ARTSREACH Dorset has unveiled its spring programme featuring more than 60 events.

National and international musicians from a wide range of genres will take to stages across Dorset from January 8.

The season opens with Sarah McQuaid, whose acoustic and electric guitars, piano and floor-tom drum performances create a truly immersive experience.

Moscow Drug Club return with their mix of jazz, French musette, Latin grooves and New Orleans swing, while two-time Welsh Folk Awards Best Album winners VRï deliver foot-stomping dance tunes.

Virtuoso guitarist Mark Harrison and his trio conjure blues, roots and folk, and Canadian pianist Sarah Hagen brings humour and musical excellence celebrating remarkable forgotten female composers from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Mark Harrison

Multi-instrumental chamber-folk trio Three Cane Whale bring music inspired by the landscape, including Dorset, while all-string quartet Swing from Paris draw on Parisian-flavoured jazz and gypsy swing from the 1930s to 1950s.

London-based Klezmer Foygl offer a vibrant repertoire of dance tunes, melodies and virtuosic improvisations.

Six dementia-friendly Cake Concerts by the BSO Teatime Trio also form part of the Artsreach programme.

From award winners to new writing, performances bring a variety of stories to life on stage.

Danny Mellor’s Undermined takes audiences through the 1984 Miners’ Strike, offering a rollercoaster of emotions.

The inimitable Spitz & Co are back with The Spy Who Loved Me Tender, an action-packed comedy filled with songs, sequins and drama.

Comedy thriller Eyes Down by Just Some Theatre allows audience members to play bingo for real prizes, while General Medical Emergency Ward 10, by Gavin Robe

Fringe First Award winner Shôn Dale-Jones’ The Duke combines humour, poignancy and inventive storytelling.rtson and Dyad Productions, offers a fast-paced, cliché-filled homage to TV medical dramas.

General Medical Emergency Ward 10 by Gavin Robertson and Dyad Productions.

Comedy and cabaret also feature strongly this season.

String quartet Graffiti Classics shatter the notion of classical music as elitist with their hilarious all-singing, all-dancing performances.

Cabaret and circus performer Charlie Bicknell and opera singer Louise Innes combine their dark sense of humour with live music and physical skill in Cabaret with Balls.

Luke Wright’s Later Life Letter blends poetry, stand-up and drum ‘n’ bass, and KIZLAR by Ceyda Tanc Dance is a celebration of femininity through Turkish folk dance and athletic movement.

Luke Wright’s brings Later Life Letter.

There is plenty for families too, with three fantastic shows touring Dorset during the February half-term.

Yara in the Wild Wood, by Front Room WsM, explores growing up and making unexpected friends, while Coppice Theatre’s How to Catch a Book Witch celebrates libraries, storytelling and imagination.

Angel Heart and Rattlebox Theatre bring ancient Nordic tales to life in a comedic romp through the world of Viking gods in ‘The Misadventures of Thor’.

Tickets and full details are available at www.artsreach.co.uk