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Sounds write: Tony Christie

Sounds write:Fingersnap

5:26pm Tuesday 24th April 2012

Tony Christie, who this year celebrates fifty years in the music business and whose illustrious career gave us big hits such as 'I Did What I Did For Maria', 'Is This The Way To Amarillo', 'Avenues And Alleyways, 'Don't Go Down To Reno' and 'Las Vegas', and who has to date sold over 10 million records, commences a tour of the UK in April.

Kendal Calling reveal fancy dress theme as fairy tales & comic books

9:46am Monday 23rd April 2012

REVELLERS have been charged to get dressed-up in weird and wonderful fairy tales and comic books themed clothes for Kendal Calling.

Love is focus of Manchester Camerata Coronation Hall concert

9:00am Saturday 21st April 2012

MEZZO soprano Anna Stephany teams up with Manchester Camerata at Ulverston’s Coronation Hall on Thursday, April 26 (7.30pm), in a programme of music, celebrating love, lovers and loving.

Pianist Anthony Hewitt's Olympian-like cycling odyssey

Challenge: Anthony Hewitt

5:20pm Thursday 19th April 2012

ONE of the region’s top pianists is pedalling his way around the UK - and all for good causes.

Flookburgh Band play musical tribute to cornet player David Savill

9:20am Sunday 15th April 2012

FLOOKBURGH Band play a musical tribute to former player David Savill, with a special show at Grange-over-Sands on Saturday (April 21, 7.30pm).

10cc to headline South Lakeland gig

8:30pm Wednesday 11th April 2012

POP rock legends 10cc are set to dazzle revellers during an exclusive gig, headlining a new music concert in South Lakeland.

Gala night provides fantastic finish for another succesful South Cumbria Musical Festival

11:48am Monday 9th April 2012

GALA Night brought the curtain down on another successful South Cumbria Music Festival, opening in fine style with Furness Music Centre Community Choir.

Meta4 String Quartet provide fantastic Kendal Midday Concert Club finale

1:10pm Sunday 1st April 2012

Meta4 String Quartet, Kendal Town Hall GRACING the stage for the Kendal Midday Concert Club’s final recital of the season was the Meta4 String Quartet, a young Finnish ensemble rapidly establishing a world-wide reputation for itself and, incidentally, the final booking coup organised by Elizabeth Howe, the club’s erstwhile artists’ secretary. She must have been immensely proud because this was a magnificent finale to what has been a remarkably fine season.

Westmorland Youth Orchestra delight capacity audience

5:30pm Friday 30th March 2012

Westmorland Youth Orchestra Lakes School, Troutbeck Bridge Nautical themes were the order of the day for Roland Fudge’s second concert at the ‘helm’ of the WYO before a capacity audience. Entitled ‘Windermere Reflections’, and enthusiastically co-presented by Windermere Rotary Club, the programme alludes to the water quality improvement project of that name.

Conductor Wyn Davies guides Lakeland Sinfonia audience through Vaughan Williams’s pastoral delights

1:10pm Friday 30th March 2012

Lakeland Sinfonia Westmorland Hall, Lakes Leisure Kendal The Lakeland Sinfonia Concert Society recently presented a programme featuring music by three of England’s finest 20th Century composers – Vaughan Williams’s Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto Op 31 and George Butterworth’s Idyll: The Banks of Green Willow. The strings of the Lakeland Sinfonia, under the practiced direction of Wyn Davies, guided us through VW’s pastoral delights with playing that was always sonorous, nicely-blended and imbued with a lovely mellow quality. In the Concerto the strings (again) accompanied sensitively with strong rhythmic confidence in the outside movements and appealing wistfulness during the elegiac middle movement. Throughout they created a confident partnership with their soloist, Mark van de Wiel; whatever the nature of his role, be it lyrical or dramatic, pastoral or virtuosic, he was thoroughly at home and invariably sang with beautiful tone. Butterworth inspired further rural enchantment with woodwind contributions now heightening our pleasure.

South Cumbria Musical Festival gets off to flying start

10:30am Thursday 29th March 2012

SOUTH Cumbria Musical Festival 2012 opened with brass day at the Coronation Hall, featuring brass solos, duets and ensembles all followed by the rousing sounds of Flookburgh, Dalton and Burneside bands.

CD Review: Frankie Rose - Interstellar

CD Review: Frankie Rose - Interstellar

1:43pm Friday 23rd March 2012

BEAUTIFUL female harmonies clash with echoey guitars, driving basslines and 1980s drum patterns on this excellent CD.

CD Review: Get The Blessing - OCDC

Review: Get The Blessing - OCDC

1:35pm Friday 23rd March 2012

BRISTOLIAN four-piece Get The Blessing continue to stretch the boundaries of jazz music on their new long player.

CD Review: The Wedding Present - Valentina

Review: The Wedding Present - Valentina

1:39pm Friday 23rd March 2012

WHAT can one say about The Wedding Present that their late, great fan John Peel hasn’t already said before me?

Hornby Occasionals stage comic opera Ruddigore

5:50pm Thursday 22nd March 2012

HORNBY Occasionals stage Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore (or The Witches Curse) at Hornby Institute until Saturday (March 24, 7.30pm).

Brathay Festival of Music has quality line-up

The award-winning Voces8

5:00pm Monday 19th March 2012

MARTIN Roscoe, one of Britain’s leading pianists, will be among a glittering line-up of internationally-renowned musicians performing in the tranquility of Brathay Church, near Ambleside, throughout the weekend of June 1-4. The first Brathay Festival of Music, which follows extensive refurbishment of the church, also features the Fitzwilliam String Quartet and award-winning Voces8.

Windermere takes centre stage for passion of Christ

5:40pm Sunday 18th March 2012

THE story of the passion of Christ takes centre stage in a dramatic musical gathering this weekend.

South Cumbria Music Festival ready to hit the right notes once again

1:10pm Sunday 18th March 2012

SOUTH Cumbria Musical Festival is ready to roll from Sunday, March 25 until Saturday, March 31.

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