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Fujita Piano Trio give "sublime" performance

2:47pm Monday 15th March 2010

THREE elegant Japanese sisters - the Fujita Piano Trio - mesmerised members of the Kendal Midday Concert Club with unforgettable readings of Haydn’s Gypsy Trio in G and Schubert’s Trio in B flat D 898.

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Brewery Arts Centre's Dance Platform showcases wealth of talent

1:00pm Sunday 14th March 2010

HUNDREDS of young dancers from across the region will be taking to the Brewery stage next week.

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Stunning mix of film and digital art aims to tune people into technology

11:20am Sunday 14th March 2010

FOR the first time the Abandon Normal Devices - Festival of New Cinema and Digital Art in Cumbria, leaves the city and heads for the Cumbrian hills taking with it a variety of art installations and performances.

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A walk in the Dunnerdale fells

10:20am Sunday 14th March 2010

THIS is a very pleasing walk through the Dunnerdale fells to a fascinating causeway. The route to the latter is rather ‘contrived’ because of the rights of way over the superbly kept farming land. It is not open access land.

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Textile artist Lynne Stein exhibits at Farfield

10:20am Saturday 13th March 2010

USING a combination of needle-felting and rag-rugging techniques, textile artist Lynne Stein transforms redundant materials and artefacts, along with vintage fabrics, into luscious and richly symbolic two and three-dimensional works.

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London Welsh Male Voice Choir grace the Kendal stage - and all for a good cause

9:10am Saturday 13th March 2010

LAKELAND soprano Margaret Pattinson is to share the stage as soloist with one of the greatest names in male voice choirs.

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Gig preview: Daisy Dares You in Morecambe

3:27pm Tuesday 9th March 2010

TEEN punk Daisy Dares You will shun the silence of Morecambe Library when she makes a special appearance at the venue on March 19.

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Green Door artists race to get work ready for Farfield exhibition

10:10am Tuesday 9th March 2010

THE show will go on for a plucky group of artists whose creative home has been wrecked by fire.

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Panto review: Sinbad the Sailor @ Community Theatre Group, Ingleton

4:56pm Monday 8th March 2010

INGLETON panto ‘Sinbad the Sailor’, presented by the Community Theatre Group last week, was again a rip-roaring success.

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Panto review: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves @ Town Hall, Bentham

4:26pm Monday 8th March 2010

THE best show yet was the verdict on Bentham Theatre Group’s production of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, a professional and extremely enjoyable show.

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Musical preview: Billy Elliot in Kendal

11:10am Saturday 6th March 2010

Excitement is building for the Brewery Youth Theatre's production of Billy Elliot the Musical, being staged from March 17 to 19.

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Culture MP steps in to back campaign to save Ambleside museum

5:19pm Thursday 4th March 2010

A GOVERNMENT minister has backed The Westmorland Gazette’s campaign to save one of the area’s cultural gems from closing for good.

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Play preview: Huck in Keswick

3:44pm Thursday 4th March 2010

AWARD-winning theatre company Shapeshifter and James Graham, winner of the Pearson Playwrighting Bursary, bring the adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Keswick on March 15 and 16.

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Harrop Tarn walk

3:10pm Saturday 27th February 2010

THIS walk gives you a glorious mixture of Lakeland; it includes a good steady climb up steepish fell slopes, then a pleasing traverse west of the Wythburn Fells.

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Gazette campaign to save Ambleside's Armitt Museum

5:52pm Friday 26th February 2010

ONE of the region’s major cultural attractions faces closure if it fails to find a financial lifeline. Ambleside’s Armitt Museum and Library needs £10,000 by the middle of March.

Armitt Museum and Library

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Stunning album by Alberta Cross

3:32pm Tuesday 23rd February 2010

Broken Side Of Time: Alberta Cross (Ark Recordings).

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Brits album reflects great year for music

3:37pm Tuesday 23rd February 2010

Brits Awards 2010: Various Artists (Rhino).

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Comedy preview: Jo Caulfield in Salford and Lancaster

As she heads to Salford on April 18 and Lancaster on April 25 with her new show, comedienne Jo Caulfield tells us about her love of butterflies, hotel rooms and moaning.