
million copies worldwide and was made into a
successful feature film. Born in London, Lynne was
an actress in the early 1950’s and later became one
of the first women TV news reporters in Britain.
She has written forty books – her first, The
L-Shaped Room, was published in 1960.
James Chadwick FOLK. Croquet Lawn, 2.50pm. BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards Finalist
James
Chadwick is an accomplished singer-songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist with a unique style and
beautiful songs.
www.myspace.com/jameschadwick
Andrea Soler INDIE FOLK. Bandstand, 3.25pm. Andrea Soler is a fresh and inspiring singer-songwriter from Australia. Her unique style blends a variety of influences including soul, rap and flamenco. Overlaid with her effortlessly seductive vocals, this creates an irresistible sound.
www.myspace.com/andreasoler
Wheeler Street FOLK. Croquet Lawn, 4.10pm. Frequently described as 'a young Levellers',
Wheeler
Street, have an energy which is utterly infectious
yet is rooted in some of the oldest songs of
England.
www.myspace.com/wheelerstreet
Magic Drum: Festival Drum Circle
5 - 6pm. £5 / £4. Bring a drum or use one of ours. Open to all ages and abilities. Magic Drum's Community Drum Circles are a regular fixture at Dorchester Festival and this year is no exception. Come and join us for some serious rhythm fun.
Children’s Activities
Putting Green, 1 - 4pm.
BOROUGH GARDENS 1 - 6pm
Supported by
DORCHESTER TOWN COUNCIL
Duende SALSA. Bandstand, 1pm. Led by Honduran-born Ramon Vallejo, this six piece band's repertoire includes uplifting salsa and merengue rhythms, romantic ballads and instrumental Latin jazz, most of which are their own compositions.
www.myspace.com/grupoduende
The Dualers have unfortunately had to cancel - we hope to book them for later in the year
Comedy Yoga - John Parkinson-Harden will be appearing on the Bandstand with his one-man "active display" Yoga for Laughs followed by eight piece local folk band Jigsaw.
James Chadwick FOLK. Croquet Lawn, 2.50pm. BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards Finalist
www.myspace.com/jameschadwick
Andrea Soler INDIE FOLK. Bandstand, 3.25pm. Andrea Soler is a fresh and inspiring singer-songwriter from Australia. Her unique style blends a variety of influences including soul, rap and flamenco. Overlaid with her effortlessly seductive vocals, this creates an irresistible sound.
www.myspace.com/andreasoler
Wheeler Street FOLK. Croquet Lawn, 4.10pm. Frequently described as 'a young Levellers',
www.myspace.com/wheelerstreet
Magic Drum: Festival Drum Circle
5 - 6pm. £5 / £4. Bring a drum or use one of ours. Open to all ages and abilities. Magic Drum's Community Drum Circles are a regular fixture at Dorchester Festival and this year is no exception. Come and join us for some serious rhythm fun.
Children’s Activities
Putting Green, 1 - 4pm.
BOROUGH GARDENS 1 - 6pm
Saturday 24 May • Samba Band Procession 12.30pm
FiestaCubano
Samba Band Procession
Starts at Corn Exchange 12.30pm, arrives at Borough Gardens 1pm.
Duende
SALSA. Bandstand, 1pm. Led by Honduran-born Ramon Vallejo, this six piece band's repertoire includes uplifting salsa and merengue rhythms, romantic ballads and instrumental Latin jazz, most of which are their own compositions.
www.myspace.com/grupoduende
Samba Band Procession
Starts at Corn Exchange 12.30pm, arrives at Borough Gardens 1pm.
Duende
SALSA. Bandstand, 1pm. Led by Honduran-born Ramon Vallejo, this six piece band's repertoire includes uplifting salsa and merengue rhythms, romantic ballads and instrumental Latin jazz, most of which are their own compositions.
www.myspace.com/grupoduende
Saturday 24 May • Masterclass with Steven Berkoff
Dorchester Arts Centre 4pm - 5.30pm, £14 / £12
(limited spaces, includes talk at 7pm)
From
Bond and the Avengers to West end plays and
adaptations of Shakespeare, actor and writer Steven
Berkoff has seemingly done it all.
He is talking about his eventful life at 7pm - but first a fantastic opportunity to experience a Berkoff Masterclass. Numbers are limited so book early - and get free admission to the evening talk.
He is talking about his eventful life at 7pm - but first a fantastic opportunity to experience a Berkoff Masterclass. Numbers are limited so book early - and get free admission to the evening talk.
