Beverley Folk Festival
Over fifty acts play pubs, churches and the open street across this market town's ancient cobbled lanes for a weekend of acoustic music and morris.
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"The 6th year of this East Yorkshire showground fair, where hundreds of vintage and classic vehicles gleam across the weekend alongside steam engines, an indoor craft hall and a fairground in the heart of the Wolds."
Driffield Steam Fair
"A historic East Yorkshire village spreads concerts across its Civic Hall, parish church and local pubs over the Bank Holiday weekend."
Cottingham Folk Festival
"Throughout June, Flamborough villagers fill their gardens and doorsteps with elaborate flowerpot models of Elvis, Spiderman and beloved characters, turning this headland village into a free family trail that has been featured on BBC News."
Flamborough Flowerpot Festival
"An intimate acoustic and folk weekend tucked away at Rose Farm in the quiet East Yorkshire countryside, beloved for its homespun, end-of-the-lane charm."
Moonbeams Festival
"Dating back to 1855, this community-run East Yorkshire show brings together livestock, horses, crafts and countryside entertainment at the Ashes Playing Fields in Howden."
Howden Show
"Traction engines, vintage vehicles and stationary engines gather in the shadow of the Humber Bridge for a family rally that brings working steam back to the East Riding each summer, with the world's fourth-longest single-span bridge making an unusual and spectacular backdrop."
Humber Bridge Garden Centre Steam and Vintage Rally
"Ripon celebrates the return of St Wilfrid from Rome in 672 AD with a costumed procession through the city each August Bank Holiday Saturday, a piece of living medieval pageantry that has run continuously for well over a thousand years and remains entirely in the hands of the city's own community."
St Wilfrid Procession
"A volunteer-run, not-for-profit gathering that scatters concerts, ceilidhs, puppetry and street performance through a historic Victorian seaside town on the cliffs."
Saltburn Folk Festival
"Run by a Yorkshire transatlantic folk band, this family-friendly weekend sets transatlantic roots music among the parkland and gardens of a stately home."
The Magpies Festival
"A screen-free family festival of wild freedom and glittering wonder where woodland glades, campfires and circus turn a Cheshire estate into a storybook."
Just So Festival
"One of England's most singular calendar customs, this centuries-old West Witton rite sees a chanting crowd carry a glowing-eyed effigy of 'Bartle' through the village at nightfall before stabbing and burning him on the hillside above Wensleydale."
Burning Bartle
"An effigy is carried through the Wensleydale village to a rhyme before being burned, origins long lost."
Burning of Old Bartle
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