Cumbria Music Service are delighted to announce a major performance of The Wreck of the Titanic at the Sands Centre, Carlisle.

The performance will take place one hundred years and a day after the sinking of the Titanic with the loss of over 1500 lives.

It is expected that over 400 children and young people from across Cumbria will be involved in the performance. In addition, eight members of the acclaimed Lancashire Sinfonietta will perform as the Titanic band.

Titanic had its beginnings in Cumbria with Maryport-born T.H. Ismay, first director of the enormously successful White Star Line, and the father of Bruce Ismay, commissioner of the Titanic and her sister ships Olympic and Britannic. Equally important to Titanic's story was the chief engineer, Joseph Bell. Born at Farlem outside Carlisle, Joseph Bell advised Thomas Andrews during the building of the Titanic. During the doomed ship's final hours, he ensured that power was maintained to operate the lights, lifeboat winches and emergency telegraph. Had it not been for his brave devotion to duty, many more lives would have been lost that night.

Further details will be announced on www.thewreckofthetitanic.com