The heatwave has passed, and with it, the sizzling Summer Festival has now finished.
We would like to thank all those who came along during July and helped make this year’s Festival the best yet in it’s 45 year history.
We’ve selected a few pictorial highlights below, but we really want to know what you thought of [...]

Catch the award-winning Brodsky Quartet on Saturday 30 July, 2pm at St John Fisher RC High School palying the divine Debussy, before the Festival’s two Guest Curators – Clare Teal & Soweto Kinch – close the 2011’s arts extravaganza.
The finale weekend certainly is grand, featuring two Yorkshire icons as Sir Michael Parkinson presents Clare Teal [...]

Bleep…bleep…bleep…ever wondered about the miraculous if pesky barcodes when you’re stood at the check-out watching the frozen peas? The identities of millions of products are captured in those optical machine-readable representations of data.
Nearly every aspect of our lives has been completely transformed by the barcode. Shopping, going to the cinema, using a library card, aviation, [...]

Author Tom Palmer, the ultimate football fan, scores a winning goal at the Children’s Festival this weekend.
“I got into writing through football really, I think you should write about what you’re passionate about,” Tom said explaining his Foul Play, Dead Ball and the Football Academy Series of books.
His books have the ability to capture [...]

Banana sandwiches, Kit Kats, barcodes and sex – it can only be Harrogate’s ultimate science fest!
Blame it on the Cox effect but science is officially sexy. The particle physicist Dr Brian Cox has gaggles of teenage girls asking for his autograph at his science talks. And this year, the Harrogate International Festival is definitely [...]

46th Harrogate International Festival: 30 June – 3 July 2011
Nestled amongst the four weeks of live music that is the 2011 Harrogate International Festival, you’ll find some of the finest international and UK names raising the roof on the Royal Hall and other spots round town! There’s more than ever to celebrate this year:
Launching [...]

At the 2011 Summer Festival, nobody is left out. And with a special new festival dedicated to children, it’s the perfect way to entertain (and even educate) the children over the long summer.
In the best setting for little ones – a giant papakata tepee-style tent  situated on Crescent Gardens – the weekend of Saturday 9 [...]

Guaranteed to put a smile on the most jaded face, the BBC Big Band promises to put the swing into the Summer Festival. Widely regarded as the UK’s leading and most versatile jazz orchestra, the band has played with jazz stars such as Van Morrison, Michael Bublé, Tony Bennett, Cleo Laine and John Dankworth. The [...]