The Ryedale Festival 2017 summer programme has now been published and we are delighted to report that the Festival has chosen to return to Slingsby in July.

On Wednesday 26 July, Slingsby’s All Saints’ Church will be the venue for a late-night candlelit Mozart concert. The works will include your website editor’s favourite Mozart violin sonata (K.304 in E minor) and the Piano Trio in B flat major (K.502).

Priority booking is now underway for Members and (from 8 to 20 May) Friends. General booking will open on 22 May.

For full details of all events as well as information on how to become a Member or Friend, please visit the Ryedale Festival website: www.ryedalefestival.com

Slingsby Sports and Social club are having a music night on Saturday 29th April. Dave Miller will be singing 60s and 70s music. 8.30pm start and entrance is free.

On Friday 28th April the Tour De Frack cycle ride will be cycling through Hovingham (12.40hrs), passing Slingsby, Amotherby (13.15hrs), Great Barugh (13.30hrs) and on to the Kirby Misperton Protection Camp (14.20hrs). The purpose of the ride is to raise awareness about the impact on the enjoyment of cycling and tourism in this region with the increase in HGVs on rural roads and industrialisation from fracking.

There is the opportunity for interested local cyclists to join the peloton as riders complete the final leg of a 2 day ride, starting at the site in Lancashire where approval to frack has been granted, and finishing at the Kirby Misperton Protection Camp in Ryedale where the Tour de Yorkshire will ride past a few hours later.

More information is HERE.