Concerts

at the Lion Ballroom

Concerts at the Lion Ballroom

The Lion Ballroom makes a lovely concert venue with seating for an audience of up to 100. There is an ongoing programme of mainly classical concerts featuring a wide range of musicians. To receive our Newsletter on our forthcoming events, please enter your email address in the box below, or look at the events calendar at the top of the page to see our forthcoming concerts.

2025 CONCERTS

Sunday 11th May 2025 3pm

Tom Durston-Smith - Baritone accompanied by Robert Green F.R.C.O.

1st Half

Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams:

1. The Sky Above The Roof Mabel Dearmer (from the French of Paul Verlaine)

2. Linden Lea W.Barnes

3. L’Amour De Moy 15th Century French Chanson

4. The Splendour Falls Alfred Lord Tennyson

5. Boy Johnny Christina Rossetti

6. Claribel Alfred Lord Tennyson

7. The Winter’s Willow W.Barnes (words in Dorset dialect)

8. Dreamland Christina Rossetti

   Five Elizabethan songs by Ivor Gurney

   1. Orpheus W.Shakespeare

   2. Tears John Fletcher

   3. Under the Greenwood Tree W.Shakespeare

   4. Sleep John Fletcher

   5. Spring Thomas Nashe

2nd Half

Dichterliebe Opus 48

A cycle of sixteen songs by Schumann

Poems by Heinrich Heine

1st half duration approx 40 minutes

2nd approx Duration 30 minutes

Tea served in interval.

Sunday 21st September 2025 3pm - 5pm

Details TBC