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At Home with Neil Bob Herd, The DLaB and Friends

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15 May 2025, 5:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Location: Ravenlea Studios
An informal early-evening performance, with Neil and the band plus special guests performing at Dirty Little Acoustic Band HQ. Read more…
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Michel Faber’s Music Box

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15 May 2025, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Location: Kollectiv
Join us for an ear-opening evening with author Michel Faber on a musical journey across genres, styles, and languages. We are absolutely thrilled to invite you on an ear-opening evening with award-winning author Michel Faber on a musical journey across genres, styles, and languages. Prepare to discover music you didn’t know exists. Prepare to be surprised by things you didn’t Read more…
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The Simon & Garfunkel Story

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15 May 2025, 6:30 pm
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9:00 pm
Location: Leas Cliff Hall
Few shows have experienced the phenomenal global success of The Simon & Garfunkel Story, with multiple sold-out shows in over 50-countries worldwide and over 20 headline performances in London’s West End, including multiple appearances at the world-famous London Palladium. Using huge projection photos and original film footage, the international hit show tells the story of the origins and meteoric rise Read more…
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Lowtide / Rhino Tranq + Oscar + Manband + Tom Alldritt

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16 May 2025, 5:30 pm
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10:00 pm
Location: The Music Workshop
Lowtide’s debut is jampacked with the best of local talent. Expect BEAUTIFUL noise and indeed the unexpected, all under one roof. On the bill: Manband, closing the night are chaotic noise rockers from Margate – not one to miss. Rhino Tranq, Folkestone’s own alt-rock juggernauts. Oscar, serving up a mix of Midwest emo with a folk-punk twist in their Folkestone Read more…
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Jimmy Van Lin

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16 May 2025, 6:00 pm
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10:00 pm
Location: The Old Cigar & Olive
Multi instrumental band with cello, violin and banjo, performing upbeat covers. Read more…
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Folke Song Club

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19 May 2025, 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Location: The Music Workshop
Join us for a joyful evening of folk and shanty singing led by local performer Anna Braithwaite. Whether you are a first-timer or a seasoned pro, you are invited to lead a song, sing along or simply listen at this informal, acoustic session. Come and share your favourite traditional song from anywhere in the world or bring an original folk Read more…
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Keeping Cornelius

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24 May 2025, 3:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Location: The Old Cigar & Olive
Anne James and her band Keeping Cornelius will be performing pop covers by artists including Coldplay, The Corrs & Joni Mitchell and originals at The Old Cigar & Olive, Folkestone on 25th May from 4-6pm Read more…
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Lucy May Walker’s Writer’s Round

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24 May 2025, 3:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Location: The Music Workshop
Lucy May Walker’s monthly Writer’s Round is an afternoon of original music in the style of a Nashville writers round where 3 featured artists sit on the stage at the same time and take turns in playing their songs & telling the stories behind them. Discover your new favourite artist in an intimate, cosy setting by the seaside. This event Read more…
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Nina Clark & Sam Dunn

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30 May 2025, 7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Location: The Blind Pig
Join @ninaclarkmusic and @nnudmas as they explore original material, featuring highlights from their 28 year musical partnership, and new, never-heard-before material! Combining jazz, pop and folk influences, Nina & Sam stir up a heady mix for your listening pleasure… Read more…
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Folke Around

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4 June 2025, 7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Location: The Blind Pig
‘Round-the-table americana, country & folk session. Read more…
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Eliza Carthy & Jennifer Reid

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20 June 2025, 6:00 pm
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10:30 pm
Location: Quarterhouse
Melting Vinyl presents: Eliza Carthy (solo) + Jennifer Reid at The Quarterhouse, Folkestone on Saturday 21st June Doors 7pm / Start 8pm 26 + booking fee / 30 on the door Seated Age restrictions – Under 14s to be accompanied by an adult. Eliza Carthy If there is one musician who embodies the dynamism and vitality of the current English Read more…
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Malcura (Australia) – Flamenco Fusion

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30 June 2025, 6:00 pm
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9:30 pm
Location: The Music Workshop
“Malcura are Australia’s most exciting Flamenco-Fusion group. Honing their craft as buskers in Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall, Malcura have since captivated the Australian public with their exceptional musicianship and distinctive sound, which fuses Flamenco instrumentation with Latin rhythms and a Rock’n’Roll mentality. Malcura creates music for the soul; it’s a feeling as much as it is a sound. Renowned for Read more…
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