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Ripon Cathedral, Royal Hall Harrogate, Masham and villages 1 September - 6 October 2019 Principal Sponsor Ripon Select Foods Limited Red Priest Sean Shibe Tabea Debus Sky Ingram Jamal Aliyev Kosmos Ensemble Ninebarrow Rhos Male Voice Choir The Outside Track The Yorkshire Shepherdess London Mozart Players - Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita Dvorak ‘New World’ Symphony www.riponinternationalfestival.com

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Ripon Cathedral, Royal Hall Harrogate, Masham and villages

1 September - 6 October 2019

Principal SponsorRipon Select Foods Limited

Red Priest Sean ShibeTabea Debus Sky IngramJamal Aliyev Kosmos EnsembleNinebarrow Rhos Male Voice ChoirThe Outside Track The Yorkshire ShepherdessLondon Mozart Players - Catrin Finch and Seckou KeitaDvorak ‘New World’ Symphony

www.riponinternationalfestival.com

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A WARM WELCOME to Ripon International Festival 2019!

Highlights include Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita, The Rhos Male Voice Choir, red-hot baroque Red Priest, an Opera Gala with Sky Ingram , folk The Outside Track, writers, and the London Mozart Players play Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ and Dvorak’s ‘ New World’ symphonies in the thrilling Grande Finale at the Royal Hall. We hope you enjoy the festival’s distinctive atmosphere and take happy memories away with you.

Susan Goldsbrough - Director and Co-Founder

Principal Sponsor

Ripon Select Foods

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Artistic Director: Janusz Piotrowicz Director: Susan GoldsbroughPresident: Sir Derek Jacobi Chairman of Trustees: Rt. Hon. Baroness Cox

Festival Office: Holly Howe, Copt Hewick, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 5BYT: 01765 605508 E: [email protected] Registered Charity No 1003265

Photo: Rowan for Hey Tuesday

The Coulthurst Trust

The W.W. Spooner Trust

Stephen Harker & Janet Cole Anne & Martin Curzon

The Festival Friends

THANK YOU to our Sponsors, Donors, and Friends for your support.

Mrs. Christin Thackray

John & Elaine Watson

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Events calendar at a glance Sun 1 Sept 2.00 Family show - Reynard the Fox Grewelthorpe

Wed 4 Sept 7.30 The Yorkshire Shepherdess Spa Hotel

Thu 5 Sept 7.00 Mystery of Eugene Aram Ripon Library

Fri 6 Sept 7.30 Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita Holy Trinity Church

Sat 7 Sept 7.30 A Night at the Opera St Johns Sharow

Sun 8 Sept 7.30 Sean Shibe - guitars St Johns Sharow

Thu 12 Sept 2.30 Tabea Debus baroque trio Markenfield Hall

Thu 12 Sept 7.30 Tabea Debus baroque trio Markenfield Hall

Fri 13 Sept 7.30 Yu-Wei Hu & Johan Lofving Fewston Church

Sat 14 Sept 7.00 Rhos Male Voice Choir Ripon Cathedral

Sun 15 Sept 7.30 The Outside Track - folk Masham Town Hall

Tue 17 Sept 7.30 Crime Writer Peter Robinson Spa Hotel

Wed 18 Sept 7.30 Ninebarrow - folk Sawley Village Hall

Thu 19 Sept 7.30 Jamal Aliyev, cello Felixkirk Church

Sat 21 Sept 7.30 Red Priest Holy Trinity Church

Sun 22 Sept 7.30 Kosmos Ensemble Helperby

Fri 27 Sept 7.30 Anne Denholm harp Kirkby Malzeard

Sat 28 Sept 2.30 Children’s author Saviour Pirotta Ripon Library

Sat 28 Sept 4.30 Madeleine Bunting Island Song Ripon Library

Thu 3 Oct 7.30 Black Snow Road Show Masham

Sun 6 Oct 7.00 London Mozart Players Royal Hall Harrogate Grande Finale - Mendelssohn ‘Scottish’ & Dvorak ‘New World’ symphonies

London Mozart Players - 6th October

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Family shows and writers

The Dollshouse Exhibition – Newby Hall

One of the finest collections of dollshouses and miniatures in the world, created by Caroline Hamilton and Jane Fiddick, is located in the heart of the beautiful 25-acre garden next to the Garden Restaurant.

