insideKENT Magazine Issue 28 - July 2014 | Page 33

ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
Dan Clews’

GUIDE TO KENT FESTIVALS cont.

multiple venues around the town, including The Forum, The Grey Lady
Music Lounge, Sankeys, The Black Dog Café, The Royal Oak, Thorins,
Fuggles and The Bedford, all enabling the event to reach further across the
community than ever before.

Also this summer:
Sevenoaks Summer Festival, Sevenoaks
21 June – 6 July
www.sevenoaksfestival.org.uk

Smugglers Festival, East Kent
28-31 August

Deal Festival of Music and Arts, Deal
27 June – 6 July

www.smugglersrecords.com

www.dealfestival.co.uk
The Smugglers Festival is a
family-friendly gathering which
takes place on four acres of
stunning fields and woodland,
a few miles away from the sea,
in the rolling Kent countryside.

Tentertainment, Tenterden
4-6 July
www.tentertainment.co.uk

JAM on the Marsh, Romney Marsh
11-20 July

This rustic three-day
extravaganza boasts a truly
diverse line-up of some of the
UK’s finest underground and
roots music. Music that
perhaps you may not find on
the front page of Pop World,
but that is sure to blow your
mind. Spread across three
stages, from world music and
folk to hip-hop and
psychedelia, as well as
performances from some of
Smugglers Records’ own
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roster of acts, there is sure to
be lots to fit everyone’s tastes. But music is not all we get up to…

www.jamconcert.org

Leeds Castle Open Air Classical Concert, Leeds Castle
12 July
www.heritageevents.co.uk

Castle Concerts 2014, Rochester Castle
16-19 July
www.thecastleconcerts.co.uk

Dover Music Festival, Dover
18-20 July
www.dovermusicfestival.co.uk

Art, theatre, installation and performance fill our forests. Locally-sourced
food and ale served up all day and well into the night mean you’ll never be
short of a glass of tipple or a great meal.

Two Counties Music Festival, Bewl Water
26 July
www.bewlwater.co.uk

In The Woods Festival, Secret Location
29-30 August

Create Festival, Ashford
27 July

www.inthewoodsfestival.co.uk
Winner of Best Independent Festival at the Aim Awards 2013! Now in its
9th year, Laurel Collective and friends are putting on their very special oneday festival in an enchanted secret woodland location in Kent.

www.createfestival.co.uk

Acoustics in the Wood at The Rare Breeds Centre, Woodchurch
13 September

Curated and pulled together by the band, with a small crew of dedicated
helpers, the festival has fast become a watershed show for new talent,
having seen Nick Mulvey, Lucy Rose, Lianne la Havas and Alt-J play
impressive sets just months before their careers took flight.

www.rarebreeds.org.uk

The Social Festival, Maidstone
13 September

The carefully selected talent, beautiful lights and captivating art installations
are scattered throughout the forest as punters mingle with nature and music
over two stages, with local ales and food. A silent di 66