Key information
Sunday 4 May
Hardye Theatre
7.30pm, doors and bar 6.30pm
£30/£28 members and concessions
Seated
“Saltlines is beautiful, exquisite. A must see. It’s just what we need right now”
Marianne Elliott OBE Director (War Horse)
“An exciting and ground-breaking collaboration. An evening unlike any other…thought provoking, meditative, mesmerising”
Mag North
“A stroke of genius” Nightwatch Magazine
“But the highlight was undoubtedly Saltlines. It played to a standing-room only house…an evocative and intense triumph”
R ‘n R (R2) Magazine
Taking audiences by storm from Land’s End to the Scottish borders, SALTLINES is an immersive Prose and Music collaboration between bestselling author Raynor Winn (The Salt Path) and The Gigspanner Big Band, a top tier lineup which features some of the most influential names on the British folk scene.
Saltlines has a powerful originality which is compelling and transporting in equal measure. By closely weaving reimagined folk music from the south-west with original prose written and narrated for the production by Raynor Winn, it reaches into the rich and visceral history of the South West Coast to celebrate the area’s landscape, social history and enduring traditions.
It is an unmissable experience for anyone with a love of lyrical writing and inspiring music, and those who value the social and natural history of Britain’s rural landscape, and the common threads that bind its fragile communities and wildlife.
Its impact on audiences has been a powerful one…
“Saltlines was truly off the scale. Completely carried away by the beauty, sensitivity and pure artistic genius of the whole performance”
“Quite simply one of the most exquisite, breath-taking, hauntingly beautiful and life-affirming performances I’ve ever seen”
“Powerful, thought provoking and blessed with the flow of brilliance. Libretto perfect, musicianship perfect. Quite astonishing”
Beginning life as a trio formed by legendary Steeleye Span fiddle player Peter Knight, the line-up has been expanded to form the Gigspanner Big Band, with acclaimed multi-instrumental duo Edgelarks (Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin) and Bellowhead co-founder and melodeon player extraordinaire, John Spiers, joining the fray.
Accessibility
Thomas Hardye School Theatre has wheelchair access and toilet facilities for wheelchair users. If you have specific accessibility requirements (such as mobility, audio or visual needs), then please let us know when booking tickets and we are more than happy to help.
Our bar
Check each show for availability of refreshments.
Booking information
Tickets can currently be purchased online or by telephone. The telephone line is manned between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday. At all other times please leave your name, telephone number and ticket requirements and we will call you back.
We are not currently able to welcome visitors for advance face-to-face ticket sales.
No booking fees are charged, but a £1 Future Fund levy is included in most ticket prices to support our work. This levy is included in the published ticket price. Concessionary prices (for events promoted by Dorchester Arts): where available, these are offered to under 18s, students, those in receipt of benefits and people on low income regardless of age.
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