RABBIT, rabbit. Loveable old London duo Chas And Dave play their pub anthems and talk about their musical career too in their Two For The Road Show at Oak House, Pocklington, this month.

Chas Hodges and Dave Peacocks's acoustic gig on April 26 launches Oak House's fourth annual arts festival, which continues on May 1 with the return of Fiona Knowles and her MsFits Theatre Company in Women On The Verge Of A T-Junction, the story of three generations of women each encountering one big lapse of concentration

Barry Cryer, the king of the one-liner, pays Oak House a visit on May 2 on his First Farewell Tour in the company of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue pianist Colin Sell.

The following evening, baritone Owen Webb and tenor Dewi Wyn perform Mario Lanza and Howard Keel favourites with pianist Annette Bryn Parri.

On May 4, appropriately a Sunday for a religious piece, George Dillon's Vital Theatre presents The Gospel Of Matthew.

In a coup for the Oak House festival, folk fiddler and singer Eliza Carthy plays Pocklington on May 6, in the wake of winning three honours at the 2003 BBC Radio Folk Awards: Best Album, for last year's Anglicana, Best Traditional Song and Folk Singer of the Year.

A festival brochure with full details will be available soon. Meanwhile, further musical attractions will be steel guitarist and former Notting Hillbilly Steve Phillips, with his acoustic country blues, on May 22; the third visit of Irish diva Mary Coughlan on May 29; and the gospel-singing, gum boot-dancing Black Umfolosi on June 7 (when they also will hold two workshops, one on harmony singing, the other on gum-boot dance, at 3.30pm).

Keith James celebrates the fragile, poetic songs of Nick Drake on June 25, and singer Paul Jones and slide guitarist Dave Kelly, from The Blues Band, team up on July 2.

The Laughing Gas Comedy Club in the Studio Bar welcomes Geordie Mike Milligan on April 24; Scouser Anvil Springstien, May 29; and Irishman Martin Bigpig, June 26.

Theatre shows will be Roger Llewellyn's Sherlock Holmes, The Last Act, April 15; Pocklington Dramatic Society in Alan Ayckbourn's Ten Times Table, May 16 to 18; Magic Carpet Theatre's The Wizard Of Castle Magic, May 28; and York Shakespeare Project's Taming Of The Shrew, June 13 and 14.

For tickets, show times and spring brochures, ring 01759 301547.

Updated: 10:21 Friday, April 04, 2003