Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival returns with an action-packed weekend of music later this month.
Taking place from Friday 22 May to Sunday 29 May those behind the event are confident music lovers are in for a real treat.
Two groups of young people in Yorkshire have come together across boundaries to take the recorder to their hearts, in an innovative community project as part of the 31st Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival opening next week, 24-27 May 2018.
York’s Minster Minstrels, an established youth ensemble dedicated to the exploration of early music, and Castaway Musical Theatre Goole, a vibrant group of young people with learning and physical disabilities from the Goole area, have been working on a collaborative project for the last three months, as part of the BBC Ten Pieces project, which aims to make classical music and musical instruments accessible.
Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards will take place later this week with a number of businesses and events flying the flag for Beverley.
Tourism is a key industry for the region with the latest figures released showing tourism in 2017 was worth £837 million to the local economy, with more visitors coming to area than ever before.
Emerging ensembles and a vital connection with the community, are core themes for the recently REYTA shortlisted 2018 Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival, 24 – 27 May.
Following a successful 30th anniversary in 2017, which included an exhibition at Beverley Minster, the Festival was shortlisted for a Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Award (REYTA) in the Remarkable Small Tourism Event category, to be announced later in March.
It has been a bumper year for the York-based National Centre for Early Music, as during a significant anniversary year for both the Beverley Early Music Festival, and York Early Music Festival, audience figures and box office targets have been exceeded.
The 30th anniversary of the Beverley Early Music Festival in May featured an international exhibition in Beverley Minster for the first time, as part of an accessible outreach programme that celebrated a partnership with the Flemish Alamire Foundation and Flanders House.
Hull and East Yorkshire’s premier tourism awards, the REYTAs, have achieved record entries yet again.
And such was the quality, the organisers, Visit Hull and East Yorkshire (VHEY) had to introduce an additional category during the short-listing process because of the “overwhelming” numbers vying for the honour of Remarkable Tourism Event.
2017 marks the coming of age of the much loved Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival, (Friday 26 – Monday 29 May) as the Festival celebrates its thirty years of music-making alongside an extraordinary year for culture in the region, as Hull is 2017 City of Culture.
Initiated by the local authority, with the aim of attracting visitors to the area to discover a rich medley of history, striking architecture and music of the past, over the years the Festival has grown to be recognised as a ‘jewel in the cultural crown’
Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival (Friday 27 – Monday 30 May 2016) spans seven centuries of European music with a series of concerts celebrating the Virgin Mary
Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival which runs from Wednesday 20 through till Sunday 24 May 2015 celebrates justice, liberty and the lives of some remarkable musicians
Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival (Wednesday 20 – Sunday 24 May 2015) celebrates justice, liberty and the lives of some remarkable musicians through a mixture of anniversaries.
This year’s programme features the internationally acclaimed keyboard specialist Andreas Staier, Welsh soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and lutenist David Miller. Philip Cave’s outstanding choral group Magnificat makes its festival debut
The annual Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival (22 – 26 May 2013), one of the cultural highlights in the East Riding of Yorkshire, presents a celebration of music from the medieval to the baroque by some of the world’s finest early music ensembles and performers.
Games in the Park – a free family fun day on Saturday 26 May (11-3pm) in the centre of Beverley (Toll Gavel Methodist Church and surrounds) during which Castaway Dance will lead a body percussion Flashmob at 11.00am and 1.10pm.
To celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the annual Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival (24 – 26 May), the organisers have created a day of free musical games in the central streets of Beverley from 11.00am – 3.00pm on Saturday 26 May
Widely regarded as one of the cultural landmarks of the East Riding of Yorkshire, the Festival presents some of the world’s brightest stars in the early music firmament in many of the region’s stunningly beautiful ecclesiastical buildings.