WHAT makes a former Coronation Street star mad? which Canadian rock band is blazing a trail to British shores? who is the connection between a short film made in Barrow and the films Cold Mountain and The Hours? and what has Westmorland Orchestra conductor Barry Sharkey got to say about his accomplished ensemble opening the Mary Wakefield Westmorland Music Festival and its 2007 season? Adrian Mullen Puts You in the Picture in his new column covering the arts and music.

From rock to jazz, poetry and prose, theatre, film and visual art, it will be a contemporary mix of previews, interviews and reviews at www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/performance scene.

Also in the pipeline is a talk with one of the great rock vocalists of all time, what's fresh in jazz over the airwaves, profiles of some of the region's young guitarists who are picking their way to the top, and a look at the Arts Council and England's the Arts Debate.'