Saturday 24 May • Steven Berkoff • My Life in Food
STEVEN BERKOFF's latest book, My Life In Food is a gastronomic rollercoaster in which the master storyteller chomps his way around the world relishing the experience of eating every bit as much as the delicacies he samples.
Part-autobiography, part social commentary and part modern philosophy, My Life In Food is a culinary book like no other. Berkoff's tasty journey takes him from his mother's traditional Jewish kitchen and the simple teashops of his native post-war East End to haute cuisine around the world.
On his quest to find the perfect deli, Berkoff treats the reader to flavours, anecdotes and asides; he thrills at his first exquisite taste of sushi; marvels at the slabs of meat at a Brazilian barbecue and devotes entire chapters to the humble tomato, the beloved bagel and, of course, Mama's chicken soup.
MASTERCLASS, Dorchester Arts Centre, 4pm, £14 / £12 (includes Talk at 7pm). Practical theatre workshop.
Q&A and BOOK SIGNING, Dorchester Arts Centre, after talk
Saturday 24 May • Folk • Show of Hands + Miranda Sykes
Show of Hands · Dorchester Corn exchange, 8pm
(doors 7.30pm), £17 / £15 
We're
delighted to welcome Steve Knightly and Phil Beer
back to Dorch with singer Miranda Sykes for what
promises to be a stunning evening of music.
They don't normally appear in venues as small as the Corn Exchange - but we booked Show of Hands for the Big White Tent and thankfully they agreed to come anyway, when funding for our larger scale festival fell through.
The duo are widely acknowledged as the finest acoustic roots duo in England. Steve, who writes most of their inspired material and Phil, a dazzling multi instrumentalist, have built up a huge following which has seen them twice sell out the Albert Hall , headlining at major festivals from Glastonbury to WOMAD and playing all over the world, from Europe to America, Australia and India.
Voted Best Live Act by the public at the 2004 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, the jury is still out on just what kind of music they play. A genre defying mix of rock, roots, blues, country, trad, and often influenced by the music of other countries, it is played out on an array of instruments from slide guitar to fiddle, mandolin to South American cuatro.
They don't normally appear in venues as small as the Corn Exchange - but we booked Show of Hands for the Big White Tent and thankfully they agreed to come anyway, when funding for our larger scale festival fell through.
The duo are widely acknowledged as the finest acoustic roots duo in England. Steve, who writes most of their inspired material and Phil, a dazzling multi instrumentalist, have built up a huge following which has seen them twice sell out the Albert Hall , headlining at major festivals from Glastonbury to WOMAD and playing all over the world, from Europe to America, Australia and India.
Voted Best Live Act by the public at the 2004 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, the jury is still out on just what kind of music they play. A genre defying mix of rock, roots, blues, country, trad, and often influenced by the music of other countries, it is played out on an array of instruments from slide guitar to fiddle, mandolin to South American cuatro.
Sunday 25 May • SUNDAY IN THE PLEASURE GARDENS
Music Sunday 25 May in the Borough Gardens 1-5pm
Free Event
Former
members of The Producers, Harry Skinner and Dave
Saunders lead a great Sunday afternoon lineup of
rock and blues including the BB Hall Band and No
Regrets.
Harry and Dave have played just about every blues and jazz festival there is in the UK and Ireland, Europe, Australia and New Zealand - don't miss them!
Harry and Dave have played just about every blues and jazz festival there is in the UK and Ireland, Europe, Australia and New Zealand - don't miss them!
Sunday 25 May • Louis de Bernieres
READING and PERFORMANCE, Dorset County Museum,
7.30pm (Doors 7pm), £10 / £8.
In
this innovative and lighthearted book-based event
the author LOUIS DE BERNIERES will talk about and
read from his new novel A Partisan’s Daughter.
Louis, playing mandolin, will also be joined by flautist and keyboard player ILONE ANTONIUS-JONES and together they will perform a selection of music from Serbia and other Eastern European countries, Bob Dylan numbers and some classical items on a variety of instruments.
www.louisdebernieres.co.uk
BOOK SIGNING, Dorset County Museum, after performance
Louis, playing mandolin, will also be joined by flautist and keyboard player ILONE ANTONIUS-JONES and together they will perform a selection of music from Serbia and other Eastern European countries, Bob Dylan numbers and some classical items on a variety of instruments.
www.louisdebernieres.co.uk
BOOK SIGNING, Dorset County Museum, after performance
In partnership with
WORDS ETCETERA BOOKSHOP
Sunday 25 May • Bacalao - Salsa Big band
SALSA BIG BAND, Corn Exchange, 8.30pm, £10 /
£8 
The
UK’s finest salsa big band present a night of hot
Latin music for the dancefloor, bringing to mind
the great Cuban dance bands of the 40s and 50s.
