Procession and folk trains

Tenterden High Street (A28) will be closed from 3.00 to 3.30 p.m. on Saturday (6^th October) to facilitate the Tenterden Folk Festival procession.

Friday 5^th to Sunday 7^th October

Dance displays and procession:

Between 300 and 400 Morris dancers, together with their musicians, mascots, fools, Kentish Hooden horses, giants, etc will be in Tenterden on Saturday from about 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. and will be dancing at various sites around the town centre. They will be joined by Scottish dancers, Appalachian dancers and the Morena Slovak Dancers. Some sides will also be dancing out on Sunday.

The dancers will all gather in Recreation Ground Road from 2.30 p.m. on Saturday and once assembled, they will process up past the Recreation Ground and along the High Street. The balcony of the Town Hall will be thronged with 40 to 50 VIPs including Damien Green MP, the Mayors of Ashford and Tenterden, County, Borough and Town Councillors and other supporters of the Festival. There will also be a contingent from Avallon, Tenterden’s twin town in France. Once passed the Town Hall the dancers will turn right into Station Road and continue to the Coach Park where they will give a dance display from 3.30 to around 5.30 or 6.00 p.m. Those taking part will include Bexhill Calyce, Bishops Gundulph, Boughton Monchelsea Morris, Bullnose Morris, Chingford Morris Men, Crouch Vale Clog Morris, Dead Horse Morris, East Kent Morris, Flora, the Singleton Giant, Gong Scourers, Hartley Morris, Hunters Moon, Invicta Morris, Kent Corkers and Pork Scrathins, Kettle Bridge Clogs, Kits Coty Morris, Loose Women, MacLennan Scottish Group, Maenads, Marling Morris, Mish Mash Morris, Morena Slovak Dancers, Offcumduns, Oojah Kappivvy, Priory Morris, Ravensbourne Morris, Tonbridge Morris, Tanglefoot Appalachian, Victory Morris, The Wild Hunt and Wolfshead and Vixen.

Folk trains:

On both Saturday and Sunday dancers, musicians and singers will be entertaining passengers on the steam trains on Kent and East Sussex Railway. On Saturday dancers will be travelling on several trains and dancing at the Town Centre station at various times throughout the day. On Sunday the dancers will again be on the trains but there will also be Festival guests on hand to entertain the other passengers. On Sunday dancers will be on the 11.45 a.m. and 2.20 p.m. trains and singers and musicians will be on 10.40 a.m., 1.15 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. steam trains from the Town Centre Station to Bodiam and back. If you would like a chance to steam through the autumnal Kentish country side and sing a few songs on a steam train this is your chance. Normal fairs apply and tickets are available from the K&ES Railway at the Town Centre Station.

Craft fair, Music fayre and stalls:

Also find time to visit the craft fair in the Town Hall, the Music fayre in the Woolpack Barn and the stalls in the High Street.

You can pick up you free copy of the full programme from the Tourist Information Centre or Libraries in Tenterden, Ashford and Maidstone as well as many of the venues in and around Tenterden.

Details of Tenterden Folk Festival 2007 guests, accommodation and camping are now posted on our website at www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk.

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Last updated 29^th September 2007