Come and paint in the beautiful setting of King George's Fields by the River Wharfe. Our idea is to encourage local artists and the community to take part and enjoy painting outside with fellow artists/ friends and share this setting. #Wetherby #Harrogate #Leeds #artists

What a beautiful day to have the Wetherby Landscape Artist 2025 on. With 20 artists entered it was an extremely hard task to shortlist 10 paintings. The shortlisted paintings will be on display in October as part of the wetherbyfestival.co.uk Here are just a few of the photos.

After a very successful Wetherby landscape artist competition it’s time to head to wetherbyfestival.co.uk/tickets to buy your tickets for the festival in October! Yes, it’s only summer but they sell out fast and you don’t want to miss out.

Date: Friday 3rd October 7:30pm, St James Church Centre, Wetherby A Wetherby Festival favourite to start us off! Taste 6 wines, listen to the 3 ‘experts’ describing them and let your taste buds decide which one is telling the truth. Teams of up to 8 .

Date: Friday 3 October The four seasoned musicians making up District Blues play mainly a powerful mix of Blues, R&B and Americana - they played at our first Blues evening and are returning by popular wetherbyfestival.co.uk/tickets

Sat. 4 Oct 2025 Art Exhibition 10:00am to 4:00pm in the Town Hall Six local artists are holding an Art Exhibition in the Town Hall. Also see the winning entries for “The Festival Landscape Artist of 2025” and the prizewinning artist No charge - free entry

2:00pm Wednesday 8 October Venue: The Wetherby Cinema The film was only a modest hit when it was released. Today,it is often regarded as the greatest musical film ever & one of the greatest films ever made. PLEASE BOOK DIRECTLY WITH THE CINEMA - WE CANNOT RESERVE CINEMA SEATS

Date: 10 October 7:30pm wetherbyfestival.co.uk/tickets/p/weth… Venue: Wetherby Sports Association, Lodge Lane, Wetherby, LS22 5FN £15 online, £20 at the door Joe Topping, Steamtown and Lewis Pugh We are delighted to welcome singer/songwriter Joe Topping (semi-finalist on The Voice.

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Date: 2:00pm Thursday 9 October Venue: The Wetherby Cinema Young Frankenstein Made in the same year as Blazing Saddles (and being in similar poor taste) a wonderful evocation of the original but this time with laughs. And lots of them. Gene Wilder’s finest hour and a half.

An Audience without Jake Thackray Wednesday 8 October 2:00pm at the St James Church Room ‘Scout Hut’ John Watterson has performed the songs of Jake Thackray at festivals, concerts, clubs, after dinner venues . wetherbyfestival.co.uk/tickets/p/thac…

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It’s time to get those tickets before they get sold out!! Our programme will soon be issued as a pull-out in the Excelle magazine. Copies will also be made available in the Library, Town Hall, Cinema and other spots about Wetherby. wetherbyfestival.co.uk/tickets

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Wetherby Festival also run a poetry competition and time is running out to enter the competition , as the deadline is Sunday 14th. Here is the video of our last year’s 3rd placed winner by Jonathan Sellars. Called Excuses, Excuses wetherbyfestival.co.uk/festivalpoetry

We will be at the Wetherby market on the 18th and 25th,opposite the town hall steps. Please do come and say hello and ask any questions about this year’s festival. Tickets can be bought online through the link below. wetherbyfestival.co.uk/tickets/film

WEETWOOD MAC 9th October, The Engine Shed from 19.30 (doors 19.00) Tickets £20 They have been described as “one of the UK’s most authentic Fleetwood Mac tribute bands”. wetherbyfestival.co.uk/tickets

There are still some tickets left which can be viewed and bought on wetherbyfestival.co.uk/tickets,