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Folk Music - Moor & Coast Festival, Whitby, North Yorkshire

By Ferne Arfin, About.com

  • What: A festival of traditional music, song, dance and arts in one of North Yorkshire's prettiest harbor towns.
  • When: Friday-Sunday, Early May Bank Holiday
  • Where: Whitby Community College and The Friendship Rowing Club, Old Whitby
  • Admission: £40 for the weekend
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Concerts, ceilidhs, singarounds and are all part of this informal and popular festival. There's a temporary campsite set up on the community college grounds so the party can continue well into the wee smalls. This being Whitby, there's also some story telling and a ghost walk. Oh, didn't you know? Count Dracula shipped his coffin full of soil (and himself, natch) to Whitby - it was wear he first came ashore in England, in Bram Stoker's tale. Whitby - by day - is also one of Yorkshire's prettiest coastal towns.
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