Media Centre

Welcome to the Swaledale Festival Media Page. Please find here copies of our press releases and photos of this year’s artists for use in the media. If you wish to speak with our marketing team, please contact the Festival office at: enquiries@swalefest.org or telephone 01748 880018.

Download images for press and publicity here 

Festival information

  • The Swaledale Festival has a history of over 40 years bringing music and other arts to Swaledale, Wensleydale and Arkengarthdale.
  • Approximately 50% of Festival audiences come to the area on holiday from all over the UK and other parts of the world, in many cases especially for the Festival.
  • The Swaledale Festival also has a highly regarded programme of education and community events. In 2014 it was awarded the Prime Minister’s ‘Big Society Award' for its work with local schools on a music and art project over the autumn/winter of 2013-14

Loss of Festival Friends Chairman

  • 12 July 2016

The Swaledale Festival reports with sadness that John Borland, one of our longest serving Board members, who developed the Festival Friends scheme, passed away early on Sunday morning, 10 July, in hospital in Bolton.

John was a stalwart of the Festival and we will miss him hugely. Under his leadership the Festival Friends grew into an important practical and financial support for the Festival with several hundred members. 

Cards or messages of condolence, can be sent to the Festival office and we will pass them on to his family.

 

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