... Summer season request ARTISTS and managements are re minded that preparations for our sum mer season coverage are under way, and that comprehensive coverage de pends on comprehensive information sent to us. Particulars of summer seasons, large and small, should be sent to the Editor at 47 Bermondsey Street, Lon don SE1 3XT as soon as possible. ...

... Good Vibes at Glasgow GLASGOW'S Second International Jazz Festival opens at the Theatre Royal on June 24 with a concert featuring Martin Taylor, Stephane Grappelli, Carol Kidd and Tommy Smith. The Theatre Royal will also be the venue for concerts by the Young Tuxedo Brass Band and Barry Mar- tyn's Young Men of New Orleans (June 25), Oscar Peterson Trio (June 26) and Gerry Mulligan the ...

... Salsa star RATED as one of the world's great stars of salsa music, Oscar D'Leon is bringing his 16-piece orchestra to Hackney Empire for a concert on June 26. The Venezuelan outfit, which features singer Vladimir Lozano, is being presented by the Bass Clef Club. ...

... Network finds a surprise ally in Luce PTN CAMPAIGN GETS A BOOST AFTER MINISTER SPEAKS OF PUB THEATRE'S 'GROWING CONTRIBUTION TO THE OVERALL THEATRICAL PICTURE' By YASMINE KARTAL THE PUB THEATRE Network, which has been fighting a prolonged campaign to save the pub theatre venue from extinction, this week went one step closer to victory, by finally winning the support of the Minister for the ...

... Amazing: feet at the Fridge TOP AFRICAN band The Real Sounds demonstrate the hokey cokey Zimbabwe style. Not a 'feet' to be attempted by the uniniti ated they say, so grab your goatskins, go hands down r to the Fridge, Brixton Hill on Thursday October 22 and see how it's done by the experts. Headlining the charity do will be two more of the hottest sounds from out of Africa, Orchestre Jazira ...

... Royal discount pays off The Theatre Royal at Stratford East is £32.000 better off following its most successful marketing ploy to date The sum is the advanced box office taking for its pantomime The Sleeping Beauty which opens on December 14. The theatre offered a 10 per cent discount on tickets bought before October 31 and was flooded with punters. A spokesman for the Royal said that ...

... Cabaret in the Coconut Grove THE LIVERPOOL nightclub, Coconut Grove in Tuebrook is proposing to introduce cabaret. This is primarily a big disco club. With Allinsons, the cabaret club now closed, the Coconut is applying to the city licensing justices on April 12 for a liquor licence to cover their second floor accommodation. Lack of audiences and high fees demanded by performers were given as ...

... Food with footlights VldUKIAN variety revues are on their way back to a Cumbrian inn as pan of a food and footlights scheme. The plan which is claimed will be the only music hall venue in the Lake District is part of a £40,000 modernisation scheme for the White Swan Inn at Boltongate. As well as sporting conventional bar*, the pub will house a restaurant-cum- music hall and owner, Jean Rigg, ...

... Changes made is Paraphernalia BARBARA THOMSON has had to make two important changes in her jazz group Paraphernalia. Colin Dudman and Dill Katz, with five and three years service respectively, have left to concentrate on their own band 20th Century Blues and have been replaced by Bill Worrall (keyboards) and Dave Ball (bass guitar). Remaining are Barbara on saxophones and flutes, her husband ...

... US star pulls out of Sellers tour PROMOTER HENRY Sellers is licking his wounds, hiding his embarrassment and showing his annoyance at the last-minute cancellation of a tour he had lined up last week by U.S. soul star Billy Griffin, who charted strongly recently with Hold Me Tighter in the Rain. For just as Sellers was expecting GrifTin to arrive primed and ready for his opening date at ...

... Newcastle Royal asks for grants for panto NEWCASTLE THEATRE Royal is to ask for up to £65,000 in grants to stage this year's Aladdin pantomime. The request for financial assistance comes despite record box office takings from the winter's panto and more than £80,000 being made from the hire of scenery and sets. A report, to be considered by Tyne and Wear's leisure committee, says the council ...

... Staff offers free service to keep venue open By HELEN GOULD STAFF at a remote west country arts centre have agreed to work without pay for the summer season in a bid to keen the venue open. Sterts Arts and Environmental Centre on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall is doomed to closure unless long-term funding is found before the end of the summer. The rural venue, established six years ago with the assis ...