Free entry with a Gardens Admission Ticket www.newbyhall.com

Sunday 1 September 1.30 – 4.30 Grewelthorpe Village Hall

Trouvère Medieval Minstrels – Reynard the Fox

Paul Leigh and Gill Page, musicians and Dan Osbaldeston, actor

Trouvère perform three different stories about the original wily trickster and antihero of the Middle Ages. A great family show with colourful sets and live music. Indoors, in the spacious performance room, and outdoors by the duck pond if fine.

Music from 1.30, first show 2 pm, second show 2.45, last show 3.30 (approx.)

Trouvère take part in festivals throughout Europe and the UK, this year taking Reynard the Fox to make his début in Ireland’s famous Kilkenny Castle!

Knockabout Comedy, Music, Masks and Mayhem!Tickets: Adult £10 Child £8 Food and drink available from the village hall café

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Wednesday 4 September 7.30 Ripon Spa Hotel

Amanda Owen – The Yorkshire Shepherdess

The best-selling author and TV personality presents her new book about life at the remote hill farm which she runs with her husband, Clive. Mother of nine ‘free range’ children, writer and photographer, Amanda and her family became widely known through the ITV series ‘The Dales’ and Ben Fogle’s ‘New Lives in the Wild’. They were recently the subject of the hit TV series ‘Our Yorkshire Farm’ watched by 2.2 million viewers each week. Life is never dull at Ravenseat so come and hear about her latest exploits! Talk, Slide Show, book signing.

Tickets £12 (Student £8) Early menu at the Turf Bar & Bistro 01765 602172

Photo: Ian Forsyth

Thursday 5 September 7.00 Ripon Library

Step after Step: A Conspiracy to Murder

Talk and Slide Show by writer, Amanda Taylor

The mystery of Eugene Aram, who lived in Ripon, a schoolteacher and linguistic scholar. He was tried and hanged for murder in 1759. ‘Villany is always progressive and declines from right, step after step’ (Eugene Aram 1759) Was he guilty of the crime?

Tickets £6 Also on sale at the library and bookshop

In association with Ripon Library and The Little Ripon Bookshop

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Friday 6 September 7.30 Holy Trinity Church, Ripon

Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita - ‘SOAR’

‘a sublime duo of two artists who are masters of their instruments’ London Evening Standard

Programme: Bach to Baisso, Clarach, and other tracks from their album SOAR, (FRoots Poll Album of the Year 2018), Les Bras de Mer from Clychau Dibon and other favourites

The most popular world music act of the decade, Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora maestro, Seckou Keita, play a spine-tingling selection of music from their album ‘SOAR’ – symbolic of the Osprey which migrates between Wales and West Africa. Exhilarating, enchanting, mesmerizing, this famous duo has touched the hearts of music lovers around the world.

Stop Press: SOAR has won the Best Fusion category in the 2019 Songlines Music Award

Tickets £20 (Student £10)

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Saturday 7 September 7.30 St. John’s Church, Sharow

A Night at the Opera with Sky Ingram

Sky Ingram soprano Nicholas Lester baritone Sam Armstrong piano

Excerpts from Don Giovanni, Rusalka ‘Song to the Moon’, La Bohème, Le Nozze de Figaro ‘Largo al Factotum’ Eugene Onegin, The Merry Widow, G & S Iolanthe, & more

A glamorous night of opera favourites from dazzling young singers, Nicholas Lester (English National Opera: Marcello La Bohème) and Sky Ingram (Opera North, Garsington Opera: Donna Elvira) with pianist Sam Armstrong (Carnegie Hall, New York, Concertgebouw Amsterdam).

‘performances of blazing conviction by Sky Ingram’s Dido’ The Guardian

‘a touchingly vulnerable and pure toned Sky Ingram’ The Telegraph

‘Nicholas Lester’s Marcello oozes vocal charm’ The Guardian

Tickets: £20 £27 including Reception & canapés at 6.45 pm

Generously supported by Anne and Martin Curzon

Sky Ingram in La Cenerentola by Rossini, Opera North

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Sunday 8 September 7.30 St John’s Church, Sharow

Sean Shibe – guitars ‘softLOUD’

Programme includes J S Bach, the exquisitely lyrical melody ‘Farewell to Stromness’ by Peter Maxwell Davies, gentle Scottish lute music, and a breathtaking interpretation of Steve Reich ‘Electric Counterpoint’.

