SOUND artist Dan Fox has invented a hair-raising way of connecting with voices from the past and people from Kendal are invited to listen in.

Dan is bringing a sixties style hair salon - Voices From The Hood - to the Brewery Arts Centre from September 7-9.

But this will be no ordinary salon.

The hood hairdryers have been converted in to listening posts and a vintage hairdryer will become a personal speaker.

Visitors will be invited to take a comfy seat on one of four period chairs and via a small control panel they can play excerpts from the Elizabeth Roberts Working Class Oral History Archive, which is held at the Regional Heritage Centre at Lancaster University.

The pioneering work by Elizabeth, who lives in Lancaster and was born in Barrow, captured the voices and memories of people in Barrow, Lancaster and Preston from 1890 up until 1970.

Dan is one of several artists brought together by the Lancaster-based arts and heritage company, Mirador, to take part in its latest project - Walking In Others Footsteps - a celebration of the work to digitise the archive and make it available through a dedicated website hosted by the university's heritage centre.

While 'under the dryers' visitors to the Brewery can read a magazine which lists details of the tracks they can hear.

"The piece should work on two levels: the personal experience of sitting and listening while watching the world go by and the image of a period hair salon popping up in an unexpected place," said Ulverston-based Dan.

Dan learned his trade growing up on the road with Welfare State International and his esteemed 'engineers of the imagination' parents Sue Gill and John Fox.

For more than 25 years he has worked all over the world with theatre companies, bands, festivals and organisations.

For further information about Walking In Others Footsteps, visit www.miradorarts.co.uk.