News from producers around Derbyshire

Do you want the chance for your music to earn you up to £400? 

Then you will want to know that on Saturday 27^th.  April 2019 a music competition will be held at The Strutts Centre, in Belper.

There will be a prize of £400 for the winning student, a prize of £150 for the student in second place, and a third prize of £75.

The competition is sponsored by the Dalesmen Male Voice Choir and all of the information is available in the “Student Competition” section of their website

www.dalesmen.org

Mondays, 7-9pm, starting 21^st January

10 weeks, max 8 people, £100

Hayfield, SK22

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FREE Concert at the Dale Club, Jacksdale, NG16 5HR - Saturday 19 January

 2019 at 8.00 p.m.

As a thank you to its hosts, the Pye Hill and District Male Voice Choir will be appearing in concert at its ‘home’ - the ‘Dale Suite’, Dale Club, Jacksdale, NG16 5HR, on Saturday 19 January at 8.00 p.m and entry is FREE to the public. Make a date in your diary, come along with and family and friends and enjoy a great evening’s entertainment and fun.

Derby Concert Band’s next concert is on Saturday 23 March 2019 at 7.30pm at Rolls-Royce Nightingale Hall, Moor Lane, Derby DE24 8DR. This will be an entertaining programme of music from stage and screen, pop, rock and classical, with a quiz running throughout the evening. The questions will be loosely, very loosely, related to the music. Come and test your general knowledge whilst being entertained by this award-winning band

Derby College is offering a wide range of part time and short courses to support people’s job and promotion prospects under its innovative Career Learning Ladder programme for adults.

Giles Abbott with 50 Shades of Grimm and East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Games Development students at Derby College have designed a high quality video game as part of a project to give them real-life industry experience.

The students are based at the Joseph Wright Centre – the post-16 Academic and Arts college – and designed ‘Drive By Santa’ in just seven weeks.

The late wildlife artist Pollyanna Pickering has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Create and Craft TV.

The award recognises her excellence in wildlife art and her passion for conservation as well as the contribution she made to the channel during six years of regular guest appearances.

Derby LIVE and Little Wolf Entertainment invite Derby audiences on an awfully big adventure in Christmas 2019 as a brand-new swashbuckling pantomime sets sail for Derby Arena.

Peter, Tinker Bell, Wendy and a very odd looking woman, who refuses to grow up, are in for a high-flying action-packed adventure. The lost boys and musical mermaids will take on some very potty pirates and the most dastardly villain of them all – Captain Hook!