Rising blues star to play at Gala
ONE of the UK’s most exciting new artists, Chantel McGregor will play Durham Gala Theatre next month.
View ArticleA touch of Madness
MADNESS have announced a 20-date UK outdoor tour which finishes at Durham County Cricket ground. Gavin Martin caught up with Suggs to discuss 25 years of nutty moments.
View ArticleBlues, brass and bald character
BLUES, brass and bald heads feature in the Gala Theatre’s summer programme.
View ArticleBig day for Durham Cathedral organist
DURHAM Cathedral’s organist is preparing for a live recital to the nation.
View ArticleThe Chums add up for Merton
PAUL Merton says comedy is like a muscle you have to keep using. That's why he loves performing with his Impro Chums, he tells Charles Hutchinson
View ArticleConcert review: Dr James Lancelot, Durham Cathedral
MORE than half a million music lovers across the nation tuned in to Radio 3 to hear Durham Cathedral’s mighty “Father” Willis organ played by organist and Master of the Choristers Dr James Lancelot on...
View ArticleArtists with brilliant ideas for Lumiere showcase
FIVE North-East artists will contribute to the Lumiere light festival when it returns to Durham this autumn, it has been announced.
View ArticleHarry Clasper: the forgotten hero
ON June 27, it will be 170 years since Harry Clasper, his three brothers and Uncle Ned took the World Rowing Champions title from the "unbeatable" London rowers on the Thames.
View ArticleHusband and wife on stage together
A MARRIED couple will appear on stage together for an amateur group’s second consecutive production later this month (June 23-27).
View ArticleGo Geno! Soul legend tops blues festival
SOUL legend Geno Washington will headline the fifth annual Durham Blues Festival next weekend.
View ArticleDurham's Ramside Hall Hotel renames refurbished lounge after celebrated...
ONE of the North-East’s premier hotels has renamed a lounge in honour of pitman painter Norman Cornish.
View ArticleSummer of love with the Durham Singers
FROM music composed in the early fifteenth century to a piece that received its first performance in May, the Durham Singers’ summer concert spans 600 years of love songs.
View ArticleBard of Barnsley centre stage as Brass festival strikes up
THE WORLD premiere of a new show by poet Ian McMillan will be among the highlights of a four-day music festival later this month (July 16-19).
View ArticleDisplay opens featuring Deep Down images from Cornish tin mines
IMAGES portraying working life “down below” endured by Cornish tin miners went on display in Durham today (Monday, June 29).
View ArticleSingers provide moving musical accounts of love and songs at church concert
THE Durham Singers brought their season to a close with stunning performance of love songs spanning 600 years at St Brandon’s Church, Brancepeth.
View ArticleWedding photographer named among world's best
A COLLEGE lecturer is a picture of happiness after being named one of the 100 best wedding photographers in the world.
View ArticleReview: Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Durham Gala Theatre
AT first glance New York`s coolest, smoothest hepcats, the Fun Lovin` Criminals, looked a strange choice for Durham Brass Festival.
View ArticlePhantom a thrilling success
STAGING a show such as The Phantom of the Opera is risky. So popular is the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic that audiences have particular – and high – expectations of how it will look, sound and feel.
View ArticleBrave Simon is out to entertain Durham with humourous tales of a...
IS IT easy being seen as a hero, and how does Simon Weston, named the nation’s most heroic figure in a poll last year, cope with this pressure when his first stage tour brings him to Durham tomorrow...
View ArticleA Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Handlebards, Crook Hall and Gardens, Durham
DIRECTORS James Farrell and Emma Sampson begin their programme notes for The Handlebards’ summer tour thus: “When four cyclists decide to undertake a 1500 mile ride across the UK, we tend to think...
View ArticleReflective show explores Tunnard's legacy
A MAJOR exhibition exploring the work of Modernist designer and painter John Tunnard has opened to the public.
View ArticleMeet top authors at Durham Book Festival
THIS year's Durham Book Festival brings the Frozen North to the city with a life-size polar bear set to entertain families, while book festival organisers distribute free copies of Northern Lights by...
View ArticleRikki's charity single is just what the doctor ordered
AN NHS accountant was so moved by the demise of a long-standing hospitals’ fundraising group he decided to record a charity single for the cause.
View ArticleArtist returns to his roots for latest exhibition which proves chivalry isn't...
A NORTH-East-born artist is about to stage his first exhibition in his home region.
