This year’s “shoestring” Haworth Arts and Music Festival has been hailed a success.

Attendances were high across the four days of drama, song, talks and workshops.

The festival was organised by villagers with just £3,000 of Bradford Council funding. The money paid for three theatrical premieres, poet Les Barker and a host of music events.

The most popular event was the drama and vocal piece Pals, about First World War soldiers from Bradford.

Also popular was Les Barker, whose work has been read by the likes of Prunella Scales and Terry Wogan.

Musicians from County Cavan in Ireland visited for the third time, as part of an exchange programme with Keighley performers.

Haworth singer-songwriter Tim Moon, one of the Haworth festival organisers, unveiled his latest show The Oak in My Spine.

Mr Moon said last year’s festival, which cost several thousand pounds more to organise, only just broke even.

Mr Moon said: “It was a year we didn’t expect to have any big names. We didn’t want the financial risk.

“I don’t think the festival suffered. With a festival that concentrates on locals, we don’t need big names.”

Mr Moon said a festival would definitely be held next year, with two or three events already planned.

These include jazz-instrumental performance Celestial Echoes, a drama project on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and literary visitors from County Cavan.