Current or future festivals
Sedbergh Music Festival 2026
14th June 2026 - 26th June 2026The Sedbergh Music Festival returns from 14th to 26th June 2026.
View details >Death in the Dales Book Festival 2026
16th October 2026 - 18th October 2026Death in the Dales 2026 is the third annual Festival of Crime Writing in Sedbergh, England’s Booktown.
Sedbergh is proud to welcome distinguished members of the Crime Writer’s Association to guide our audience through the pleasures and difficulties of crafting brain teasing who-dun-its!
Past festivals
Horror in the Howgills Book Festival
21st June 2025 - 22nd June 2025We are very sorry to tell everyone that our new festival Horror in the Howgills has had to be cancelled this year. But do look out for the Death in the Dales crime festival in October.
View details >Sedbergh Music Festival, one-off concert 2025
22nd June 2025 - 22nd June 2025The next full Sedbergh Music Festival will be in 2025 but there’s an extra one-off concert this year
View details >Death in the Dales Book Festival
11th October 2024 - 13th October 2024October 2024 saw our first ever crime fiction festival take place in Sedbergh; Death in the Dales!
View details >Sedbergh Music Festival 2024
16th June 2024 - 27th June 2024The Sedbergh Music Festival returns from 16th to 27th June 2024, and it is bigger than ever.
View details >‘What are Words Worth?’ – Sedbergh Book Festival 2024
25th May 2024 - 1st June 2024‘What are Words Worth?’ Yes it’s a great pun, especially if you live close to the Lake District but our great poet was not the theme of the festival.
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