Always expect excellent music - and do not be too surprised if the artists are just back from or on their way to headlining at a major music venue - some remarkably good music at these Kent Folk Clubs.
Please do check the current month's
Folk Club news
for recent updates and late-breaking information.
Dartford Folk Club:
Dartford Working Men's Club,
Essex Road,
Dartford,
Kent.
DA1 2AU
Every Tuesday 8.30 - 11.00
Floor Singers Welcome (advisable To Ring For A Spot)
The venue where the folk club is held
(DWMC)
has won the
prestigious Campaign for Real Ale Kent Club of the Year Award 2002!
Website:
www.dartfordfolk.org.uk:
Contact : Pam & Alan Colls
E-mail:
pam@collsp.plus.com
Folk At The Drum:
Held in The Drum, North Stanford just off Stone Street which is
just North of the Hythe Exit from the M20.
TN25 6DN
- meets every Thursday from 8.00 - 11pm.
Includes the old White Hart Folk from Hythe.
Contact : David Pleasants, 01797 320 518
More details and events also at
Drum-Folk-Club.Team.KentFolk .
Egerton Folk Club:
at the 'Mundy Bois', Mundy Bois Road, Pluckley.
-
meet last tuesday of every month from 8.15 - 11pm.
For information ring Martin Ledner 01233 841814 or email :
egertonfolkclub@hotmail.com
Fordwich Folk :
Fordwich Folk Club is now again meeting in the bar at the Fordwich Arms, King Street,
Fordwich, Nr. Canterbury, on the first Sunday of each month, at about 8.30pm.
Not currently running....
Fordwich Country and Blues :
Fordwich C&B Club meet in the bar at the Fordwich Arms, King Street,
Fordwich, Nr. Canterbury, on the second and fourth and fifth Sundays of each month,
at about 8.30pm. Come and play, come and listen ...
An acoustic club, most meetings being singers nights/come
all ye's/open stage.
The Good Intent : John Street, Rochester, Kent.
ME1 1YL
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first and third Tuesdays of the month from 8.30 to 11.00
Island Folk :
based upstairs at the Bradstow Mill, 125, High Street, Broadstairs, Kent,
CT10 1NG,
on the last Monday of each month,
at 7.30 for 8.00pm.
The intention is to provide quality (mainly) acoustic music across a wide spectrum including folk, blues, ethnic, americana, etc.
Now no more, I regret.
The Old House at Home :
Pudding Lane, Maidstone.
ME14 1LN "Great music, great atmosphere and all welcome."
I am now told that this is back up and running with great sing-arounds (thanks Kelly).
Enquiries:- 01634 244 213
Tom Thumb Theatre
Tom Thumb Theatre, Eastern Esplanade, Margate CT9 2LB (01843 221791)
Monthly First Friday folk and roots concert.
Tickets to all events available through
www.wegottickets.com
White Hart Folk
White Hart Folk Club -
Has now been subsumed into "Folk at The Drum" - see above.
A KentFolk Google Calendar with some of the Kent Folk Clubs - updated 2009-02-02.
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