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  • Midsummer Festival: Wyl Menmuir

    Pickering Midsummer Festival 2026
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    From the lonely heights of mountains to the womblike depths of caves, from sacred monuments and pilgrimage sites, to art made by our Neolithic ancestors and today's sculptors, stone has always drawn us in. In The Spirit of Stone, Wyl Menmuir brings together social history, folklore and encounters with the landscapes to explore the many ways in which rock and earth ground us and form part of our identities, histories and futures.

  • Midsummer Festival: Toni Bunnell

    Pickering Midsummer Festival 2026
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Music of social conscience and love of the natural world. Toni's original songs in the traditional style, accompanied on guitar, dulcimer, hurdy gurdy and bouzouki, bring audiences and communities together with her rousing performances. 100% of all ticket sales will be donated to Protect the Wild.

  • Midsummer Festival: Old Songs

    Pickering Midsummer Festival 2026
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    As the Summer Solstice twilight nears, join us for a haunting evening of stories told through music, words and art by Soft Lap. Author and historian Amy Jeffs, artist Gwen Burns and musician Natalie Brice join in mesmerising harmony to sing these timeless tales of love and death kept alive through generations of telling.

  • Midsummer Festival: Amy Jeffs

    Pickering Midsummer Festival 2026
    St. Peter and St. Paul's Church Hallgarth, Pickering, United Kingdom

    Saints legends suffused medieval European culture. Their heroes wonder-working and suffering shaped landscapes, rituals and folk beliefs. Their tales spoke of women communing with flocks of birds, men raised by wolves and severed heads calling from between bristling paws. In Saints, Amy Jeffs retells legends of the medieval saints alongside their histories, drawing on in-depth research from 4th to 16th century cultural sources, illustrated throughout with beautiful paper cutout art.

  • Midsummer Festival: Aidan Meighan

    Pickering Midsummer Festival 2026
    Pickering Book Tree 43a Market Place, Pickering

    Across cultures and centuries, trees have stood as guardians of life, inspiring stories that connect us to nature, spirituality and tradition. In The Folklore of Trees, Aidan Meighan brings these tales together with rich cultural context and intricate illustrations, sharing the myths, legends and secrets of the world's most iconic trees, and the seasonal customs, protective charms and superstitions associated with them.