Sean Shibe’s softLOUD recording on Delphian has garnered stunning reviews and is named BBC Music Magazine’s Instrumental Choice. One of the foremost guitarists of his generation, BBC New Generation Artist and winner of the ROSL Gold Medal and the Royal Philharmonic Society Award 2018 (the first guitarist to receive it)

Sean Shibe has played concertos with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Trondheim Symphony, BBCSO, BBCNOW, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the RPO and given recitals in major festivals and concerts halls in the UK and abroad.

‘supremely expressive player’ Bachtrack

Tickets £16 (Student £8) Sound by Truesounds

‘Shibe is another Bream, or something close. His playing unites finesse and poetry’ Sunday Times

‘genius – a term that should rarely be applied to performing artists, but at 25, he has it’ David Nice, Arts Desk

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Thursday 12 September 2.30 and 7.30 Markenfield Hall, Ripon

Tabea Debus Trio

Tabea Debus recorders Alex McCartney theorbo Jonathan Rees cello Music by Caccini, Dowland, Purcell, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Marais

Three virtuoso artists present a delightful programme in the uniquely preserved C13th manor house. Tabea ‘a charismatic virtuoso’ The Times, performs widely in Europe, Asia and the USA, with recitals at Wigmore Hall and the Konzerthaus Vienna. Jonathan plays with the AAM, the OAE and Britten Sinfonia. Lutenist Alex McCartney ‘sinewy and sensuous, rich deep tones’ has earned rave reviews around the world.

Tickets £24

Generously supported by John and Elaine Watson

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Friday 13 September 7.30 St Michael & St Lawrence Church, Fewston

Flauguissimo Duo - A Salon Opera

Yu-Wei Hu baroque flute Johan Lofving guitar and theorbo

During the 18th century, highly popular operas were often reproduced and performed in intimate salons. Flauguissimo Duo presents flute and plucked string music of court dances and opera scenes from the 18th and 19th century, from the enchanting flute solo from Gluck’s famous opera Orphée et Eurydice to the sentimental songs of Franz Schubert. Winners of international prizes, Yu-Wei Hu and Johan Lofving have dazzled audiences at the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Brighton Early Music Festival, in Europe and Taiwan.

Tickets £16 (£10 student) Wine and canapés will be on sale at the adjoining Washburn Heritage Centre

Photos: Aiga Ozo

Exhibition 19 June until 29 September The Mercer Gallery, Harrogate

William Powell Frith - The People’s PainterAround 70 paintings and prints from major national collections including Tate Britain, the Royal Academy, The Royal Collection, the V & A and the Mercer’s own archive.

W. P. Frith Many Happy Returns

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Saturday 14 September 7.00 Ripon Cathedral

The Rhos Male Voice Choir

James Llewelyn Jones: Music Director Kevin Whitley: accompanist Rachael Marsh: soprano

Programme includes the famous love song, Myfanwy, Spirituals, Verdi’s Speed Your Journey from Nabucco, Jewish Folk Song, Ave Maria, Gwahoddiad (Invitation), African Prayer, Songs from the Shows, and more favourites

One of the finest Welsh choirs present a programme of traditional favourites along with songs from the shows, sacred music and spirituals. The Choir’s recent tour to Cyprus was a huge success, selling out for every performance. James Llewelyn Jones has toured throughout Europe and to the USA, Canada, Australia and NZ with performances in the cathedrals of Barcelona, Notre Dame de Paris, St. Mark’s Venice and St. Mary’s Sydney. Rising young opera star, Rachael Marsh, is a student at the Wales International Academy of Voice.

Tickets £18 £15 (Student £8)

With thanks to our sponsor

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Sunday 15 September 7.30 Masham Town Hall

The Outside Track

Mairi Rankin fiddle Teresa Horgan flute, whistle Ailie Robertson gaelic harp Fiona Black accordion Michael Ferrie guitar

The Outside Track’s marriage of Celtic music, song and dance has been rapturously received around the world. This year they have extensive tours of the USA, Canada and Germany with just time to pop into the UK! Winner of 'Best Group' in the Live Ireland and the Tradition in Review awards, The Outside Track are one of the top Celtic acts in the world and have won the German Radio Critics Prize for their album Flash Company.

Tickets: £17 (Student £10) Generously supported by an Anonymous Donor

Exhibition 26th July – 9th September The Gallery, Market Place, Masham

Northern Stars

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Masham Gallery we showcase some our favourite artists and makers from the North.

Ian Scott Massie – Northern Soul

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Tuesday 17 September 7.30 Ripon Spa Hotel

Crime Writer - Peter Robinson

Widely known for his best-selling Inspector Banks novels and the DCI Banks Television series, Peter Robinson presents his latest thriller, Many Rivers to Cross. He has published over 30 titles worldwide and is much in demand from festivals in the UK and abroad as an entertaining speaker.

