A LAST Night of the Proms is being staged tomorrow (Saturday, 7.30pm) at Lancaster Town Hall in aid of the Ashton Hall Organ Restoration Fund.

More than 70 singers from all over Lancashire, and as far afield as Wiltshire, have been recruited to perform Faure's Requiem, Parry's I was Glad and the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah and that's just the first half of the programme. I'm told the second half should feature a real proms' atmosphere, with lots of audience participation.

As well as a massive chorus, musicians and soloists lined up include organist and Rossall School musical director Geoff Cassidy, Canterbury conductor Peter Litman, Poulton-le-Fylde Brass Band and local soloists Wendy Sharrock and Jolyon Dodgson.

Tickets are £5 and available from Lancaster and Morecambe tourist information offices.

l A collection of panoramic photographs by Nick May and Cumbrian-based photography, film and video arts organisation Stringtheory, studying the events and sites of foot-and-mouth disease in Cumbria, is showing at Lancaster's excellent Folly gallery until May 28.

Included are evocative images from the autumn of 2001 to the spring of 2003, including empty and disinfected farm buildings, dismantled and rebuilt milking parlours, farm sales, resumed stock sales, restocking and new buildings on farms.

The Till the Cows Come Home project won a special prize for the best single image in the recent Redeye, North West Photography Network competition.

For further details, contact 01524-388550.

l VAUGHAN Williams' Serenade to Music and Mass in G by Schubert is on the bill for Ambleside and District Choral Society on Saturday, May 22 (7.30pm). Staged at Ambleside Parish Church, guest conductor is Roger Cann with Wendy Cann leading the orchestra.

Soloists are soprano, Julie Flanagan; contralto, Wendy Sharrock; tenor, Paul Richmond; and bass, Nigel Waugh.

Tickets are £5.50 in advance/ £6 at the door and available on 015394-33352 or 33909.

l The Bach Invention is giving another concert at Carnforth's Christ Church tonight (Friday, 7.30pm) featuring 18th Century music by Bach and a number of French composers, using period instruments played by professional musicians, Ann Bond (harpsichord); Hilary Stock (baroque oboe); Andrew Crawford (baroque flute); and Elizabeth Liddle (viola da gamba).

Tickets at the door priced £6 /concessions £4/ children with adult £1.

l JEAN Charlton conducts Kirkby Lonsdale Choral Society on Sunday (7.30pm), performing Haydn's Maria Theresa Mass and pieces by Purcell and Mendelssohn. Peter Wodeman plays the organ.

Tickets are priced at £5 (accompanied children free) at the door or from society members.