Concerts
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:
The Sky Above The Roof Mabel Dearmer (from the French of Paul Verlaine)
Linden Lea W.Barnes
L’Amour De Moy 15th Century French Chanson
The Splendour Falls Alfred Lord Tennyson
Boy Johnny Christina Rossetti
Claribel Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Winter’s Willow W.Barnes (words in Dorset dialect)
Dreamland Christina Rossetti
Five Elizabethan songs by Ivor Gurney
Orpheus W.Shakespeare
Tears John Fletcher
Under the Greenwood Tree W.Shakespeare
Sleep John Fletcher
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