Tickets: £10 In association with White Rose Book Café

Early Menu at The Turf Bar & Bistro 01765 602172

Wednesday 18 September 7.30 Sawley Village Hall

Ninebarrow – The Waters and the Wild

Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardière ukelele, mandolas, piano, harmonium

BBC Radio 2 ‘Horizon’ Folk Award nominees 2017 Ninebarrow are impressing audiences across the country with their darkly poignant folk songs, celebrating birdlife, seafarers and countryfolk, with settings of the C19th Dorset poet, William Barnes and John Kirkpatrick, musician. Named after Nine Barrow Down in the Purbeck Hills, their style is an innovative and captivating take on the English folk tradition.

£15 (Student £10) Early dining at the Sawley Arms 01765 620642

‘Another example of how strong British folk music is at the moment’ The Telegraph

‘The Waters & The Wild the third album is another immaculate outing .. folk music in their hands and their perfectly fitting voices is both as old as time and as modern as the minute’ EDS magazine

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Thursday 19 September 7.30 Felixkirk Church, Thirsk

Jamal Aliyev, cello

The programme includes a wonderful Latin-American piece by Cassado which Pablo Casals used to play and the famous ‘Song of the Birds’. Jamal’s itinerary this year includes duos at the Wigmore Hall and concertos with the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, the CBSO, RPO, BBC Scottish SO and festivals in Germany. ’countless little touches of imaginative colour’ Gramophone ‘remarkable refinement and sensitivity’. The beautiful 12th Century church is a perfect setting for enchanting music.

£15 (Student £8)

Parking at The Carpenters Arms, award-winning inn.

Interval drinks at the bar. Early menu from 5.30pm 01845 537369 (book in advance)

J S Bach: Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 Ligeti: Sonata for solo cello Casals: Song of the birds Sollima: Alone Cassadó: Suite for Solo Cello

This remarkable young cellist gave his BBC Proms début in 2017 and a deeply moving performance of the Elgar Concerto in last year’s Festival Finale at the Royal Hall.

‘sonorous, haunting and poetic’

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Saturday 21 September 7.30 Holy Trinity Church, Ripon

Red Priest ‘Truly, Madly Baroque’

Piers Adams recorders Adam Summerhayes violin Angela East cello David Wright harpsichord

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 Vivaldi: Concerto for four violins, Albinoni: Oboe Concerto Op 9/2 Tartini: The Devil’s Trill and works by Marini, Locatelli, Forqueray, Sanz and others

The world-famous red-hot baroque quartet led by ‘superhuman’ recorder player, Piers Adams, with the devilish fiddler, Adam Summerhayes, are hot favourites with Ripon audiences. After their recent foray into the world of gypsy music with their classical-chart-topping Baroque Bohemians project, the much-loved Red Priest return to their origins with a stunning programme of truly baroque classics, arranged and performed with their trademark energy, virtuosity and (in the best baroque sense) madness!

‘Superhuman’ The Washington Post

‘Astonishing all-out virtuosity’ New York Times

Tickets £20 (£10 student) With thanks to our sponsor

Show includes a ten- minute

COMIC FILM of the musicians

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Sunday 22 September 7.30 Helperby Millennium Hall

Kosmos Ensemble

Harriet Mackenzie violin Milos Milivojevic accordion Meg Hamilton viola

Kosmos have toured to festivals in Europe, the Far East, and the UK. They play a programme inspired by music from all around the globe. Wild Gypsy fiddling, emotive Jewish and Greek music glide into hot-blooded tango, alongside Japanese and Finnish music, Polish and Sephardic songs, performed with “telepathic rapport, dazzling virtuosity … intellectual curiosity and impeccable musicianship”. Milos Milivojevic: ‘A hurricane of imaginative invention’ The Times reviews

£17 (Student £10)

Early menu at The Oak Tree Inn from 5.30 01423 789189 (booking advised)

Author Madeleine Bunting‘Island Song’

Saturday 28 September 4.30 at Ripon Library

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Friday 27 September 7.30 St. Andrew’s Church, Kirkby Malzeard

Anne Denholm harp Alena Walentin flute

J S Bach: Flute Sonata BWV 1020 Debussy: Arabesque – Reverie – Girl with the Flaxen Hair Gareth Farr: Taheke Aliyabiev: Le Rossignol Alwyn: Naiades Elgar: Chanson de Nuit, Chanson de Matin Andy Scott: Sonata

One of Britain’s leading young musicians, Anne is Official Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales. She freelances with the CBSO, BBC Concert Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, and performs with chamber groups such as Ensemble Cymru. Alena Walentin has performed with the BBC Scottish SO at the Proms, the Philharmonia, CBSO, Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber and Moscow Philharmonic orchestras.

