SKIPTON: Accomplished singer and guitarist Hayden Allen will perform at the Iron Horse Country Music Club on Saturday.
It will be his first performance with the club, which meets at the White Rose Club in Newmarket Street.
Doors open at 7.30pm and tickets are £5 on the door.
* Skipton Folk Unplugged will hold singers nights on the next two Mondays – January 11 and 18.
And, on Monday, January 25, the club will hold a Scottish night to celebrate the life and poetry of Robert Burns.
The club meets at the Narrow Boat, in Victoria Street, from 8.30pm.
SETTLE: Settle’s Junior Theatre Group is about to start work on another production.
When Toad Came Home is based loosely on The Wind in the Willows, telling the tale of Toad who has his computer stolen by nasty Weasels, who threaten to bring in the tax inspector. Help is at hand, however, from Toad’s trusted friends, Rat, Mole and Badger and the Field Mice.
There are lots of songs and the chance to dance, as well as dressing up as the creatures from the Wild Wood.
The first get-together will be at The Court House on Monday at 6.30pm and rehearsals will be held every Monday and Wednesday at the same time.
The show will be staged at Victoria Hall on Friday, March 18, and Saturday, March 19, at 7.30pm and on Sunday, March 20, at 2pm. All children aged between seven and 17 are welcome.
* Settle Flagmakers have made their annual visit to the town’s Gallery on the Green.
They have reprised their 2012 exhibition, Treasure Island, at the converted phone box in Upper Settle.
Created by Jeanne Carr, Veronica Allsop and Julie Sobczak, it gives people the chance to escape from the bleak midwinter and head to a tropical paradise.
The exhibition will run until Saturday, January 16.
* Artists Frank Gordon, Hannah Chesterman, Hester Cox, Lesley Fotherby, Pam Grimmond, Pip Seymour, Rebecca Wallace-Jones, Ross Brown, Alison Dickson, Casey Allum and Laura Wallace feature in the Winter’s Tale exhibition at The Courtyard’s Lime Gallery.
The exhibition will run until January 23.
* The Ribblesdale Area Moving Picture Show will screen a film set in North Yorkshire on Wednesday.
Addicted to Sheep is the story of a family’s quest to breed the perfect sheep and follows a year in the life of a tenant farmer and his family.
It captures the stunning stark beauty of the landscape, the hard graft required to survive and, without sentiment, examines the life of the family.
The screening will take place at Settle’s Victoria Hall at 7.45pm and tickets cost £5 on the door.
CARLETON: Carleton Ladies Choir – which recently sang its way to victory at the Colne Luther Greenwood Memorial Festival – will hold a free open workshop tonight.
Those present will learn a couple of songs, sung in two-part harmony, under the watchful eye of musical director Damian Oxborough.
All ladies are welcome - there are no auditions, previous experience is not required, and you don’t need to be able to read music.
The workshop will take place at Carleton Primary School at 7.30pm.
GLUSBURN: Glusburn Institute will hold its first Film Friday of 2016 next week, January 15.
The featured film will be Kingsman, The Secret Service, starring Taron Egerton, Colin Firth and Samuel L Jackson.
It is about a spy organisation which recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training programme just as a global threat emerges from a twisted-tech genius.
The screening starts at 7.30pm and entry is £4.
GRASSINGTON: Grassington Festival is inviting applications from performers, community groups and venues, who want to stage their own event as part of the Fringe.
Events could include outdoor concerts, pub gigs, exhibitions, poetry readings, school events, open mornings and taster sessions and will run alongside the main festival from Saturday, June 18, to Saturday, July 2.
The closing date for applications is Saturday, January 16, and for more details, contact 01756 752691 or email admin@grassington-festival.org.uk.
INGLETON: Ingleton Rural Community Association will show The Water Diviner at Ingleborough Community Centre tomorrow.
Doors open at 6.30pm, with the screening at 7pm.