• Why Carlisle Music City is worth taking the week off work for
• From thriller to tragedy in Keswick
• First class laughs with young cast
• Theatre's new run has it all
• Songs from the musicals to hit the stage in Barrow
• Music on the Marr festival promises to be one of 2013's highlights

SUGGS visits Barrow this week with his new show My Life Story in Words and Music.

• Tickets go on sale for the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival
• Blazingly funny family drama
• Hermits head this way
• One of the country’s most well known and respected mediums comes to Barrow
• Original Beatle to perform in Cumbria
• Kidfest set for return

Visiting Cumbria or looking for things to do in the county this week? Here is our roundup of five events that are not to be missed...

• New Penrith photgraphy fair
• Textile group show work in Lake District
• Inn crowd set to celebrate music and beer
• Abbot Hall to host the Radev Collection
• Grayson Perry work included in Tullie House show
• Cumbrian Artists' gallery

GET your baking hats on and switch your oven to gas mark five - it's time to shine!

• Artists invited to bid for £30,000 woodland commission
• Kung Fu masters show their skills
• New gallery to exhibit work by local artists
• Military Musuem provides major new attraction for Carlisle
• Cumberland Show celebrates 175th anniversary
• Exhibition reveals life of Dorothy Wordsworth