Visit Skipton’s Music Scene
Whether you’re a gigging musician or a passionate listener, Skipton has a great deal to offer the musicophile. The town centre is crammed with bustling bars and restaurants, many of which offer a platform for…
Music Around Skipton – Local Events
Carleton Festival of Choirs 2025
The Inaugural Event! Last weekend, Carleton Ladies Choir and Carleton Men’s Shed Singers hosted four other local choirs for the first ever ‘Carleton Festival of Choirs’ at St Mary’s Church in Carleton-in-Craven. It was a…
Songs and Cries of Keighley Town!
Bob Chilcott’s evocative text will ring out around Skipton’s Christchurch this weekend as the finale to KVU’s Autumn Concert Earth has not anything to show more fair:Dull would he be of soul who could pass…
Bradford Festival Choral Society sing Handel’s Messiah
As a former member of Bradford Festival Choral Society and someone with strong family links to the choir, it pleases me to promote their concerts here on my blog. This month they’ll be giving their…
Solidarity at the Mart Theatre!
Skipton Musical Theatre Company demonstrate the power of teamwork When groups of likeminded people come together they really can change the world. This is the central message in the uplifting musical Made in Dagenham, as…
Performance Opportunities in Skipton, Craven & Wharfedale
Following is a list of opportunities that my students and visitors to this page might like to grasp to get on stage and perform over the coming academic year (2022-23). Some of these are quite…
Student Collaboration: ‘In C’
This summer, amateur and student musicians will be coming together to create a unique virtual performance of Terry Riley’s iconic minimalist composition ‘In C’. This is a piece made up of a series of very…
Update & Invite
Invite to Contribute to the CLC Advent Calendar As Musical Director of Carleton Ladies Choir, I am organising a festive online event and I would be thrilled if you would participate. Through December I will…
Weekly Update: 20 July 2020
Over the past few weeks I’ve been kept really busy over at Carleton Ladies Choir with working on their Summer Season of Music and Poetry. Right now we’re right in the middle of a series…
Summer Season of Music & Poetry
Since 2013 when I took on the role of Musical Director at Carleton Ladies Choir, we have put on an annual summer concert that has helped to strengthen community bonds, give local people a performance…