Concert and Awards Evening , sponsored by the Ilkley Town Council

Christchurch Friday 18 October

Special Guest Dame Fanny Waterman DBE

The concert evening, traditionally sponsored by the Ilkley Town Council, was held in Christchurch on the evening of Friday 18^th October.

Our many honoured guests, who included the Lord Mayor of Bradford, the Mayor and Mayoress of Ilkley, Sir James Hill, Cllr Anne Hawkesworth, Adam Cox of Cavendish Pianos and Jill Wright of the Federation of Festivals were delighted to join everyone in welcoming Dame Fanny Waterman, a lady of international reputation who...

The dates for the 2020 Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts Speech and Drama Classes have been announced. The festival as a whole runs from 28th April to 1st May 2020.

Classes, days and venues are as follows:

Tuesday, 28th April - Wednesday, 29th April - SPEECH & DRAMA (Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley)

Thursday, 30th April - CHOIRS & MUSIC  (King's Hall, Ilkley), COUNCIL EVENING CONCERT & PRESENTATIONS & BARBERSHOP CLASS (Winter Garden, Ilkley)

Friday, 1st May - PRIMARY SCHOOLS 'BIG SING' (Westville House School)

The Syllabus and Entry Forms will be available in due course.

113^th Wharfedale Festival Performing Arts, May and June 2019

As ever this popular tri-annual event started with verse speaking classes for children and adults held at the Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley. Some of the younger classes were so oversubscribed that they needed to be split for ease of adjudication and adult groups were well represented in verse speaking.

Solo Characterisation was very popular this year and young Alfie Davis, with his rendition of the “Porridge Trauma Incident” by Eleanor McCloud, was the winner in his class. He will go forward as the WFPA representative for speech and drama at the...

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The Results and Awards from the 2019 Speech and Drama Festival of the Wharfedale Festival have now been published and are available by clicking the relevant links below.

Speech and Drama Results

Theatre Time Results

Music Classes Results

Poetry and Writing Results

Awards and Special Awards