Festivals 2010 - Kent & E Sussex Gig Guide

Kids Week will be running from the 13th - 27th August and children aged 5-16 years old can see an awesome selection of shows for free, as long as they are accompanied by an adult paying full price.

Folkestone welcomes
THE BEAT (sold out) and all the ska bands to Folkestone Skabour Festival 2010. ARTHUR KAY & THE ORIGINALS, INTENSIFIED, SPECIAL BREW, ORANGE STREET, TOOTNSKAMEN, KING HAMMOND, THE REFINEMENTS, HEY RUDI, SCAREDYCATS, SKATONICS, SIMEAN ARTILLARY, MEOW MEOWS, SKATACUS and Ska DJs TOAST, STEVE NELLIE NELSON, PORTOJAM, TONY B & TONE THE SKIN (THE TWO TONES/SKA MOVEMENT), LEE EDGINGTON, STEVE HARRINGTON and BIG PHIL ENTHUCAL.

The FREE events outside are supported by ticket evening gigs INSIDE at well known popular Creative Quarter area and nearby venues including Quarterhouse, The Lanterns, The View/Bar Below, Club Indigo, Googies, Home Ground, The Royal George and The Chambers.

The Festival kicks-off with a fantastic evening opening followed by The Skatonics and The Beat on Friday 3rd, September 2010.

This is followed by two days of fab FREE music situated at areas of the scenic harbour side (subject to final permissions)) and the evening venue gigs including a ska giants double header of Arthur Kay & The Originals and Folkestine's own: Intensified .

Both Friday and Saturday will have Ska Festival After Gig Parties going on till the early hours with great fave Ska sounds at Club Indigo.

Cool priced TICKETS are available to buy HERE ONLINE for the stonking ska headline acts plus the brilliant after-gig ska parties that you will definitely not want to miss.

Plus Ska Market, Scooter Club Ride Outs and the This ART 2-Tone Exhibition at Googies Art & Music Café. Plus cheap priced
WHERE TO STAY accommodation.

The message to you is that our big moonstompin' and skanking weekend party on the South Coast at Folkestone is going ahead…and you’re invited!

The Faversham Hop Festival - 3rd 4th 5th September
is an annual two-day, free, family event held on the 1st weekend in September which commemorates the olden days of hop-picking when families would come to Kent and pass the evenings with music and stories.

Set against the backdrop of the ‘medieval gem’ of Faversham town centre, it is the ideal atmosphere to evoke memories whilst encouraging families and friends to meet and enjoy

Real Music, Real Rugby - 3rd to 5th September 2010

The Ashford Beer Festival is an annual 3 day event. The festival is based around 3 key components of fun: Real Ale, live Music and Rugby.

http://www.ashford-beer-festival.co.uk/

Venue: Blean Recreation Ground
Date: Sunday 5 September, 2010
Time: 11:30 to 22:00

Details:

Please click on the links below to see details of the Blean Folk Festival

bleanpc/UserFiles/file/Folk%20Festival%20pdf.pdf

bleanpc/UserFiles/file/Folk%20Festival%20Programme.pdf

The Rural Life Centre, Reeds Road, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey, GU10 2DL

This year the festival promises to be the biggest yet, with over 60 acts performing on outdoor and indoor stages. Acts include Sunday headliners The Stranglers and the new superstar of mainstream/folk crossover Seth Lakeman headlining the main stage on Saturday.

During the weekend there is an abundance of legendary bands sharing the stages with the stars of tomorrow. Classic rock, from Focus, Curved Air, and Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash rub shoulders with good time blues from legends Nine Below Zero and Jackie Lynton. Other household names appearing include Curved Air, The Christians, The Zombies and Adrian Edmonson & The Bad Shepherds.

