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2019
FREE!!.. Stick One In yer Pocket
Folkestone Skabour Festival celebrates its 10th Anniversary on the 13th, 14th, 15th September. It is quite an incredible achievement that Skabour has reached its 10th year and run entirely by our small group of local unpaid volunteers doing it for the love of ska, rocksteady, reggae and the Town. Take into account that we also manage the financial risk involved then some might think we are quite bonkers… and we probably are… but hey it is still going and delivering a happy time to the many locals and visitors from all over the world. The main venue and Skabour home is again the Grand Burstin Hotel at Folkestone Harbour. Along with the harbour pubs joining in with the festival with their own DJs and bands. There is FREE entry 12 (mid-day) till 5pm on both Friday and the Saturday. This is subject to capacity and by wristband registration available from the festival desk. For those who wish to experience the evening magnificent main headliners and bands, bookings are available directly from our website: www.skabour.co.uk There is a touch of real roots Jamaican ska style with our headliners and a line up that includes one of the greatest bands to come out of Jamaica The Pioneers are back here in Folkestone and their many hits ie Long Shot, Jackpot, Let Your Yeah Be Yeah,Time Hard etc. Backing band are the Ruff Cuts. Other headliners include Gaz Mayall & The Trojans, Goldmaster Allstars and the mighty Channel One Sound System. The Skatonics return along with King Zepha. The Simmertones from the west country debut. Arthur Kay’s Akoustik Jukebox play along with other Kent bands The Skastards, Jimmy & The Riddles and Hey Maggie. Friday and Saturday sees the “After Party Nite Klub” in the hotel basement from 10pm till late for booking residents and Skabour members subject to capacity. Sunday morning will have a matinee showing of the classic film “The Harder They Come” starring Jimmy Cliff. Many DJs feature sets throughout the long weekend. Our famous annual Skabour classic scooters and clubs meet at the Grand Burstin Pitstop for our annual “ride out” which has competition trophy prizes at mid-day Saturday. Don’t forget to see and have a selfie with the 2 Tone Ska Dog outside the main entrance of the Grand Burstin Hotel. For bookings information and details see: www.skabour.co.uk Where the SKA meets the SEA!
THURSDAY 1ST AUGUST
Eagle Tavern Dover
Astor Theatre Deal
Keepsake Lily
Film-Frozen
Folkestone Harbour Arm
Butt Of Sherry Hythe
DJ Set Dolly’s Global Dance Club
Jack Pound Open Stage
Globe Inn Hythe
Priory-Hotel Dover
Live Band
Open Mic Night
Hawkinge Cricket & Social Club
The Chambers Folkestone
Hawkinge Music Festival
Bruise Nu Folk Duo Return To Folkestone!
Hawkinge Music Festival 10th Year Anniversary
Astor Theatre Deal
Cricket Club-£8pp £15 family all U16 Free -Live Bands-Rides entertaiment for kids-Food Stalls-various Stalls-Beer Tent 1pm-10pm
Don’t Laugh at Me Norman Wisdom Tribute
Lower Leas Coastal Park Folkestone
Chambers Folkestone
Pirate Kiddies Party
F.U.S.S, Reggae Ska Roots Free entry
New Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
Chambers Folkestone
Old Endeavour London Rd Dover
FRIDAY 2ND AUGUST
Fajita Fridays Night Every 1st In The Month 5pm Chilli Farm Coldred Dover Kent Vw Festival leas Cliff Hall Theatre Folkestone The Dreamboys Priory-Hotel Dover Mixed Emotions White Rock Theatre, Hastings Music- 7:30PM Totally Tina Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford Leigh Highwood SATURDAY 3RD AUGUST Lifeboat Folkestone Harbour Pubs 1st Anniversary BBQ Missouri Guts 4-6pm + Dune Acoustic Duo 9-11pm Blue Martini Bar The Leas Folkestone Live DJ+Happy Hour 8-10pm Blue Martini Bar The Leas Folkestone Anthems”DJKev Jones Bull Inn Dover Live Band Chambers Folkestone Love Is The Message Josh R Chilli Farm Coldred Dover Kent Vw Festival feat Toploader
