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Join us for our 32nd annual festival in Cerne Abbas. Classical masterpieces presented in beautiful, informal surroundings by musicians who are principal players in some of Europe’s greatest orchestras and ensembles.

Whasson? (and where’s it to?)

Sunday, June 25

Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens is holding a plant fair with Plant Heritage.

A ‘Vagus Nerve Reset Day Retreat’ will be held at Launceston Farm, Tarrant Launceston, (near Blandford Forum), 10am - 4.30pm. Introduction to the vagus nerve and relaxation practices, culinary adaptogens talk and mini-workshop, breathwork session, delicious organic lunch and afternoon tea (gluten and dairy free). Bookings essential as limited places. More info at thewelllifelab.systeme.io/dayretr eatjune

Beaminster Festival: Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin) Junyan Chen (piano) at 7.30pm at St Mary’s Church. Music by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

Information and tickets at:

cerneabbasmusicfestival.org.uk

Cerne Abbas Music Festival

July 20-23

Booking opens June 22nd

July 20, 7pm, Schmitt, Hummel, Dvorak

July 21, 7pm Weber, Jacob, Brahms

July 22, 11.30am coffee concert.

Light, varied and entertaining

Tickets £22 reserved, Age 8-25 Free. beaminsterfestival.com

Monday, June 26

TicketSource 0333 666 3366 Beaminster Festival: 11.30am at St Mary’s Church. Hathor Duo (Meera Maharaj / Lucy Nolan -flute / harp). Tickets £12/U25 free.

2.30pm Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well Gardened Mind in conversation with Simon Tiffin. Tickets £12/£2 U18.

7.30pm Choir of Clare College, Cambridge Sumer is icumen in. Tickets £22/£2U18.

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Bridport Museum’s weekly talks continue with Professor Karen Hunt on Bridport and Refugees, at 5pm for 5.30pm. £5 from museum shop

Wessex Morris Men’s Squire Pete’s Tour heads to The Rose

July 22, 7pm

Boccherini, Dvorak, Beethoven

July 23, noon. Mozart Piano concerto, Flute Quartet and Horn Quintet

July 23, 6pm Devienne, Mozart and Schubert Trout Quintet and Crown, Longburton, DT9 5PD at 7.30pm, then Folke Golf Centre, Sherborne, DT9 5HR at 8.30pm.

Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens is hosting Shakespeare in the Garden: Twelfth Night at

Tuesday, June 27

6pm. abbotsburytickets.co.uk

Beaminster Festival at St

Mary’s Church:

11.30am Richard Gowers (organ). Music by Demessieux, Vaughan Williams, Bach, Mason and Sowerby. Tickets £12/£2U18.

2.30pm Stephen Moss, naturalist and author of Ten birds that changed the world. Tickets £12.

7.30pm Timothy Ridout (viola ) and Jonathan Ware (piano). Music by Clara and Robert Schumann and Franck. £22/U25 free. beaminsterfestival.com

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Bridport & District U3A will hear about The Art of Dishevelment (garden design) by Charles Chesshire, a garden designer whose work can be found as far afield as New York, Long Island, Saudi Arabia, London and France. He was curator of Burford Gardens and consultant to Sudeley Castle and Sezincote Gardenrestoring Lydney Park in Gloucestershire and the 90 acres of Morton Hall Gardens that are both frequently open to the public and been published widely in garden magazines. He moved to Dorset in 2018 where he set up a rare plant nursery in Symondsbury.

Bridport United Church Hall, East Street, 2pm. Free to members, non-members

Weds, June 28

£2. bridportu3a.org.uk

Beaminster Festival @ St Mary’s Church: 11.30am Ethan Loch (piano).

Finalist in BBC Young Musician. Music by Bach, Debussy and Chopin . Tickets £12/£2 U18. 7.30pm: Sacconi String Quartet and Morgan Szymanski (guitar). Music by Vivaldi, Haydn, Piazzolla, Boccherini. Tickets £22/U25 free. beaminsterfestival.com

Whasson? (and where’s it to?)

June 28 continued

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The Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society is hosting a talk on Edible Flowers and Leaves by Sian Davis of Incredible Edible Flowers. Uplyme Village Hall DT7 3UY. Members free, non-members £3. Doors open 7pm for refreshments, talk starts

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The Anja Graefe Band and Jody and the Jerms are playing Clocktower Records Bridport.

The melodic blues and folk quartet play their own contemplative and bouncy blues with music that will stay in your head and leave you craving more. Influenced by Anja’s travels, this powerful band is one not to miss for lovers of music with soul. Tickets from Bridport Tourist Information Centre online or by phone or on 01308 424901.

7.30pm: Dominic Alldis and friends on guitar, double bass and saxophone. An evening of jazz and cabaret. Tickets £22/U25 free.

Jen’s ice cream van. Kids free. Sherborne Digby Hall

Monthly Market will be held 10am-3pm at New Digby Hall nxt to the library DT9 3AA, with antiques, arts, crafts, food & more. Cafe, free entry parking and toilets.

