A GIFTED violinist has joined the team to help make next year's Sherborne Abbey Festival a real success.

The award-winning Sherborne Abbey Festival has announced that Ruth Rogers, a previous performer at the festival, most recently with the Iuventus Quartet and Sir James and Lady Galway in 2016, has agreed to join as artistic advisor.

Festival Chairman John Baker said: “Ruth will lend her considerable experience of classical artists to the 2017 event and the festival is honoured to work with her to ever-improve the quality of performances we offer visitors to the town over the early May Bank Holiday weekend."

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