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The 2025 Swaledale Festival ran from Saturday 24 May to Saturday 7 June, with 60+ music, arts and walking events to inspire, transport and exhilarate in the spectacular northern Yorkshire Dales. Read all about it here.

The Festival may be over for this year, but it will return from 23 May to 6 June 2026 with another outstanding offering of music, arts and walking in the northern Yorkshire Dales. Check back in!

The film was made by Howell Media and features music from a track called Bling Bling from the album Plum Lane by The Matt Wates Sextet. The piece was written and arranged by Matt Wates. 

2025 Highlights

WEEK 1
Sarah Latto's Big Sing
Granny’s Attic
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Matilda Lloyd
Pascal Rogé with Elena Font 
Comedian Mark Steel
Martha Tilston 
 
WEEK 2
Eduardo Martín & Ahmed Dickinson
Fretwork with Ruby Hughes
Carducci String Quartet
Shiva Feshareki & Kit Downes
Apollo5
Amjad Ali Khan
Emma Fisk’s Hot Club du Nord


Plus creative workshops, talks, film, guided walks and much more…!

News

How many composers?

  • 20 April 2016

John Dowland, Thomas Campion, Robert Johnson, Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Morley, Orlando Gibbons, Michael East, John Wilbye, Robert Ramsey, Monteverdi, Purcell, Bach, Lully, Telemann, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Robert Pearsall, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Verdi, Rossini, Chopin, Dohnányi, Prokoviev, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Scriabin, Bruckner, Johann Strauss, Lehar, Elgar, Bartok, Ravel, Debussy, de Falla, Villa-Lobos, Alexandre Guilmant, Duruflé, Parry, Hindemith, Fritz Kreisler, Lutosławski, Britten, Bernstein, Pablo Casals, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Golijov, Dutilleux, Flor Peeters, Moses Hogan, Takemitsu, Milton Nascimento, Chico Buarque, Danilo Caymmi, Paulo César Pinheiro, Aldir Blanc, Xenakis, Messiaen, Piazzolla, Rebecca Clarke, John Tavener, Matt Eden, Barbara Thompson, Tom Harrold, Ola Gjeilo, Lars Jansson, Carlos Gardel, Mia Makaroff, Francois Borne, Oskar Bohme, Francisco Coll, Naomi Pinnock, Morton Feldman, Rebecca Dale, Philip Cooke, Joao Bosco, Phillip Houghton, David Blake, David Lang, David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, Hugh Wood, Johann Schein, Nico Muhly, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Bob Chilcott, Huw Watkins, Andy Scott, David Gordon, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger, Christine Tobin, Kris Drever, Martin Green, Aidan O’Rourke, Colm Ó Foghlú, Leonard Cohen, Phil Guy, Marcus Barcham Stevens, Naomi Burrell...

 

We cover six centuries of composers in this year's Festival - from Dowland and Campion to world premieres by some of this year's performers. This list, however, is undoubtedly incomplete, so please feel free to get in touch if you know of any omissions. I will update as necessary.

 

If your favourite composer is not represented, please send a tweet to @SwaleFest and I'll try to include him or her in a future Festival.

 

Malcolm

 

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