YOUNG music lovers should keep an eye open over the next few weeks for details of a new programme of events to keep the region sounding sweet in 2003.

Kendal-based project Music Links, which set up a raft of community music initiatives in the old county of Westmorland last year, is about to launch a fresh calendar of activities across the county.

Ideas in the pipeline include more collaborations with bands appearing at the Brewery Arts Centre, workshops, outdoor instrument-building and outreach projects featuring a large musician-laden bus travelling round South Lakeland.

There will be a chance to catch up with the story so far on February 1 at the Brewery Arts Centre when Music Links put on a concert of work by young people involved in Links projects across South Lakeland and Eden Valley.

For details log onto the music links website www.musiclinks.org.uk or telephone 01539-735083.

January 16, 2003 10:00