The first Pickering Midsummer Festival will take place from Thursday 18th to 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!

Find Out More

Register using the form below to hear when full information about year’s events lineup. We will email you once the event pages are online so that you can find out more and book tickets, or save the date for unticketed events.

You can also follow Pickering Midsummer Festival on Facebook or Instagram to stay in the loop and find out about festival events as they’re announced. Or join our email newsletter (scroll to near the end of our website homepage here) for occasional updates including events and book recommendations.

If you’re as excited about this as we are, please share this page to help make the first Pickering Midsummer Festival a wonderful weekend for everybody!