Online booking for the 2017 Swaledale Festival opened on Monday 27 March. 

The award-winning festival of music, arts and walking, now in its 46th year,  takes place from 27 May to 10 June - mainly in charming village churches and halls dotted around the breathtaking landscape of the three northernmost Yorkshire Dales - Swaledale, Wensleydale and Arkengarthdale. 

In October 2007 Malcolm Creese took up the post of Artistic Director of the Swaledale Festival.  Under his stewardship the Festival has received several local, national and international awards, and ticket sales have grown by three times.  

Boosting the creative team at the Reeth headquarters of the ever-popular Swaledale Festival are Emily Rowe Rawlence and Heather Hodgson, job-sharing the new post of Marketing Coordinator.

Malcolm Creese succeeds as a bell-ringer.

Elizabeth Bedford has been appointed to take the place of the late John Borland as Chairman of the Friends of Swaledale festival