insideKENT Magazine Issue 86 - May 2019 | Page 53

FESTIVALS The Big O Festival www.thebigofestival.co.uk // 6-7 Jul Pub In The Park www.pubintheparkuk.com // 12-14 Jul The Big O Vintage festival comes to Edenbridge on July 6th and 7th at the Kent and Surrey golf club. Rated as one the UK's top vintage festivals in 2018 by Star Magazine , it promises to be a wonderful weekend of vintage and retro culture, spanning four decades and packed full of British and American popular culture with classic cars, scooters, live music, DJs, TV and film props, and dance sessions. The festival is like a living time machine that takes you from WW2 Britain to the rock'n roll 1950s, the swinging 60s and right through to the pop culture of the 1980s. There’s a great vintage market, street food stands and specialist bars with day passes as low as £15 for adults online. Tom Kerridge’s food and music festival, Pub in the Park, is heading to Tunbridge Wells this summer from 12th to 14th July. Dunorlan Park will be filled with Michelin-starred pub and restaurant pop-ups serving award-winning grub throughout the weekend alongside the UK’s top chefs who’ll be showing off their cooking skills on the Chef Demo Stage. The bill boasts household names including Rick Astley, KT Tunstall, Will Young, Gabrielle and Basement Jaxx all performing live on the main stage. To quench your thirst, Pub in the Park has an array of bars confirmed from independent makers Weston’s Cider, and gin connoisseurs Sipsmith, to the quintessentially British Pimm’s teapot bar and the country’s leading pub brewer, Greene King – there’s something for everyone. Leeds Castle Classical Concert www.leeds-castle.co.uk // 13 Jul For over forty years people have been enjoying this spectacular outdoor event that brings together one of the country’s greatest orchestras, The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, and one of its finest conductors, John Rigby. This year for the first time, The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines will be playing the world premier of ‘A Tribute to Leeds Castle’ in celebration of 900 years of the castle’s glorious history. THE BIG O FESTIVAL PUB IN THE PARK LEEDS CASTLE CLASSICAL CONCERT 53