Herne Bay Folk Festival
Three days of free music on the Kent seafront: shanties, folk songs, workshops, jamming sessions and market stalls rolling across a summer weekend by the North Sea.
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"A beloved volunteer-run community show at Holden Farm gathering up to 300 vintage and classic tractors alongside family entertainment, live music and rural crafts to raise funds for local causes."
Biddenden Tractorfest
"A Surrey and Kent border show that runs across August Bank Holiday weekend with genuine character: horses, cattle, show jumping, and the Weald at its most golden."
Edenbridge and Oxted Agricultural Show
"Set in the grounds of the historic Quex Park estate, this established two-day country show celebrates British countryside traditions with main-ring displays, crafts and family entertainment."
Kent Country Show
"Hop-picking made this Kentish market town. Every September the harvest reclaims the streets: real ale, folk dancing, a parade, stalls and the smell of hops in the air. Free to attend."
Faversham Hop Festival
"Whitstable's reborn oyster festival, in its 5th year, fills the Grading Shed, East Quay and Long Beach with the historic Oyster Landing Ceremony, live music, a mud tug-of-war, a samba procession and Marshall Jefferson on the Saturday night."
Whitstable Rocks Oyster Festival
"Horse and tractor ploughing judged furrow by furrow across a Kent stubble field, with a farmers market, gymkhana and the unhurried social weather of a working country day."
Weald of Kent Ploughing Match
"The folk family behind sixty years of Towersey start again on the Claydon Estate, the same dances and singarounds in a new Buckinghamshire field."
Found Festival
"A friendly small scale singing festival in the Surrey countryside where everyone learns a cappella harmonies entirely by ear and ends the weekend performing them around a campfire."
SingFest
"Organised by the community group The Olney Group, this annual display by an award-winning pyrotechnics company draws the whole market town together on the Sunday nearest bonfire night, with funfair rides and food stalls."
Olney Town Fireworks
"One of England's most spectacular May Day folk revivals, this four-day festival sees a giant leaf-covered Jack lead a thundering procession of Morris sides, giants and drummers through Hastings Old Town before being slain on West Hill to release the spirit of summer."
Hastings Jack in the Green
"One of England's oldest unbroken Morris traditions, three Bampton sides dance through the streets from early morning until dusk on Spring Bank Holiday Monday, accompanied by fiddle and pipe and tabor."
Bampton Morris Dancing
"Americana, bluegrass and punk-folk ring out from a medieval hilltop church while the audience sips real ale or Pimms beneath a midsummer evening view."
EdleFest