23/03/2026
☀️ Announcing a New Festival for Pickering… Save the Dates!
🌞 Pickering Midsummer Festival will take place around the Summer Solstice, from Thursday 18th June - Tuesday 23rd June 2026, in the beautiful and historic town of Pickering North Yorkshire.
✨ It will be a folk traditions themed weekend of music, author events, storytelling, art, performance, heritage crafts, a dash of midsummer magic, plus more as it develops over time.
🌙 There’ll be much more announced over the coming weeks — including an exciting lineup of events — but for now we just wanted to share the early news that it’s happening!
🔆 Follow Pickering Midsummer Festival to stay in the loop and find out about festival events as they’re announced.
💫 You can also register interest online at pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/midsummer-festival-2026 and we’ll email to let you know when everything is online to find out more about all of the bookable and open events happening at this year’s festival!
🐝 If you’re as excited about this as we are, please share this post to help make the first Pickering Midsummer Festival a buzzing event for everybody!
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