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.

Please contact the secretary on tmdf@live.co.uk if you wish to join us on zoom for our AGM on May 8th at 3pm.

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	map map
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...