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.

The light goes out on FRED

Published 10 October 2008

A poetic incentive to drink wine

Published 3 October 2008

Millionaire entrepreneur Felix Dennis brings some of his poems and a taste of his massive wine collection to Cumbria this month.

The drama and comedy of a night in the pub...

Published 3 October 2008

A pint, a packet of crisps, and a John Godber comedy with dark undertones, please.

Come and join the opera

Published 3 October 2008

The acclaimed singers from Lakeland Opera are holding a concert next month – and are asking members of the public to join them on stage.

Fifty great shows go out on the road

Published 3 October 2008

More than 50 shows will be staged in 30 venues in the Autumn programme for the new Highlights Rural Touring Scheme.

Returning operatic hero

Published 3 October 2008

Renowned tenor Mark Le Brocq has sung in some of the world’s most famous concert halls.

Carlisle artists’ ‘assault on the senses’

Published 3 October 2008

As the debate about provision of the arts in Carlisle continues, a group of city artists is taking the initiative with a new exhibition.

Kylie plus four inches

Published 26 September 2008

YOU GET more pop princess for your money in Carlisle. Kylie Mania, the Kylie Minogue tribute show, is at the Sands Centre tonight – and the Sands is offering a buy one ticket, get one free offer.

Chatwin’s tale of Welsh twins comes to a hall near you

Published 26 September 2008

ARTS Out West will be taking a production of On the Black Hill to rural venues in the area next month.

Sculptor Caroline puts the feather in FRED’s cap

Published 26 September 2008

When a giant white feather lands on Tarn Hows lake this weekend, some walkers will be looking for a 60-foot goose.

Christopher’s leg up to the plight of Cumbrian farming

Published 26 September 2008

YOU WOULD expect a few pairs of wellington boots on a Cumbrian farm, but 100?

Gift wrapped – a hill farm that fell by the wayside

Published 26 September 2008

THE farm where Ettie Spencer’s parents worked is up for sale – and so she is gift-wrapping it.

No escaping Dee’s image-led message

Published 26 September 2008

DO YOU sleep in after the alarm goes off? Cross dress on Sundays? Smoke Gauloises and think of France?

Field, fell, wind, water ...it’s an art invasion

Published 26 September 2008

STRANGE things are afoot on the Cumbrian fells this weekend.

Tune in to the lost city below Thirlmere

Published 26 September 2008

Not all the work at this year’s Fred Festival is visual. London-based artist Melissa Bliss is creating a work to be heard by radio.

Atkinson climbs into the ring with Tyson

Published 19 September 2008

Cumbria’s two greatest living artists came face to face at the launch of a major new exhibition at Tullie House Museum Art Gallery.

Our Black Combe days

Published 19 September 2008

Though they only met a few times, poet Norman Nicholson left a lasting and inspiring impression on Michael Bennett. And more than 30 years after their first meeting, Michael is staging an exhibition dedicated to the Millom poet.

A big, complicated hug from Annabelle

Published 19 September 2008

When Annabelle Chvostek answers her phone it transpires she has just climbed a hill in Devon, and is enjoying glorious views out to sea. A fitting setting for this free spirit to discuss her music, past and present.