We currently spend around £12,000 per year on our projects. With this, we try to reach the most people possible in as many different ways as we can. With your help we can expand the reach and range of our projects.
Join artist Emma Jenkins and members of Hull Jam Factory to explore your own creative response to John Adams' Everything That Rises for string quartet - a powerful and transformative piece which will provoke all sorts of reactions. Pay what you like.
£1000
Families with young children will explore the keyboard, have some creative fun and play lots of musical games with Jazz pianist & local Suzuki piano teacher Jenny Bray. Free workshop
£150
This annual Battle of the Bands brings 6 young bands from across the region to Driffield for a fantastic evening. The winners get to perform for a fee at YWMF26
£350
We like to mix up our venues - small/large, central/remote locations, tradtional/quirky... For 2026, we've booked churches, village halls, a private home, two lorries joined together, a carpark and a farm!
£1500
We are fortunate to have free use of a lovely piano for the duration of the Festival. Below is the cost of moving and tuning this precious instrument...
£650
In this free workshop kids small and large will be educated and enthralled by this award-winning duo from Hull. With their passion & sense of fun, and an eclectic range of instruments & to try, this is going to be a family experience to remember!
£150
Offered at less than cost price, this unique and special event is a wonderful way to experience music you've never heard before whilst wining and dining in the beautiful surroundings of the Old Chapel in North Dalton. A cosy musical dinner party for 10 people who start the evening as strangers and end it with new friends and a new-found appreciation for music.
Guests pay £40 for a three course meal with wine and music from world-class musicians, which covers the catering costs. YWMF subsidises the cost of the musicians.
£900
Musicians from across the Yorkshire & Humber region will descend on Driffield for a day! Alongside busking from members of Hull Philharmonic, Eclectic: Music and the Humber Music Hub, there'll be a parade led by the Yorky Puds Sax Quartet, local bands playing in pubs & cafés, a community stage at Cross Hill for local choirs, community & youth groups, a musical treasure trail, family workshops, giant outdoor games, a silent disco and a gig night with Jenny Bray & Mambo Jambo. Pay what you like for the gig. Everything is else free.
£5000
We would love to hire someone with specialist arts admin/marketing experience, initially on a part-time basis, to help spread the word far and wide!
£1000-12000