Rappers, Mollies and Fools by the sea

It’s where Rappers meet Mollies and Fools flirt with belly dancers. There are dancers in clogs performing step dances, but not clog dances, as Cotswold dancers from Dorset rub shoulders with traditional Slovak dancers before faces are painted, swords are drawn and sticks primed for a procession through town that ends with a set-to in Read More…

Kate Rusby 2015

One of British folk music’s most celebrated voices, Kate Rusby, the Barnsley Nightingale, played Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, on 18 September 2015 in support of her universally well received new album Ghost. Nearly a quarter of a century into a career that many have credited with reinvigorating folk music in this country, she remains Read More…