Machynlleth Festival
Music, talks and art in the mid-Wales town that was once Owain Glyndwr's seat of parliament.
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"Three days of the finest Welsh dogs working sheep across a hill field near Brecon, with ice cream from Llanfaes Dairy and a real trial hush over the crowd."
Welsh National Sheepdog Trials
"The market town at the heart of the Elan Valley turns its cattle market into a gathering of vintage tractors, steam engines and working machinery each August, a show that could only happen in a part of Wales where the landscape itself feels preserved from an earlier century."
Rhayader District Vintage Show
"A leisurely ride through mid-Wales hills where every checkpoint hands you cider and perry, capped by a BBQ and free live music in town."
Summer Cider Cycle
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Teams of two mountain bikers tow a charioteer in a Roman-style chariot in a flat-out dash for the world title."
World Mountain Bike Chariot Racing Championship
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A 25,000-capacity festival on a Brecon Beacons estate where ten areas wrap live music around literature, science, comedy and a giant burning Green Man."
Green Man
"The Victorian spa town of Llandrindod Wells dresses entirely in period costume for a week each August, with residents, traders and visitors all adopting Victorian dress for street entertainment, performances, markets and a grand parade through a town whose architecture still looks exactly as it did when the railway brought Victorian society to drink the waters."
Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival
"The Rhys Thomas James Pantyfedwen Eisteddfod, held over August Bank Holiday in a Ceredigion university town, with choral, poetry and prose competitions continuing a Welsh cultural tradition of centuries."
Lampeter Pantyfedwen Eisteddfod
"Over 100 makers fill the stunning grounds of Cardigan Castle for three days of sculpture, demonstrations, walk-about theatre, Welsh language workshops and the best of contemporary British craft overlooking the River Teifi."
Craft Festival Wales
"The walled harbour town of Tenby hosts a week of exhibitions, concerts, comedy, poetry and visual arts each September when the summer crowds have gone and the light on the Pembrokeshire coast turns the town's coloured houses into something you want to paint rather than just photograph."
Tenby Arts Festival
"The medieval market town of Ruthin in the Vale of Clwyd hosts a summer celebration of contemporary craft at its nationally acclaimed Craft Centre, where the permanent galleries are joined by outdoor makers markets, demonstrations and workshops in the walled courtyard of a converted medieval building."
Ruthin Craft Centre Festival
"Choirs and dancers from sixty countries fill a riverside meadow in North Wales for six days. It has been a festival of international peace since 1947, and the sound of it on a Wednesday evening is unlike anything else in the UK."
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
"A cliff-top open-air theatre carved from Cornish granite above Porthcurno Bay, where productions from Shakespeare to musicals run each summer with the Atlantic as backdrop and Rowena Cade's extraordinary creation as the stage."
Minack Theatre Season