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Latest confirmed shows: live music - Hoochie Koochie Men... live music - Bill Barnacle Jazz Band... live jazz - Terry Richard Select Six... Sellindge Music Festival - Hope Farm, Idlewild, Mark Morris (Bluetones) lots more over two days, see sellindgemusicfestival.co.uk... Pulsaphone Music Festival... Katie Bradley and Neville Willis... Live Jazz - Ian Shawcross & Friends... Folkestone Duplicate Bridge Club... Brigade of Gurkhas Visitor Centre... Marsh Harriers Baton-Twirlers...
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May 9Oxygen FridaysVenue: The Leas Club, Folkestone. Club Classics & Urban Anthems Free admission. Over 18's. Info: 20:00-23:55 The Leas Club [add] |
10Hythe Farmers' MarketFarmers' Market in the hall behind the Light Railway Restaurant, Scanlen's Bridge Road, Hythe. o Time: 10:00am to midday (every second and fourth Saturday of the month). o For further information please call 01303 266118 or 01303 268715. 10:00-12:00 Hythe light railway station for 2:00pm. Showbiz AcademyMusical, Theatre, Dancing, Sing, Acting. Boys & Girls aged 6-16. Folkestone School for Girls, Coolinge Lane, Folkestone. Details & bookings: 01233-650045. 14:00-17:00 Musical Radio 1 Big Weekend 2008
@ Mote Park
Madonna, The Fratellis, Usher, Scouting For Girls, Duffy, The Feeling, Robyn, The Hoosiers. Maidstone, Kent [tickets] [add] |
11Brigade of Gurkhas Visitor CentreSir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe, Folkestone. Tel: 01303-225370 12:00-16:00 Sir John Moore Barracks Quiz
@ The New Inn
Every Sunday, with some kind of "Play Your Cards Right" rollover cash prize. Checking it out this Sunday, stay tuned for a report... Canterbury Road, Etchinghill, Folkestone, Kent CT18 8DE Radio 1 Big Weekend 2008
@ Mote Park
The Kooks, The Enemy, Nelly, Goldfrapp, The Pigeon Detectives, Newton Faulkner, OneRepublic, Adele Radio One Big Weekend tickets? Maidstone, Kent [tickets] [add] |
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12Folkestone Rotary ClubMeets 2nd & 4th Monday of the Month for lunch at The Grand. For more information please contact: The Grand The Leas Folkestone Kent CT20 2XL tel: 01303 222 222 Burstin Folkestone Duplicate Bridge ClubThe Club meets every Monday evening at 7pm for 7:15pm. Visitors are welcome with partners (except 1st Monday in month when there is a club competition). For more information please contact: The Grand The Leas Folkestone Kent CT20 2XL Tel:01303 222 2 Burstin [add] |
13Mature Movers Keep FitFitness for the 50+. Get fit with choreographed movement to music. A well balanced programme of low impact exercises (no floor exercises). - Venue: Ward's Hotel, 39 Earl's Avenue, Folkestone. - Time: 10:30am to 11;30am. - For further information please co Wards SalsaSalsa Dance for any age, any size, single or with partner. - Venue: The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone, CT20 2XL. Beginners - 7pm to 8pm: Salsa Dance Class, cost GBP6. Improvers - 8:15pm to 9:15pm: Salsa Dance, cost GBP6. - Attend both for GBP10. - Friendly, patie GBP6. Burstin Quiz
@ The Famous Ship Inn
9pm start. A friendly quiz, please don't come if you are too smart, we would like to win again... 65 Sandgate High Street, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent CT20 3AH Farmers MarketAt Capel-Le-Ferne Village Hall. Local Produce:- Vegetables, Fruit, Meat, Fish, Eggs, Cheese, Delicatessen, Bread, Cakes, Pies, Chocolates, Preserves, Speciality Olives, Fair Trade Coffee, Fruit Juices, Smoothies, Crafts, Plants, Flowers etc Also Refr Capel Village Hall [add] |
14Path clearing - Creteway DownMeet at the turning to Hope Farm on Crete Road East, Folkestone (TR231381). 10:15 the turning to Hope Farm on Crete Road East Folkestone Rock n Roll ClubEvery Wednesday evening. Everyone is welcome, so come along and enjoy the Rock 'n' Roll tunes of our resident DJ's. Learn to Jive at the fortnightly dance workshop with UK Jive Champions. Entry Prices Members GBP4 Guests GBP5 Childre GBP4 the fortnightly dance workshop with UK Jive Champions. [add] |
