Festivals
The Choir of Leeds Minster participates in two regional choral festivals. The Yorkshire Three Choirs was begun in Leeds in 1982 by the Bishop of Ripon, the Right Reverend David Young and Canon Graham Foley, Vicar of Leeds. It comprises the choirs of Ripon Cathedral, Wakefield Cathedral and Leeds Minster and is part of the Leeds International Concert Season. The girls' choirs of Leeds Minster, York Minster and the Anglican cathedrals of Bradford, Ripon, Sheffield and Wakefield take part in the Yorkshire Cathedrals' Girls' Choirs' Festivals begun by Louise Marsh at Wakefield Cathedral in the 1990s.
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