From Pub in the Park to Black Deer Festival and Rochester Sweeps Festival, here's what's on in Kent in 2022
20:00, 03 February 2022
updated: 10:26, 17 March 2022
Are you looking forward to 2022 in Kent?
Here's our diary of events for the year and things to look forward to...
February
1: Chinese New Year
5: Kent point-to-point season starts, Charing
5-6: Build It Live, Kent Event Centre, Detling, near Maidstone
12: Kent Prosecco Festival, Maidstone Mercure Hotel
14: Valentine's Day
14-18: Spring half term school holiday
18-20: Broadstairs Blues Bash (TBC)
March
1: Pancake Day
18: Red Nose Day
14-15: Leeds Castle Wedding Showcase, near Maidstone
14-20: Hever Castle Dazzling Daffodils, near Edenbridge
26-27: Kent Big Weekend (TBC)
27: Mother's Day
April
2: Heritage Transport Show, Kent Showground, Detling
2: Kent Mining Museum opening day, Betteshanger Country Park
10: The Wedding Experience, Kent Event Centre at Detling
15: Good Friday
18: Easter Monday
23: St George’s Day
24: The Big Bike Ride in East Kent
28-2: Maidstone Fringe Festival
30-2: Sweeps Festival, Rochester
May
1-2: Sweeps Festival, Rochester
2: Early May bank holiday
4: Claudia Winkleman at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
14-15: Faversham Transport Weekend
21: The world’s largest inflatable obstacle run, Brands Hatch
22: Marvel and DC-themed comic-con, Quex Park, Birchington
27-29: Rise Up Festival at Headcorn Aerodrome
28: Dream Valley dance music festival, Romney Marsh
June
2: Late spring bank holiday
3: Extra bank holiday for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
3: Together Festival at Mote Park
3-19: South East Open Art Studios
4: Summer Love Festival with UB40 at Mote Park, Maidstone
4-5: Rochester Dickens Festival (TBC)
5: Ravers Tots at Mote Park, Maidstone
8: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Dreamland, Margate
11: Canterbury Pride
11: SANDS Dreamland, Margate
12: Open Farm Sunday
17: Simply Red at Hop Farm Family Park
17-19: Black Deer Festival, Eridge
18: Paul Weller at Hop Farm Family Park
18-25: Independent Bookshop Week
18: World Custard Pie Championships, Coxheath, Maidstone
19: Keane at Hop Farm Family Park
19: Father's Day
23: Beach Boys at Dreamland
24-26: Battle of Britain Air Show, Headcorn
24-26: Foodies Festival at Mote Park
25: National Armed Forces Day
July
1: Westlife at the Hop Farm
2: Michael Ball and Alfie Boe at the Hop Farm
1-21 August: Changeling Theatre tour, multiple venues across Kent
1-16: Deal Music & Arts Festival
6-9: Castle Concerts at Rochester Castle
7-17: JAM on the Marsh, Romney Marsh
8-10: Kent County Show, Kent Showground, Detling, near Maidstone
9-10: Pub in the Park, Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells
9-11: Lake Garden Festival, Eridge Park, Tunbridge Wells
9: Leeds Castle Concert
20: Tears For Fears, St Lawrence, Canterbury
23: Mote Park Proms with Katherine Jenkins
24: Michael Buble, St Lawrence, Canterbury
24: Big Monster Truck Slam 2, Quex Park, Birchington
26-30: War and Peace Revival, Hop Farm, Paddock Wood
28-31: Chickenstock Festival, Stockbury
30: Glitterbomb in the Park, Mote Park Maidstone
30: Maidstone River Festival
August
5-7: Margate Soul Festival
5-12: Broadstairs Folk Week
6-8: Rock the Mote, Maidstone
13: Dreamland Pride with All Saints Live, Margate
13-14: Smoked & Uncut Festival, Canterbury
13-14: Combined Ops Airshow, Headcorn Aerodrome
20: Craig David, Dreamland, Margate
20-21: Biddenden Tractorfest, Holden Farm, Biddenden
19-21: A New Day Festival, Mount Ephraim Gardens, Hernhill
26-29 Camp Wildfire, near Sevenoaks Weekend One
27-29: Military Odyssey, County Showground, Detling
28-29: Kent Country Show at Quex Park
17-30: Whitstable Oyster Festival TBC
27-28: bOing! International Arts Festival, Canterbury
29: Summer Bank Holiday Monday
September
2-5: Camp Wildfire, near Sevenoaks Weekend Two
3: Let's Rock Kent, Mote Park, Maidstone
3-4: Faversham Hop Festival
9-18: Heritage Open Days, venues across Kent
10: Hop Hoodening, Canterbury city centre
10-11: Salute to the 40s vintage festival, Chatham Historic Dockyard
17-18: Paws in the Park, Kent Showground, Detling near Maidstone
17: Revival in the Park, Mote Park, Maidstone
24: Soulstacia in the Park, Mote Park, Maidstone
30-2 October: Broadstairs Food Festival
29-2 October: Tenterden Folk Festival
October
1: Oktoberfest, Mote Park, Maidstone
1-2: Broadstairs Food Festival
1-2 October: Tenterden Folk Festival
15-29: Canterbury Festival (TBC)
19-20: National Fruit Show, Kent Event Centre, Detling near Maidstone
31: Halloween
November
5: Guy Fawkes Night
5-6: Leeds Castle Firework Spectacular (TBC)
13: Remembrance Sunday
December
Rochester Christmas Markets/ Dickensian Christmas dates to be confirmed.
25: Christmas Day
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