What's On in July 2010

• Throughout July 2010 - Glyndebourne Festival - The 2010 Festival includes revivals of Così fan tutte, Macbeth, Hänsel und Gretel and The Rake's Progress as well as two new productions: Mozart's Don Giovanni and our first ever production of Britten's Billy Budd. East Sussex.
   
• 21 June to 4 July 2010 - Wimbledon Tennis Championships 
   
• 24 June to 4 July 2010 - Holloway Arts Festival - A showcase of the work of local artists and film makers, the festival also gives people the opportunity to take part in workshops and watch national and international performers.
   
• 25 June to 4 July 2010 - Beaminster Festival - Dorset.
   
• 30 June to 4 July 2010 - Henley Royal Regatta 
   
• 24 June to 10 July 2010 - Stafford Festival Shakespeare - Watch Shakespeare performed in the open-air on the grounds of the Stafford Castle. The annual festival was first held in 1991. It is part of the annual Stafford Festival. (Staffordshire)
   
• 26 June to 11 July 2010 - Hebden Bridge Arts Festival - An annual two week festival of art, music, drama, literature, and comedy events. Hebden Bridge, (West Yorkshire).
   
• 1 to 4 July 2010 - Winchester Hat Fair, the UK’s longest running Street Arts festival
   
• 2 to 4 July 2010 - Brinkburn Music Festival - Classical music over two weekends at Brinkburn Priory, (Northumberland).
   
• 2 to 4 July 2010 - The Cleckheaton Folk Festival - The festival includes the Festival Parade, street entertainment, a continental market, Family Sunday Fun Day, Saturday Ceilidh, workshops, and more in Cleckheaton, (West Yorkshire).
   
• 2 to 4 July 2010 - The Goodwood Festival of Speed - The festival is an annual hill climb and a celebration of the history of motor sport and car culture. See competition cars from all eras in action: everything from 19th century steam carriages to current Formula One; racing motorcycles and classic rally cars to 3000bhp dragsters. Goodwood, (West Sussex).
   
• 2 to 4 July 2010 - Boogie Woogie Festival - (Dorset)
   
• 3 & 4 July 2010 - The Cornbury Oxford Music Festival - Set in the grounds of Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, the festival will feature a line-up of artists and includes a campsite, an extensive fairground, hot air balloons, alternative shopping village, a food fair, kids entertainments, massage and holistic treatments and more.
   
• 3 & 4 July 2010 - Dorset Medieval Festival - The annual festival has a focus on living history with jousting, archery, cannon-fire, minstrels, jesters, falconry, and combat displays at Came Park, Winterborne Came, (Dorset).
   
  
• 3 to 17 July 2010 - Deal Festival of Music and the Arts
   
• 4 July 2010 - The first Elvis Tribute Artist World Cup Twelve National Qualifiers will compete for the coveted crown. World Cup Final Week will see the National Champions hosted by towns throughout Wales. To celebrate the event coming to the City, Cardiff will be staging a two day July 4th Festival Weekend
   
• 7 to 11 July 2010 - Henley Festival - Live music including classical, rock, pop, jazz, opera and folk. Headline acts play on Henley's floating stage. Henley, (Oxfordshire).
   
• 8 to 18 June 2010 - Litchfield Festival - A summer celebration of classical music, dance, drama, film, jazz, literature, poetry, visual arts and world music in Litchfield,(Staffordshire).
   
• 9 to 11 July 2010 - Brinkburn Music Festival - Classical music over two weekends at Brinkburn Priory, (Northumberland).
   
• 9 to 11 July 2010 - Ely Folk Festival - The festival features a programme of workshops, concerts, displays, ceilidhs, and children's entertainment. Ely, (Cambridgeshire).
   
• 9 to 11 July 2010 - Priddy Folk Festival - Held in the Village of Priddy in Mendip Hills, (Somerset).
   
