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Ryedale Festival: a beacon of survival without subsidy

This musical celebration offers the opportunity to tootle across Yorkshire, picnicking along the way

12 July 2014

9:00 AM

12 July 2014

9:00 AM

There are festivals of everything, everywhere. So why get excited about the Ryedale Festival (11–27 July) apart from the fact that it happens on my Yorkshire home ground — and I used to be its chairman?

Every summer music festival proclaims the richness and variety of its menu. Ryedale, under the artistic directorship of Christopher Glynn, competes with the best, from its opening Monteverdi Vespers in Ampleforth Abbey to its Royal Northern Sinfonia finale at Hovingham Hall.

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