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CLITHEROE Grand is set to re-open with a special party next month. The venue was forced to close 14 months ago when the country was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Boosted by the award of a government Cultural Recovery grant of over £260,000, the fund will enable The Grand to restart many of its regular activities closed during the nationwide health emergency, as restrictions continue to lift. The Grand’s executive director Steven Lancaster said: “We are excited to relaunch a number of creative classes and begin to welcome our visitors and partners back to the venue very soon. “We are planning for a number of indoor events and also looking forward to being part of a summer season of outdoor projects and festivals.
BLACKBURN act Neutrino play music to groove to - and their quirky sound has landed the trio a special prize ahead of their appearance at this weekend’s free on-line Ribble Valley Jazz and Blues Festival. The inaugural Jackson Jazz and Blues award, won by Neutrino, is inspired by Geoff Jackson, who has played a major role in developing the festival and attracting international artists to the town. Clitheroe’s Mr Jazz stepped down as the festival chairman in 2019 - a decade after the first Ribble Valley Jazz Festival was staged in Clitheroe, British jazz vocalist Jacqui Dankworth providing the headline act.
FAVOURITE: Kyla Brox is one of the headliners of this year’s jazz and blues festival THE Ribble Valley Jazz and Blues Festival will go ahead this year - as an online event. All three days of the festival will be streamed for free over the May Day Bank Holiday featuring some of the biggest names on the British jazz and blues scene. Singer song-writer Kyla Brox will provide the vintage fizz when she headlines this year’s three-day jamboree on Bank Holiday Sunday. Organisers, who have attracted acts from all over the world to Clitheroe in the last decade, were forced to cancel last year’s festival due to the Coronavirus health emergency.
£165,000 grant to help save King Georgeâs Hall, Darwen Library Theatre and Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
King Georges Hall, Blackburn. Picture by Paul Heyes, Thursday August 25, 2016.. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have announced that they have invested £4,501,380 in arts and cultural organisations across Lancashire through the second round of their Culture Recovery Fund distributed by Arts Council England. In Blackburn with Darwen, this means the immediate future of the borough s cultural venues is more secure, after the council received a grant of £165,613 from the fund. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said more than 2,700 cultural organisations and local authorities across the country will receive a share of £400million as part of the vital financial boost from the Government’s £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund.