2024 Community Musical

A musical you can join in with, or just sit back and enjoy, with spell-binding stories from Jessie McMeekin, and a suite of Cumberland-themed songs led by Dave Camlin with the Sing Owt! and Wild Chorus communty choirs and special guests, including house band Tryckster.

Download the song lyrics and join in with the choir. More info on the Choir page.

The story takes us on a journey around some of the famous and less well-known special places in Cumberland:

• Castlerigg stone circle, Keswick, CA12 4RN
  Thought to be one of the earliest stone circles in Britain, in a dramatic setting surrounded by a ring of mountains

• The ghost army of Souther Fell, Souther Fell
  A well known Lakeland legend, reported in 19th Century guidebooks to the Lake District.

• Blakeley Raise stone circle, Kinniside Common, CA23 3AQ
  A stone circle that’s been reconstructed, probably in a different location, there’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding the details.

• Smithy Beck longhouses, Ennerdale
  Unusual double-wall houses in the forest. More information on the Wild Ennerdale historic sites guide

• Great Gable memorial, Great Gable
  Great Gable and 11 other mountains were gifted to the nation by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club as a war memorial in 1923. Two other mountains were gifted by private donors. The first public gathering on Great Gable was on 8th June 1924.

• The boulder bothy, secret location!
  This bothy was a well-kept secret until the advent of social media. Rumours say it has since been vandalised and no longer exists.

• Elva Hill stone circle, Setmurthy, private land, no public access
  A small stone circle on a rise of land looking down on Bassenthwaite and the river Derwent