TICKETS for a festival which brings world-class music, art and entertainment to remote Dales locations will go on sale on Monday.

The 2019 Swaledale Festival, running over two weeks, takes place across venues in the Yorkshire Dales and features a wide range of music and other forms of art.

Festival artistic director Malcolm Creese said: "I am delighted with our amazing line-up of musicians and artists this year, and I look forward to seeing lots of very happy people in the audience.

"The North’s favourite folk music star Kathryn Tickell performs at Tennants in Leyburn with her new band ‘The Darkening’, and the brilliant world music guitarist Antonio Forcione brings his quartet to Grinton Church.

"The London Tango Trio, featuring classical guitar great Craig Ogden, also appears in Grinton, as does the legend of flamenco guitar, Paco Peña.

"The great violinist Tasmin Little, who has recently announced her imminent retirement, plays solo pieces by Telemann, Bach, Ysaÿe and Roxanna Panufnik, and Alexander Goehr will attend the world premiere performance of his Fifth Quartet – a new Swaledale Festival commission – given by the Villiers String Quartet."

Mr Creese also mentioned the baritone Roderick Williams and soprano Rowan Pierce, who will sing Beethoven, Schumann and Hugo Wolf in Richmond’s Influence Church.

He added: "The Esbjerg Ensemble travels from Denmark to perform two concerts – one of which features new arrangements of Mahler’s 10th Symphony and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and Stravinsky’s original four hands scoring of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring will be performed by pianists Richard Uttley and Kate Whitley."

BBC Young Musicians past and present feature prominently: pianist Lauren Zhang plays Chopin, Brahms and Ravel; and star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Friends perform chamber music by Beethoven, Fauré and Dvořák.

There are three brass bands, local folk groups, a choir and several children’s events as well as film, drama, dance, exhibitions, workshops, talks and guided walks in the glorious countryside. Swaledale Festival takes place from May 25 to June 8. Details and tickets are at www.swalefest.org.