It's Top of the Hops!
Saturday and Sunday, 4 and 5 September, 2010
Circo Rum Ba Ba stilt walkers
Charlie the clown
Flying Buttresses
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Relive the Hop-Picking experience with a weekend of traditional, festival fun set in the picturesque medieval town square and surrounding streets.
Entertainment at the annual Faversham Hop Festival includes live music featuring local, regional, national and international talent, world renowned street theatre, colourful processions; and an array of Kent’s local produce for sale throughout the town.
The Faversham Hop Festival is a celebration of the hop harvest and the heyday of hop picking, when thousands of Londoners came down to the Kent Hop-Gardens every September for a country holiday with pay.
Many families returned to the same farms, generation after generation, to be joined by every available local worker to form the largest agricultural workforce this country has ever seen.
As they worked, they exchanged stories, scandals and songs. In the evenings they sang, drank and played music and games. During Hop Festival celebrations the town will resound to the clatter of clogs, music and song with dance groups from across the UK performing in the streets.
In addition during the weekend there will be concerts, ceilidhs, exhibitions, craft stalls, Shepherd Neame brewery visits, live music in local pubs and hops galore.
For further information please contact:
entertainment/stages - Martin@thehopfestival.co.uk
stalls - Paul Cumberland - paulc@thehopfestival.co.uk
stewards - Rod@thehopfestival.co.uk
website - Ed@thehopfestival.co.uk
programme/advertising - Martin@thehopfestival.co.uk
Ernie@thehopfestival.co.uk
noise - Paul Durkin - pauld@thehopfestival.co.uk
chairman - Paul Durkin - pauld@thehopfestival.co.uk
The Hop Festival is sponsored by:
Be part of the festival and sponsor us - 
catherineherbert@swale.gov.uk
Event Information
Where: Faversham town centre
When: 04 Sep 2010 to 05 Sep 2010
Time: 9.30am-5pm both days
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