Tickets £15 (£8 student) Early dining: Grantley Arms 01765 620227 Galphay Inn 650002

Saturday 28 September 2.30 – 3.30 Ripon Library

Storytelling - Saviour Pirotta - Greek Myths

The bestselling children’s writer and winner of international awards for his imaginative re-telling of Classical literature is a brilliant and mesmerizing storyteller.

Tickets £7 (£5 child) also available from the library and bookshop In association with Ripon Library & Little Ripon Bookshop

Photo: Julian Dodd Photo: Nick Rutter

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Saturday 28 September 4.30 pm Ripon Library

Author Madeleine Bunting – Island Song

Best-selling author of many works of non-fiction such as The Plot and Love of Country, and former associate editor at The Guardian, Madeleine Bunting presents her first, much acclaimed, novel. Written with emotional acuity and passionate intensity, it tells a spellbinding story of a young woman living amongst the enemy during the occupation of Guernsey by the Nazis.

Tickets: £10 (£5 student) includes tea and cake

Film and Folk narrative

The Oaks Colliery Disaster 1866BFI Award 2018

Thursday 3rd October 7.30 Masham Town Hall

The Black Snow Road Show with Jed Grimes, guitar

Narrator: Stephen Linstead, creator & film maker Song, Poetry, Stories

An evening of song, laughter and some tears: a celebration of the community spirit created around the coal-mining industry. The film tells of the worst mining disaster in British history when 361 miners and rescuers were killed by an explosion at The Oaks Colliery, Barnsley in 1866. Black Snow is the choking black dust which rained down afterwards. Jed Grimes (BBC R2 Folk Award Nominee) wrote the music, winning an award for excellence at the Atlanta, Georgia Film Festival. Visually compelling with atmospheric cinematography, using virtual reality footage to recreate the disaster, the film builds to a moving, inspirational and spiritual climax. 'provocative and entertaining.. a must-see show' Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Tickets £12 (£5 U18) Film: 25 minutes Total show length 90 minutes

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Sunday 6 October 7.00 Royal Hall, Harrogate

London Mozart Players - Grande Finale

Janusz Piotrowicz conductor

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 ‘Scottish’ DVORAK Symphony No 9 ‘From the New World’

Mendelssohn’s dramatic ‘Scottish’ symphony is some of his most evocative music. A brooding, portentous opening movement travels through soulful melodies, a transformation into vivacious dance-like rhythms, to an opulent finale. Dvorak’s magnificent symphony is a potent blend of longing for his Czech homeland and an outpouring of inspiration from the vistas and sounds of the New World, from the poignant ‘Going Home’ theme played on the cor anglais to blazing brass at the end. Janusz Piotrowicz is renowned for the freshness, vigour and depth of his interpretations of the great classics, so that it is like hearing them anew.

‘a wonderful musician … he feels his music’ Hermann Baumann (Berlin Philharmonic)

Tickets: Grand Circle £35 £32 Box £70 (2 seats) Dress Circle: £28 £24 Grand Hall £28, £24, £18 Book through Harrogate Theatre Box Office or online (Student £10 in £24 and £18 seats)

With thanks to our sponsors

Mrs. Christin Thackray

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BOOKING & GENERAL INFORMATION

Ripon Festival Office 01765 605508 Daily 8 am – 8 pm Booking fee £2 inc postage

Harrogate Theatre 01423 502116 Mon – Sat 10 am – 5pm

Online: www.riponinternationalfestival.com Fee £1.75 per transaction i.e. book more than one event for one fee

Postal Bookings: to Ripon International Festival, Holly Howe, Copt Hewick, Ripon HG4 5BY

Group bookings 10 or more: Please contact Festival Office. Concessions: Students U25, children and wheelchair occupants Wheelchair guests: Please book through Ripon office (except for Royal Hall concert) so we may inform stewards. There is access at all venues except Markenfield Hall; at Felixkirk Church there are steps to negotiate. Returns will only be accepted if an event is sold out. Tickets must be received at least 3 days before event. 10% handling charge.

