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Music July and August 2025 27 DORCHESTER PIANO QUARTET 2 July The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DORCHESTER, DT1 1HF. 11.30am. Free entry. 01305 266926 / dorchesterarts.org.uk . ARMONICO CONSORT: ‘RACHMININOV VESPERS’ 3 July Lighthouse, 21 Kingland Road, POOLE, BH15 1UG. 7pm. 01202 280000 / lighthousepoole.co.uk . JOHN LAW'S RE-CREATIONS 4 July Bridport Arts Centre, 9 South Street, BRIDPORT, DT6 3NR. 8pm. £18 / £16 / £7. 01308 424204 / bridport- arts.com. “Well-known tunes from the worlds of jazz, pop and classical.” SEMLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL 4 and 5 July Church Green, SEMLEY, Shaftesbury, SP7 9AS. Friday 7pm, Saturday 12 noon. semleymusicfestival.org . “Great live music from across the globe, delicious food free workshops and activities, and a welcoming atmosphere.” Lyme Folk Weekend “The amazing Spooky Men’s Chorale will be making the trip all the way from Australia to headline this year’s Lyme Folk Weekend, the festival that traditionally marks the fi nale of the summer season. The group, from New South Wales, have become rock-solid festival and theatre favourites in Australia, UK and Europe, with seven albums and 900 gigs under their belts. They will appear at Lyme Regis’s Marine Theatre on Sunday 31st August, bringing the curtain down on the late summer folk festival. Opening the weekend on Friday 29th August will be Turin Brakes, 10 years after their last visit to Lyme Folk Weekend. The band return with their highly-acclaimed stripped back to basics acoustic show which has been playing to sellout audiences around the country since the autumn. And in between, festival patrons and Dorset favourites Ninebarrow return on Saturday 30th August with their latest one-off Ninebarrow & Friends show. Lyme Folk Weekend is in its 13th year, and is a celebration that includes free music and dancing, ceilidh, workshops and sessions on the seafront and in local venues, along with the three headline concerts in the Marine Theatre.” 29 - 31 August: Various locations, LYME REGIS, Dorset. lymefolk.com . SPOOKY MEN’S CHORALE THE SALTS 5 July Lighthouse, 21 Kingland Road, POOLE, BH15 1UG. 8pm. 01202 280000. “Sea shanties, songs from the sea, celebrating maritime classics that we all know and love.”