Promo Day And Cafe Run
On Saturday 19th May between 10.30am and 2.30pm, a selection of artists appearing at this year’s Beverley Folk Festival, Acoustic, Roots, will be hitting Beverley town centre Café’s
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Summer Heads To Beverley With A Party Night And The Faerie
One of the most popular Celtic party bands will be heading to Beverley Festival on Saturday 16th June to celebrate in the Mid-Summer Party and Dance night.
Major Award Stuns Festival of Christmas Founder
Founder and Chairman of The Beverley Festival of Christmas John Bird is “shocked but delighted” that one of Beverley’s flagship events has won a top award.
Folk Festival Nominated For Top Tourist Award In Yorkshire
Once again the Beverley Festival – Folk, Acoustic, Roots has received acclaim for its work and the opportunities it offers to those attending it and to its local community.
Leading International Crime Writer Peter Robinson Comes to Beverley Festival
Once again, the festival welcomes back international best selling author, Peter Robinson, the author of the DCI Banks novels, the most recent of which is Bad Boy.
Beverley Folk Festival: Legendary Joe Brown To Appear
Beverley Folk Festival are extremely pleased to announce that the legendary Joe Brown will be appearing at Beverley Festival!
Free Courses & Accreditations With Beverley Festival
The Beverley Festival (Folk, Acoustic Roots) has the answer to those wanting to get more out of their lives by gaining new skills, meeting new people and making new friends. It has been successful in obtaining funding from Awards for All – The Big Lottery Fund to put a project together called ‘Volunteering Together’ . Between November 2011 and running up to the festival in June 2012, FREE Short Courses…
Paul Liddell To Play In Beverley @ Toll Gavel
On Saturday 19th November, 7.30pm, the acclaimed acoustic musician Paul Liddell is holding a concert at Toll Gavel United Church, with proceeds being donated to local charities Beverley Community Lift and the Methodist Relief and Development Fund. Paul Liddell is a successful recording and performing artist, having released a solo EP, two solo albums and an EP with his band ‘Delphians.’ Awards won include Best Male Artist’ at the International…
Beverley Folk Festival Up For Top Award
In 2010, Beverley Festival made it to the shortlist in the Best Family Festival category at the UK Festival Awards. After being mystery shopped this June by an Awards judge, they have made it to not just one but two categories for 2011: Best Family and Best Small Festival. For the festival to be in with a real chance of winning an award this year, organisers are hoping music -loving…
Angels in Action: The Driffield Show
30 young people descended on Driffield today to help the organisers of the Driffield Show 2011. The participants from a team of 40, all aged 16 to 30 took part in what was their second event of their summer with ‘Angels in Action. They entertained visitors queuing at various points on the showground with a European quiz and gave out a wealth of free gifts comprising, t-shirts, shopping bags, stationery…
Special Thanks From Beverley Folk Festival
Beverley Folk, Acoustic, Roots festival would like to send a very big thank you to everyone who made cash donations to the street collectors during the festival weekend 17th – 19th June 2011. The total amount collected was an amazing £680.58 – Organisers are touched by the generosity and support the public gave this year to The Beverley Folk, Acoustic, Roots Festival which continues to be a not for profit…
HU17.net Magazine Issue 48
HU17.net Magazine issue 48, featuring pictures from the following events around Beverley, the cover features local florist Rachel Frank, inside you will find: * Ellie Neves: I Did Not Steal a Wide Screen TV * Snobs Fish Spa * Beverley Races Lucky in Love * Crystal Tiaras & More Hats & Facinators * Ship Yard Workers Reunion * Out & About: The Bar Fusion * Out & About: The Queens…
Beverley Folk Festival Draws In The Crowds
The Beverley Folk Festival 2011 once again pulled in the crowds. With the main events happening at Beverley Leisure Complex other fringe acts performed around the town in bars and in the town centre streets. Some dancers went pub to pub do their folk dance which proved to be a real hit with regulars in The Royal Standard. Hodgsons Pub hosted a couple of bands in their main room while…
Out & About: Beverley’s Ragamuffins @ The Queens Head
The Beverley Ragamuffins performed live this weekend at the Queens Head, Beverley. The group who sing songs about the years gone by in Beverley were at the Wednesday Market pub performing as Beverley Folk Festival. [nggallery id=1546]
Take The Festival Train to Beverley
It won’t have escaped your notice that Beverley Folk Festival starts today Friday. (June 17 – 19) But you may not know that if you travel to the event by train you can get 10% off festival tickets for next year. This money-saving offer forms part of an agreement with Northern Rail in support of the festival policy of promoting issues of sustainability and the environment. All you have to…
Police Appeal Following Mandolin Theft in Beverley
Humberside Police in the East Riding of Yorkshire are appealing for information following the theft of three mandolins from a music shop in Norwood, Beverley at 0330hrs on Sunday 05 June 2011. The glass shop window was removed, before the instruments were taken from the display. The stolen mandolins have a combined value of £600 and are described as: • A PM1 mandolin with a light coloured front, a flower…
Film Club @ Beverley Festival
For the first time ever, Beverley Folk Acoustic and Roots Festival will include film as part of the weekend of entertainment. Launched in partnership with the Beverley Film Society, the Film Club will screen four folk-themed films over the weekend of the Beverley Festival from Friday 17 June to Sunday 19 June. The first film on Saturday morning (18 June) is Travelling for a Living, a 1965 BBC documentary featuring…
Taste the Festival over a Coffee
On Saturday 14th May between 12pm and 3pm, a selection of artists appearing at this year’s Beverley Festival – Folk, Acoustic, Roots, will be hitting the towns café’s giving impromptu taster performances of what the public can expect to hear at this year’s festival. As well as in the café’s, other acts such as Forro Porro will be found winding their way through the town centre streets of Beverley getting…