Headland Folkfest
A brand new not for profit festival on a historic coastal peninsula mixing folk concerts, Morris dancing and a 1940s themed day at a Victorian gun battery museum.
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"A coastal food celebration on the Durham seafront featuring street food, cookery classes, live music, TV chefs, and locally sourced produce from across the North East."
Seaham Food Festival
"Claimed to be England's oldest open-air agricultural show, this two-day Weardale event at Scotch Isle Park combines serious livestock competitions with show jumping, birds of prey, an artisan food market, and live music."
Wolsingham Show
"A small leather ball is passed through a bull ring and fought across the village in a game over 1000 years old."
Sedgefield Shrove Tuesday Ball Game
✦ Weird and Wonderful"70 years since the first rally, this County Durham estate show still gathers huge steam engines, vintage commercials and classic cars in the grounds of Lambton Castle."
Chester-le-Street Steam and Vintage Fair
"Two days of live tribute bands and a food village set in the heart of the Durham Dales at Stanhope showground, with a popular fancy dress competition on the Saturday."
Stanhope Weekender Music Festival
"A two-day showground spectacular at Thornly Hall Farm featuring livestock competitions, show jumping, monster trucks, Shetland pony racing, and a fun dog show for all the family."
Durham County Show
"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
✦ Weird and Wonderful