Arts News
Run the gamut of musical emotion
Published 14 November 2008
Attending a While and Matthews gig is to “run the gamut of emotion”, according to Julie Matthews, one half of British folk music’s best loved female duo, who lives at Welton, near Dalston.
The elements of creation
Published 14 November 2008
Sculptor, ceramicist and painter Lorna Graves, who died in 2006, is the subject of a new exhibition at Tullie House, Carlisle, which opens on Sunday.
Be part of the story of Buttermere
Published 14 November 2008
IN MARCH next year the Theatre by the Lake will present the world premiere of a dramatisation of Melvyn Bragg’s novel, The Maid of Buttermere.
Italian opera, out of the mouths of babes
Published 14 November 2008
A huge model of the Roman Colosseum is on tour throughout Britain – and is coming to Cumbria next week. And it will form the stage for a famous opera being performed by local youngsters alongside international singing stars.
The band that beat the Beatles to a record deal
Published 7 November 2008
The 1960s were the first era of Britpop, the decade that gave the world some of the top rock‘n’roll bands from the UK.
Brass, jazz and embalming
Published 7 November 2008
An ‘embalmer’s book of recipes’, classical brass and timeless jazz are all on the menu this month for the Solway Arts Society.
Tips from the top for writers
Published 7 November 2008
Award-winning writers and journalists Nick Thorpe and Giancarlo Rinaldi give the second Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association lunchtime reading of the new season on Saturday, November 15, at the Robert Burns Centre, Dumfries.
East meets west for Cockermouth gig
Published 7 November 2008
Achanak, regarded by many as the best bhangra band in the world, play The Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth, tomorrow night.
One stop Cumbrian art shop
Published 7 November 2008
More than 70 works of art by more than 30 local artists have gone on show at an art gallery which is holding its second open exhibition.
Phil brings on the young ones
Published 7 November 2008
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by their new dynamic and exciting music director, Vasily Petrenko, for their performance at The Sands Centre on Friday, November 14.
Bomber and the bereaved
Published 7 November 2008
How do you go about meeting the man who killed your father? Even more challenging, how do you go about working side by side with that same man to build peace?Pat Magee will always carry the burden that he harmed others, but is not seeking forgiveness.
Care to join the cast?
Published 7 November 2008
Jan Kirk from Act Out is looking to cast two actors in the theatre company’s next play, An Unholy Congregation, a comedy by local writer Michael Spencer.
Theatre season’s curtain call
Published 31 October 2008
ANOTHER successful Theatre by the Lake summer season draws to a close, but there’s still time to take in one of the seven varied and quality productions before Saturday, November 8.
2009, from our top twelve
Published 31 October 2008
What is art for? Even the most hard-hearted of Philistines would have to concede that the Cumbria Network’s new project is extremely practical – and it happens to be a beautiful piece of art as well.
The beauty of rural and urban landscapes
Published 24 October 2008
Ten pictures depicting north Cumbria in bold lines and strong colours have gone on show at a gallery in Cockermouth.
Jazz festival has something for everybody
Published 24 October 2008
Lockerbie might not be known as a jazz hot spot, but it will soon be in a league of its own when world-class trumpeters, pianists, singers and sax players roll up for the weekend.
Cumbrians get creative to beat the credit crunch
Published 17 October 2008
Cumbria has always had far more than its fair share of writers, from poets such as Wordsworth and Coleridge 200 years ago to novelists such as Melvyn Bragg and Sarah Hall today.
All music, all ages, it just takes imagination
Published 17 October 2008
Lots of youngsters – and many older people too – have fantasies of being a rock star.
Comedy, romance, tragedy and horror – on a stage near you next week
Published 10 October 2008
Penrith Players turn their hand to Terence Rattigan’s moral dilemma The Deep Blue Sea for their next production, which runs from Wednesday to Saturday next week.
Keith Jack knows how to StagedRight
Published 10 October 2008
Keith Jack, star of BBC reality TV show Any Dream Will Do and the narrator in Bill Kenwright’s touring production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat plays Carlisle’s Hilltop Hotel tomorrow night, as part of a national tour to launch debut album, This Time.
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