Local Music Scene

All the fun of the festivals: Cumbrian round-up!

All the fun of the festivals: Cumbrian round-up! With festival season around the corner, it’s time to start packing the tent (and probably your wellies just in case!) by Danni Murphy Cumbria is never short of great music events to get you through. The rolling green fields, Cumbria’s finest ales and the handpicked line-ups are […]

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The Liars Club – New Music

The Liars Club  Are you looking for that mental escape, with some hard-hitting lyrics to rock out to like no one is watching? Then you need to check out ‘The Liars Club’.   The Liars Club band consists of 4 young lads from Barrow that consider themselves as ‘Hard  Rockin’ Amigos’. And by God, they are […]

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Hardwicke Circus – New Music

Hardwicke Circus – Rock and Roll is not dead!   This six-piece Carlisle band will certainly get you excited for live music again after reading  this, trust me. If you are a fan of The Struts, Madness, The Specials, Neil Young, then you will  fall in love with Hardwicke Circus.   My intuition tells me that […]

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Manchester Camerata Returns To Barrow Forum Theatre

‘Probably Britain’s most adventurous orchestra’ (The Times), Manchester Camerata returns to Barrow Forum Theatre for an evening of popular classics, featuring two of today’s most eminent female artists, Norwegian trumpet sensation, Tine Thing Helseth, and Australian born conductor, Jessica Cottis.   Known for her communicative powers with audiences, Tine joins the orchestra for concertos by […]

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Sunday Night Folk Concerts Start This Week At Florence Arts Centre

  Cumbrian folk singer-songwriter Elaine Davidson is playing live at Florence Arts Centre in Egremont this Sunday. The gig is the first in a new occasional series of Sunday night folk concerts at the West Cumbrian venue.   Elaine Davidson first hit the road when she was 18, busking her way around Europe, working in […]

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Young People Given Orchestral Opportunity in Carlisle

Local young people have been given a unique opportunity to produce concerts with the world-known Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. As part of the Sound Around project, two large scale schools concerts, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and fully planned, produced and presented by local Young Producers will take place at the Sands Centre from 23 […]

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Bob Cheevers Celebrates 50 Years in the Business

By Paul McGuirk Few musicians can claim to have penned over 3,000 songs in a career spanning five decades. Fewer still can claim the plaudits of writing for some of the biggest names in country music (Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings) – but for Bob Cheevers, it’s all about the present. In anticipation for his forthcoming […]

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From London’s West End To India: Music Coming Up At TBTL

Travel to India and the West End with Theatre by the Lake’s upcoming programme of music – Jonathan Mayer and Kousic Sen in the blissful Music for the Mind and Soul on Wednesday 7 February in the Studio, and The World’s Greatest Musicals as sung by The Westenders, who will be taking the Main House by storm on Thursday 15 February. Music […]

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Coming To Carlisle in 2018

Once the festivities are over and done with, the dark evenings and cold weather can seem pretty bleak – summer is still a long way off, after all. But there’s plenty to keep those January Blues at bay, with a whole host of high profile comics and musicians heading to Carlisle in 2018. Joel Dommett […]

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Independent Venue Week at The Brickyard

Independent Venue Week 2018 is set to celebrate the venues vital to the British music scene. Despite being the backbone of live music in the UK, each year more small venues find themselves facing closure. Independent Venue Week is an annual, seven day celebration of these venues and the people who keep them going. This […]

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