it’s too late to set up your own event for this summer’s JAM on the Marsh arts festival.

But there is still time to sign up for a choral course, which is a key part of the programme.

JAM on the Marsh returns to Romney Marsh after it was successfully piloted last year.

The festival for music, photography, art and literature, from July 11 to 20, invited people to set up their own events as well as having pre-arranged ones.

Spaces for the Bring an Event programme are now booked up but there is still time to join the choral course tutored by conductor Nicholas Cleobury and composer Judith Bingham.

This is from July 12 to 20 and participants get free tickets to all JAM on the Marsh festival concerts and events.

It will be held in various churches including All Saints’ in Lydd and St Mary the Virgin in St Mary-in-the-Marsh.

Arrangements are continuing and St Thomas a Becket in Fairfield is also being earmarked for use in the course.

A full programme of events is expected to be confirmed later this spring.

One pre-set event is a Singing Playground concert involving 1,500 pupils from five Marsh primary schools.

They will travel in by Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway and sing from 2pm on July 14.

The venue is yet to be confirmed but last July it was Hythe Bay Primary School.

Hythe Bay is one five schools involved this year along with Greatstone, St Nicholas in New Romney, Dymchurch and Palmarsh.

Others taking part in the festival include the Selwyn College Cambridge Choir singing Rachmaninoff and the Mousai Singers and Onyx Brass performing Handel’s Coronation Anthems.

The Red Note Ensemble and Michal Rogalski will perform Barber’s highly emotional Adagio for Strings, used for a tribute concert three days after President Kennedy’s assassination.

The Bishop of Dover, the Rt Rev Trevor Willmott will attend a finale service for the festival at All Saints’ Church.

BLOB. The eight-day choral course costs £350 per person. To apply fill in and submit an online application form by Friday, May 9.
Log onto www.jamconcert.org/jam-on-the-marsh.