The Ryedale Festival
Visitor Attraction in Pickering, North Yorkshire
Telephone: 01751 475777
The Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, Pickering, North Yorkshire YO18 8AA
Offers classical music, jazz, theatre, art exhibitions, concerts and much more in the idyllic setting of Ryedale's finest locations. Performances are given in Ampleforth Abbey and sometimes York Minster, with opera in the great houses of Hovingham Hall and Settrington House, and concerts in Castle Howard, Duncombe Park and Sledmere, as well as in the thriving Helmsley Arts Centre. It is essentially a rural festival, with a very popular series of morning Coffee Concerts given in the beautiful, sometimes remote village churches that characterise this part of Yorkshire. It is also a community festival, with local artists taking part alongside artists of national and international fame, and local people helping to run the Festival