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Our first ever Countrystride Live – the Amblestride – was held in Ambleside in November, 2023 featuring a range of walks, talks, food, drink, music and Countrystride bonhomie. 

We sold out, and had a blast. As a consequence we're back with two events in 2024 – both more intimate, and both with the usual Countrystride passion for Cumbria, walking, landscape and heritage.

 

Our first, the CS Summer Gathering featuring Tom McNally and Phoebe Smith, held in collaboration with Kelsick Assembly / Force Café in Ambleside, took place in September. 

 

The second is our festive Cumbrian Christmas Cracker, where we head to The Armitt, Ambleside – see below. Tickets have sold out.

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Cumbrian Christmas Cracker: A seasonal evening of readings, poems, dialect and music 

The Armitt, Ambleside, Wed 4 December, 2024,
7 – 9.30pm (with interval).

 

Open the season of goodwill with Mark and Dave at our first ever Countrystride 'Cumbrian Christmas Cracker' – a nostalgic evening of seasonal readings, poems, dialect and music from Alan and Lesley Cleaver, Sue Allan and The Cumbrian Duo.

Readings, poems, dialect, music... and mince pies

 

Rewind time to the days of village Waits and Mummers plays. Enjoy dialect-lover Sue Allan's discussion of Cumbrian terms for snow and her recital of Robert Anderson's evocative 'The Robin'. Follow carol singers along Wasdale, and the Ambleside postman up The Struggle with historian Alan Cleaver. Then settle back to enjoy seasonal tunes and songs on guitar and harp from Ed and Jean of The Cumbrian Duo. 

Don your Christmas jumper as the CS team and friends unpack a stocking of seasonal gifts featuring memories of past days, letters from the Western Front, records of pies eaten in Buttermere, the inevitable fire-side ghost story... and a classic reading or two, before breaking for mulled wine and mince pies.

​​Tickets are now sold out.

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