Regarding this morning's Coffee Concert at Duncombe Park.

Due to a last minute cancellation from Karen Geoghegan and Timothy End tomorrow's performers at the 11am Coffee Concert at The Saloon Duncombe Park will be Bibi Heal and Christopher Glynn......more >>

Monday 26th July, 11.00 a.m and Wenesday 28th July , 8.00 p.m.

Unfortunately Alison Stephens has had to withdraw from the Festival because of illness. Event 28, Celebrity Coffee Concert, 11.00 a.m. Helmsley

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throughout the Festival

Calling all friends - We have a new Accommodation Co-ordinator who is updating the list of those people kind enough to put up artists during the Festival. This entails having an artist as a guest f......more >>

July 17th to Sunday August 2nd

Dear Friends, Patrons and supporters of the Festival, I hope very much that you enjoyed this year's programme. As you already know, we had record attendance figures this year, which shows ju......more >>

Justin Doyle has held the position of Artistic Director for four years during which time the Festival has grown annually, changing its emphasis, continually adding innovative events, finding th......more >>

Thursday 20th September

Háry János at the Riding School, Hovingham Hall, North Yorkshire, July 17th 2009. Kodály's Háry János is a popular orchestral piece, but the opera from which he took the six-......more >>

August, 2009

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Monday 24th August, 2009

In Justin's report you will have read (<- click here if you have missed it) that with m......more >>

The 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn affords us a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the life and works of this extraordinary composer. In the past two years we have explored Hayd......more >>

Friday July 17th to Sunday August 2nd

"The best festival yet, with great varied content!" This was the comment heard over and over again at the Final Gala Concert. Seat sales for the Ryedale Festival soared to over a total of 7,......more >>

Dave Robson - Darlington and Stockton Times -Friday 7th August 2009

THE celebrity concert by the Gould Piano Trio began with a fine performance of Haydn’s Piano Trio in G H XV 25, notable for the exquisite, even-paced flow of the central adagio and the s......more >>

Dave Robson - Darlington and Stockton Times -Friday 7th August 2009

THE triple concert at Castle Howard saw the audience moving from the long gallery to the chapel and the great hall during the course of the evening. A violin and piano recital by more >>

Dave Robson - Darlington and Stockton Times -Friday 7th August 2009

THE priory church in Old Malton proved a fine venue for the Northern Sinfonia Wind Ensemble’s presentation of wind quintets and octets that offered some real festival programming. A b......more >>

Dave Robson - Darlington and Stockton Times -Friday 7th August 2009

CLARE McCaldin and Paul Turner’s morning coffee concert in the elegant saloon of Duncombe Park turned out to be a diverting, varied and well-attended exploration of song dedications. ......more >>

Gazette & Herald - Wednesday 5th August, By Jennifer Coles

A ROYAL visitor popped into a village hall in Ryedale to listen to some talented young musicians. The Duchess of Kent attended the Ryedale Festival tea party at Kirkby Misperton Village Hall......more >>

Photograph of Em Whitfield Brooks with the children at the 'Zimbe!' concert at Joan of Arc Theatre, Botton Village. 2009 Ryedale Festival....more >>

Photograph of 'Zimbe!' - Justin Doyle conducts the Dorking Choral Society at Joan of Arc Hall, Botton Village in the 2009 Ryedale Festival....more >>

YORKSHIRE POST - 24th July, 2009 - by David Denton

Probably with little more than the champagne budget at London's Royal Opera House, Ryedale Festival Opera have put together a wonderfully entertaining production of Kodály 's comedy, Háry János, an op......more >>

Friday 24th July

YORK HOUSE in Malton is the setting for an open-to-all afternoon of time travel on Friday 24th July with RYEDALE FESTIVAL. Visitors are invited to step back more than two centuries by d......more >>

Friday 10th July, 2009 - York Press - Haydn Lewis

STRONG ticket sales are paving the way to making Ryedale Festival a recession-buster, claim organisers. More than 40 events are being staged in 30 venues starting on July 17, and at least ten h......more >>

Sunday, 2nd August

To open the final Gala concert, the magnificent Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band will entertain the crowds gathered in the garden of the Worsley Arms Hotel in Hovingham. Come and enjoy a huge range o......more >>

(from an article by the Arts Council England, Yorkshire) Amateurs joined with the Community Opera team and guests to create an Opera in a Day on the 8th May 2009 The project, which was co......more >>

6th May, 2009

Ryedale Festival Community Opera is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a new adaptation of the 15th-century morality play Everyman and is looking for performers of all ages and ......more >>

Malton Gazette

SUMMER will swing to an African beat as part of Ryedale Festival’s biggest-ever programme of music. The programme has been unveiled and includes a huge mix of 43 events spread ......more >>

8th April, 2009

From the Malton and Pickering MERCURY WHAT'S ON.... festival launch concert A bid to recession-proof Ryedale Festival is about to take off with some launch concert charisma. ......more >>

Spring 2009

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Coming soon

Those of you who were fortunate enough to enjoy the two Glyndebourne operas JULIUS CAESAR and HANSEL AND GRETEL at the Palace Cinema in Malton, and those of you who missed this ......more >>

Ken Overton, Ryedale Festival Chairman.

