Cumbria has been treated to classical music and jazz in an eclectic range of venues. 

Lake District Summer Music (LDSM) enjoyed its 37th year of bringing music to the county. The festival also celebrated 150 years since the birth of composer Ralph Vaughn Williams.  

LDSM played in venues such as The Dock Museum in Barrow, outside the Heaton Cooper Studio in Grasmere, Ambleside Parish Chruch, and the garden of Wordsworth's home in Rydal Mount. 

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It saw performances by acclaimed acts such as the Northern Symphonia and Ulverston pianist Martin Ruscoe who returned to his home town for the first time in decades. 

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A highlight of the event was The Lark Ascending Trail, which involved a series of four free recitals in different locations near Grasmere as part of a walk that people could do. 

Esther Abrami, a violinist who has become a star on social media, performed a piece that she had presented at the Royal Albert Hall was one of the performers on the Trail. 

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Artistic director Stephen Threlfall said: "I can say with confidence that it went really well because of the things people have been saying. I think it went extremely well within Northern Symphonia, I was trying to book acts which really engage people in any we can.

"Last year it was still difficult to book acts because of COVID. It was also my very first year so that was twice as hard. There were still some issues with travelling this year, we couldn't book artists until later on than we would have liked but that is understandable. But we had good houses, some full houses." 

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Stephen said that his vision for the festival was for people to incorporate seeing artists at different times of the day. He said that the 'idea is to go to the performance and then we will go for a meal.' 

This is why some artists played at pop-up venues, on boats, or on the streets across the Lake District, so that the broad programme of music not only accommodated people's music tastes but also enhanced their enjoyment of visiting various locations throughout the Lakes