Festival

Sher Yar Khan, who provides songs and music for Bollywood films, as well as working on Huddersfield’s Radio, entertains the Saturday crowd who want to reserve their places for next year and we are hoping to help that along.

“And we’ve not noticed any significant detriment from the closure of the rail station. In fact its closure meant we were able to utilise the steps for people to sit on and eat and drink. We should break even or even make a small profit which will be reinvested in next year’s festival.”

But he admitted that yet again the festival’s success was helped by an “enormous slice of luck” – the good weather with families and revellers enjoying the sunshine.

He said, that as a new team responsible for organising the festival, this year was all about consolidation and that next year would bring some changes as the festival evolves.

One of the traders, Ian Armitage of Armitage Bridge Monkey Club, said takings had been excellent with more than 60 barrels of ale sold – that’s more than 4,200 pints.

Festival director Sam Watt added: “I’m delighted with how things have gone. Jamie Waters who runs Holmfirth Food and Drink Festival, has run this one for the first time and it has all gone very well.”

She said she was particularly pleased with the success of the rooftop cocktail bar run by Boston Shakers which appeared to have captured people’s imagination and the continued popularity of bands such as Storm, LewRey, contestants from Yorkshire’s Got Talent and The Monotones.