SKIPTON: With just over a week to go before the Grand Depart comes to Skipton, Craven Museum and Gallery has launched its summer exhibition, Bikes, Legs, Action!

It is designed to highlight the ins and outs of cycling. Visitors can view the helmet of 2012 Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins, inspect Team Sky Rapha equipment and find out about tactics and nutrition of cyclists.

The museum is located in Skipton Town Hall and the exhibition runs until September 20.

Skipton Players are treading the boards with Mr Wonderful.

Set in Skipton, the story centres on a single lady in search of real love despite working full time and caring for her bed-ridden mother.

Mr Wonderful is the work of well-known North Yorkshire writer, James Robson.

It opened at the Little Theatre on Tuesday and runs until Saturday, with curtains up at 7.30pm.

To book tickets, ring 07527 141176.

As part of Les Fetes de Sainte Trinite, a day of music will be staged at Holy Trinity Church on Saturday.

It will include performances from chamber choir Pinsuti, Skipton Ukelele Club, Leeds University Staff Community Choir, pianist Aleks Podraza and guitarist Matias Reed.

The Beer House Boys will perform at the Three Links Club on Saturday night.

For more information, contact the Oddfellows office on 01756 798022.

SETTLE: Keith James will recreate The Songs of Leonard Cohen at Settle’s Victoria Hall tomorrow.

Each song will be stripped back so it can be performed in an intimate and sensitive way.

Also included are poems by Cohen and Federico Garcia Lorca, which Keith has set to music.

And rising 19-year-old Roots singer/songwriter Luke Jackson will take over the stage on Sunday.

From Kent, he was nominated for both the Horizon Award for Best Emerging Talent and the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award last year.

He has been making ripples on the live acoustic scene supporting such luminaries as Show of Hands, Paul Brady, Chris Wood, Steve Knightley, Karine Polwart and Oysterband.

Tickets are available from settlevictoriahall.org.uk or call 01729 825718.

Settle Parish Church will host another organ recital on Saturday.

Pop goes the Organ will focus on 60s and 70s pop music, played by resident organist Graham Toft and local composer Paul Fisher.

The event will start at 7.30pm.

The work of Settle artist Sam Dalby is being showcased at Linton Court Gallery.

Although highly regarded as a portrait painter, Sam is exhibiting a range of still life oil paintings, many of which have not been seen before.

In these works Sam has carefully captured sunlight light falling on table tops, on found objects and on vacant chairs in empty rooms.

The exhibition, Still life, Portraits, Life Drawing, runs until next Saturday, July 5.

The gallery – which has just celebrated its fourth birthday – is also holding a smaller exhibition of Tina Balmer’s bright and colourful paintings.

Tina studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London, and is based in the south of England.

There is still time to view The Folly’s exhibition featuring the work of six of the UK’s leading contemporary artists and craftmakers who embrace the principles of the “slow” movement.

Their work is craft based, grounded in traditional skills and processes, which are often labour intensive, but “slow” does not simply mean how long the work has taken, it is about the whole process, thinking, researching, experimenting, the experience and the refinement of skills.

The artists are Aimee Betts who creates personal adornments uniting traditional techniques with digital technology, Sharon Adams who creates utensils inspired by the mystery objects found in museum collections, ceramic artist Fenella Elms, Lizzie Farey who uses traditional basketry techniques, Chris Keenan who creates hand thrown bowls, cups, vases and jars from Limoges porcelain and Misun Won who makes intricate silver jewellery.

The exhibition will run until Sunday.

Photographer Simon Whalley will be hoping he is on track when his latest exhibition opens at the Gallery on the Green on Saturday Mr Whalley, who is from Langwathby, will display photographs from his Spirit of the Line book to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the saving of the Settle-Carlisle Railway Line.

It explores how the line fits into the countryside and whether people can live in harmony with the landscape.

The exhibition will run until August 30.

BARNOLDSWICK: THE Border Harmony Choir will lead a sing off at Barnoldswick Library today from 10am to noon.

The idea is that anyone can drop by and join in the singing as part of Lancashire County Council's well being agenda. The event is free.

