DORSET

Sherborne Abbey Festival

Various Locations around Sherborne Dorset

2nd – 9th May 2024

Sherborne Abbey Festival is an annual, week-long celebration of music, with events held in a variety of locations in and around the beautiful town of Sherborne, Dorset. Each year the Festival welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds from all over the UK to experience a wide range of performances and genres; from opera, choral and classical music to jazz, swing and more!

Fossil Festival

Lyme Regis, Dorset

8th – 9th June 2024

Family-friendly Festival celebrating the rich geological heritage of the Jurassic Coast

Dorset Volksfest

Wareham, Dorset 

12th -14th July 2024

VW Festival in Wareham. Family-friendly weekend of live entertainment, beer, great street food & VWs!

Dorset Opera Festival

Bryanston, Dorset

22nd – 28th July 2024

🌟 50th Anniversary  🌟
International opera festival featuring the UK’s foremost residential opera summer school set in 400 acres of glorious Dorset countryside. Internationally renowned soloists, full chorus and orchestra.

Dorset Plane Pull

European Skybus Ltd,
Bournemouth International Airport,

  26th August 2024 10.00am

Want to know what’s involved in the Dorset Plane Pull? It’s quite simple really – although by no means a small feat. Teams of 20 people enter to pull a Boeing 737 weighing in at 35,000 Kg a distance of 50 metres to raise money for charity.