Welcome
The Thanet Music and Drama Festival was founded as a charity in 1921, and each year offers a platform for hundreds of amateur musicians, actors and dancers in and around the Thanet area to perform in front of an audience and gain expert critical advice.
The festival consists of five sections (Instrumental, Speech & Drama, Piano, Dance, Vocal & Choral) and is held in February to March every year, culminating in an Award Ceremony & Gala Concert featuring some of the best performances from all sections.
We were delighted to be able to hold this year's festival, and feel we were almost "back to normal". We hope that next year we will be able to hold our Gala Concert again too.
We are already planning next year's festival and the dates/provisional dates, are listed below.
The syllabus is now available to download, and you can start planning your entries, but please check during 2023/before the festival to check that dates/venues etc remain the same. The website and programme (available to buy from February) will always have the more up-to-date information. Entry forms, and hard copies of the syllabus, will be available from September.
Please do take a look at our online exhibition (History page), created to celebrate the Festival's centenary this year.
We look forward to seeing you in 2023.
Dates for 2023:
| Speech & Drama | Thursday 23rd Feb. - Friday 24th Feb. Sat 25th Feb. - Sunday 26th Feb. | Queens Road Baptist Church, Broadstairs Sarah Thorne Theatre, Fordoun Road, Broadstairs CT10 2BN |
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| Vocal & Choral | Thursday 2nd - Saturday 4th March | St Philip's Church, Palm Bay | map |
| Pianoforte | Saturday 11th March tbc | Salvation Army Citadel, 167 High St. Ramsgate, CT11 9TT | map |
| Signing Choirs | Sunday 12th March tbc | Queens Road Baptist Church, Broadstairs | map |
| Dance | Saturday/Sunday 4th,5th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 29th March tbc | Birchington Village Centre | map |
| Instrumental | Saturday 18th March tbc | Salvation Army Citadel, 167 High St. Ramsgate, CT11 9TT | map |
| Gala Concert and Prize Giving | Friday 24th March | Sarah Thorne Theatre, Fordoun Road, Broadstairs CT10 2BN | map |
2022 programme is available as a download now...
