Beacons Festival relocates to Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds
Beacons Festival is set to move away from its Skipton home, relocating to Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester.
After three years in its current location at Heslaker Farm, the festival will relaunch under the name Beacons Metro, promising a 12 week program of cutting-edge film, art, music and food in "truly unique spaces".
Spokesman Simon Stevens said: "After a great deal of careful thought and consideration, Beacons Festival will bid farewell to the Yorkshire Dales to take up a series of exciting residencies in three of the North of England's most vibrant and creative cities. Despite feeling that 2014 was the best Beacons Festival so far, the feedback we received was that the cost of attending a traditional camping festival was becoming increasingly difficult to meet. Our desire to make Beacons more accessible was enough to convince us that the time was right to move onto the next stage of the festival's evolution."
Organisers have also apologised to those who had already purchased early bird tickets for the 2015 event, with full refunds to be arranged as soon as possible.
Further details – including line-up, venue and ticketing information – will be announced in March.