Big Read in Knaresborough
Casino Royale shakes and stirs the North of England in Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival’s Big Read in partnership with Vintage Classics Readers in Knaresborough and across the North are being invited to take a bet on one of the most iconic crime novels of all time – Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale. [...]
The countdown has started to this year’s Newby Hall Tractor Fest and local schoolchildren are among those looking forward to the two-day event in Ripon – one of the biggest of its type in the country. Pictured enjoying themselves on this vintage Case tractor at Newby are, right to left, Harry Smith, Isabel [...]
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Dj Trev’s guide to evenings of sophisticated cosmopolitan edification and necking bottles of WKD through a straw. BRIBE WATCH Last week I did try to blag some free tickets to see Noddy Holder at the Theater with Mark Radcliffe and as hoped, Mark “Dj Pieman” Pieman came through with the goods. So whilst this column [...]
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The 8th biannual Yorkshire Antiques and Art fair, organised by the Bowman family from Shipley arrives at the Yorkshire Event Centre, Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate this weekend 25th & 26th May. Coinciding with the release of the lush new film production of the classic F Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby. There are a number [...]
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A week-long festival of live music in a legendary Spiegeltent rocks Harrogate from 31 May. Part of the Harrogate International Festivals 2013 programme, the Spiegeltent brings an eclectic mix of funk, soul, funk and jazz includes a set with DJ Craig Charles of Red Dwarf and Coronation Street fame, The Gypsy Queens and The Demon [...]
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Six local artists are challenging Harrogate District residents to become art detectives and test their local knowledge. The artists have organised ‘Hidden in Harrogate’, a clue based art trail starting Saturday 18th May in the town centre as a preview to this year’s North Yorkshire Open Studios 2013. As part of the trail the artists [...]
Continue reading …Dirty Stops Out – Dj Trev’s guide to beery action, distraction and satisfaction
9 May 2013 No Comment
THURSDAY M.F.O.R. are a band of rockers who’ve been playing in Harrogate decades and tonight they are down at the Alex, doing their mix of covers, some old, some new and some “when did this come out?”. It’s the main spot for live music on Thursdays and they have started selling Brooklyn Beer, which tastes [...]
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Two début novelists muscls up against giants of the genre as the long-list is announced for the 2013 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, one of the most prestigious crime writing prizes in the country. The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is Europe’s largest event dedicated to the celebration of crime fiction. Taking place [...]
Continue reading …After last weeks inclusion of a Theater listing, I’ve had so many posh birds coming up and swooning (posh for fainting) in front of me, I though I would continue to open up with an in depth look at the arts. Harrogate Theater has The Count of Monte Cristo on until the 11th of May. [...]
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This year Knaresborough Castle is holding regular sessions with local lute player, Nancy Horseman, creating an atmosphere of days of old with English, Italian and French renaissance lute music. The lute was a very popular instrument in Medieval times so would regularly have been heard when the nobles and kings and queens visited Knaresborough Castle. [...]
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