With a full weekend of music and plenty to do for adults and kids alike, including a KidZone and free access to the Rural Life Museum itself, the full extent of this fantastic event is far too much to mention here.
http://www.weyfest.co.uk/index.html

BLACK HORSE FESTIVAL 2011 FUNDRAISER - 11th September 7.45 pm
Uiscedwr + Zoe Konez + Guest
Phoenix Arts Centre
Hastings

After their dazzling performance at Black Horse Festival 2009 phenomenal trio Uiscedwr return to headline a fundraiser for Black Horse Festival 2011
For those who missed this award winning trio, Uiscedwr are one of Britain’s most exciting contemporary bands who have performed all over the globe and all the major festivals. Featuring Anna Esslemont on fiddle and vocals and Cormac Byrne on bodhran and percussion (of Seth Lakeman band fame), the result is the most thrilling modern folk music you’re ever likely to hear. Underpinned by driving guitar, if music genuinely reflects the inner soul, its little wonder Uiscedwr is such an amazing band. Passionate, irrepressible, vital, imaginative, sincere, sorrowful, joyous and supremely skilled, the exciting Welsh/Irish/Anglo box of tricks that is Uiscedwr is an amazing force of joy and funk. Winners of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2002.

Along with guest include Zoe Konez the event is to remind everyone that our great little festival is still alive and kicking and that Committee are working hard towards 2011 and we will soon to have some excellent news for all supporters of the festival.

Tickets £10
Available from;
Phoenix Arts centre,
Hastings TIC
Kings Head , Battle
& www.mrsyarringtons.me.uk
The committee would like to thank Phoenix Arts Centre for their help in putting this event together

Rock Disco, Late Bar, Food, Free Entry to Show and Pub, To enter your bike – just turn up by 1PM! Trophies will be presented at 3PM.

Camping on-site Saturday Night - only £5 p/p! Good reasonably priced Pub Food with Full English Breakfast Sunday Morning.

All to be held at:-The Piltdown Man Pub , Batts Bridge Road, Piltdown ,
A272 Sussex TN22 3XL

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We meet up every Thursday at 8:30ish @ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Road Brighton BN1 4SB

The plans for Tenterden Folk Festival 2010 are already taking shape and there are several exiting changes and developments.

The first major development is that this year’s festival will start on Thursday evening and also for the first time, there will be events during the day on Friday, as well as the usual evening events, making it four days of folk song, music and dance. On Thursday evening we will be presenting a special show in conjunction with The Sinden Theatre at Homewood School. Waltzers & Wonders: the Wakes is in Town features nine of Derbyshire’s finest folk performers: Ian Carter, Keith Kendrick, Sylvia Needham, Sarah Matthews, Doug Eunson, Michelle Short, John Adams, Alan Squires and Howard Mitchell. The show is a musical journey through a fair and made a big impression at a number of large folk festivals lasts year. For more details of the show and the performers visit the shows home page at www.ramcompany.co.uk.

Plans are also well advanced to relocate the craft fair and parts of the music fair and street stalls into several large marquees on the Recreation Ground on Saturday and Sunday. This will enable us to expand the number and variety of stalls and to use the Town Hall for other festival events such as workshops, concerts or a dance. The music showcases, previously known as “the Woolpack Stage”, will also relocate into one of these marquees. We will still be using the Tenterden Junior School hall for the stalls selling musical instruments, CDs, and similar items.

Festival events will again be held throughout the town including The Tenterden Club, St. Mildred’s Parish Church, the Church Hall and of course the main town centre public houses as well as the streets and coach park. Hopefully the newly paved area outside the Town Hall will also improve the festival facilities.

Many of the guests have already been booked and will include Alchemy, Barron Brady, Capella, Pete Castle, Karen and Colin Cater, The Claque, Roy Clinging, Cross O’th Hands, Paul and Liz Davenport, Doug Euson and Sarah Matthews, Roy Harris, Keith Kendrick, Dick Miles, Sylvia Needham, Mike Nicholson, George Papavgeris, The Ram Company, The Ram Company Ceilidh Band with caller Ian Carter, Mike Silver, Barrie and Ingrid Temple, Steve Turner and the Ticklish Allsorts Show as well as festival regulars such as John Barden, Peter Collins, Les Elvin, Bo Foaks, Bob Kenward, Marsh Warblers, Adrian O’, Roger Resch, Chris Roche, Andy Smythe, Spare Parts Concertina Band, The Travelling Folk and Malcolm Ward,

To buy your tickets, book your craft fair, street stall or music fair pitch or if you would like to be otherwise involved in the Festival contact us now.

More details of Tenterden Folk Festival 2010, guests, accommodation and camping are now being posted on our website at www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk.

To receive our regular email updates send an email to info@tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk with "add to festival news list" in the subject box.

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