7.30pm. ulrhs.wordpress.com

Beaminster Festival @ St Mary’s Church:

11.30am Ryan Corbett (classical accordion). Music from Bach to Albeniz.

Tickets £12/£2 U18.

2.30pm: Tom Fort, author of Rivets, trivets and galvanised buckets. Tickets £12/£2 U18

7.30pm: Yuanfan Yang (piano). Music by Mozart, Faure, Liszt , Debussy and improvisations. Tickets £22/£2 U18. beaminsterfestival.com

Moreton Village Hall has prize bingo – eyes down 7.30pm in

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2.30pm: Alison Weir, author of Henry VIII The Heart and the Crown. Tickets £12/£2 U18. 8pm: at Beaminster School –Zoots, sounds of the 60s and 70s. Tickets £18 /£8 under 18. beaminsterfestival.com

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Come and have tea in the garden from 2pm-5pm at the Old Rectory, Stock Gaylard, DT10 2BG.

Fabulous tea, stalls. Admission £5 including tea, children under 12 free, well behaved dogs on leads welcome. Free parking. All proceeds for Lydlinch Church Roof Fund.

11.30am: Faith i Branko Quartet – Serbian Roma jazz. Branko Ristic (violin), Faith Ristic (accordion) with tabor pipe, double bass and guitar. Tickets £12/U25 free.

Cerne Abbas village fete is on from 1.30pm-4.30pm at Cerne Abbas Brewery. Admission £3 Raffle in aid of St Mary’s Church and Cerne Abbas First School, bric-a-brac, books, plants, new to you, cakes, tombola, honey, prettiest rose, sideshows, Morris men, hot food, classic cars, school choir,

Crossways Youth & Community Centre in Old Farm Way, DT2 8TU is holding a coffee café and car boot sale with bacon butties and homemade cakes, books and bric-a-brac stalls 9am-noon. Tables or pitches £5: bookings@crosswaysycc.org

Open to traders from 8am. A Flowers and Home Crafts Exhibition will be held at St

Giles Church, Hooke DT8 3PA from 10am-4pm. To book email joye321@btinternet.com Refreshments. Entry by donation. No commercial sales.

An exhibition by Bridport Art Society called Summertide runs July 1-July 23 at Sou’ Sou’-West Arts Gallery, Symondsbury DT6 6HG, 10.30am-4.30pm daily. bridportart.com

Skittles night at Frampton Village Hall, starting with children’s skittles 6pm-7pm. BBQ, bar, raffle and adults

Sunday, July 2 individual and team skittles. The Friends of Greenhill Gardens (01305 768446, greenhill-gardens.co.uk) are holding live music every Sunday in July, 2pm-4pm featuring: July 2 Weymouth Ukeleleans, July 9 The Originals, (A Weldmar Hospice Event), July 16 The Dorset

Wrecks, July 23 Tony Lowe (A Weldmar Hospice Event), July 30 The Decadettes.

Beaminster Festival @ St Mary’s Church: 7.30pm: Gala Concert by Orpheus Sinfonia. Director/cello Thomas Carroll to include music by Mozart and Haydn. Tickets £25/£20 unreserved /£5 U18. beaminsterfestival.com

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Frampton Village Fete, 1pm4.30pm. Between the village hall and Millennium Green. Stalls, games, BBQ, teas, bar, ice creams, duck races, raffles, classic cars and with dancing from The Studio Dorset and live music from Teresa De Roberto. £1 entry for adults. West Dorset Community

Weds, July 5

Orchestra and Local Vocals Community Choir present a summer concert at 7.30pm at

St John’s Church West Bay.

West Dorset Community Orchestra is based in Bridport and plays mainly classical and light music pieces. They will be playing a varied range of orchestral pieces to include music such as an Abba Medley,Country Dance by Gustav Holst, Marche Militaire by Franz Schubert, and a suite by Peter Warlock, along with an interesting programme of vocal music by Local Vocals. Admission is free with a retiring collection. There will be refreshments at the interval and a raffle.

Dorchester and District Gardening Club will hear All about Pelargoniums from speaker Brian Carlson – a retired schoolmaster who has been growing and showing the flowers for 40 years. Learn all about pelargoniums, frost tender plants (originally called geraniums), which are heat and drought tolerant and perfect for containers to flower all summer long.

The meeting starts at 7.30pm (doors open 7.15pm) at St George’s Church Hall, High Street, Fordington, Dorchester DT1 1LB. Free entry for members, visitors £4 on the door. There is also a bring and buy stall and a draw, with tea/coffee and biscuits available after the talk. All welcome. Contact: Jane,

Thursday, July 6 secretary 01305 268523. Sherborne and District Gardeners’ Association will meet at 7.30pm at the Digby Hall, Hound Street, when Cecilla Bufton, chairman of Plant Heritage, will give a talk entitled Conserving the Diversity of Garden Plants. All welcome. Visitors £3. Further information from Richard