From rumba to cha cha cha and salsa to mambo, the
12 strong Bacalao know how to get the party
started.
Since its formation nearly six years ago, Brighton-based Bacalao has developed into one of the biggest and most colourful salsa show bands in the country, thrilling audiences the length and breadth of the UK with their rich Cuban sound. Playing classic son, cumbia and bomba, with full brass section, Bacalao are acknowledged as the UK’s premier salsa big band.
www.bacalao.co.uk
SALSA DANCE MASTERCLASS, Corn Exchange, 7pm, FREE to ticket holders
Since its formation nearly six years ago, Brighton-based Bacalao has developed into one of the biggest and most colourful salsa show bands in the country, thrilling audiences the length and breadth of the UK with their rich Cuban sound. Playing classic son, cumbia and bomba, with full brass section, Bacalao are acknowledged as the UK’s premier salsa big band.
www.bacalao.co.uk
SALSA DANCE MASTERCLASS, Corn Exchange, 7pm, FREE to ticket holders
Monday 26 May • Quangle Wangle Choir
Quangle Wangle Choir
WORKSHOP, Corn Exchange, 10.30am - 12noon, £5 / Accompanied Children FREE
Come
and help the Quangle Wangle Choir raise the roof.
Whatever your level of experience, come and have
fun learning new songs at this harmony singing
workshop.
CONCERT, Corn Exchange, 12noon - 12.30pm, FREE
Come and hear the results of the morning’s workshop, as the Quangle Wangle Choir perform a half-hour set of world music, jazz and folk.
WORKSHOP, Corn Exchange, 10.30am - 12noon, £5 / Accompanied Children FREE
CONCERT, Corn Exchange, 12noon - 12.30pm, FREE
Come and hear the results of the morning’s workshop, as the Quangle Wangle Choir perform a half-hour set of world music, jazz and folk.
Monday 26 May • ‘Edges’ - Classical Music Premiere
‘Edges’
SONG CYCLE FOR SOPRANO, PIANO AND VIOLIN, St Mary’s Church, 1pm (Doors 12.30pm), £5 / £3
Music
by RICK BIRLEY • Performed by ABBI TEMPLE
(soprano), PETER OAKES (piano) and JENNY CURIEL (violin) This is the first public performance of Rick Birley’s song cycle Edges, a set of ten songs for soprano, piano and violin.
The poems are about mental states, some written by people suffering from mental instability. The overall title Edges reflects the fine balance we all tread between good and bad mental health. The poems include PATRICK GALVIN’s epic work The Madwoman of Cork.
SONG CYCLE FOR SOPRANO, PIANO AND VIOLIN, St Mary’s Church, 1pm (Doors 12.30pm), £5 / £3
(soprano), PETER OAKES (piano) and JENNY CURIEL (violin) This is the first public performance of Rick Birley’s song cycle Edges, a set of ten songs for soprano, piano and violin.
The poems are about mental states, some written by people suffering from mental instability. The overall title Edges reflects the fine balance we all tread between good and bad mental health. The poems include PATRICK GALVIN’s epic work The Madwoman of Cork.
Monday 26 May • BANK HOLIDAY IN THE PLEASURE GARDENS
BANK HOLIDAY IN THE PLEASURE GARDENS
Borough Gardens, Dorchester 1-9pm
Croquet Lawn, 1 - 3.30pm.
1pm: POPCLUB
1.30pm: EPIC JOURNEY
2.15pm: MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
3pm: THE DAZE
www.myspace.com/popclub46
www.myspace.com/epicjourneyuk
www.myspace.com/memoriesofthefuturemotf
www.myspace.com/thedazerocknroll
Children’s Activities
Performance Storyteller, writer and educator David James will be story telling on Bank Holiday Monday 2-4pm in the Borough Gardens.
David is well known for his storytelling, creative writing and drama workshops for people of all ages - he even helps teach teachers!
Julie Lewis JAZZ. Bandstand, 3.40pm. Weymouth based Julie Lewis is joined by bassist Simon Rushbrook for a set of sensitive, finely crafted songs that draw on a variety of influences.
Gothic
Chicken
PSYCHEDELIC ROCK. Croquet Lawn, 4.10pm.
Whirring, valve-and-clockworkdriven psychedelic
music.
www.myspace.com/gothicchickenuk
Dorchester Community Choir
Bandstand, 4.50pm. Led by Kathie Prince, Dorchester’s community choir perform a set of perfect summer afternoon songs.
y-Strels
Band.
Bandstand, 5.20pm.