Spectrum 80s band Disco Karaoke celebrating our 8th Birthday Park Inn Hotel Folkestone Mixed Emotions Prince Of Wales Dymchurch Rd Hythe Jayle Priory-Hotel Dover Stevie Smiths Sin House Railway Club Folkestone The Defiant Ones Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford Throwbacks Bandstand Ashford live music 11-2 SUNDAY 4TH AUGUST Astor Theatre Deal Glyndebourne Opera Live Presents: The Magic Flute Chilli Farm Coldred Dover Kent Vw Festival EDF Energy Lydd 10K Run Old Endeavour London Rd Dover Katie King 3-5 Priory-Hotel Dover Live BAND As Usual 9pm
Rose and Crown Elham
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
Steve Bolton(Boltz) Band
Hangover Albion Willesborough Ashford
TUESDAY 6TH AUGUST
TQO
Priory-Hotel Dover Jam Night THURSDAY 8TH AUGUST Chambers Folkestone Swamp Candy-UK/Ireland 2019 Tour New Fountain Seabrook Hythe Quiz Night Thursdays Priory-Hotel Dover Open Mic Night The Grand Folkestone LIVE Jazz Nights Free Entry FRIDAY 9TH AUGUST Chambers Folkestone Dirty Dala Dj’s New Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
SATURDAY 10TH AUGUST Blue Martini Bar The Leas Folkestone Live DJ+Happy Hour 8-10pm Bull Inn Dover Left Of The Dial Chambers Folkestone Strictly 80s Cheriton Oddfellows Folkestone Memory Lane Donkey Derby and Boot Fair Radnor Park Folkestone 10th/11th Globe Inn Hythe Indigo Stone Harbour Arm Folkestone
Mixed Emotions
Streaming Babestation On The Harbour Arm, They Can’t Stop Us All
Priory Hotel Dover
Park Inn Hotel Folkestone
Warlords Sibton Park Cricket Club Kentish Wine Tasting Evening
Spectrum 80s band Prince Of Wales Hythe Squeeze Gut Alley Blues, Soul & RocknRoll
Priory Hotel Dover
TUESDAY 13TH AUGUST
Geoff Everett
Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
Bingo Bongo Tuesdays 2 Sessions Eyes Down 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Bad Pandas Albion Willesborough Ashford
THURSDAY 15TH AUGUST
Jack Hutchinson with support from Powerhouse
Butt Of Sherry Hythe
Bandstand Ashford
Jack Pound Theme Time
live music 11-2
Chambers Folkestone Will Whisson On Tour
SUNDAY 11TH AUGUST
New Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
Bull Inn Live Music Dover
Quiz Night Thursdays
Bull Stage 2-4pm Hey Rudi
Priory-Hotel Dover
Priory Hotel Dover
Open Mic Night
Policed
FRIDAY 16TH AUGUST
Bull Inn Dover
Chambers Folkestone
Can’t Touch This
Ivans Allstars
Chambers Folkestone
Priory Hotel Dover
DJ-Stevo presents Jungle Night
Lime Pickle Band (EX New Traders)
Globe Inn Hythe
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
Four Star Fire
Man Down
Leas Cliff Hall Theatre Folkestone Fifth Anniversary Parkrun
SATURDAY 17TH AUGUST Blue Martini Bar The Leas Folkestone Live DJ+Happy Hour 8-10pm
New Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe Big Pub 1st Anniversary WEEKEND Party Live music with Leroy C From Stylistics
Park Inn Hotel Folkestone Bread And Butter Duo Lively Pub Band Don’t Miss Them! Prince of Wales Hythe
TUESDAY 20TH AUGUST Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe Bingo Bongo Tuesdays 2 Sessions Eyes Down 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Live Music Night
Priory-Hotel Dover
Priory Hotel Dover
Jam Night
As Is Now Folkestone Harbour
WEDNESDAY 21ST AUGUST
Annual Trawler Race
New Fountain Seabrook
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford tbc
Pub Float at Hythe Venetian Fete come and support us!
Albion Willesborough Ashford
Royal Military canal Hythe
Kellam & Sullivan SUNDAY 18TH AUGUST Bull Inn Live Music Dover
Hythe Venetian Fete THURSDAY 22ND AUGUST Chambers Folkestone
Bull Stage 3-5 Ratzkins
The Deadbeatz Live At The Chambers
Lower Leas Coastal Park Folkestone
Leas Cliff Hall Theatre Folkestone
The Tempest By ILlyria
New Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
New Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
Quiz Night Thursdays
EK1 Band from 5pm
Priory-Hotel Dover
Priory Hotel Dover
Open Mic Night
live band
The Greatest Show
FRIDAY 23RD AUGUST
Priory Hotel Dover
Lifeboat Folkestone Harbour
Broken Rock
Karaoke all weekend
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
Astor Theatre Deal
Dave Shepherd
Craft Beer Festival 2pm-23rd & 24th
Astor Theatre Deal
Cheriton Oddfellows Folkestone
Craft Beer Festival 2pm-23rd & 24th
Annual Charity”Dreams Come True” Race Night Event-All Welcome!
