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York Early Music Festival - Britain's premier festival of early music - is celebrating 600 years of the musical traditions of England from Friday 4th - Sunday 13th July. Designed to embrace the remarkable architectural history of the city of York and its environs, the Festival takes place in a wide variety of medieval churches, guildhalls and historic houses as well as the award winning National Centre for Early Music housed in a restored medieval church in York.

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