COMHALTAS Ceoltoiri Eireann present Echoes of Erin featuring 20 or Ireland's leading traditional musicians, singers and dancers in a colourful and exciting evening of Irish traditional music, song, dance and humour at the Albert Halls at 8pm. Tickets £5 available from the box office or tel: 364333.

BOLTON YMCA, 125 Deansgate: African drumming and dance club, 10am; modern sequence dancing, 6.30pm.

BOLTON Strings Together Ensemble, junior strings together approximate grades 1-3, 9.30am-10.45am and advanced ensemble, approximate grades 4-7, 11am-12.15pm, Somerset Road United Reformed Church, off Chorley New Road.

BOLTON Music Service's activities at Bolton Music Centre, The Deane School, New York include Bolton Beginner Recorder Ensemble, 9.30am-10.30am; Bolton Youth Recorder Ensemble, 10.45am-12 noon; Bolton Youth Orchestra, 9.30am-12.30pm; Bolton Junior Youth Orchestra, 9.30am-12 noon; Bolton Youth Percussion Ensemble, 9.30am-10.45am; Bolton Beginner Percussion Ensemble, 9.30am-12.30pm; Theory Classes, 11am-1.15pm. For further information contact Bolton Music Service on 658804.

BOLTON Autumn Choir is holding rehearsals at the Age Concern headquarters, Ashburner Street, 5.30pm-7.30pm. If any society or group would like the choir to entertain at their meeting tel: 706055/01942 819791.

OLD and new sequence dancing session at St Joseph's Ballroom, Hobart Street, Halliwell, 7.30pm-11pm. Admission £1 in aid of church funds.

SEQUENCE Dancing, Theatre Church School, Seymour Road, 7.30pm-10pm.

BOLTON Excel: football drop in 9am-10am; junior fitness, 9am-10am, 10am-11am and 11am -12 noon; basketball drop in 10am-12 noon.

DEANE Leisure Centre: weights gym, 9am-5pm; junior swimming lessons for 10 weeks, 9am-12 noon; trampoline junior coaching, 11am-1pm; junior badminton coaching, 11am-1.15pm; karate, 12 noon-3.30pm; kids mad splash, 2pm-3.30pm.

FARNWORTH Leisure Centre: open session in pool, 9am-4.15pm; fitness suite, 9am-4pm; families only, 10.30am-3.30pm.

HARPER Green Leisure Centre: karate, 10am-11am; junior netball training, 11.30am-12.30pm; basketball training, 12.30pm-2.30pm.

HAYWARD Leisure Centre: Tai Chi, 10.30am-12 noon; indoor short mat bowling, 1pm-4pm; trampolining club, 2pm-4pm.

Horwich Leisure Centre: main pool, 9am-4.40pm; small pool, 9am-4.40pm; light impact, 10am-11am; high impact, 11am-12 noon.

KEARSLEY Leisure Centre: long mat indoor bowls (doubles league), 9.30am-12 noon; long mat indoor bowls (casual bookings), 12 noon-4pm.

LITTLE Lever Leisure Centre: basketball, 9am-10am; trampolining all day.

Sharples Leisure Centre: gymnastics, 10am-11am; Sharples Netball Club for over 14 years, 10am-11am and under 14s, 11am-12 noon; kid's Saturday splash, 1pm-3.30pm.

TURTON Leisure Centre: junior swimming lessons, 9.30am-1.45pm; Soo Bohk Do Korean Martial Art, 10am-11.30am.

WATER Place: Tone Zone/sunbed, 7.30am-10pm.

Westhoughton Leisure Centre: soccer coaching, 10am-1pm; fun swim, 2pm-4pm; roller skating, 2.30pm-4pm, £1.50 per session, tel: Mrs Heaton on 01942 811051.

WITHINS Leisure Centre: badminton, 10am-12 noon; casual badminton, 10am-4pm.

CIRCUIT Training sessions for children, 5pm-6pm and adults 6pm-7pm are held at Gibbon Street Community Centre. Admission free. For further details tel: 528786.

BOLTON YMCA, 125 Deansgate: junior snooker classes, 9.15am; Tae Kwon Do (self defence), 10.30am.

BOLTON YMCA, 125 Deansgate: second hand book sale, 10am-12 noon.

BOLTON Deaf Society is holding an advice and information session at the Centre for Deaf People, Bark Street from 9am-1pm. Tel: Gillian Gregory on 521219 for further information.

HORWICH Resource Centre, Beaumont Road: Horwich Heritage Centre, 10am-2pm; RSPCA, advice and information session with identity collar discs available, 11am-1pm.

A COFFEE Morning is being held Westhoughton Methodist Church, Wigan Road, 9.30am.

CRISIS Pregnancy Counselling at St Luke's Church, Halliwell, 10.30am-12.30pm.

ST Edmund's Parish Church, St Edmund Street, Bolton, weekday mass 12.15pm and Vigil Mass, 7pm.

OUR Lady and The Lancashire Martyrs, Hallstead Avenue, Little Hulton, Mass, 6pm.

BOLTON Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent: Thomas Moran's Nearing Camp, Evening on the Upper Colorado River, 1882 and other work by Turner, Ruskin and Moran's British influences; Jerry Gordon: The Harmony and Diversity of Sacred Sites showing oil paintings by the Lancashire artists who has made it his mission to visit and paint the world's most sacred sites by the Millennium; The Unexplained: Photographs of the Paranormal showing photographs of the supernatural including UFOs, aliens, Nessie and Bigfoot.

BOLTON Central Library, Le Mans Crescent: Link up to the Internet display case and Tots and Treats - songs and stories for pre-school children in the audio visual library.

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