SKIPTON: Skipton Building Society Camerata will perform at the town hall tomorrow.

The resident professional orchestra will complete its survey of Mozart’s final trilogy of symphonies with a performance of No 41, the Jupiter.

The programme will also feature Webern's five pieces for string orchestra Op 5 and Berlioz's Les nuits d’été, which will be sung by mezzo soprano Hannah Mason.

The concert - the third that Camerata has given in Skipton this year - will start at 7.30pm and tickets are available at skiptoncamerata.com or by calling 0333 666 3366.

England’s largest family puppet festival returns to Skipton later this year.

* Skipton International Puppet Festival runs as a biennial event and this year's offering - which runs over the weekend of October 2 and 4 - will be the sixth edition.

As ever, it will be full of inspiration and magic for all ages.

And, so everyone can get involved, there will be drop-in puppetmaking workshops at Stepping Stones Nursery in Aireville Park this weekend, September 19 and 20, and next weekend, September 26 and 27.

The puppet festival is also one of the focuses of the current exhibition at Craven Museum and Gallery.

A Tale of Two Festivals showcases not only the puppet festival in October, but also the delights of the Yarndale Festival later this month.

Yarndale focuses on all things woolly and brings together an impressive selection of exhibitors, stunning exhibitions, skill demonstrations and a full programme of textile workshops.

This year's event takes place next weekend, and as a taster, Yarndale has set up a woolly exhibition in the museum. Visitors can even become a living exhibit, by knitting and nattering in the gallery!

A Tale of Two Festivals will run until October 4 and for more details about the two events, visit yarndale.co.uk and skiptonpuppetfestival.co.uk.

SETTLE: Holy Moly and The Crackers will provide an evening of lively music, tall tales and hard liquor at Victoria Hall tonight.

The six-piece band will present their folk musical show, If the River was Whisky, which tells the humorous tale of Willy O'Connell, whose love affair with whisky leads him away from home and into the path of malt-soaked Scots, wild women and old American moonshiners.

Curtains rise at 8pm and tickets are available from 01729 825718.

* The Three Peaks Folk Club will mark Sally Day on Saturday with a special night of music and songs which were favourites of folk club founder, Sally Wright.

The evening will take place at Settle Social Club from 8.30pm and will feature guest artist Anna Shannon. Admission is £5.

* The Lime Gallery, at The Courtyard, Settle, is hosting an exhibition called Discovery.

It features Annwyn Dean, with her textile-inspired work, Laura Smith, whose glasswork is inspired by the sea, contemporary landscape artist Marcus Hammond and Linda Hoyle who has recently made the transition to metal working.

The exhibition will run until the end of the month.

* The Gallery on the Green - housed in a converted telephone kiosk - is hosting a photographic exploration of the US Pacific Northwest by June Davies From Tiny to Tall features bugs, birds, flowers, beaches, sunsets and magnificent redwood forests from the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.

The exhibition will run until October 10. For more information, visit galleryonthegreen.org.uk.

ADDINGHAM: Grassington Singers will be in action at Addingham Methodist Church on Saturday at 7.30pm.

The programme will include a Guys and Dolls medley, songs by Lennon and McCartney, Paul Simon, Stephen Sondheim and Kurt Weill as well as some traditional Yorkshire songs.

* The Memorial Hall will host a film night tomorrow from 7.30pm.

The featured film will be the Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and entry is £4.

BUCKDEN: Buckden Singers are hoping to start a young people's section or training choir, open to children of primary school age.

The first get-together will be held at the village institute tonight from 6.30pm to 7.15pm.

For further information, contact Anne Vetch on 01756 760882.

CLAPHAM: Guitarist Chris Newman and harpist Máire Ní Chathasaigh will join forces to present a Blazing Guitar and Dancing Harp concert in St James' Church on Saturday.

Their music has been described as "an eclecticism of spirit of adventure that is quite thrilling" by The Times newspaper.

The concert starts at 7.30pm and tickets costing £10 (£5 for under 14s) are available from Sue Mann on 015242 51792.

EARBY: Musicians who regularly perform at the Station Hotel in Earby are putting on a charity concert to raise money for Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Pendleside Hospice.

It will be held at the town's Linden Road Community Centre on Saturday and will feature Andy Hill (known as The Bard of Earby), The Long Mondays and Ben and Robin.

The concert will start at 7.30pm and tickets cost £7.50, which includes a pie and peas supper. For more details, contact Sonia on 07787 875348.

GARGRAVE: Registration for next year's pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, will take place in the village hall from 6.30pm tonight.

Anyone who wants to be involved (children and adults) in dancing, acting or on the production crew should attend with their fee of £10 for the season.

HELLIFIELD: Author and former policeman Mike Pannett will entertain at a centenary celebration of the Women's Institute tonight at 7.30pm.

Described as the police equivalent of Gervase Phinn, Mike has already published several books and last year, released a memoir of his childhood years, called A Likely Tale Lad.

The event will take place at the village institute and is open to everyone. Tickets costing £15 are available on a first come, first served basis from Margaret Smith on 01729 851860.

SILSDEN: An afternoon of words and music, plus photographs, will celebrate the life of local man Harold Kitchen.

Remembering Harold will held at Silsden Town Hall on Monday - the 30th anniversary of his death.

Mr Kitchen – who was born and brought up in the town – played the piano for silent films at the old Silsden Picture House and later formed two popular bands, the Tivoli and the Silsden Old Timers, which played throughout the Keighley and Craven districts for many years.

A printer by trade, he also once ran a music shop – Harold Kitchen's Gramophone Saloon – and during his lifetime, taught the piano to hundreds of Silsden children.

Admission to the event is £3.

THORNTON-IN-LONSDALE: Sedbergh Town Band will give a concert at St Oswald's Church next Saturday, September 26, at 7pm.

Tickets cost £8 and are available from Jean Bell on 015242 41137 or PCC members.