Welcome the Holmfirth Food & Drink Festival 2008












Video Now Online!!
Watch the Holmfirth Food & Drink Festival 2008 Video, featuring Christa Ackroyd and Ian White.
For those who couldn't make it get a 'flavour' of the weekend. For those who
could, see if you can spot yourself joining in the fun...

watch the full video here

Fabulous Food Market
The Holmfirth Food & Drink Festival is renowned for showcasing some of the best food retailers in Yorkshire...

information about our stallholders

Festival 2009
Check out our complete 2 day event listing for 2008, including cookery demonstrations, live music, children's entertainment and beer garden for a taste of what's to come next year.

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News

BBC Presenters in head to head cook off!

The Holmfirth Food and Drink Festival 2008 had the pleasure of a guestappearance from BBC Look North presenters Ian White
and Christa Ackroyd.

The Mayor of Kirklees, Cllr Karam Hussain welcomed them on
Sunday 28th September
at 12.00 noon in the Market Hall.
The winner was... A Draw!!
 


Ready Steady Cook with Pennine FM
 

Paul Clark
Saturday 27th September from
11.00 am Radio presenters Paul Clark and Andrew Crawshaw from Festival Sponsors Pennine FM went head to head.


Pennine FM

Check out: www.penninefm.com

 

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Frumpton Guggenband

Frumptarn Guggenband
Also, as a coup we had Frumptarn Guggenband a German Carnival Band (one of only two in the country) from Barnsley, performing on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.

'We play modern classic tunes on brass instruments with drum and percussion accompaniment, in the Swiss and German Guggen tradition. Do not mistake us for an Oompah band!'


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Children's Competition Winner!

Local budding chef Esme Murguit, aged 11 from Holmfirth was our competition winner opened the festival at 10.30am on Saturday 27th September taking part in our first cookery demonstration.

Well done Esme!!
 


For more information about What's On at the festival click here

 

 www.kirklees.gov.uk
www.penninefm.com

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