Huddersfield Events Diary  2008
Last Updated 06/07/08

We list here some major events taking place within Huddersfield Town Centre and Surrounding Villages during 2008.
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40 Year Old Video
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Huddersfield Centenary Pageant
from 1968 along John William Street.

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2008

July

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Date  Saturday 5th July 2008
Event Concert on the Hill.
Lindley Band and Holme & Colne Valley Male Choirs will entertain you at this popular annual event with Firework finale. Bring your deck chairs food and drink.
Location YMCA Grounds Salendine Nook
Tel 01484 461090
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Date  Saturday 5th July 2008
Event Plant Sale

Annual event held by the HTCPL in collaboration with The National Trust. Over 20 nurseries and growers have stalls along New Street in the town centre during the event.
 

Location New Street Member of Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership
Tel 01484 487933
Web www.huddersfield-htcpl.co.uk/contents/events
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See the German & Dutch Market Watch Video Trailer Now
 

 

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Date  Sunday 6th July 2008
Event 25th Anniversary  Pendragon Round Table Duck Race

Gala & Fun Fair at Sands from 11am , Race launch from the Bridge Holmfirth at 2pm
 

Location Holmfirth Centre and Sands Park
Tel 07930 915595
Web www.theduckrace.co.uk
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Webcam
See the German & Dutch Market Watch Previous Year Video

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holmfirth markets

Date  TBA 2008
Event Holmfirth French & Craft Market
Location Holmfirth Market Hall
Tel 01484 221550
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Date  12th July 2008
Event Caribbean Carnival.

Street Parade and Events

Location Huddersfield Town Hall and Greenhead Park,
Tel 01484 222087
Web www.huddersfieldcarnival.com
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Webcam
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Date  13th July 2008
Event A WORLD TOGETHER
12 noon to 6pm

There will be different performance spaces located in the park where
visitors can have a dance or listen to music, stories and songs from folk to
gospel, Bhangra to tea dances.

The DanceFloor will feature Ragroof showing some of the great dances from
the 20s, 30s and 40s, and, for those who need it, teaching the steps so that
participants can all get up and have a go at tripping the light fantastic
themselves.  Ragroof will be joined by local groups Africa for All and
Manasamitra.

On the MusicStage there will be Skavolution playing their unique mix of
skiffle and reggae ska music, The Masti Dancers, Silinder, supported by his
Bhangra band Pardesi, Mighty Zulu Nation, Shubhra and a fashion show
sponsored by Suits Me.

In the SongSpace Satellites Arts will tell stories from around the world,
joined by the Seventh Day Adventist Youth Gospel Choir, folk musicians from
North Kirklees and EcCo, a choir of young people and families from the Colne
Valley.

One of the highlights of the day is the Have A Go Marquee, where visitors
can make jewellery, paint on silk, watch Kentee weaving, make masks, hold
rainforest animals, not only the snails, practice their circus skills and
much more.  Starchaser from Manchester will be showing families how to make
their own space rocket and launch it into the stratosphere - from
Huddersfield to the stars!
.
Location Greenhead Park, Huddersfield
Tel 01484 222087
Web http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/events/events.asp
www.pardesi.co.uk
www.myspace.com/silinderpardesiprofile
Video/
Webcam
 
 

punch & judy

Date  TBA 2008
Event Punch and Judy
Location Mandela Corner in the Piazza Centre Member of Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership
Tel 01484 487933
Web www.huddersfield-htcpl.co.uk/contents/events
Video/
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August

 

 

Date  14th-17th August 2008
Event

The Huddersfield Food & Drink Festival is on the move! For one year only the Festival is being held on The Piazza and on New Street.

The annual Food & Drink Festival, now in its eighth year .

As usual the Festival will be full of stalls selling food and drink, as well as free hourly cookery demonstrations and free children's entertainment.

Open until 6.00pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 5.00pm on Sunday the Festival promises to have something for everyone!

Location Piazza Shopping Centre Member of Huddersfield Town Centre Partnership
Tel 01484 487933
Web www.foodanddrinkfestival.co.uk
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Webcam
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Watch 2007 Video . 2008 video out on 14th August

September

 

 

holmfirth markets

Date  Friday 26 – Sunday 28 September
Event Food & Drink Festival, Holmfirth Town Centre

Visit the food and drink festival in Holmfirth and be prepared to take your tastebuds on a tantalising journey. Food stalls offering the very best of local, European and international foods will fill the streets of this idyllic town centre. Cookery demonstrations will take place over the weekend including chef’s master classes, celebrity ready steady cook and much more.
The market is open from 9.00am to 6.00pm Saturday and from 10am to 6pm Sunday.

