Maumbury Rings will be filled with music next Saturday as school children come together to sing a piece by local composer Geof Edge.

The event is part of Dorset Songlines, a songwriting project by Dorchester Arts, Dorset Museum and Dorchester Area Schools Partnership (DASP) Music together with local schools.

Geof has worked with the museum's team, year 4 children from the 14 first schools in DASP and adult members of local choirs to create music inspired by the amazing changes that Dorset has undergone during the last 250 million years.

He said: "The words, phrases, creative writing and musical ideas that the children and adults produced helped me to begin the process of transforming the information into songs for each of the prehistoric eras. 

"Each song has its own character that reflects a particular period; from the Triassic when Dorset was a scorching desert, the Jurassic when Dorset was under a warm shallow sea, right through to the Quaternary when Dorset was in the clutches of an ice age."

Local community choirs, Viva, Hear and Soul, DCH Choir and the Quangle Wangle Choir, have also worked with Geof and local schools and will be performing the piece at Maumbury Rings. 

So do come along at 12.30pm on Saturday, June 18 and travel back in time.