"A warm celebration of Northumbrian piping, fiddle and song spread across the village green, church and pubs of Rothbury, with ceilidhs and a free outdoor stage."
Rothbury Traditional Music Festival
"The Northumberland Vintage Tractor Club's rally draws vintage machinery and working steam to the castle town of Alnwick each August, a show that fits naturally in a county where working farms still outnumber tourist coaches and the pace of harvest has not changed as much as people think."
NVTC Vintage Rally
"A traditional one-day village agricultural show held at Townhead Farm in the Northumberland countryside, drawing local livestock, vintage vehicles, and classic car displays."
Slaley Show
"A classic upland agricultural show on the Allendale showfield celebrating the livestock, horticultural, and rural craft traditions of the North Pennine Dales."
Allendale Show
"A beloved North Tynedale agricultural show at the heart of Northumberland's most remote market town, celebrating 100 years of Kielder Forest in 2026 with inter-farm challenges, vintage vehicles, and livestock classes."
Bellingham Show
"Deep in the Northumberland countryside, a riotous one-day festival with terrier racing, live bands, Northumbrian piping, traditional wrestling, a dog show and fell racing, with the 2026 theme celebrating 100 years of Kielder Forest."
Bellingham Show and Country Festival
"A border shepherd's show in the shadow of the Cheviots, one of Northumberland's most traditional agricultural gatherings, with Cheviot sheep, cattle, horses and the Border hills right there on the horizon."
Glendale Show
"A tiny Northumberland hamlet between Alnwick and Craster springs to life each August Bank Holiday with a scarecrow trail quiz, tombola, sausage sizzle and refreshments raising funds for the village hall and church."
Rennington Scarecrow Festival
"Five days of classical music, recitals and choral performances in and around the magnificent 7th-century Hexham Abbey, one of the finest ecclesiastical settings for live music in northern England."
Hexham Abbey Festival of Music and Arts
"A volunteer run weekend of folk in a North Pennine village that climaxes with the marketplace burning of a wooden sculpture of the legendary Allendale Wolf."
Allen Valleys Folk Festival
"The last show of the English season, held in the Coquet Valley in mid-October with the Cheviots above and Northumberland all around, Border sheep, sheepdog trials and views that make the drive entirely worth it."
Alwinton Border Shepherds' Show
"Alnwick Castle's historic Guest Hall opens for a one-day Christmas fair with handcrafted gifts from local artisans, seasonal food and twinkling lights, all in aid of Newcastle Hospitals Charity's Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Unit."
Alnwick Castle Christmas Fair
"More than 130 stalls from local makers, producers and the Hexham Farmers Market fill the historic Market Place, Abbey Cloisters and the medieval priory buildings of Hexham Abbey for a single festive Saturday each December."
Hexham Christmas Market
"At midnight on New Year's Eve forty odd guisers carry blazing barrels on their heads to a bonfire in the Northumberland market square, then turn to first foot the year in."
Allendale Tar Bar'l
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Two parishes play football across pasture below the castle, the ball piped to the field and won by carrying it home."
Alnwick Shrovetide Football
✦ Weird & Wonderful"A mid-summer celebration of steam and vintage machinery at Tynedale Rugby Club, with over 700 exhibits filling a Northumberland riverside field with the sounds and smells of the industrial age."
Corbridge Steam Rally