MORE than 300 people packed into a Teesdale venue on Friday to see a concert showcasing the area's best musical talent.
The Big Live Gig, at the Jersey Farm Hotel, Barnard Castle, featured ten of the dale's most promising bands. Tickets for the event sold out two weeks prior to the gig.
The concert took on added prominence as the organisation which has supported the young musicians, Teesdale Community Resources (TCR), is homeless after giving up it premises nine months ago.
TCR wants to build a new centre that will incorporate a music and sound studio, next to Teesdale Sports Centre.
More than 180 supporters attended a planning meeting last week to see Teesdale District Council defer the application.
Music project worker Andrew Yeadon said he was very impressed with the professionalism of the bands he works with: "I try to advise bands as little as possible and only step in when they hit a sticking point or I can see they are really heading in a bad direction."
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