MILNTHORPE

BUDDING musicians can learn some Caribbean rhythms at a workshop run by Milnthorpe Steel Band which takes place at Dallam Education and Training Centre, Haverflatts Lane, Milnthorpe, on Saturday, January 22, from 10am-4pm. For details, call 015395-65123.

BARROW

PETE Morton and Roger Wilson will be in concert at Forum 28, Duke Street, on Tuesday, January 25, at 7.30pm, for a double-bill of traditional folk music as part of the Folk at the Forum season. For details, call 01229-820000.

SILVERDALE

LEARN more about the work being done to help the elusive bitterns on a Restore the Reedbed walk around the beautiful RSPB Leighton Moss Nature Reserve, on Sunday, January 23, at 2pm. For details, call 01524-701601.

MORECAMBE

PLATINUM selling American singer and saxophonist, Curtis Stigers, will be performing hits such as I Wonder Why, at the Platform, Morecambe, on Friday, January 21, at 8pm. For details, call 01524-582815.

GRASMERE

ENJOY a celebration of art and literature at The Wordsworth Trust Weekend Arts and Book Festival from January 21-23. The festival is a residential course of lectures and workshops, which takes place at the Thistle Hotel, Grasmere. For details, call 015394-35544.

SEDBERGH

SEDBERGH and District History Society are hosting a talk entitled The Life and Works of Lady Anne Clifford 1590-1676 at Settlebeck School Hall, Sedbergh, on Wednesday, January 19, at 7.30pm.

KENDAL

THE Lakeland Sinfonia conducted by Simon Wright will be performing at Kendal Leisure Centre on Saturday, January 22 at 7.30pm. The programme includes pieces by Lennox Berkeley and Mozart. There will also be a performance of Finzi's Clarinet Concerto by Robert Plane. For tickets, call 01539-722533.

FOR an evening of laughs don't miss the Brewery Arts Centre's Barrel of Laughs Comedy Club on Saturday, January 22, at 8pm. The programme features Irish comic Caimh McDonnell, Josh Daniels and Greg Cook. For details, call 01539-725133.

ULVERSTON

WELFARE State International present Barebones, a wildly inventive miniature dream carnival inspired by stories of Morecambe Bay, using a variety of media including song, music, story-telling and poetry, at Lanternhouse, The Ellers, Ulverston, on Tuesday, January 25, and Wednesday, January 26, ant 10.30am and 1.30pm. For details, call 01229-581127.

PRESTON

CRUISE ship diva, Jane McDonald will be appearing in concert at the Charter Theatre, Preston, on Sunday, January 23, at 8pm. For details, call 01772-258858.