by mark | Feb 21, 2017 | News
Best in the North West! Teenage dancer Clara Burnie flew the flag for Colne Luther Greenwood Festival and won a top North West regional trophy. Clara (pictured), from Burnley, won a crop of first prizes at Colne’s annual dance competition in May 2015 and was invited...
by mark | Feb 21, 2017 | News
Town’s link with Titanic The town of Colne, home to the Luther Greenwood Memorial Festival, has a never-to-be-forgotten link to the Titanic disaster of April 15th, 1912. Wallace Hartley, bandmaster on the ill-fated White Star liner, was born in Colne, grew up in the...
by mark | Feb 21, 2017 | News
Natalie’s early steps to fame She was a sensation on TV’s Strictly Come Dancing, but did you know that Natalie Gumede gave some of her earliest dance performances at the Luther Greenwood Festival in Colne? Long before she made her name as Kirsty Soames in Coronation...