Mayfly Hawkinge Heroes New Wave tribute Band
City Of London Dymchurch Dr SYN Globe Inn Hythe live band Old Endeavour London Rd Dover Gary Dean
SATURDAY 24TH AUGUST Blue Martini Bar The Leas Folkestone Live DJ+Happy Hour 8-10pm Bull Inn Dover Miami Vice
Cheriton Oddfellows Folkestone
Albion Willesborough Ashford
Defrenchy
The Mustangs
Globe Inn Hythe
Astor Theatre Deal
Live Music
Craft Beer Festival 2pm-23rd & 24th
Hythe Green East Kent Morris Dancers 12.45 + Citrus Blue Band 3.45 Park Inn Hotel Folkestone The Electric Beatles Prince Of Wales,Dymchurch Rd, Hythe
SUNDAY 25TH AUGUST Lifeboat Folkestone Harbour Ben Millberry soul experience Bull Inn Live Music Dover Bull Stage 2-4 Spectrum 8os Band
OLAS BOSS top-notch DJ who knows his Reggae
Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
Priory-Hotel Dover
Sandwich Goes Italian
Soul Matters
The Grimms Sandgate Sea Festival Fireworks The Green Hythe
MONDAY 26TH AUGUST Leas Cliff Hall Theatre Folkestone
We Love Hythe Life Food Festival
New Jersey Nights
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
The Grand Folkestone
Stress Monkeys
Old Timer Rally BIG Classic Car Event and Vintage Show
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
Priory-Hotel Dover
Bamboozled
Open Mic Night
Fleur de Lis sandwich
The Grand Folkestone
Heroes New Wave tribute Band
LIVE Jazz Nights Free Entry every 2nd & Last Thursday in the month
THURSDAY 29TH AUGUST Chambers Folkestone Rockabilly Rejects New Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe Quiz Night Thursdays
FRIDAY 30TH AUGUST Astor Theatre Deal The Jam’d Chambers Folkestone Dave Decker DJ-DiscoRama
Priory-Hotel Dover
SATURDAY 31ST AUGUST
Left Of The Dial
Bailiffs Seargeant
The Grand Folkestone
Dr Syn End Of Summer Rock Out
YARP Music Unplugged From 8pm Keppels Bar
Blue Martini Bar The Leas Folkestone
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
Live DJ+Happy Hour 8-10pm
Old Town Souls
Bull Inn Dover
Albion Willesborough Ashford
Live Band
Walkway
Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
Bell Bearsted Maidstone
Live Band
Heroes New Wave tribute Band
Globe Inn Hythe Kind Of Magic Queen & freddie Mercury Night
Hush Folkestone HUSH presents: Geoff Muldaur. + Nina Clark 7 PM Old Endeavour London Rd Dover
TUESDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe Bingo Bongo Tuesdays 2 Sessions Eyes Down 2.30pm & 7.30pm
CUDA
Priory-Hotel Dover
Park Inn Hotel Folkestone
Jam Night
The Totsys Swing Band Prince Of Wales,Dymchurch Rd, Hythe Debbies Disco/Karaoke Priory-Hotel Dover Dead Man’s Corner Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford Jamie Williams Albion Willesborough Ashford Happy Dayz SUNDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
THURSDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER Butt Of Sherry Hythe Jack Pound Open Stage Chambers Folkestone Big Joe Bone Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe Quiz Thursdays Priory-Hotel Dover Open Mic Night The Chambers Folkestone Big Joe Bone + When Rivers Meet FREE Entry
Spectrum 80s band FRIDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER MONDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER
Lifeboat Folkestone Harbour
Leas Cliff Hall Theatre Folkestone
Live music with Dave Shepherd
Avenue Q
Astor Theatre Deal Floyd In The Flesh Off The Wall
Chambers Folkestone
Albion Willesborough Ashford
Chambers Happy Hours Fridays 5-7pm
Howlin Wolves
Chambers Folkestone
Heroes New wave Tribute Band
Fajita Fridays Night Every 1st In The Month 5pm Louis Armstrong - Dover Imperfect Strangers Priory-Hotel Dover
Queens Head Ashford
SATURDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER Astor Theatre Deal Patti Boulaye-Aretha and Me
Bad Pennies Top Dollar Blues NO Dodgy Notes!
