The Volunteer Experience - Q&A with Adam Nichols

  • 20 January 2023
The Volunteer Experience - Q&A with Adam Nichols

Find out what you could get out of volunteering in this interview with Swaledale Festival Volunteer, Adam Nichols.

Special Commissions

  • 30 November 2022
Special Commissions

At Swaledale Festival we regularly commission music and art from leading creators as well as lesser known ones.

Dr. Duncan Bythell

  • 21 November 2022
Dr. Duncan Bythell

The Festival is sad to learn of the death of Dr. Duncan Bythell, a long-term resident of Swaledale and a fine musician.

From Cowshed to Cathedral: Swaledale Festival 2022

  • 15 June 2022
From Cowshed to Cathedral: Swaledale Festival 2022

Over 6,200 tickets were sold for 50 music, arts and walking events across 18 venues, from Handel’s Messiah filling the heights of Ripon Cathedral, to brass, strings, woodwind, piano, percussion and vocals resounding in the chapels and churches of the Dales, to a folk fest in a cowshed.

Two weeks, three dales, eighteen venues, fifty events

  • 17 May 2022
Two weeks, three dales, eighteen venues, fifty events

Swaledale Festival kicks off this month, with fifty events rippling across the Dales from 28 May to 11 June to mark the Festival’s special 50th anniversary. 

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