• 9 to 18 July 2010 - Winchester Festival
   
• 9 to 18 July 2010 - Dartington Hall Festival: a vibrant 10-day festival of words and ideas, a chance for those who read books to meet those who write them in Devon.
   
• 10 & 11 July 2010 - Rempstone Steam & Country Show on the Leicester/Nottingham border (10th and 11th July 2010)
   
• 10 & 11 July 2010 - Woodcote Rally - A festival of steam, vintage and veteran transport also featuring crafts, trade stands, children's entertainment, protected animals, live bands, a traditional fun fair and CAMRA's Festival of Ale in Woodcote, (Oxfordshire).
   
• 10 & 11 July 2010 - Guildford Model Steam Rally and Exhibition
   
• 10 & 11 July 2010 - Dorset Seafood Festival - The annual festival includes cooking demonstrations, filleting demonstrations, a wine matching exhibition, a fresh fish auction, and more. (Dorset)
   
• 13 to 15 July 2010 - Great Yorkshire Show a three-day countryside show on the edge of the spa town of Harrogate. (This is one of the best event websites we've seen - lots of information and easy to find your way around.)
   
• 14 to 18 July 2010 - Larmer Tree Festival - An annual music and arts festival held at Larmer Tree Gardens, (Wiltshire).
   
• 16 July to 1 August 2010 - Ryedale Festival
   
• 16 to 18 July 2010 - Saddleworth Folk Festival
   
• 16 to 18 July 2010 - Cockermouth Rock Festival - (Cumbria).
   
• 16 to 18 July 2010 - Upton Blues Festival - Upton upon Severn, (Worcestershire).
   
• 16 to 18 July 2010 - Clogfest - The national gathering for the step clog community. Skipton, (North Yorkshire).
   
• 16 to 18 July 2010 - GuilFest - A three-day music and camping festival held at Guildford, (Surrey).
   
• 16 to 18 July 2010 - Festival at the Edge - The annual storytelling festival held at Much Wenlock, (Shropshire).
   
• 16 July to 11 September - BBC Proms
   
• 23 to 25 July 2010 - Warwick Folk Festival
   
• 24 July (Saturday) 2010 - Metieval - East Riding Rock Festival. Beverley Leisure Centre Flemingate, Beverley, (East Yorkshire).
   
• 24 & 25 July - Cumbria Steam Gathering a colourful and noisy weekend event with a whole host of entertainment, with majestic steam engines and commercial vehicles of a by gone era, as well as hundreds of classic transport favourites like cars, motorcycles, bicycles, agricultural and industrial tractors, farm equipment and stationary engines. (Cumbria).
   
• 24 & 25 July 2010 - Cambridgeshire Steam Rally Swavesey, (Cambridgeshire), UK
   
• 24 & 25 July 2010 - Hampshire Water Festival - The festival includes live entertainment, talks on organic gardening and drought resistant plants, exhibitors of water related organisations, workshops, local producers and garden nurseries, and more. (Hampshire).
   
• 25 to 31 July 2010 - Holt Summer Festival
   
• 25 July to 7 August 2010 - Church Stretton and South Shropshire Arts Festival
   
• 29 July to 5 September 2010 - Edinburgh Art Festival - Established in 2004, the Festival works in partnership with the city’s artists, galleries, museums and visual art spaces to present modern and contemporary visual art.
   
• 30 July to 8 August 2010 - Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
   
• 31 July to 7 August 2010 - Cowes Week is the worlds premier sailing regatta, with almost 1,000 yachts and 8,000 competitors taking part in some top-class sailing.
   
• To be confirmed 2010 - Parklife
   
• To be confirmed 2010 - Sheep Music - Went's Meadow, Presteigne, Powys.
   
• To be confirmed 2010 - Manchester International Festival
   
• What's on in August - major events in the UK England Scotland Wales

July 2012

• 27 July to 12 August 2012 - London Olympics
   

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