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New Blackmore Vale, 5 August 2022
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Arts & Entertainment
Take your partners by the hand... Barn dance will help a good local cause
Fancy doing do-si-doe and helping to raise funds for a local charity? Then support a barn dance in aid of Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show’s Student Support Fund at the Turnpike Showground on Wednesday, 10 August. Black Sheep, one of Dorset’s most popular barn dance and ceilidh bands, who have been
entertaining audiences across the county for over 30 years, are providing he music. Tickets are £10 and the marquee opens at 6pm with music from 7.30pm. Bar and hot food caterers are available. The student support fund, only in its second year, was set up the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Agricultural Society to offer grants to students entering agricultural, horticultural, countryside and
Pugin Hall (pictured) in Rampisham, a stunning garden in West Dorset, is the venue for a ‘summer music night’ as part of the National Garden Scheme. The String Quartet will be playing music including everything from the big screen, opera, Broadway to pop, in this beautiful setting on Saturday, August 13.
Audience members can start the evening by wandering through the gardens and grounds while enjoying sparkling white and rosé wine. A light buffet will be offered from 6.30pm. Tickets cost £45 and pre-booking essential. For more information, visit https://ngs.org.uk/dorsetspecial-garden-events
Stunning garden venue for music on a summer night
land-based industries. It offers help with costs towards college or university course fees, books and equipment or even to help meet transport costs of getting to a place of study from a rural location. In 2021 the fund gave out £3,674.76. This year the fund is set to give out more than £4,000 in grants ranging from £100 to £1,500 to students of all ages requiring financial help to get
onto their courses. Event organiser James Cox said: “People who attend our events help us to truly make a difference to someone’s education and future prospects by supporting us and therefore the Student Support Fund. The fund is vital as we know rural livelihoods are crucial to our county.” Book via info@ gillinghamandshaftesburyshow. co.uk or phone 01747 823955.
Summer music at Pugin Hall Saturday 13th August, 6-9PM Pugin Hall, Rampisham, nr Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 0PR
Join us for an evening of music at Pugin Hall - one of our most stunning gardens in West Dorset. This year, a limited number of tickets have been made available for an exclusive evening. The String Quartet will play a spectrum of music from the screen, opera, Broadway and pop, ‘music to delight everyone’. Start the evening by wandering through the gardens and grounds enjoying sparkling white and rosé wine. A light buffet will be offered from 6.30pm onwards.
The String Quartet Kindly sponsored by:
Tickets: £45, pre-booking essential
Handel’s ‘little opera’ al fresco Please visit our website:
ngs.org.uk/dorset-special-garden-events
Sunset Sounds is presenting Handel’s opera ‘Acis and Galatea’ at Wyke House, Wyke Champflower, on Saturday and Sunday, 20-21 August. The pastoral opera is a tale of love between the sea-nymph Galatea, the mortal shepherd Acis and the jealous Cyclops giant Polyphemus.
The work, composed in 1718, has been described as a serenata, a masque – and a ‘little opera’ by Handel himself while it was being written – and has been the subject of Renaissance poems, paintings and statues. It is performed by Hugo Hymas, Amy Carson and Tim Dickinson, with the
baroque ensemble Music for A While, led by Margaret Faultless. The gardens open at 5.30pm with the performance at 6pm. Tickets cost £35 and early booking is advised to avoid disappointment as space is limited. For further information, email sunsetsounds. wykehouse@gmail.com