Bull Inn Dover
The Chambers Folkestone
Globe Inn Hythe
F.U.S.S With Adam Prescot-TIX Event
Man Down
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
Margate Winter Gardens
Valentino
Focus Live at Margate Rhythm & Rock 2019
Revelation Ashford The Grahams + AVI Simmons
Live Band
Park Inn Hotel Folkestone
Albion Willesborough Ashford
Your Shout Rock Band
The Grimms
Prince Of Wales,Dymchurch Rd, Hythe Little Baz Karaoke Priory-Hotel Dover So What? The Chambers Folkestone Full Flava Behaviour Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford Dave Good Band The Locomotive Ashford Heroes New wave Tribute Band TUESDAY 10THSEPTEMBER Astor Theatre Deal Margaret Attwood NT live THURSDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER Astor Theatre Deal The Lehman Trilogy NT Live
SATURDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER Lifeboat Folkestone Harbour The return of The Skastards Skabour Festival Main events at the Grand Burstin Folkestone Harbour plus other events at local venues Astor Theatre Deal Frank Sanazi’s Ocean Nein Bull Inn Dover Miles Cookman Band Cheriton Oddfellows Folkestone Duck Soup Talented Multi Instrumentalist All Welcome! Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe Heroes New wave Tribute Band Globe Inn Hythe Spectrum 80s band
Elham
Skabour Festival Grand Burstin Hotel
Drink Drop & Doss 33 6 PM · Elham, Kent
Skabour Saturday:The Pioneers, Simmertones, King Zepha
Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
Old Endeavour London Rd Dover
Quiz Thursdays
Defrenchy Acoustic Duo 9pm
Priory-Hotel Dover
Park Inn Hotel Folkestone
Open Mic Night
Absolute Glam Band
The Grand Folkestone
Prince Of Wales,Dymchurch Rd, Hythe
LIVE Jazz Nights Free Entry every 2nd & Last Thursday in the month
Olas Boss Soul Funk Music Night Priory-Hotel Dover
FRIDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER Skabour Festival Main events at the Grand Burstin Folkestone Harbour plus other events at local venues Astor Theatre Deal
Valentino Tabasco Royal Oak Lydd Dr Syn The Albion Ashford Broken Rock Ashford
Double Bill The Trials Of Gallileo & The Power Behind The Crone
The Chambers Folkestone
Chambers Folkestone
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
Chambers Happy Hours Fridays 5-7pm Chambers Folkestone Lock In DJs Priory-Hotel Dover Paddy McGuire Band Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford Miles Cookman Band
Chambers Dj’s Cold Shots Albion Willesborough Ashford Broken
SUNDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER
Bull Inn Dover
Skabour Festival
Happy Daze
Main events at the Grand Burstin Folkestone Harbour plus other events at local venues
Chambers Folkestone
Astor Theatre Deal
Globe Inn Hythe
Great Expectations The Musical Bull Inn Live Music Dover Sunday Service 12-7pm Arron Crascal & Ian Dunne plus very special guest Priory-Hotel Dover Your Shout Rock Band Gillespies Folkestone Heroes New wave Tribute Band 6.30 TUESDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe Bingo Bongo Tuesdays 2 Sessions Eyes Down 2.30pm & 7.30pm Priory-Hotel Dover Jam Night THURSDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER Butt Of Sherry Hythe Jack Pound Theme Time Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
Hellfire Corner presents The Legendary Prime Cuts live Band Park Inn Hotel Folkestone Miami Vice Prince Of Wales,Dymchurch Rd, Hythe Debbies Disco/Karaoke Priory-Hotel Dover Stevie Smiths Sin House Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford The Erics Albion Willesborough Ashford Avanzi THURSDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER Astor Theatre Deal One Man Two Guvnors NT Live Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe Quiz Thursdays Hush Folkestone
Quiz Thursdays
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage. + Diane Dunn 7 PM
Leas Cliff Hall Theatre Folkestone
Priory-Hotel Dover
Uk Pink Floyd Experience Priory-Hotel Dover Open Mic Night FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER Astor Theatre Deal It’s Miss Hope Springs Chambers Folkestone Chambers Happy Hours Fridays 5-7pm Priory-Hotel Dover User Friendly Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford Rock Paper Scissors
