LANCASTER'S much-vaunted Diversity Festival has just finished to great acclaim and now The Platform at Morecambe is joining in with a trio of diverse acts.
Treats as different as chalk and cheese will feature on consecutive nights next week.
Starting the ball rolling on Thursday will be an evening of singing and dancing from Zimbabwe with Black Umfolosi.
This is a group which offers sweet acapella harmonies and gospel singing together with captivating dancing including the famous Gum Boot Dance of South Africa (pictured below).
Bare torsoed and hard-hatted, Black Umfolosi never fail to captivate audiences and encourage people onto the stage to join in whenever possible, says a Platform spokesman.
The show on November 11 will start at 8pm and tickets are priced at £8 and £7 A folk band which boasts its own brass section is bringing its unique sound to the Platform 24 hours later. Whapweasel are no longer the best kept secret on the English ceilidh circuit - for after seven years of dignified obscurity, they have been propel-led into the limelight by the success of their CD Relentless.
A series of gigs at Sidmouth Folk Festival followed and further acclaim came at the end of last year with a nomination for the Horizon Award as best new act in the annual Radio Two Folk.
Completing the diverse trio on Saturday night is songwriter and guitarist Iain Matthews (right) a founding member of Fairport Convention way back in 1967.
Musical differences caused him to leave the band in '69, when his love of American country music led him to form Matthews Southern Comfort before pursuing a solo career and then becoming involved with Plainsong.
His Morecambe concert will start at 8pm and tickets are priced at £9 (£7 conc).
More details and tickets for all the events are from the Platform box office on 01524-582803.
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