Ryedale Festival
The Ryedale Festival brings two weeks of great music and world-renowned performers to beautiful Yorkshire places every July.
When
☀️Summer festival
Fri, 10 July 2026 — Sun, 26 July 2026
About
Every year, the Ryedale Festival welcomes outstanding performers from all over the world to perform a wide-ranging and distinctive programme in the many spectacular venues in and around Ryedale, North Yorkshire – an area full of history and natural beauty.
Founded in 1981, the festival enjoys a large, loyal and enthusiastic audience, the warm support of the local community and a reputation as one of the most exciting and enterprising summer festivals in Europe.
'The kind of life-chaging event that concert-goers always want but rarely find' - Classical Music Magazine
'A festival immersed in its local community but of international quality' - Yorkshire Post
'Yorkshire's boldest festival' - The Times
Events
Welcome to the Pleasures
Dunedin Consort
- Fri, 10 July 2026
All Saints' Church, Helmsley
6:00pm
£5 - £34
Ryedale Festival
A Choral Journey I: Wishing Tree
The Gesualdo Six
- Tue, 14 July 2026
- St Lawrence Parish Church, York
- 3:00pm
- £3 - £25
- Ryedale Festival
A Choral Journey II: Nachtmusik
The Gesualdo Six
- Tue, 14 July 2026
- St Peter’s Church, Norton
- 9:30pm
- £3 - £30
- Ryedale Festival
A Choral Journey III: English Motets
The Gesualdo Six
- Wed, 15 July 2026
- Bridlington Priory
- 3:00pm
- £3 - £25
- Ryedale Festival
Unquiet Thoughts
Dowland's Foundry
- Sun, 19 July 2026
- St Gregory’s Minster, Kirkdale
- 10:00pm
- £20 (conc. available)
- Ryedale Festival
Unquiet Thoughts
Dowland's Foundry
- Mon, 20 July 2026
- All Saints’ Parish Church, Northallerton
- 11:00am
- £18 (conc. available)
- Ryedale Festival
The Salt Road
In Echo
- Fri, 24 July 2026
- Church of Christ the Consoler, Skelton-on-Ure
- 3:00pm
- £20 (conc. available)
- Ryedale Festival
Location
Ryedale, North Yorkshire
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