Tag: feva

  • Knaresborough Lions excited for upcoming beer festival

    Knaresborough Lions excited for upcoming beer festival

    Knaresborough Lions are looking forward once again to welcoming visitors to their beer festival, held as part of FEVA. Running from 5pm on Friday 18th August until the afternoon of Sunday 20th, the main date is the Saturday afternoon with the beer festival running alongside Picnic in the Park at Knaresborough House. Club President Bob…

  • Knaresborough’s town crier competition & Community Festival

    Knaresborough’s town crier competition & Community Festival

    Charlotte Gale of the Knaresborough Chamber, said: Sadly Roger has announced his retirement after eight years of dedicated service to the town. Roger has been an exemplary town crier and is a hugely popular and recognisable figure in Knaresborough. For the past eight years his regular and often witty cries have kept townsfolk informed about…

  • Knaresborough Lions Beer Festival

    Knaresborough Lions Beer Festival

    The Lions will be mounting our usual beer festival, starting next Friday. Knaresborough Lions will stage their annual Beer Festival during feva over the weekend of 19, 20 and 21 August 2022. Featuring a large selection of different beers, ciders, wine including prosecco, and lagers, soft drinks and food, the festival will be staged at…

  • Knaresborough feva festival 12th – 21st August 2022

    Knaresborough feva festival 12th – 21st August 2022

    The Knaresborough feva festival is back again this year. Running between the 12th and 21st August 2022, there will be an opening ceremony this Friday in the Market Square of Knaresborough. The quickest way to find out what’s on is to listen to Rowena Lloyd, and then flick through the full programme of events –…

  • Jubilee Jukebox ay Frazer Theatre in Knaresborough

    Jubilee Jukebox ay Frazer Theatre in Knaresborough

    The Knaresborough Players and Frazer Theatre are proud to present their first production since the Covid shutdown, “Jubilee Jukebox”! The all-singing all-dancing show will take audiences on a journey through seventy years of music from The Queen’s reign, with something for audience members of all ages. From ABBA to Amy Winehouse, The Beatles to Walk…

  • Britain’s Poet Laureate at feva

    Britain’s Poet Laureate at feva

    Britain’s Poet Laureate  Simon Armitage gave readings to a large and appreciative audience during Knaresborough feva festivities on Monday 16 August 2021. Some 200 people crammed into the venue, Trinity Church, to hear the poet read from some of his favourite works, following which he held an impromptu discussion with members of the audience which…

  • Knaresborough Lions to hold annual Beer Festival, 20 to 22 August 2021

    Knaresborough Lions to hold annual Beer Festival, 20 to 22 August 2021

    After missing out last year, the annual Knaresborough Lions’ Charity Beer Festival will kick back into life at Knaresborough House from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 August 2021. On Saturday afternoon, the event coincides with feva’s Picnic in the Park. With beers like Bad Kitty, Ay Up, Pale Rider, Screech Owl and Strength in Numbers,…

  • Shake the City to Premier Online at this Year’s feva

    Shake the City to Premier Online at this Year’s feva

    This year’s feva festival in Knaresborough will feature the first reading of a new play called Shake the City. It will be available via a Zoom conference call at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 19 August. The play is set during the clothworkers strike in Leeds, 1970. Four young women, Wendy, Laurie, Heather and Margaret, work…

  • Poet Laureate Simon Armitage Graces feva Online

    Poet Laureate Simon Armitage Graces feva Online

    UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is gracing Knaresborough’s feva online with readings from Magnetic Field, the volume of work focused on Marsden, the village in Yorkshire in which he grew up. Simon had been booked for feva 2020, but as with all planned performances, his appearance was cancelled due to the lockdown. But he has…

  • Feva Organisers to Host Online Festival from 14 to 23 August

    Feva Organisers to Host Online Festival from 14 to 23 August

    Knaresborough 6 August 2020 – Knaresborough’s feva festival organisers and friends have combined to put on a series of highly entertaining online shows for their regular audiences. In addition, there will be art displays mounted in commercial premises around the town. Online events will feature music, the premier of a brand-new play, poems by the…