15Health Walk in HytheAll are welcome to join this FREE Health Walk. o Meet: 10:15am (for 10:30am start) at Reflections, Terrace Bar, Hythe Imperial Hotel, Hythe, CT21 6AE. o Duration: Walk 1 - 60 minutes mainly on flat surfaces; Walk 2 - 90 minutes including hills/steps. o Ev GBP100 Hythe Imperial Jazz ClubThe Jazz Club, Every Thursday at 8pm in Keppels Bar. For more information please contact: The Grand The Leas Folkestone Kent Tel: 01303 222 222 20:00 Burstin Teas from Two - CAPEL-LE-FERNE VILLAGE HALLBook/Video/Jigsaw Hire PLUS ADVICE SURGERIES Come and meet your friends over a cup of tea and hire a book or two or video, play a game of cards or Scrabble or knit! NOW ALSO INCORPORATING BRIDGE - ACOL DUPLICATE SESSIONS Tel: 01303 245399 or visit o Capel Village Hall United Hunts - RacingFolkestone Racecourse Stone Street Westenhanger Nr Hythe Kent CT21 4HX info@folkestone-racecourse.co.uk The Folkestone Racecourse [add] |
16Quiz Night
@ The Grand
Quiz Night at Keppels Bar, The Grand. 8pm for an 8.30 start. For further info don't call 222222, try Keppel's direct on 01303 222244. Teams up to 4 people, win four meals in the Palm Court. GBP5 per team The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2XL Oxygen FridaysVenue: The Leas Club, Folkestone. Club Classics & Urban Anthems Free admission. Over 18's. Info: 20:00-23:55 The Leas Club [add] |
17Antiques & Fine Art AuctionLots to include... 17th - 20th Century Furniture, Silver & Plate, Jewellery, Glass & Ceramics, Oil & Watercolour Paintings, Carriage, Wall, Long Case & Mantle Clocks etc. Free Kent Auction Galleries Ltd, Folkestone's Multi-Cultural Festival launch* music * * exotic food * * balloons * * national costumes * Sandgate Road Shopping Precinct, Folkestone. 11:00-14:30 Music from 'Los Salvadores' Showbiz AcademyMusical, Theatre, Dancing, Sing, Acting. Boys & Girls aged 6-16. Folkestone School for Girls, Coolinge Lane, Folkestone. Details & bookings: 01233-650045. 14:00-17:00 Musical [add] |
18Brigade of Gurkhas Visitor CentreSir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe, Folkestone. Tel: 01303-225370 12:00-16:00 Sir John Moore Barracks Pulsaphone Music FestivalThe Leas & Amphitheatre at Folkestone. Fri 18 on the bandstand at 6pm a French band (from Boulogne area). Sat 19 on The Leas between 3 and 7pm Charivari Day bands Sun 20 at the Amphitheatre between 12 and 8pm a F Waterstones Folkestone [add] |
19Folkestone Duplicate Bridge ClubThe Club meets every Monday evening at 7pm for 7:15pm. Visitors are welcome with partners (except 1st Monday in month when there is a club competition). For more information please contact: The Grand The Leas Folkestone Kent CT20 2XL Tel:01303 222 2 Burstin [add] |
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This week in Folkestone gig history
- 1967 Wilde Flowers @ Tofts (Fri 12 May 1967) [leave a comment]
- 1970 Hawkwind @ Tofts (Sat 9 May 1970) [leave a comment]
- 1978 The Cure @ Gulbenkian Theatre (Wed 10 May 1978)
Some part of the uni anyway, anyone know more?
[leave a comment] - 1997 Ian Hunter @ Leas Cliff Hall (Fri 9 May 1997) [leave a comment]
- 2003 Reef @ Leas Cliff Hall (Thu 8 May 2003) [leave a comment]
- 2005 DONOVAN @ Leas Cliff Hall (Thu 12 May 2005)
FOLKESTONE.
[leave a comment]- Mellow YellowOh it's not just bands from the 80s that come to Folkestone, now we're going back to the 1960's Donovan comes to Folkestone on the 12th of May. He's Shaun Ryder's father in law you know. -
- 2006 Colin Fry @ Leas Cliff Hall (Fri 12 May 2006)
Another day of mediumship
[leave a comment] - 2006 One Night Of Queen @ Leas Cliff Hall (Sat 13 May 2006)
Seems to alternate visits to the LCH with rival tribute act "Magic - A Kind Of Queen"
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