You will scarcely need reminding that Slingsby’s big May weekend culminates this Monday 7th May. Where are you? – Come and join in the fun!

The May Day celebrations will open on The Green at 11 am with Swinton Band.
There will be stalls around the green and in the village hall, tombola, raffle, children’s activities and refreshments. Pulled pork sandwiches on the Green, tea, coffee and snacks in the village hall and in the Methodist chapel school room. This year there will be lots of fantastic prizes to be won.
At noon the children will dance for one hour around the maypole, some of them weaving patterns with the ribbons while the younger ones do their stamping and clapping in time to the music provided by the players.
At 1 pm the Minster Stray dancers will perform their dances, followed by the Charity Brass Band from 1:30 while all the other dancers (children and adults) learn new steps, before coming to show us what they have learned.

The Charity Brass Band will round off the day at 3 pm with the raffle.

Of course the weekend started on Saturday May 5th with the Scarecrow Trail. There is still time to join in.

Tamsin Waley-Cohen – Ryedale Festival

General public booking for all Ryedale Festival July concerts is now open.
As always, early booking is advised.
You won’t have far to go for first-rate music-making…
The Royal Northern Sinfonia appear at Hovingham Hall on the opening day, Friday 13 July, at 6pm, in a programme including Bruch’s ever popular violin concerto in G minor.
Perhaps the highlight for us in Slingsby is the concert on Wednesday 18th July at 11am in All Saints’ church. Top-flight performers Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins will give a concert of music for violin and piano by Beethoven and Prokofiev.
If jazz is more your thing, don’t miss the Bratislava Hot Serenaders on Friday 20th July in Malton’s Milton Rooms, or the David Rees-Williams Trio on Saturday 28th July at Pickering Kirk Theatre.
Finally, on Sunday 29th July at 5.30pm at Hovingham Hall, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment draw the Festival to a close with Mozart violin concertos played by Rachel Podger.
Other nearby events are on at Castle Howard and Hovingham church. With concerts and talks the length and breadth of Ryedale (and beyond), the Ryedale Festival is, for many, Yorkshire’s foremost music festival.
For full details of all events, and how to book, go to the Festival website: http://www.ryedalefestival.com/
Tickets may be bought from the Box Office on 01751 475777.

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – Ryedale Festival

The full Ryedale Festival programme of Summer concerts (13-29 July 2018) was launched last weekend (16-18 March) at a series of concerts in Pickering, Malton and York.

We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday 18 July Slingsby’s All Saints’ church will once again host top-flight performers. This year it will be Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins in a concert of music for violin and piano by Beethoven and Prokofiev.

General public booking for Ryedale Festival concerts will open on 12 April 2018. Priority booking for Members and Friends is underway.

For full details of all recently released events, and how to book, go to the Festival website: http://www.ryedalefestival.com/

We’ll bring you more on our Slingsby concert in the coming weeks.

Owing to the adverse weather conditions, the mobile library will NOT be in Slingsby on Friday 2 March.