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Welcome to the Wharfedale Festival
Wharfedale Festival 2008

Welcome to the Official Wharfedale Festival
of Performing Arts site celebrating

THE 102nd

Welcome to the Official Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts' Website.

THE Competitive Music and Drama Festival held annually

Registered Charity No. 509227

This was held over the week of 10th- 17th May 2008
Now looking forward to the 103rd Festival - 16th- 24th May 2009

Wharfedale Festival Music Bar

Held at various venues throughout Ilkley

Kings Hall: Christchurch: Riddings Hall: Baptist Church:
All Saints Parish Church
Venues for 2008

 
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Festival Information

THE USE OF RECORDED MUSIC

THE USE OF RECORDED MUSIC

This festival is affiliated to the British & International Federation of Festivals and participates in its Group Licence to cover payment of fees for the use of recorded music at its events.  Teachers using tapes created from commercial recordings are advised that they should themselves seek permission to re-record from the record companies concerned as the festival cannot take responsibility for this.

 

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Entry Fees

ENTRY FEES

SOLO ENTRIES unless stated otherwise:-
UNDER 18 years on 1st September 2007 £5.00 per class
18 years and over on 1st September 2007 £6.00 per class subject to a maximum of £22.00 for 4 or more entries.  (This concession does not apply to Solo Song Recital Class 296).

GROUP ENTRIES - as stated against class number.

POETRY WRITING ENTRIES - as stated in Poetry Writing section.

ALL ENTRIES MUST REACH THE SECRETARY ON OR BEFORE 25th FEBRUARY 2008

    
LATE ENTRY PENALTY FEES

PLEASE NOTE: 
SIGNIFICANTLY LATE ENTRIES WILL EACH INCUR  A £2.00 SURCHARGE.

Receipts will not be sent unless entries are accompanied by SAE.
Competitors’ cards with full particulars will be mailed two weeks before the festival.

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2008 Poetry Award Winners

Trophies and Cups awarded to the winners of the 2008 Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts, Poetry Writing Classes.

THE FLEDGELING TROPHY
Georgina Ray       Thoughts
 

THE THORPE TROPHY
Jake Flood       Things of War


THE CITY OF BRADFORD METROPOLITAN COUNCIL CULTURAL ACTIVITIES TROPHY
Andrew Hanna      Mr Nobody

THE PENNANT ROBERTS TROPHY
Alfred Spencer      The Falcon


THE BBC RADIO LEEDS POETRY CUP
Pennant Roberts      Haiku Sequence


THE MARY BINKS MEMORIAL TROPHY
Donald Campbell (Leeds)     Silver Bullets

Adjudicator: Elizabeth Linklater

 
School Choirs

Criaglands Hotel, Ilkley - venue for Choir classes. Logo used with permission (opens in new window)
Due to renovation work due to be held at the Kings Hall, our usual venue for Choirs, over Festival Week, the Craiglands Hotel has very kindly allowed us to use their ballroom for Band night, School Choirs Workshop, School Choirs and Adult Choirs classes on 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th May.

The Festival is very grateful to the management of Criaglands for their generous offer and co-operation.

 
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Information

The 2008 Programme for the 102nd Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts is now available for downloading as both a Word Document and as a PDF file for those without MS Word.

These files can be downloaded direct as above, or from the Downloads page.

In both cases, the files are ZIPped to save download time and for security.

All classes and entries in the classes are also now available online via the 2008 Festival Programme link on the left hand menu.

 

 

Calendar

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Latest Events

  • Dance Championship Entries Closing Date
    September 20, 2008 (8:00 am)
    (Dance Championships) The closing date for entries for the 2008 Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Dance Championship is 20th September 2008.
    All entries to be sent to MRS I. WAILES, ‘HIGHFIELD HOUSE’, 184 WALTON PARK, PANNAL, HARROGATE HG3 1RJ
  • 2008 Dance Championships
    November 08, 2008 (10:00 am) - November 09, 2008 (5:00 pm)
    (Dance Championships) The 2008 dance championship will be held over the weekend of 8th and 9th November.
    The venue will once again be at the Guiseley Theatre and we look forward to welcoming back all our previous performers and hopefully a large number of new faces.
  • 103rd Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts
    May 16, 2009 (10:00 am) - May 24, 2009 (6:00 pm)
    (Wharfedale Festival) The 103rd Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts takes place over the week 16th - 24th May 2009
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