looking ahead to festivals from the Town Hall to the Church and Church Hall you can visit concerts, barn dance, workshops, special shows and many other events. More details and guests will be announced in early 2020 so check out the website www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk for further information.
Celebrating Shakespeare 22nd to 26th April
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Tenterden Folk Festival Four days from 1st to 4th October
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his annual festival of folk song, music, dance, crafts and traditions is now in its 28th year and goes from strength to strength. The emphasis remains on the traditional English folk arts, but the festival also includes contemporary material with its roots in the tradition, as well music, song and dance from other cultures. Much of the festival is free and takes place in and around the streets of Tenterden town centre where you will find not only hundreds of Morris dancers but also Slovakian dancers, Asian dancers, street stalls, a craft fair, street entertainers, buskers from Belgium and many more surprises. In around five of the public houses and cafes you will find free folk song and musician sessions supported by local and visiting performers and festival guests. In venues ranging
ome and join the feast at Shoreham Wordfest’s fifth annual Shakespeare Festival, a cornucopia of Shakespearian and Elizabethan delights, celebrating the great Bard’s birth and death day of 23rd April. This year sees the return of the wonderful ‘This is My Theatre’ company, with their unique, enchanting adaptation of The Tempest; actor Paul Morel of Oddbodies Theatre brings his acclaimed one-man King Lear; there's a Shakespearean film night; a free concert of Shakespeare’s magical words mingled with Elizabethan music and song, devised by Janet Pressley. And there's more – a chance for all to learn authentic Elizabethan dances with renowned teacher Charlotte Ewart, most recently on TV in ‘Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Christmas’; ‘Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On’ the great Michael Pennington, back by popular demand, on playing Shakespeare’s Prospero and much more; Shakespeare’s Birthday Night Revels, dance, eat, celebrate; ‘Coffee with Shakespeare’s Monsters and Magicals’ with accomplished writer and performer Janet Behan; ’Witches in the Wood – tales of heresy, supernatural and invasion’ with well-known and loved historian Chris Hare; and to round off the weekend a joyful Elizabethan songs workshop for everyone who likes to sing, with inspirational teacher Emily Longhurst. Tickets available from February 1st 2020. For more details and ticket information go to www.shorehamwordfest.com
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