MULTI-AWARD nominated folk duo Ninebarrow are heading out on a tour of rural Dorset which will include a date in Milborne St Andrew, near Dorchester.

The pair have been impressing audiences across the country with their innovative and captivating take on the folk tradition.

This spring the duo are set to perform three intimate concerts in their home county of Dorset with Artsreach, the counties touring arts charity.

Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere combine breath taking vocal harmonies and melodies, delivering original songs that are inspired and rooted in the landscape and history of the British Isles. As well as crafting unique and engaging original material, Ninebarrow also take a wide-range of traditional folk songs and rework them in their own, distinctive way.

Nominated in the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Emerging Artist, Ninebarrow released their third album The Waters and the Wild in April 2018.

Awarded 5-stars in both The Morning Star and the English Folk Dance & Song Society’s EDS Magazine, the album highlights how their inspired song writing is ever evolving, and has received airplay on BBC Radios 2, 3, 6 Music, Wales and Scotland.

Folk luminary Mike Harding, has hailed it as ‘absolutely monumental’ and in June 2018, the album reached Number 2 in Amazon’s Folk best-seller chart.

See Ninebarrow perform in Hinton Martel (01258 840066) on March 8, Melbury Osmond (01935 83453) on March 9 and Milborne St Andrew (01258 839230) on March 10. All performances are at 7.30pm. Tickets and further information are also available at artsreach.co.uk.