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As hordes of music fans enjoyed the annual Glastonbury festival last week, an enterprising family closer to home is planning its own event. Staxtonbury Family Music Festival takes place at Manor Farm, Staxton from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th July and will showcase the finest local groups, singers and musicians including chart topping York band Morpheus Rising, Grand Urge, Bigme, Shamrockers, Blue Alibi, Bad Panda and Swagger. There is plenty to do for all the family.? Award-winning Hunmanby brewery, Wold Top Brewery, will be running the Real Ale bar and there will be a bouncy castle, slides and lots of...

A Wold Newton microbrewery and an East Yorkshire festival organiser are celebrating the sell out success of the second?Moonbeams Wold Top Folk Festival last weekend (9/10 July). A combination of headline acts, great weather good food and beer and a campsite with stunning views made for an enjoyable weekend that attracted over 500 people. Visitors to Wold Top Brewery?s home at Hunmanby Grange were entertained by artists including Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds, Edwina Hayes, Steve Tilston, Flossie Malavialle, The Duncan McFarlane Band and many more.? In between sets, entertainment was provided by Captain Kipper, Theatre on the Wolds,...

An award winning Yorkshire coast brewery is celebrating national Mild Month with a farmers? market promotion. Every year, CAMRA, the?Campaign for Real Ale, celebrates May as Mild Month in order to champion the traditional drink of Mild beer. Yorkshire Coast micro-brewery Wold Top Brewery is joining in the celebrations by offering 25% off cases of Centenary Way Mild at Driffield and Scarborough?s farmers? markets during May. Reminiscent of an era when mild beers were the most popular ales in the country, Wold Top Brewery?s Centenary Way Mild is a lightly hopped ale with a slightly nutty flavour and an ABV...

The UK's Annual Celebration Of Better Barbecuing, National Barbecue Week, begins on 25th May as part of Gastro Alfresco, a summer long celebration of alfresco eating, entertaining and barbecues. For a Yorkshire Coast micro-brewery, bank holidays and BBQ?s are synonymous with a significant increase in sales of its award-winning real ales. Tom Mellor from Wold Top Brewery explains ?You can?t beat a traditional, refreshing real ale when you?re cooking and eating outdoors.? Our best seller throughout the summer months is Wold Gold, an award winning golden beer that chills down well and is enjoyed by men and women alike.? Wold...

A Yorkshire Coast brewery has teamed up with the?SSAFA Forces Help (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association - Forces Help) to raise funds to help active and ex servicemen and their families. Award-winning Wold Top Brewery is bottling a Veteran Ale and will donate 10p from the sale of each bottle to SSAFA for its invaluable work supporting forces families in need. With a launch planned to coincide with Armed Forces Day on 27th June, Veteran Ale is a full bodied and well rounded premium Best Bitter with an A B V of 4.2% that will go on sale in...