Open Mic Night The Chambers Folkestone Neil Bob Herd’s Dirty Little Acoustic Band-original material in the roots/ Americana vein, but with a distinct brogue The Grand Folkestone LIVE Jazz Nights Free Entry every 2nd & Last Thursday in the month FRIDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER Astor Theatre Deal La Voix Live Proud & Fabulous Chambers Folkestone
Eagle Dover
Chambers Happy Hours Fridays 5-7pm
Heroes the duo
Glassholes Folkestone Earth Strike Eco Friendly Protest
SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER Astor Theatre Deal Private Widdle Social Club
Priory-Hotel Dover Normans Daughter
The Chambers Folkestone
Cheriton Oddfellows Folkestone
Dj Dave Decker
Adele Tribute-Cat Price All Welcome(non members Nom Fee)
The Grand Folkestone Unplugged at The Grand, Keppels Bar Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford Electric Tortoise SATURDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER Astor Theatre Deal Paul Young & Los Pacominos Bull Inn Dover Bad Penny Band
Globe Inn Hythe Copacetic New Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe Twice Acoustic Duo Old Endeavour London Rd Dover Maple Dilly Park Inn Hotel Folkestone The 45’s 60’s 70’s 80’s Fun Band
Prince Of Wales,Dymchurch Rd, Hythe Dr SYN Priory-Hotel Dover Blue Bishops The Chambers Folkestone Chambers Dj’s Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER New Fountain Seabrook Gumboots reggae Band Star Inn Romney Marsh Romney Marsh Run 10 AM The Grand Folkestone Half-Marathon The Folketone Rotary 10-2pm
User Friendly Albion Willesborough Ashford
MONDAY 30THSEPTEMBER
Stella n The Loft
Windmill Hythe Rd Ashford
The Mariner Folkestone harbour
Charity Quiz
Heroes new wave tribute band Charity Bake Off 1pm
THURSDAY3RD OCTOBER Astor Theatre Deal Sons Of Pitches
Butt Of Sherry Hythe Kent
SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER
Jack Pound Open Stage Night
Astor Theatre Deal
Fountain Pub Seabrook Hythe
John Challis Only Fools & Boycie
Quiz Thursdays
New Fountain Seabrook EK1 Band
FRIDAY 4TH OCTOBER Priory-Hotel Dover Ryk Mead
Park Inn Hotel Folkestone Electric Tortoise Band Priory-Hotel Dover As Is Now
The Grand, Folkestone, Old Timer Rally Bank Holiday Monday 26th August Oldtimer’ is the modern Continental English for ‘classic car’. Car rallies have been held at the Grand at least since 1896 (just before the first London-Brighton run); the first one marque car rally ever was held here in 1933, for Rileys (one of the Riley brothers lived locally); in 1964 there were more Rolls-Royces per head of population in Folkestone than any other town in the world, and in the 70s the rally became established as the Rolls-Royce Parade. In the 80s & 90s it became part of the local authority sponsored Airshow. In the 21st century the main rally has reverted to its roots as the Oldtimer Rally – a good day out for participants and anyone else who wishes to visit and enjoy the atmosphere. Its situation, on The Leas in front of The Grand, is probably one of the finest such spots anywhere in the world, with a backdrop of majestic late Victorian and Edwardian buildings and views across the busy shipping lanes of the English Channel to France on clear days. And clear days they usually are – since the summer heat waves of the mid 70 there has almost invariably been fine weather on the day of the rally - save for 2014 & 2015! 2019 sees the inclusion of an Arts & Crafts Vintage Fair with over 65 stalls and Miss Holiday Swing live on stage in addition to the hundreds of superb classic cars from home and abroad.
JACK J HUTCHINSON Making a highly anticipated gig at the Albion in South Willesborough Ashford, Jack J Hutchinson is a London based guitarist and singer songwriter. Described by Classic Rock Magazine as “Southern-smoked bluesrock with hooks, choruses, the lot”, his most recent album ‘Paint No Fiction’ reached #1 in the Amazon Blues Chart. The 14th June saw the release of ‘Justified’, the debut single from Jack’s forthcoming solo album, ‘Who Feeds The Wolf?’, which is set for release on 18 October. Backed again by the amazing Lazarus Michaelides on bass and Felipe Amorim on drums, you will not get to see a musician of this calibre for free anywhere else around. Support for this event comes in the form of local blues rockers POWERHOUSE. Fronted by Jack Kellam and Matt Sullivan and their thumping rhythm section playing a mix of covers and originals. The stage will be up and the pub will be packed, keep the date free
Saturday 10th August 8.30pm…
FREE The Albion Ashford, South Willesborough TN24 0BU