insideKENT Magazine Issue 86 - May 2019 | Page 50

FESTIVALS
Deal Music & Arts
www.dealmusicandarts.com // 28 Jun-13 Jul Wealden Literary Festival
www.wealdenliteraryfestival.co.uk // 29-30 Jun
Deal Music & Arts has been bringing the best in arts
and culture to East Kent for over 35 years. It inspires,
informs, excites and stimulates. You can visit the
15-day summer festival and enjoy world-class music
and art in this beautiful and historic corner of
England, which encompasses the ancient ports of
Deal, Sandwich and Dover. The Wealden Literary Festival – a two-day event
celebrating landscape, nature and place – is being
held in the renowned gardens and woodland at
Boldshaves, Woodchurch, near Tenterden. Authors
taking part include Raynor Winn, Adam Nicolson,
Hilary McKay, Isabella Tree, Julia Blackburn, Mark
Cocker, Lucy Strange, Horatio Clare, Emma
Mitchell, Naoko Abe and Peter Marren.
Prosecco, Gin & Dance
www.iloveproseccofestival.com/maidstone // 29 Jun
Showcasing the finest in Prosecco, gin and cocktails,
as well as Italian street food, Prosecco, Gin & Dance
returns to Maidstone’s Mote Park on Saturday 29th
June for another summer festival, including live
jazz/swing music and performances from one of the
UK’s best Take That tribute bands.
JAM On The Marsh
www.jamconcert.org/jam-on-the-marsh // 4-14 Jul
Following sellout events and record audiences in
2018, JAM on the Marsh returns in July to set Kent
ablaze. Join the critically acclaimed and widely
adored King’s Singers making their first visit to this
unique shore, be amazed by Jon Foreman’s large
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scale, daily changing beach art on the sands at
Dymchurch, watch the Changeling Theatre’s racy
Nell Gwynn under the copper beech tree in New
Romney, luxuriate in orchestral music by
Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Finzi and Paul Mealor with
the London Mozart Players, have a blast of Debussy,
Satie and Scott Joplin with one of the finest brass
groups, The Symphonic Brass of London, and hear
Bach as you never have before with Art of Moog’s
Bach on synths.
Children are welcome free at all events with activities
created especially for them such as Children’s
Sunday, which will be full of storytelling, clowning,
nature sculptures and steam trains.