Cool lying-onthe-grass-in-the-sunshine folk in the
afternoon.
The driving principle behind y'Strel's Band is to
tell stories through song.
For the Festival John and Annabel are concentrating on songs based on traditional stories about the lusty Ploughboy . “This is the ploughboy's time of year because all that effort that went into the breaking of the ground back in the winter is now standing in the fields; and that's quite an achievement - and explains why the ploughboy is such a symbol of fecundity,” says John.
Gilbert Quick Orchestra EXPERIMENTAL POP MUSIC. Croquet Lawn, 6pm. Nine-piece collective featuring voices, guitars, harp, drums, horns, flute, theramin, stylophone, glockenspiel and sound interventions.
www.myspace.com/gilbertquickorchestra
Rosie and The Goldbug
INDIE
ROCK. Croquet Lawn, 7pm.
Hailing from Cornwall, Rosie and The Goldbug are a
rising band of piano, bass and drums and one
almighty voice carried in the petite frame of lead
singer Rosie Vanier. Original and haunting.
www.myspace.com/rosieandthegoldbug
Flipron
BOHEMIAN
FOLK ROCK. Croquet Lawn, 8pm.
Formed by Jesse Budd, Flipron are a four-piece band
from Glastonbury that produce an otherworldly
collision of bittersweet melody and vaudeville
panache. Expect warped surf guitars, witty lyrics,
and frantic organ sounds!
www.myspace.com/flipron
Borough Gardens, Dorchester 1-9pm
Croquet Lawn, 1 - 3.30pm.
1pm: POPCLUB
1.30pm: EPIC JOURNEY
2.15pm: MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
3pm: THE DAZE
www.myspace.com/popclub46
www.myspace.com/epicjourneyuk
www.myspace.com/memoriesofthefuturemotf
www.myspace.com/thedazerocknroll
Children’s Activities
Putting Green, 1 - 4pm.
Performance Storyteller, writer and educator David James will be story telling on Bank Holiday Monday 2-4pm in the Borough Gardens.
David is well known for his storytelling, creative writing and drama workshops for people of all ages - he even helps teach teachers!
Julie Lewis JAZZ. Bandstand, 3.40pm. Weymouth based Julie Lewis is joined by bassist Simon Rushbrook for a set of sensitive, finely crafted songs that draw on a variety of influences.
www.myspace.com/gothicchickenuk
Dorchester Community Choir
Bandstand, 4.50pm. Led by Kathie Prince, Dorchester’s community choir perform a set of perfect summer afternoon songs.
For the Festival John and Annabel are concentrating on songs based on traditional stories about the lusty Ploughboy . “This is the ploughboy's time of year because all that effort that went into the breaking of the ground back in the winter is now standing in the fields; and that's quite an achievement - and explains why the ploughboy is such a symbol of fecundity,” says John.
Gilbert Quick Orchestra EXPERIMENTAL POP MUSIC. Croquet Lawn, 6pm. Nine-piece collective featuring voices, guitars, harp, drums, horns, flute, theramin, stylophone, glockenspiel and sound interventions.
www.myspace.com/gilbertquickorchestra
Rosie and The Goldbug
www.myspace.com/rosieandthegoldbug
Flipron
FESTIVAL STOP PRESS:
Music Sunday 25 May in the Borough Gardens
1-5pm Free Event
Ex Producers Harry Skinner and Dave Saunders lead a great Sunday afternoon lineup of rock and blues including the BB Hall Band and No Regrets - don't miss it!
Visual Art
Don't miss the Festival's two visual art exhibitions - Seeds, Fruits and Leaves in Borough Gardens House, and Open08 the first Dorchester Arts Centre Open, in partnership with Dorset Art Weeks, Arts in Hospital and Evolver magazine
Story telling Saturday and Monday
Best-selling author Lynne Reid Banks is running a story telling session for children of all ages in the Borough Gardens from 2-4pm. Her classic children’s novel, The Indian in the Cupboard, has sold over ten million copies worldwide and was made into a successful feature film. Born in London, Lynne was an actress in the early 1950’s and later became one of the first women TV news reporters in Britain. She has written forty books – her first, The L-Shaped Room, was published in 1960.
Performance Storyteller, writer and educator David James will be story telling on Bank Holiday Monday 2-4pm in the Borough Gardens. David is well known for his storytelling, creative writing and drama workshops for people of all ages - he even helps teach teachers!
The Dualers have unfortunately had to cancel their appearance on Saturday afternoon - we hope to book them for later in the year. In their place will be comedy act Yoga for Laughs followed by eight piece folk band Jigsaw.