Special Events
This years special events include Lester Simpson's "Standing in Line" (Sunday); Reg Meuross "Stolen from God" (Tuesday); Scold's Bridle "Songs & Stories of Alan Bell" (Thursday); Graham Pirt "The Jarrow Crusade" (Thursday)
Concerts
Sawol (sat); Jez Lowe (Sat/Sun); Downes & Beer (Sat); Phil Beer (Sun); Rosie Hood Band (Sun/Mon); Banter (Sun-Wed); Luke Daniels Trio (Mon/Tue); Pressgang Mutiny (Mon-Fri); The Hunch (Tue/Wed); Bob Fox & Stu Lockley (Wed); Melrose Quartet; Alistair Anderson; Andy Turner & Mat Green; Arthur Knevett; Brian Peters; Damien Barber; Drop the Floor (Sat/Mon); Hebble (Sat to Tue); Fran Foote & Belinda Kempster; Pete Morton( (Wed-Fri); Rattle on the Stovepipe; Sara Grey; Mossy Christian & Megan Wisdom
Social & Ceilidh Dance
Daily workshops for beginners through to advanced, and a choice of evening ceilidhs, contra, Playford and social dances with some great callers and music including Melrose Quintet; Powerhouse; Relentless; Contrary Faeries; Stomping Ground; Bearded Dragons; Rachel Shapiro Wallace; Mike Courthold; Erin Mansfield; Rhodri Davies; Annie Bolt; Emma Wooders; Geoff Cubit; Jerry O'Rielly; Martyn Harvey; Ian Nichols
Dance Teams
Watch out for daily dance displays around town, and especially our Sunday afternoon Dance Extravaganza at the Spa Pavillion with Black Gate Morris; Cheeky Feet; City Clickers Clog & Step Dance Group (Sat-Mon); Domesday Morris; Goathland Plough Stots; Hammersmith Morris; Leominster Morris (Sat-Tues); Liberty Hill North West (Sat-Wed); Rivington Morris; Shropshire Sharpshins Rapper; Stroud Morris Dancers; Thrales Rapper
Storytellers
From daily lunchtime stories, to evening tunes and tales, Whitby has plenty of Storytelling Taffy Thomas; Dave Arthur; Kay Cook; Iris Skipworth; Tom Goodale
Workshops
Whether you want to learn something new, or continue to improve, we're sure you'll find a workshop for you. There's always whole variety of one-off and week-long progressive workshops in music, song and dance, ranging from beginners through to advanced.
Children, Junior, Youth & Family events
We have a full programme of events for all the family including Playtime and Playworks for Children, music, song and dance workshops for Juniors and Yoof Club for teenagers, plus daily Family Ceilidhs
And so much more...
There's a full programme of talks, presentations and interviews, daily music, song, shanty and ballad sessions, week long Craft & Music Fair, pplus all the other attractions Whitby has to offer!