Harrogate International Festivals is a registered charity.
Ticket sales alone do not cover all our costs. Help us to deliver a full range of activity year round, encompassing the very finest music, literature, education and performing arts provision for Harrogate and Yorkshire. Please donate.
You can donate by text by simply texting HIFS00 £2 / £5 / £10 to 70070, or online through Mydonate.
The Festivals’ annual programme:
Sunday Series Classical Concerts (January – April)
A distinguished season of classical Sunday morning coffee concerts, the Sunday Series is an opportunity to see some of the most illustrious classical acts at work today.
Harrogate International Festival (Throughout July)
Attracting over 40,000 people each year, theHarrogate International Festival remains the centrepiece of Harrogate International Festivals’ calendar. We have a tradition spanning over 40 years of bringing the very best in Classical, Jazz and World Music to Yorkshire. We’ve featured exceptional orchestras and artists such as Van Morrison, Lesley Garrett, Nigel Kennedy, Yehudi Menuhin, Clare Teal, BB King and Amy Winehouse.
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival (July)
The world’s largest literary festival dedicated solely to the dark art of crime writing takes place in Harrogate every July. Fans of the crime fiction join the biggest authors in the genre for a long weekend of events brimming with books and body counts, detectives and deadly deeds! Previous special guests have included Val McDermid, Jeffery Deaver, Harlan Coben, Ian Rankin, Lee Child, Kathy Reichs and creator and writer of acclaimed TV series ‘The Wire’ David Simon.
ReachOut (Year round)
The Festivals learning and participating Community and Education Programme HIF’s learning activates engage at-risk groups and school children across the region in music, sport and literacy, and has reached over 6,000 young people in the last 2 years.