Tenby Arts Festival
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.
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"Wales' largest cultural festival pitches its pink pavilion in a different corner of the country each year for a week of Welsh-language song, poetry and ceremony."
National Eisteddfod of Wales
"Marking 850 years since the first eisteddfod held at nearby Cardigan Castle in 1176, this touring Welsh-language cultural festival returns to North Pembrokeshire with 6,000 competitors across music, dance, literature, and visual arts on a maes open to all."
National Eisteddfod of Wales (Eisteddfod y Garreg Las)
"A compact and friendly August show in the ancient county town of Pembroke, with sheep, horses and craft ring set against the walls of one of Britain's finest Norman castles."
Pembroke Town and Country Show
"The 167th year of the largest one-day traditional agricultural show in Pembrokeshire, held at Cefn-y-Dre Fields with cattle, Welsh ponies, Shetlands, show jumping, pigs, vintage machinery, a food and craft marquee and a dog show."
Fishguard Agricultural Show
"Three days at Withybush Showground where West Wales takes its livestock and its leeks equally seriously, a county show with the Atlantic behind it and a natural tendency towards drama."
Pembrokeshire County Show
"The Folly Cross Fields at Camrose host one of Pembrokeshire's most popular community events each August Bank Holiday, where vintage tractors and working machinery are demonstrated alongside heavy horses and stationary engines by families with deep roots in the county's farming past."
Camrose Vintage Working Day
"Music, talks and art in the mid-Wales town that was once Owain Glyndwr's seat of parliament."
Machynlleth Festival
"A tiny border town becomes a hotbed of brand new classical music, championing living composers and women composers in churches and halls scattered through the Welsh Marches."
Presteigne 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
"Violinist Rachel Podger leads world-class period-instrument music in the intimate churches and halls of a small market town wrapped in the Brecon Beacons."
Brecon Baroque Festival
"Founded in 1988 in a Welsh border booktown, this eleven-day festival draws over 150,000 visitors to hear writers, scientists, comedians and policymakers debate ideas across more than 600 events on the edge of the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park."
Hay Festival