Dorset Lives – Wareham’s music man
Nick Churchill meets Jim Etherington
Published in December ’20
IF music is a universal language, then Jim Etherington is a native speaker. He casts himself as a pub singer, but a penchant for creating major outdoor music events in and around his adopted home town means he has been seen by tens of thousands of people in the 40 years he has lived in Wareham. He is perhaps most readily associated with the fundraisers he played on the Quay in aid of Wareham Multiple Sclerosis Society.
A highlight of the civic calendar to this day, for more than 20 years Jim was…
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