Cursus Festival 2025

at Myncen Farm, Sixpenny Handley
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Cursus Festival is BACK for 2025!
Our fab little festival in rural Dorset returns for a 10th year on bank holiday weekend 23rd - 25th May.
Tickets are on sale NOW with a limited number of early Bird Discounts.
Family ticket available saving £££s for this bank holiday half-term weekender!
www.cursusfestival.com
Located in the surroundings of Cranborne Chase and the neolithic Dorset Cursus monument, 500 lucky people come together to enjoy a weekend of music, cider, activities and community. Fun, friendly and nicely eccentric - everyone is welcome!
Original live music, DJ Tent, Kids DIY Den, rural crafts, camp fire, tuk tuk tours, fire shows and more.
Adult tickets from £99, Kids from just £10.
Tent camping included - live-in vehicles welcome for an extra charge.
An incredible line-up of original, established acts which would grace a festival 10 times our size!! Headliners DUB PISTOLS, MAD DOG MCREA and THE BAR STOOL PREACHERS will be joined by the likes of CARSICK, SKIMMITY HITCHERS, THE GREAT MALARKEY, IMPRINTS, THE SCRIBES, THE CLOVERHEARTS, SINFUL MAGGIE, DUB CATALYST, THE ENDINGS, MILLIE WATSON, PLOT 32, THE BOMO SWING, BRIAN STONE & THE MASTERS OF NONE, MISSING THE SCENE, THE JIMMY HILLBILLIES, CHIMAN 101 and ALPHALFA.

Friday 23rd May
Saturday 24th May
Sunday 25th May
Also Appearing

Dub Pistols

Dub Pistols have done everything it's possible to do in a band and still want more. Fronted by infamous Londoner, Barry Ashworth, they have toured the world more times than most of us have changed channels, they have spent years breaking America down into tiny, eager pieces via extended jaunts with punk-rock roadshows, whilst remixing the likes of Moby, Korn, Limp Bizkit and a host of others along the way. Simply one of the best live bands in the UK.

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Mad Dog Mcrea

Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and 'shake your ass' music. From self-penned songs of adventure, drinking, love and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless pirates and black flies - Mad Dog never fail to capture their audience with their infectious songs.

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Bar Stool Preachers

"Mixing the ska-punk dexterity of prime time Rancid with the socialist sensibilities of the Newton Neurotics or Angelic Upstarts" - Purerawk.com Bar Stool Preachers are a fresh Punk and Ska band straight out of Brighton. They make intelligent punk anthems and poignant, unsentimental love songs.

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The Skimmity Hitchers

Weirdos of the West country! Hold up yer cider jar, grab thee badger and hitch a ride on that Skimmity wagon! You’ll be taken on the ride of your life along the back roads and byways of the South West – from fields to pubs, weddings to festivals and cider sheds to…..well, we don’t be leavin’ no cider shed! So, if you be lookin’ for proper job, cider swilling Scrumpy & Western music with humorous lyrics, a bit of saucy banter, a lot of p*ss-taking and a dancing badger, then we be the boys guaranteed to get your shindig shaking! Check out the skimmityhitchers.com/wordpress/ for further tour dates and to discover more about the West Country’s favourite reprobates.

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Imprints

Imprints are a Folk-Gypsy-Rock cider fuelled explosion from Bristol. With songs covering everything from Space Pirates to Zelda's political leanings, from the undead partying to waking up drunk and doing it all over again, Imprints will guarantee foot-stomping fun and the mightiest and fieriest of jigs.

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The Great Malarkey

Featuring Alex Ware-Woolf (ex-Suffrajets frontwoman) fusing guitars, ukulele and saw joined by a whole host of other folk on drums, trombone, trumpet, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, tuba, bass and more. Together they create a riotous and racous concoction of Folk, Blues and Punk.

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CARSICK

CARSICK are a band formed over pints in a small English pub in late 2021. Stylistically, they take influence from a range of different artists and genres - from indie rock to post-punk to hip-hop with electronic elements - but their tongue-in-cheek lyrical approach directly tackles the trials and tribulations of life as a young adult, and especially the drinking culture which dominates the band's demographic. Their energetic and unpredictable live shows match that theme: this is music about living for the weekend; about the desperate chaos of small-town nightlife and about forgetting what happened last night.

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Myncen Farm

Minchington
Sixpenny Handley
DT11 8DH

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Myncen Farm

Minchington
Sixpenny Handley
DT11 8DH

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on Fri 23 May 2025