Ryedale Festival
The Ryedale Festival brings two weeks of great music and world-renowned performers to beautiful Yorkshire places every July.
When
☀️Summer festival
TBA
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
Past events
The Salt Road
In Echo
- Fri, 24 Jul 2026
Church of Christ the Consoler, Skelton-on-Ure
3:00pm
£20 (conc. available)
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Unquiet Thoughts
Dowland's Foundry
- Mon, 20 Jul 2026
- All Saints’ Parish Church, Northallerton
- 11:00am
- £18 (conc. available)
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Unquiet Thoughts
Dowland's Foundry
- Sun, 19 Jul 2026
- St Gregory’s Minster, Kirkdale
- 10:00pm
- £20 (conc. available)
- Ryedale Festival
A Choral Journey III: English Motets
The Gesualdo Six
- Wed, 15 Jul 2026
- Bridlington Priory
- 3:00pm
- £3 - £25
- Ryedale Festival
A Choral Journey II: Nachtmusik
The Gesualdo Six
- Tue, 14 Jul 2026
- St Peter’s Church, Norton
- 9:30pm
- £3 - £30
- Ryedale Festival
A Choral Journey I: Wishing Tree
The Gesualdo Six
- Tue, 14 Jul 2026
- St Lawrence Parish Church, York
- 3:00pm
- £3 - £25
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Welcome to the Pleasures
Dunedin Consort
- Fri, 10 Jul 2026
- All Saints' Church, Helmsley
- 6:00pm
- £5 - £34
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Voces8 in Concert
Voces8
- Thu, 24 Jul 2025
- Ampleforth Abbey
- 8:00pm
- £20 - £40 (u25s £2)
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The Prince of Music
Stile Antico
- Mon, 21 Jul 2025
- St Mary's Church, Sledmere
- 6:00pm
- £10 - £40
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Coffee Concert: Timothy Ridout performs Bach
Timothy Ridout
- Fri, 18 Jul 2025
- Christ Church, Appleton-le-Moors
- 11:00am
- £18 (u25s £2)
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Quatuor Mosaïques III
Quatuor Mosaïques
- Wed, 16 Jul 2025
- Duncombe Park
- 8:00pm
- £32, £26 (u25s £2)
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Triple Concert
Fair Oriana
- Tue, 15 Jul 2025
- Castle Howard
- 7:00pm
- £46 (u25s £15)
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Handel with Arcangelo
Arcangelo
- Mon, 14 Jul 2025
- Selby Abbey
- 7:00pm
- £22 - £36 (u25s £2)
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Hassan Marzban
Hassan Marzban (recorder) & David Gordon (harpsichord)
- Mon, 14 Jul 2025
- Nunnington Hall
- 3:00pm
- £16 | (u25s £2)
- Ryedale Festival
Quatuor Mosaïques II
Quatuor Mosaïques
- Mon, 14 Jul 2025
- St Mary's Church, Birdsall
- 11:00am
- £18 (u25s £2)
- Ryedale Festival
Quatuor Mosaïques I
Quatuor Mosaïques
- Sun, 13 Jul 2025
- All Saints' Church, Helmsley
- 7:00pm
- £30, £25 (U25s £5)
- Ryedale Festival
Location
Ryedale, North Yorkshire
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