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Dorchester Festival 1 - 5 JUNE 2012
The World Comes to Town

Dorchester Festival is back - and with your support it’s going to be better than ever - five extraordinary days of international Comedy, Music, Theatre, Dance and Cultural events.

The biannual event - one of the most vibrant in the south west - attracts around 20,000 people of all ages into the county town for a wide variety of free performances in the Borough Gardens and entertainment across the town.

For the first time this year, there will be two big parades through Dorchester - a huge Jurassic procession with Britain’s funkiest band, Weapons of Sound plus the Monster Ceilidh band who lead a procession to Salisbury Field on Monday night for the start of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations on Tuesday.

Broadcaster, raconteur, writer and cook, Hardeep Singh Kohli is offering a wonderfully funny, laid back evening’s entertainment in the Corn Exchange and Kawa Circus from Rajastan and the Mighty Zulu Nation from Kwa-Zulu Natal will thrill crowds at the Borough Gardens with their breath taking circus and pulsating African rhythms.

With award-winning comedy at the County Museum, World music in the Corn Exchange and a series of workshops and performances for local schools, Dorchester Festival 2012 will be a fitting curtain raiser to the Cultural Olympiad events later in the summer.