It has been a magical and happy Ryedale Festival 2008. We explored all the four elements in music, song and poetry but all the time the weather was good to us.. We had......more >>

Shizue Takahashi

Sketches of the Festival in Card Form Once again we have had the privilege of having the artist Shizue Takahashi produce some outstanding sketches of some of our events. These ......more >>

30th July 2008 - Ryedale Mercury

Organisers are celebrating the success of Ryedale Festival – seeing a massive 7,000 ticket sales! Thirty venues across Ryedale played host to 40 concerts and events over a music packed 16 days culmina......more >>

Saturday, 26th July

For those of you who asked for the 'RYECRAWL' programme RYECRAWL PROGRAMME Pickering Castle Brass Ensemble Brass fanfares over the centuries. Christ Church, Appleton......more >>

Friday 11thJuly, York Press - Richard Harris

A MUSIC-lover faced missing out on the Ryedale Festival due to illness and as she could not go to the show, organisers decided to bring the show to her. Janet Mason, of Old Malton, is confined to a......more >>

Saturday 26th April

Article in the 'Gazette and Herald' by Lynn Brown. A QUARTET of talented young musicians will launch a summer programme of events with a one-off performance in Ryedale next month. Fresh......more >>

Summer 2009

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‘Orfeo ed Euridice’ review – David Cairns

OPERA – The world’s leading opera magazine reviews The Ryedale Festival Opera – Orfeo ed Euridice in its October edition Ryedale Festival at the Hovingham Hall Riding School, J......more >>

September 2007

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Shitzue Takahashi

During the 2007 Festival you may have noticed an artist sketching during the Castle Howard ‘Three Concerts in One’ and the 'Bach by Candlelight’ concert at St. Mary’s Priory, Old Malton.......more >>

Sledmere House

A member of the Galitzen Quartet at their concert in the Library of Seldmere House on Wednesday 8th July, 2007....more >>

Old Malton Priory

Reverend John Manchester prepares the candles for the evening concert, Bach by Candlelight, given by the Bizzaries Baroque Ensemble at Old Malton Priory on Friday 27th July, 2007....more >>

Gazette & Herald, 1st August 2007

HAPPY Ken Overton - initials K.O. - has pronounced this year's Ryedale Festival a knockout! Thousands of seats were snapped up for 38 events in more than 20 venues during 16 days of sunshi......more >>

Gazette & Herald, 1st August 2007

This was to be an unusual evening and could perhaps be viewed with some misgivings. Could three concerts be held simultaneously at three venues within Castle Howard and synchronised to repeat three ti......more >>

Family Festival Day

The Kirkbymoorside Town Brass band performed as part of the Family Festival day at Ampleforth College on Sunday 22nd July. ...more >>

Grace Hammond, Yorkshire Post, 31st July 2007

A washout start to the tourism season has been given a kiss of life by Ryedale Festival. Thirty-eight events were packed in more than 20 venues across the area between July 13 and Sunday,......more >>

Elijah performed at Ampleforth Abbey

The audience was spellbound by a magnificent rendering of Mendelssohn’s Elijah on the first evening of the Festival. Due to illness of the original artists, John Cunningham from Opera North and ......more >>

York Press Friday 13th July

JUSTIN DOYLE discusses his second programme as artistic director with Charles Hutchinson. What have you learned from last year? "It was nice to see what did or didn't work: that's ......more >>

Gazette & Herald Wednesday 11th July

International star Mark Padmore will have a special Ryedale resident in the audience when he performs in the area – his proud dad! The tenor is taking time out from an acclaimed season at Glynd......more >>

Yorkshire Post Friday 6th July by David Denton

CONCERTS by outstanding international artists with a tour around some of the nation’s most elegant stately houses and historic churches has placed Ryedale in a unique position among Europe’s ......more >>

Gazette & Herald, Wednesday 4th July

HUNDREDS of pounds worth of tickets a day are flying out of Ryedale Festival's doors in the countdown to its launch. More than ever it is designed to attract a wider audience, with almost ......more >>

23rd June 2007

As this year's Ryedale Festival Community Opera swings into action, with a cast of 92 gearing up to stage Tim Brooks's Voyage of The Maris Piper at the Milton Rooms in Malton, one young member of t......more >>

16th May, 2007. The Gazette & Herald. David Jeffels.

THE prestigious Ryedale Festival this summer, which promises to be one of the biggest yet in its 20-plus years, has been given a £17,000 boost by the Arts Council. Running from July 13 to 29......more >>

Article in the Gazette & Herald by Tom Stirling - Wednesday 7th March, 2007.

Street Theatre, an outdoor concert broadcast live on a big screen and some of Britain’s finest musicians – all this and more will feature in this summer’s Ryedale Festival. The organisers of the 20......more >>