Last updated at 13:19, Thursday, 08 March 2012

THE La’al Big Band are to perform at Florence Mine Arts Centre, Egremont.

The West Cumbria jazz and swing orchestra will perform standards made famous by Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Glenn Miller and others.

The concert is on Friday, March 16 at 8pm.

Admission is £8 for adults, £4 for children, £5 for senior citizens and a family ticket is £18.

Telephone 07850929063 for tickets.

TOP local band Shore play Mirehouse Labour Club in Whitehaven on Saturday (7pm).

The gig is the first in a series of fundraisers for a Diamond Jubilee Fun Day set to take place on Honister Road/Greystone Place on June 4.

The fun day has also received the financial backing of a host of organisations; Cumbria County Council, Copeland Borough Council, Neighbourhood Forum, NMP, Unite and Prospect (Sellafield sites).

Tickets are £5. For more information contact Jennifer Ryan on 01946 693964.

WHITEHAVEN Flower Club’s first meeting of its golden anniversary year takes place tomorrow (Friday) at 2pm.

Held at St Begh’s Social Club, there will be a demonstration entitled New Expressions by Ros Harrison.

TICKETS are still available for top tribute act Abba Again, held in Egremont Cons Club tomorrow (Friday).

Tickets are £7.50 from 01946 820318. The show starts at 7.30pm.

The club also hosts a car boot sale every Sunday, from 1.30pm to 3.30pm.

Entry is 30p and it costs £5 for a table. Refreshments are available.

COCKERMOUTH Harmonic Society is performing in a concert of music for Eastertide by Stainer, Dyson and Vaughan Williams at Christ Church on March 17.

Under the conduction of Ian Thompson, the programme includes Stainer’s Crucifixion and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs.

The concert starts at 7.30pm and tickets are £12 (children £4).

They are on sale at Billy Bowman’s music shop in Cockermouth or from Jennifer Garrett on 017687 78041.

STORIES and songs from the American South will be performed at Waberthwaite Village Hall on Friday, March 16.

Armed only with a guitar, bass and southern accents, Eddie and Frank Thomas, from Mississippi, will take the audience on a journey through their lives in story and song.

The show starts at 7.30pm with tickets from 01229 717181 or email d.earley@virgin.net.

THE monthly Cafechurch takes place at Whitehaven’s Costa Coffee on Sunday from 4.30pm.

The theme for the meeting is ‘Christians on the street – is it safe?’. The Rev Dave Harkison of the United Reform Church will introduce the topic that will be followed by round table discussions.

A number of the team involved in this new venture will also be taking part in the discussions and will share some of the experiences they have had while on the streets of Whitehaven on a Friday or Saturday night.

First published at 11:05, Thursday, 08 March 2012
Published by http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk