Sharon Canavar, Chief Executive of the Harrogate International Festivals, will be the Guest Speaker at The Met Club’s Ladies Lunch on Friday, 20th January at The White Hart Hotel, Harrogate from 12noon – 2.30pm.
Sharon Canavar is Chief Executive of the Harrogate International Festivals, a year-round cultural organisation delivering programmes, events and festivals that bridges [...]

Now in its 19th year, the 2012 Harrogate International Festivals’ Sunday Series will see the magnificent Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate welcome some of the brightest stars on the classical music scene. The season starts with two sensational performances; firstly from internationally renowned pianist and Festival favourite Artur Pizarro, who will appear on Sunday 22nd [...]

Tonight, the multiple MOBO and BBC Jazz Award winning jazz and hip hop artist, Soweto Kinch will appear at St John Fisher RC High School. Mentored by Courtney Pine OBE, the crusader of music boldly goes places no jazz musician has gone before.
Kinch – this year’s Guest Curator at the Festival – plays like a [...]

This week there’s a smorgasbord of music, theatre and authors up for grabs.
At Wesley Chapel this afternoon, put a frisson of frivolity into your Friday with authors Wendy Holden and Laurie Graham at 2.30pm. Holden’s first novel, Simply Divine, about a lowly hack who writes for a celebrity socialite, is inspired by her own experience [...]

Harrogate Festival this year is going to be the biggest and best it’s ever been and the Fringe is its rock’n’roll edge
GRAHAM Chalmers knew the re-launched Harrogate Fringe was on the right track last year.
“There was a moment that made it all worthwhile and made me want to do it all again,” he says.
“Esteemed music [...]

Tom Palmer, the ultimate football fan, is warming up for his appearance at the Children’s Festival in July by leading an education programme that will run in schools comprising a full week of sports-inspired literacy sessions across West Yorkshire.
The ninety-minute sessions will see students taking part in Tom’s Football Reading Game workshop, an interactive session [...]

Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade brings a sensual sophistication to her energised take on Cuban music. She is arguably the front-runner of the many talents that have emerged from Cape Verde in recent years.
On Monday 26 July, she’ll be sharing the stage of the Royal Hall with Krystle Warren…
 How does your music reflect your world [...]

Lucy Parham is acknowledged as one of Britain’s finest pianists. And Harrogate is in for a very special treat as she brings her latest show, Nocturne: the Romantic Life of Frederic Chopin straight from her sell out appearance at the prestigious Wigmore Hall…

It’s been said that if you can’t play the piano, Chopin is [...]

New Music New Venues is a weekend of laid back world and contemporary music in a PapaKåta style tent in Crescent Gardens. Muntu Valdo is the headline act on Saturday 17 July…
Can you explain the character behind the Sawa blues for audiences unfamiliar with the music?
Sawa Blues is a concept which aims to enlighten the [...]