Hexham Abbey Festival of Music and Arts
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.
A proper Northumbrian market town with a medieval abbey that punches well above its size, a farmers market with national pedigree, good independent food, and a Grade II listed railway station that makes it genuinely easy to reach without a car.
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