Project: A local folk history and music project delivered in local schools including special needs schools and a community folk music walk.
Grant: £3,500
Area of benefit: Blandford
Grant funds were awarded to Dorset Rural Music for a series of initiatives including a music project ‘Telling Tales’ taking storytelling and folk music to Primary Schools including SEN school to introduce participants to poetry and harmonies that characterise Dorset’s Folk Scene and explore Dorset dialect.
‘Folk who Walk’ project to pilot walks and rambles with Folk Musicians. The aim of the project is to introduce the community of the Blackmore Vale to Folk Music and its roots in the county, and to foster a sense of pride and belonging.