Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘Cerne Abbas’

Top folk singer to walk 60 miles for Dorset gigs

Top folk singer to walk 60 miles for Dorset gigs

JOHN Jones of folk rock legends Oysterband is about to set off on a challenging mini-tour through Dorset – walking to each of the venues on the route. The Feet Don’t Fail Me Now tour 2010 will see John walking from Lyme Regis to the Larmer Tree Festival in Tollard Royal on the Dorset / Wiltshire border. On [...]

Dorset pub philosophy (2): Or, you could once be killed for talking about this sort of thing

Dorset pub philosophy (2): Or, you could once be killed for talking about this sort of thing

  THIS is a story about remarkable things. Firstly, in glorious defiance of the recession, courses costing at least £265 per person start in West Dorset in February and March on the subject of the Mythic Imagination – things like daimons, fairylore, and the otherworld (“the neglected Western tradition of soul-making… described by Plato”). The first [...]

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