SKIPTON: The Three Links Club is staging its annual country and western weekend.

Starting tomorrow night, the free event will feature five singers.

For the second year, the opening act will be Little Rock, featuring Roy Orbison tribute artiste Steve Place.

Then, on Saturday, the stage will be taken over at 1pm by Jim Tracy, and at 8pm, by Kris Davis and Darren Colt Murphy as Kentucky Rain.

Sunday's programme includes singer-songwriter Amy Morgan at 1pm and singer and guitarist Nigel Slater at 4pm.

All concerts are free and visitors are welcome. For more information, contact the club on 01756 798022.

* England’s largest family puppet festival returns to Skipton next weekend.

Starting next Friday, it will be full of inspiration and magic for all ages.

And, so everyone can get involved, there will be drop-in puppet-making workshops at Stepping Stones Nursery in Aireville Park and at Greatwood and Horse Close Community Centre on Saturday and Sunday.

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, but also the delights of the Yarndale Festival which takes place at Skipton Auction Mart this weekend.

Yarndale focuses on all things woolly and brings together exhibitors, demonstrators and a full programme of textile workshops.

A Tale of Two Festivals will run until next Sunday, October 4.

* The duo, Morfran Heights, will entertain at Skipton Folk Unplugged on Monday.

Martin Francis and Paul Morris will perform a blend of songs and tunes incorporating guitar, bouzouki, whistles and bodhran.

The folk club meets at the Narrow Boat pub, on Victoria Street, from 8.30pm.

SETTLE: The Golden Oldies (known as the GOs to their friends) will entertain at Victoria Hall to mark UK Older People’s Day.

Organised by Age UK North Craven, the free event will take place next Thursday, October 1, and will celebrate the contribution made to the community by people in later life.

The GOs started out as an over 50s light exercise group, but now provide entertainment, costumed and choreographed song, fun and dance all over the North West.

For more information and to reserve tickets, contact Sue Bradley on 01729 823066.

* The next foreign film showing by TRAMPS will take place at Victoria Hall on Wednesday at 7.45pm.

The film will be Bombón: El Perro, which is a gently humorous Spanish road movie featuring a 52-year-old and the large dog he is given in lieu of payment.

* The Folly has looked overseas for its latest exhibition.

It is hosting Textil/Juvel: Contemporary Craft from West Sweden.

It features seven leading makers of textiles and jewellery and reveals the rich craft heritage of West Sweden, together with an awareness of the natural world and humans' impact upon it.

The show is the fourth in the Art Unpacked series of exhibitions from Chrysalis Arts of Gargrave and will run until November 1.

* Visitors to The Folly - home of the Museum of North Craven Life - will also be able to view the Community Skills exhibition, which has been running since the spring.

It tells the story of the potteries in Burton-in-Lonsdale, which were fired up in the mid 18th century and showcases around 60 pots from the museum’s collection.

It too runs until November 1.

For more information, call 01729 822854 or visit ncbpt.org.uk/folly.

* 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.

BEAMSLEY: The Hall Royd Band from Shipley will play at a celebration event at the Beamsley Project on Sunday at 2.30pm.

Based at a former Methodist Chapel, the project provides tailored, self-catering holiday accommodation for those with disabilities.

COWLING: Steeton Male Voice Choir will perform at Holy Trinity Church on Saturday at 7.30pm.

The concert had originally been scheduled for September 12, but was rearranged because it clashed with Glusburn Fallfest.

Tickets are available from the concert secretary on 01274 598221.

EMBSAY: The village's Pre-School Playgroup will present An Evening of Live Music, featuring Rebecca Joy and The Rockets, in Embsay Village Hall next Saturday, October 3.

The doors open at 7.30pm, with the music starting at 8pm followed by a disco. Tickets are £10, including supper, and are available from Embsay Pre-School on 01756 791123.

GARGRAVE: The Community Library will show the film, My Old Lady, in the village hall next Friday, October 2.

The comedy drama stars Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Dominique Pinon and is about down-and-out New Yorker, who travels to Paris to liquidate a large, valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father. Once there, however, he discovers an old woman, living in the apartment with her daughter.

The screening starts at 7pm.

HELLIFIELD: Settle Voices Community Choir will be in action on Saturday.

Members will sing a variety of songs at a coffee morning they are hosting in Hellifield Institute from 10am.

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

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

TOSSIDE: Tosside Art Group will stage its annual exhibition this weekend.

It will take place at the community hall on Saturday and Sunday from 10.30am to 4pm.

Donations will be taken for Macmillan Cancer Support.