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Eden Arts Presents: Earl Thomas & the Kings of Rhythm

EARL THOMAS & THE KINGS OF RHYTHM, SUNDAY MAY 2ND 2010, PENRITH LEISURE CENTRE, 7.30pm
Eden Arts’ new season of top quality events at Penrith Leisure Centre starts on May 2nd with an evening of authentic soulful blues.
Honey-voiced soul singer Earl Thomas’ only north west date on his forthcoming UK tour is to be [...]


Eden Arts Presents: top quality…Earl Thomas & the Kings of Rhythm

In the first Eden Arts Presents… performance of 2010, Penrith Leisure Centre will play host to Earl Thomas & the Kings of Rhythm on May 2nd during the Spring Bank Holiday weekend.
Earl is considered one of today’s most authentic rhythm’n’blues singers and the Kings of Rhythm carry their own musical pedigree – the former [...]


2Weeks 2Make It 2010 – music video challenge

2Weeks 2Make It 2010 applications now open, Sensoria.
Artform: music, Other, Film.
Contact: Leanne info@sensoria.org.uk
Description
We are delighted to announce 2Weeks 2Make It 2010, the North’s most exciting music video competition, is now open for submissions and once more Sensoria will host the Awards Night in April.
Established in 2005, ‘2Weeks 2Make It’ is the North of England’s premier [...]


An invitation to go empty shopping

You are invited to
Arcade in collaboration with Eden Arts
an Exhibition #Town2Town
5th – 20th March 2010
A dual sited exhibition of arts in empty shops in both Carlisle & Penrith
Launching Fri 5th March at 8pm Lowther Arcade Carlisle
with Arts throughout, live music & Mini Food Fest from The Circle Cafe Bar.
Launching Sat 6th March at 12 [...]


Penrith/Carlisle empty shops collaboration in March

Arcade …in collaboration with Eden Arts
arcade is an artist-led initiative which aims to encourage the bringing together of artists and creative practitioners working in broad ranging art forms, and to organise openly accessible events in public ‘non-gallery’ spaces.
Projects to date have been organised specific to a Victorian built walkway Lowther Arcade in Carlisle city centre, [...]


More from Hadrian’s Wall

a very special concert at Maryport’s Wave Centre on 31 January. The week before, Brampton Live are confining eight of the nation’s finest singer songwriters and performance poets to a remote farmhouse on Hadrian’s Wall. With their every need attended to, free from all distractions apart from each other, they’ll be invited to [...]


Morland Parish Church Choir on BBC website

Before Christmas, Today guest editor Robert Wyatt asked people who sang in amateur choirs around the UK to send the sound of their song to the Today programme.
They have been inundated in music – from requiems to carols and folk songs. From Mousehole to Aberdeen you can hear the sound of Great Britain’s choirs by [...]


Lesley Garrett Stars at Concert For Cumbria

Two of the country’s leading names in the arts will be appearing in Cumbria next month in a special benefit concert to help the victims of the Cumbria floods and recognise the effort made by some of the rescue organisations who helped out at the height of the floods.
Singer Lesley Garrett and actor Brian [...]


NCEM Composers’ Award 2010

A national award from the National Centre for Early Music working in partnership with BBC Radio 3 and The Tallis Scholars – see pdf here NCEM Composers Postcard 2010
This is a national competition open to young composers aged under 25 across the UK, who are invited to compose a new a cappella work for [...]


Music and memories, thrift and thread for the Highlights Spring season

Music and memories, thrift and thread for the Highlights Spring season
The new Spring season brochure is out from the Highlights Rural Touring Scheme for Cumbria and Durham. It includes details of fifteen exciting shows covering the whole range of performing arts and also has information about this year’s Contemporary Craft Tour, Thrift & Thread.
Performances for [...]