Tenterden Folk Festival

The popular Tenterden Folk Sessions have moved.

With affect from November 2024 we will be holding these sessions in the bar of The Tenterden Club on the second Wednesday of the month.

The Tenterden Club

Church Road

Tenterden

TN30 6AT

thetenterdenclub.co.uk

 All folk singers and musicians, step dancers, storytellers, poets and similar performers are welcome, or of course you can just come and listed and watch. 

Membership  of the Tenterden club  is recommended if you are coming to the Folk Sessions regularly and starts from only £15 for over 65s. If you are only coming along to try it out we can sign you in as a guest. 

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The background:

The regular song and music sessions in Tenterden have been running since 1992 when they started in the old Eight Bells. Several moves later they settled at The William Caxon in April 2011 before relocating to This Ancient Boro in July 2022 and moved to The Tenterden Club in November 2024.

A typical folk evening sees between 10 and twenty folk singers and musicians from Kent and Sussex gathering in the bar from around 7.00 p.m. and the music starts at about 7.30 and continues to around 10.30.  All folk singers, musicians, storytellers and poets are welcome to come along and join in, or you can just come and listen to the music.  The music is mainly traditional English but also includes contemporary, blues, Irish, Scottish, European music, music hall and acapella: in fact most good acoustic music with a smattering of stories and poems

For more informatio email us at info@tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk

"A brief history of Tenterden Folk of Tenterden Folk Club 1992 - 2021" was published was published in The Living Tradition issue 139 June / July 2021. www.livingtradition.co.uk