TICKETS for the White Rose Award Finalist, Yorkshire Dales Food & Drink Festival are on sale and are selling like hot cakes!

The two-day event, held at Funkirk Farm, near Skipton on Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21, 2019 features the undisputed queen of the kitchen Mary Berry, Lisa Faulkner, the Hairy Bikers and Yorkshire legend Brian Turner. This year’s event is set to be bigger and better than ever, with a brand-new Yorkshire AA Rosette Demo Theatre hosted by the Devonshire Arms Hotel & Spa and Head Chef Paul Leonard pus, Bettys Cookery School will be celebrating their centenary and showcasing some of their best dishes on our new cookery school stage.

The event, the largest of its kind in Yorkshire, showcases the best of regional food and drink traders, from artisan producers to award winning brands and products. There are also craft and lifestyle exhibitors and free workshops in the Markers Marquee, perfect for shopaholics.

Set in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside with camping and caravanning available the weekend is packed full of things to see and do, including Gin and Whiskey Schools, a Pizza & Prosecco Parlour, mini Beer Festival, Tipple Talks and Tasting Tents. There is something for everyone. The festival is dog friendly so you can take along your four-legged friend too.

Children love festivals as much as grown-ups do and this festival is packed full of lots of free activities for the kids to do including cookery classes, circus skills, a mini World Cup tournament and even a princess party, plus a kid’s area full of fun activities to keep them occupied.

To top it all off the festival just wouldn’t be complete without live music! With the return of the amazing Take That Live tribute act performing on Saturday followed by ABBA Revival, voted the best in the UK, plus Little Fix, winners of ITV’s ‘Better than the Real Thing’ tribute to Little Mix followed by an Freddie Mercury tribute Pure Magic on the Sunday. These fantastic acts are supported throughout the weekend by a range of local Yorkshire bands.

Rachael Higgins, Marketing Director, at Events By B3, said: “Our 2019 is set to be our best year yet. We have got so much planned we have had to open another field at the farm to fit everything in! I am so excited to have Bettys involved, plus I can’t wait to hear from Mary Berry, she is simply iconic! The AA Rosette Demo stage is the first of its kind too, where else would you find 18 AA Rosette Chefs cooking together? Tickets are selling fast and there are only a few VIP tickets left.”

There are free buses running from Skipton Railway Station and High Street all weekend, plus onsite parking, making getting there easy.

Tickets are available online now from www.yorkshiredalesfoodanddrinkfestival.com