Friends Priority Booking 1st – 12th June

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POSTAL BOOKING FORM

*Student/child

Date / Time/ Location Event PriceQty tickets £

Sun 1 Sept 2.00 Grewelthorpe

Reynard the Fox £10 (*£8)

Wed 4 Sept 7.30 Spa Hotel

Yorkshire Shepherdess £12 (*£8)

Thu 5 Sept 7.00 Ripon Library

Eugene Aram Amanda Taylor £6

Fri 6 Sept 7.30 Holy Trinity Church

Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita £20(*£10)

Sat 7 Sept 7.30 St Johns Sharow

A Night at the Opera Sky Ingram £20 (*£10) £27 inc Reception

Sun 8 Sept 7.30 St Johns Sharow

Sean Shibe £16 (*£8)

Thu 12 Sept 2.30 Markenfield Hall

Tabea Debus Baroque Trio £24

Thu 12 Sept 7.30 Markenfield Hall

Tabea Debus Baroque Trio £24

Fri 13 Sept 7.30 Fewston Church

Yu-Wei Hu & Johan Lofving £16 (*£10)

Sat 14 Sept 7.00 Ripon Cathedral

Rhos Male Voice Choir £18, £15 (*£8)

Sun 15 Sept 7.30 Masham Town Hall

The Outside Track £17 (*£10)

Tue 17 Sept 7.30 Spa Hotel

Crime Writer - Peter Robinson £10

Wed 18 Sept 7.30 Sawley Village Hall

Ninebarrow £15 (*£10)

Thu 19 Sept 7.30 Felixkirk Church

Jamal Aliyev, cello £15 (*£8)

Sat 21 Sept 7.30 Holy Trinity Church

Red Priest £20 (*£10)

Sun 22 Sept 7.30 Helperby Millennium Hall

Kosmos Ensemble £17 (*£10)

Sub Total:

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Fri 27 Sept 7.30 Kirkby Malzeard

Anne Denholm & Alena Walentin £15 (*£10)

Sat 28 Sept 2.30 Ripon Library

Saviour Pirotta £7 (*£5)

Sat 28 Sept 4.30 Ripon Library

Madeleine Bunting £10 (*£5)

Thu 3 Oct 7.30 Masham Town Hall

Black Snow Road Show Film & Jed Grimes

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Sun 6 Oct 7.00 Royal Hall Harrogate

London Mozart Players Grande Finale

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VENUE INFORMATION & DIRECTIONS

RIPON’s main car park is behind Sainsbury’s. Follow P signs from by-pass.

Felixkirk Church YO7 2DP 4 miles E of Thirsk, A170. First turn left after flyover. Park at The Carpenter’s Arms inn – near to church

Fewston Church & Washburn Heritage Centre HG3 1SU 2 miles South of A59 Harrogate-Skipton road. On road parking in quiet lanes.

Grewelthorpe Village Hall HG4 3BU newly converted chapel village centre

Helperby Millennium Hall YO61 2NT Centre of village. Park in main street.

Holy Trinity Church, Ripon HG4 2EY From Ripon mkt place, take B6265 P/Bridge road. Pass Spa Hotel on left, turn R into Church Lane. Please use Booths car park: With church on left corner, turn R, then L at mini-rdbt, then R into car park

Kirkby Malzeard – St Andrew’s Church HG4 3RT Park in village centre.

Markenfield Hall HG4 3AD 3 miles from Ripon on A61 Harrogate road. Sign on gate.

Masham Town Hall HG4 4DY Park in the square. 50m from north exit.

Ripon Cathedral Park in town car park behind Sainsburys. Follow P signs from by-pass

Ripon Spa Hotel Park St HG4 2BU Next to Spa Gardens on B6265 P/Bridge road

Royal Hall Harrogate HG1 2BU The No. 36 bus stops outside. Return bus: to Ripon 22.05; to Leeds 22.20 from bus station Check times on No 36 website

St John’s Church Sharow HG4 5BJ 1 mile from A61 Ripon by-pass. Car park

Tourist Information Town Hall Ripon 01765 604625

Ripon Cathedral - Rod Burkey St. Andrew’s Kirkby Malzeard St. John’s Sharow

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Festival Office: Holly Howe, Copt Hewick, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 5BYTelephone: 01765 605508 E: [email protected]

www.riponinternationalfestival.com

Photo: Rick Forrest

Royal Hall Harrogate

Markenfield Hall

Ripon Cathedral

Holy Trinity Church