View ArticleMacAulay and Spikey heading to Gala
COMIC Fred MacAulay will be in Durham next month (September).
View ArticleCan you solve theatre's most famous whodunit?
A CLASSIC whodunit is coming to Durham’s Gala Theatre this week (September 14-19).
View ArticleShow's still going on - and it's new
He may be synonymous with 1970s nostalgia, but Leo Sayer still feels like a production machine, as Andy Welch finds out.
View ArticleFilming starts on historic epic about serial killer Mary Ann Cotton starring...
FILMING has started in the region on a new drama telling the life story of one of the North’s most notorious female serial killers.
View ArticleDurham poet on literary shortlist
A DURHAM author and poet has been shortlisted for a short story prize.
View ArticleTears at the terminal, captured in North-East photographer's latest exhibition
EMOTIONS witnessed among people awaiting and seeing off loved ones at airport terminals is captured in a photographic exhibition.
View ArticleTheatre festival is clear for Take Off
SHAKESPEARE for youngsters and a mystical retelling of Snow White will be among the highlights of a children’s theatre festival.
View ArticleReview: Samling Academy Concert 2015, Sage Gateshead
FOLLOWING intensive training over two weekends from some of the world’s most experienced classical artists (including at Durham University) 25 young people selected for the latest Samling Academy...
View ArticleDurham Singers to present the wonders of Haydn's The Creation at Durham...
THE COMPOSER Joseph Hayden was inspired to write some of the music to his oratorio The Creation by what he saw through the astronomer William Herschel’s revolutionary telescope in 1792, so the story...
View ArticleGala Big Band to play Durham Town Hall
A BIG BAND will perform in its home town later this month. The Gala Big Band will give a concert in Durham Town Hall from 7pm on Sunday, November 29. The group was formed in September 2014 to give...
View ArticleCulture minister Ed Vaizey impressed by North-East's vision, say backers
A VISION for the culture in the North-East over the next 15 years has impressed a Government minister, supporters have claimed.
View ArticleCountdown to Christmas begins at Durham Cathedral
THE COUNTDOWN to Christmas has begun at Durham Cathedral.
View ArticleReview: Haydn's The Creation, The Durham Singers and Ensemble, Durham Cathedral
WHEN The Durham Singers and Ensemble performed Haydn’s masterpiece The Creation at Durham Cathedral it was not only the culmination of months of rehearsals, but also represented the fruits of a...
View ArticleAn evening of contrasts promised as Durham Choral Society performs at Durham...
A POPULAR choir is approaching one of the biggest dates in its diary – a Durham Cathedral concert.
View ArticleLight-painting photos on display
A NEW exhibition of intriguing photographs has opened to the public.
View ArticleNorth-East's top 100 revealed in Bowes Museum portraits exhibition
ONE hundred of the North-East’s most influential people are to be featured in a photographic exhibition which opens later this month (Saturday, January 16).
View ArticleWinter show for Bowburn art group
A COMMUNITY art group is to hold its third exhibition.
View Article'Handy guide' inspired by a very special place
ENGLAND’S finest cathedrals are explored and explained in a new book by a retired Durham University professor.
View ArticleComic Tom Stade coming to Gala
COMIC Tom Stade will perform at Durham’s Gala Theatre next month (Wednesday, February 17).
View ArticleTake a US road trip with Cath
VISITORS to an art gallery can take a virtual road trip across America through a new exhibition.
View ArticleExhibition is perfect antidote to winter
A NEW exhibition of paintings and drawings of spring gardens has opened at a university college, offering the perfect antidote to the winter.
View ArticleOrchestra North East prepare for concert at Durham's Gala Theatre
ORCHESTRA North East is busy with final rehearsals for a concert taking an audience on a musical journey to London, Paris and Italy.
View ArticleAward-winning playwright stars in miners’ strike show
A COMEDY exploring the impact of the miners’ strike will enjoy a two-night run at the Gala Theatre next week (February 15-16).
View ArticleChance for residents to view world famous art
DRAWINGS by one of the world’s greatest artists, Leonardo da Vinci, will go on display in Newcastle tomorrow (Saturday, February 13).
View ArticleSpotlight to fall on cathedral in treasured display
A LIGHTING firm that has worked on the London Olympics, the London Eye, St Paul’s Cathedral and HMS Victory has been chosen to illuminate Durham Cathedral’s new visitor attraction.
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