Popular veteran musicians Chas and Dave will be making their debut performance at Malvern Theatres tonight.

The popular duo have been making music together since the 1960s and became well-known for their 'Cockney rock 'n' roll' in hits such as Gertcha, The Sideboard Song and Rabbit.

Still proving popular with up-and-coming young bands of today, including The Libertines who billed with the duo on their London shows last year.

Budding sculptors are in with the chance of getting creative and making their own clay pots of fantastical beasts and mythical creatures with a professional artist.

The Crazy Clay Critters summer holiday day out is aimed at all the family and will be held at Worcester City and Art Gallery and Museum on Wednesday, August 10.

For more information call 01905 25371.

The Worcester Festival 2005 will get off to a tapping start with an Irish dance show being performed at the Swan Theatre.

The internationally acclaimed show Celtic Feet has delighted audiences across the world and will include a fusion of Celtic rock, folk and traditional Irish music. The show is being staged on Saturday, August 6.

A hit West End thriller starring former Footballers' Wives star Susie Amy will be staged at Malvern Theatres from Monday, August 8, until Saturday, August 13. Susie - known to TV audiences as the glamorous Chardonnay - will play a blind woman struggling against the criminal underworld in the play Wait Until Dark.

A wedding, barn dance, fire, love triangle and murder most horrid - no it's not a television soap opera but a production coming to Worcestershire.

Director Ali Gorton has cleverly adapted Thomas Hardy's second rustic novel Far From The Madding Crowd, which will be performed by the Theatreworks company at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, on Wednesday, August 10.

One of the world's finest cellists will join the English Chamber Orchestra to play Tchaikovsky classics at Malvern Theatres. Julian Lloyd Webber will be conducted by Joseph Wolfe in the concert on Friday, August 19.

A series of summer drama workshops are being held in Worcester to keep children entertained and boost the talent of budding thespians.

The first sessions will run at the city's Swan Theatre, from Monday, August 8 until Friday, August 12, and is aimed at six to 14-year-olds.