A date for your diaries - this coming year we're planning to have another festival at Frittenden.

We're calling it the Frittenden Festival, and it's due to take place on the 4th April 2009.

We'll be publishing the full guest list a little later, but I can reveal that Annie Dearman and Steve Harrison will be headlining, and that Andy Turner has promised to sing for us and run a workshop on the songs of Kent, and of course Kerry Fletcher will be doing sterling service in the step-dancing department along with Rosie Davies.

Venue-wise, we have some really good news that will please many of you who came last year. By the time April comes around, the well known Bell & Jorrocks pub in Frittenden will have two more rooms than we had last year, which I'm sure will make the lunch-time sessions much pleasanter and more accessible.

If anyone needs to get in touch at this stage, please contact me at gmatkin (at) gmail.com .

Gavin