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Blindcrake Village Hall is the starting point to collect your Map, for the annual fundraiser Garden Safari, which is on Sunday 30th June, from 10.30am until 4.30pm.


New this year, is a Coconut Shy on the village green (no matter what the weather!) and there will also be a raffle and various stalls (jam, cakes, plants) around the village, plus many open gardens.


When you need refreshments, visit the village hall, where there is food and drink on offer, to give you the energy to visit a few more gardens.


There’s a free hail and ride bus visiting the venues around the parish, as there are some gardens in other villages within our area.


Admission £5.00/adult and £1.00/child. All proceeds go to the village hall refurbishment fund.


Rachel McConkey


COCKERMOUTH HARMONIC SOCIETY


Cockermouth Live! festival really does offer something for everyone!


(and artistic) son Johnny. Henry’s also doing a workshop on the pleasures and pitfalls of writing comedy for TV.


SUMMER CONCERT: FOR THE NEW WORLD


Cockermouth Harmonic Society’s summer concert features music for the new world of America. The concert will take place on 6th July at 7.30pm in Christ Church, Cockermouth.


The choir will sing Dvorak’s Te Deum, Michael Tippett’s Five Spirituals, and excerpts from Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Hiawatha. The music is varied in style and tone, dramatically capturing aspects of human experience in the New World.


Ian Wright will conduct the choir, as well as local soprano, Fiona Weakley, tenor Christopher Steele, and bass, Jolyon Dodgson. The West Lakeland Orchestra will be collaborating for the first time with Cockermouth Harmonic Society in a major concert. We hope that the evening performance will be a memorable and musically exciting event.


Tickets for the concert will cost £16.00, £15.00 from members of the choir but are free for full-time students and there is a discount for parties of six or more. Tickets are available from Billy Bowman’s music shop in Cockermouth, contact Janet Johnston on 01900 825083, or email: ticketsales@cockermouthharmonic.org.uk


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From babies and toddlers who can ‘Sing and Sign’ with Louise Watson at the URC, to night- owls clubbing it with DJ Francis Nikolas in Hunters Bar; with choirs, the Mechanics Band, folk, jazz, rock and pop along the way. We now have our own ‘fringe’ with drama at St. Joseph’s Hall, dance at Christ Church Rooms, art in shop windows, live poetry in Wordsworth House and the ‘Strolling Gardeners’(pictured above) putting on a bloomin’ good show around town.


THATÊS NOT ALL


The name ‘Henry Normal’ may not mean much to you but you’ll be very familiar with his work, as one half of ‘Baby Cow’ productions bringing you hits such as Gavin and Stacey, the Royle Family, Alan Partridge and many more. He’s also a poet and stand- up comedian (recently heard on Radio 4) and he brings his show ‘A Normal family’ to the Kirkgate on Friday night. It deals in a gently humorous way with bringing up his autistic


Kiki Dee shot to fame when she was chosen to duet with Elton John on ‘Don’t go breaking my heart’. She still loves to sing and now tours with her multi- instrumental partner Carmelo Luggeri.


Kiki is our headline act for Saturday Night at the Kirkgate and tickets are going fast.


Sunday afternoon brings the ever-popular concert by the Papcastle Community Orchestra under the baton of Phil Wood. The programme includes works by Rossini, Eric Coates (Dambusters March) and Phil’s own compositions ‘For Bridget’ performed in memory of musician and Live! supporter Bridget Hilton who died last year.


This year, you have the chance to see inside part of the Castle for performances by the Mechanics Band, Sing In and Owt Choir and Alte Musik. To see the rest of the ruins, go to the library and book on to one of the Civic Trust’s guided tours.


Brochures giving full details of the timetable, venues and performers are now available in many shops, pubs and cafes throughout the town.


Bob Pritchard, chair. Cockermouth Live! ISSUE 432 | 20 JUNE 2019 | 22


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