GARGRAVE: The village will host the north of England’s flagship autoharp festival for the second year running.

The three-day event starts tomorrow and will centre on the village hall, although there will be music in pubs and at other venues in the vicinity.

There will be a programme of autoharp classes and demonstrations on Saturday from 10am and tutors will include Mike Fenton, Guy Padfield, Nadine and Ian White and Heather Farrell-Roberts.

All five will take part in a grand concert in Gargrave Village Hall on Saturday evening, starting at 7.30pm.

The festival will culminate on Sunday with a church service at St Andrew’s at 10.30am, followed by a gathering at the nearby Masons Arms.

For more information, visit ukautoharps.org.uk GIGGLESWICK: The Richard Whiteley Theatre will screen Ghosts, direct from the West End, tonight.

Directed by Richard Eyre, the show has been nominated for five awards at the 2014 Olivier Awards including best revival, best director, best actress and best supporting actor.

It stars Lesley Manville as Helene Alving, who has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father.

The screening starts at 7.30pm and tickets are available from the box office at giggleswick.org.uk/rwt or call 01729 893180.

Settle Orchestra will perform the second of two summer concerts at the theatre on Saturday.

The programme includes the ever popular Hebrides’ Overture by Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert’s Symphony No 8 The Unfinished, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No 5 and Carl Maria Von Weber’s Andante and Rondo for Bassoon and Orchestra.

The orchestra will be conducted by Leo Geyer, one of two candidates for the permanent conductor’s position, and soloist will be Josh Asquith who is in his fourth year of studying at the Royal Northern College of Music.

The concert starts at 7.30pm and tickets are available from Cave and Crag, Settle, Settle Music, High Bentham Post Office, Skipton Camera Centre, sarah.glossop@btinternet.com or 07732 352771.

And, on Monday, the HandleBards - a four-strong, all-male troupe of travelling players – will perform The Comedy of Errors in the Style House Garden.

The actors will play multiple characters in the 1930s-set play, fully engaging showgoers with some unusually energetic audience interaction.

The show starts at 7pm and tickets costing £10 (under 18s £8) can be booked online at giggleswick.org.uk/rwt or through the box office on 01729 893180.

GLUSBURN: Glusburn Institute’s next film offering has a Tour de France theme.

The featured film is Belleville Rendez-Vous, which will be screened on Saturday as part of the institute’s French Cultural Day.

The action centres on a grandmother’s attempt to rescue her grandson, kidnapped during the Tour De France. She teams up with the Belleville Sisters- an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire.

The movie has very little dialogue and instead relies on song and dance routines to convey the plotline Tickets are £3.50 for adults and £2.50 for children.

And, continuing the Tour de France theme, the institute will show the film, The Flying Scotsman, based on the life and career of Scottish champion cyclist Graeme Obree next Friday, July 4.

Obree built his bicycle from old bits of washing machines and won the championship only to have his title stripped from him a week later.

The film will be screened at 7pm, and admission is £5 for adults and £3.50 for concessions.

GRASSINGTON: Auditions will take place next week for Grassington Players’ autumn production of Oh What a Lovely War.

It requires an ensemble group of between 15 and 20 performers who need to be able to sing and move well while playing a variety of different parts.

Auditions will take place on Monday and Wednesday in the Octagon Theatre at the town hall.

For more information, email pevickers@googlemail.com or ring chairman Mary Wilkinson on 01756 752740.

HELLIFIELD: A Tour de France celebration will be held at the institute next Friday, July 4.

There will be live music from The Variations, plus Mik's Euro Disco, and tickets are £7.50, which includes a continental supper. Admission is limited to over 18s only.

RIBBLEHEAD: The Settle-Carlisle Railway’s artist in residence Sarah Hutton will set up a pop-up studio at Ribblehad Station next Sunday, July 6.

Running from 11am to 4pm, Sarah will invite people to join her as she explores the local area and to draw whatever catches their imagination.

All ages are welcome and simple drawing materials will be provided. Just bring a packed lunch.

For more information, call 01729 825888 or email Josephine@settle-carlisle.co.uk