Singer-guitarist Christine Collister has won many plaudits since turning solo in 1992.

And no wonder, for the previous few years saw her performing with the Richard Thompson Band, Bert Jansch and Loudon Wainwright III.

Christine also achieved success during a seven-year partnership with Clive Gregson and recording with Daphne's Flight.

Over the past decade the Isle of Man-born artist has recorded critically-acclaimed albums and wowed festival audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.

Local music fans can hear Christine for themselves when she appears at the Parkside Social Club, Butt Lane, Haworth, on November 30.

Christine has been named by the music magazine Q as "one of the finest grown-up vocalists on the planet".

Q also said she has "so much soul you think she'd been signed by Motown". Then there's the "killer voice, as full as Dusty Springfield and as blue as Alison Moyet".

Christine will sing the blues, as well as soul, pop, jazz, country and folk, from 8pm. Tickets cost £8 from 01535 642566 or 07799 275323.

n Singer-musician Bob Fox returns to Keighley on November 29 to perform at the Bacca Pipes Folk Club.

Tonight is singers' night at the club, which meets at Keighley Ukrainian Club, 9 Henry Street (off Cavendish Street), from 8.30pm.

n Keighley music promoter Michael Thomson hopes to release a CD featuring the town's 80s supergroup The Shakes.

He hopes the band's former members will give him permission to transfer one of its old tapes to disc.

Michael also wants to take the musicians back into the studio to re-record their most notorious song "I Killed God".

Michael recently announced plans to release a CD of songs recorded in the Sixties by Keighley band The Thimbleriggers.

He is also looking for a suitable Seventies Keighley group to re-release, as part of his campaign to catalogue the town's musical history.

Michael's latest project came about following his chance discovery of a tape of The Shakes' song "I Killed God".

Michael wants to contact band members such as Steve Wilson, Wayne Marshall and Jeff Rowland, as well as manager Rob Waddington.

For almost the past two decades Steve has played bass with Keighley band The Big Bang.

The Shakes and the Skeletal Family were Keighley's two biggest groups in the early 1980s, regularly playing venues such as the Funhouse, in North Street.

Although the Skeletals found chart success, The Shakes often attracted a bigger crowd in their home town.

Michael can be contacted at mmm-music.co.uk.

n No professional pantomime would be complete without a TV personality or two.

Bradford this year has former Emmerdale actress Malandra Burrows, Halifax boasts Darren Day, and Colne has a former Bill star.

Sutton Amateurs are getting in on the act by using TV "celebrities" for their panto Dick Whittington and His Cat.

The cat appeared on Blue Peter and Alderman Fitzwarren has been a BBC foreign correspondent.

Emma Waters, 12, of Eastburn, was seen dancing on Blue Peter when it was broadcast from Blackpool last summer.

The South Craven School student was one of the contenders for a place in a Gareth Gates video.

Neil Hellewell, who plays the Alderman, did a telephone interview for the BBC's "Holiday -- You Call The Shots" during its programme about Toronto.

Neil, of Steeton, was also interviewed for Calendar News, while picking up tickets from Bradford City FC on the day chairman Geoffrey Richmond quit.

Dick Whittington runs from December 4-7, at St Thomas's Hall, Sutton, nightly at 7.15pm and Saturday at 2.15pm.

Tickets cost £4.50 for adults and £3.50 concessions, from the Londis Store, Main Street, Sutton, and Forget-Me-Not, Main Street, Cross Hills.

n A retirement home for actors is the setting for the latest production from Keighley Playhouse.

Laying the Ghost begins during the 70th birthday celebrations of former actress Margot Buchanan.

Margot does not want to be reminded of her age, but her fellow residents are keen on celebrating.

The fun really begins when Margot's ex-husband Leo, a philanderer and womaniser, drops dead and is resurrected as a ghost.

One of the residents is psychic and is able to communicate with Leo while trying to complete her jigsaw puzzle.

Also playing a part in the proceedings are Leo's present wife, the home's no-nonsense manager and an aspiring young actress.

Leo is anxious to sort matters out between the three women in his life.

Laying the Ghost is written by well-known film, stage and TV actor Simon Williams, who also wrote the West End hit Nobody's Perfect.

The play runs from December 2-7. Book tickets at Keighley Information Centre in the town hall, or phone 08451 267859.

n Keighley Vocal Union performs a concert tomorrow, at St Andrew's Church, Newmarket Street, Skipton, in aid of cot death charity FSID. Guest performers are bassoon player Charlotte Crossley and cellist Lois Dodds. Tickets for the 7.30pm concert cost £5 on the door.

n Yorkshire Building Society Concert Brass presents its annual concert, at Bingley Arts Centre, on November 30. Tickets for the 7.30pm performance cost £6 (concessions £5) from Keighley Information Centre in the town hall, or by phoning 01535 272506.

n An organist from Liverpool Cathedral will give a recital at St Margaret's Parish Church, Queens Road, Ilkley, tomorrow, at 7.30pm. David Houlder will perform music by Bairstow, Stanford, Bach and Durufle. Admission is £5 (£4). Phone Christian Spence on 0113 295-5712 for more information.