MayFest tickets on sale now!

Last year's first MayFest was a great success, and the 2023 event promises to be bigger and better! Block out the dates (29 April - 1 May) now.

A festival of traditional and historical music and dancing, MayFest takes place in Richmond over the early-May Bank Holiday weekend. Tickets go on sale 14 February.

What's planned? Foot-tapping folk music from the Ran Tanners in the Market Place, from Bisarr in the Castle, and from the Black Lion Folk Club and others in the pubs around town; medieval music, minstrelsy and tomfoolery; Maypole dancing; a MayFest Tavern;  woodwork bodgers; the musical Story of Coffee, by the wonderful Leeds Waits (photo) and a musical coffee morning in the Town Hall; music of the Great War in the Market Place; a choral performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah;  craft activities for families; clog dancing, morris dancing and a tea dance; Punch and Judy; storytelling; a ceilidh; a musical promenade to Easby Church for tea, and much, much more...

More details at richmondmayfest.org. Reserve your tickets now!

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