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Tenterden provides the perfect back-drop for events and it is home to a number of well established annual events such as the Folk Festival and Christmas late night shopping event.

Within the last year, Tenterden has also hosted a number of other successful events including the Tour de France event and the Cranbrook and Tenterden Food and Drink Festival. As well as these annual events there are also regular events which take place more frequently including the weekly markets held on a Friday and regular shows at the local Sinden Theatre.

For more information please use these links.

Forthcoming Events
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Regular Events
  MARCH 2008  
Sunday 23rd 'Easter Sunday Lunch. Fantastic Three-Course Menu. £19.95 per person'

Venue London Beach Hotel
01580 766279. Email: enquiries@londonbeach.com
Website: www.londonbeach.com


Saturday 29th The Complete Beatles
'Weren't they great - they sounded just like the boys!' - Quote from Gerry Marsden of Gerry & the Pacemakers. Just imagine - it's 1963 and there's a show at your local theatre!

Box Office: Sinden Theatre, Homewood School, Ashford Road, Tenterden TN30 6LT
Telephone: 01580 763826. Email: boxoffice@sindentheatre.biz
Website: www.sindentheatre.biz

  APRIL 2008  
Tuesday 1st 'All Fools Day' on the Kent & East Sussex Railway
Expect the Unexpected!!!!!

Venue Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
Telephone: 01580 765165. Email: enquiries@kesr.org.uk
Website: www.kesr.org.uk/visitor/special_events.htm


Saturday/Sunday 12th and 13th 'Grandparents Weekend' on the Kent & East Sussex Railway
Free Travel for Grandparents when accompanied by full fare paying under 11's

Venue Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
Telephone: 01580 765165. Email: enquiries@kesr.org.uk
Website: www.kesr.org.uk/visitor/special_events.htm


Tuesday to Thursday 15th to 17th 'Artists Days' on the Kent & East Sussex Railway
Travel the railway to draw or paint the scene of your choice and enter your works in the competition and exhibition in August

Venue Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
Telephone: 01580 765165. Email: enquiries@kesr.org.uk
Website: www.kesr.org.uk/visitor/special_events.htm

  MAY 2008  
Saturday 3rd The Bootleg Shadows
The UK's greatest Shadows tribute makes its long awaited return to the Sinden…

Box Office: Sinden Theatre, Homewood School, Ashford Road, Tenterden TN30 6LT
Telephone: 01580 763826. Email: boxoffice@sindentheatre.biz
Website: www.sindentheatre.biz


Saturday/Sunday/ Monday 3rd, 4th & 5th 'The Great K&ESR Gala Weekend' on the Kent & East Sussex Railway
A number of locos from the K&ESR's own stable together with visiting engines, GWR Prairie 5552 from Bodmin and Wenford Railway and LNER N7 69621 from North Norfolk Railway. A varied timetable and stock formations ensure an interesting day out with many photographic opportunities.

Venue Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
Telephone: 01580 765165. Email: enquiries@kesr.org.uk
Website: www.kesr.org.uk/visitor/special_events.htm


Saturday/Sunday 17th & 18th 'Forties Weekend' on the Kent & East Sussex Railway
Re-live the forties lifestyle with music, food and travel by steams.…

Venue Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
Telephone: 01580 765165. Email: enquiries@kesr.org.uk
Website: www.kesr.org.uk/visitor/special_events.htm


Tuesday to Thursday 20th to 22nd 'Evacuation Experience' on the Kent & East Sussex Railway
Educational experience exploring how it felt to be an evacuee and the role of the railways during World War II. This is an educational event designed for schoolchildren studying Evacuation during World War II as part of the National Curriculum

Venue Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
Telephone: 01580 765165. Email: enquiries@kesr.org.uk
Website: www.kesr.org.uk/visitor/special_events.htm


Monday 26th 'Open Day' on the Kent & East Sussex Railway
Your chance to see behind the scenes of the Railway

Venue Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
Telephone: 01580 765165. Email: enquiries@kesr.org.uk
Website: www.kesr.org.uk/visitor/special_events.htm

JUNE 2008
Sunday 1st The Cranbrook Symphony Orchestra
In aid of Macmillan Cancer Support - Programme details will be announced soon…

Box Office: Sinden Theatre, Homewood School, Ashford Road, Tenterden TN30 6LT
Telephone: 01580 763826. Email: boxoffice@sindentheatre.biz
Website: www.sindentheatre.biz

JULY 2008
Saturday 19th 'Summer Ball, Elegant Seven-Course Menu. £50.00 per person, Black Tie'

Venue London Beach Hotel
01580 766279. Email: enquiries@londonbeach.com
Website: www.londonbeach.com


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Coming soon…

Folk Festival A full weekend festival of folk song, music and dance.

Tenterden, situated in the ancient Weald of Kent, is an ideal setting for this friendly, family folk festival. It features one of the widest High Streets in the country lined with historic and listed buildings, numerous friendly pubs and restaurants and green verges. For more information about this year's Folk Festival, please watch this space…

Cranbrook and Tenterden Food and Drink Festival

Following the success of the inaugural event in 2007, plans are already in motion to organise the second Cranbrook Food and Drink Festival. The event, which celebrates the area's wide range of local food and drink producers, is made up of a series of events held over three days. Last year's event included a farmers' market, wine tasting, apple fayre, celebrity book signing with Mary Berry, Young Master Chef competition and themed menus in the area's pubs, cafes and restaurants. The dates for this year's Food and Drink Festival are yet to be confirmed, but the event promises to be bigger and better in 2008! For more information, watch this space…

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Regular events

Markets
Tenterden Market

Open: Friday 8.30am to 2pm
There is a variety of stalks each week including fish, game, organic butcher, olives, cheeses, fresh flowers, plants, eggs, fruit and vegetables, cakes, whole foods, household items, silver jewellery, magnetic jewellery, handmade ethnic clothing, French baker and French Provence.

Tenterden Farmers' Market, East Green Gardens
Open: every 2nd Sunday of the month from 10am to 1pm) Tel: 01580 240763
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