Paul Weller’s return to Dalby Forest on June 27 has become the quickest-selling concert in the nine years of open-air music nights in the North Yorkshire woodland.
The Modfather first went down to the woods near Pickering in 2004, when he notched up the Forestry Commission’s first sell-out concert at Dalby.
Only 100 tickets are still on sale, available solely from the national Forestry Commission hotline at £33 on 01842 814612.
Paul Cody, regional concert organiser for the commission, says: “We’ve sold all the tickets we had locally, and it’s our fastest-selling gig ever. The last time we had Paul Weller here, he sold out in eight weeks, so to pretty much sell out in a week this time is fantastic.”
Since the Forestry Commission began the sylvan concerts in 2001, Weller, Jools Holland, Status Quo, The Beautiful South, Embrace, Pulp, Madness, Travis, M People and James Morrison have played at Dalby.
Money raised from the 5,000-capacity event will be used for environmental and social projects in woodlands in Yorkshire, the Humber and the Tees Valley.
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