 
Location Holmfirth  
Tel 01484 225852
Web www.holmfirthfoodanddrinkfestival.com
Video/
Webcam
Watch previous year video
October

 

Date   ? 0ctober 2008
Event Marsden Jazz Festival
Location various venues in Marsden
Tel 01484 846969
Web www.marsdenjazzfestival.com
Video/
Webcam
 
November

Date   ? November 2008
Event Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Location various venues in Huddersfield
Tel 01484 425082
Web www.hcmf.co.uk
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Webcam
 

Harry Gration

Look North's Harry Gration will switch on the 2007 Christmas Lights

 

Pendragon Round
 Table Santa & Sleigh

Date   Watch 2007 Video Now
Event Christmas Lights Switch On & Ice Rink 6pm.
With Brass Band, The Mayor, Santa and Sleigh, Pulse Radio Roadshow

 
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Ice Rink £6 per hr over 13s ~ 12 & under £3.50
To book Call 01484 223220

Location Piazza Shopping Centre
Tel 01484 223220
Web www.piazzacentre.co.uk
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2009

January

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Date   to Jan 5th 2009
Event Christmas Fun Fair

 

Location St. George's Square
Tel n/a
Web n/a
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March

 

 

Date  TBA March 2009
Event The 8th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade through the Town Centre
Location Town Centre
Tel 01484 648141
Web www.theparadeonline.org
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Date  TBA 2009
Event Easter Fun with Humpty Dumpty and friends
Family fun at 11.30 am , 1pm, & 2pm
Location Piazza Shopping Centre
Tel 01484 534594
Web www.piazzacentre.co.uk
Video/
Webcam
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Date  TBA
Event Farmers'  Market

Fresh local produce direct to you. In the centre of pedestrianised Huddersfield Town Centre.

The selection of produce available at a Farmers' Market will vary with season and location often characteristic of the area. However you are likely to be able to find a delicious selection of vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, bread and cakes, jams, fruit juices and dairy produce.

At the Huddersfield farmers markets there are plenty of delicacies to stock the best-kept kitchens. A variety of meats, fresh vegetables, home-baked cakes and pies and a vast range of cheese are just some of the local produce available.
 

Location New Street, Huddersfield
Tel 01484 225852
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Date  TBA
Event French Continental Market

The very best of French charcuterie, Dutch and French cheeses, German Sausages, a great variety of garlic and vegetables, French African Art, Italian Leather and a host of other delights to tempt the most discerning purses. Biscuits from Britanny, olives from Europe’s sunny south, delicious French honey and jams, and much more.
Perhaps the focal point of the entire market is the finest mobile boulangerie in Europe. Four large ovens bake on site, so you can savour the aroma of fresh baked croissants, pain chocolate and patisseries.

Many stallholders will offer samples so that visitors can try before they buy.
The market is open from 9.00am to 5.30pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday and from 10am to 4pm Sunday.

 
Location New Street, Huddersfield
Tel 01484 225852
Web  
Video/
Webcam
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holmfirth markets

Date  Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May ..see you next year
Event Holmfirth Festival of Folk

Another excellent festival is planned for Holmfirth in 2008. Plans are well advanced for the next Holmfirth Festival of Folk with lots of excellent artists in the process of being confirmed. The Picturedrome will be booking some top line artists. Under consideration at the moment are The Family Mahone for Saturday and the Levellers for Sunday. CragRats will be joining in again and the likely guests are Quicksilver. These will all be ticket events, available from the venues.

Among guests to be seen in the pubs of Holmfirth are Mike Silver & Johnny Coppin, Pete Morton, Sara Grey, Meridian, Steve & Kristi Nebel, Paul & Liz Davenport, Roger Davies, Alun Parry Band, Treebeard with Paul Pearson, Hamish Curry, FYRISH, Gerry McNeice, Ray Padgett and Rocks and Reels. Climax Ceilidh Band will be playing for the Saturday Ceilidh and of course it wouldn’t be Holmfirth without the Good Egg Band for the Family Ceilidh on Sunday. Following the success of last year’s Poetry events we are expanding this aspect and contributing to the spoken word part of the festival will be poet extraordinaire Les Barker and singer and storyteller Nick Hennessey.

Folk traders will join the regular craft traders in the market hall on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th May. Goods on sale include handmade clogs, clothing, jewellery, music and many more Folk and Craft items.

 
Location Holmfirth
Tel 01484 225852
Web www.holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk
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