The Canterbury Festival – Kent’s international arts festival – opens this weekend and is jam-packed with more than 200 free and ticketed events.

Singer Gareth Gates, who has sold 5m records worldwide and now has a successful stage career, will appear at Dartford's Orchard Theatre.

A charity fundraiser from Sandwich is organising a concert to mark World Sight Day in honour of blind friend.

The company behind a Kent festival - which attracted the likes of Marillion and The Scorpions - has gone into liquidation.

Go Bach to basics: A critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and parents launches in Maidstone

DJ Sam Divine will take to the decks in Deal for the second time this year on Saturday, October 3

Hot Chip to join indie heroes Foals as headline acts at Dreamland's first ever mini music event.

Television and radio presenter Danny Baker could MC Squeeze's warm-up gig for their Cradle To The Grave tour tonight.

Singing star Ellie Goulding has praised staff at the University of Kent for their support when she chose to pursue her music dreams.

Organisers of the hugely popular Leeds Castle classical concert have announced the date for this summer's event.

Music-lovers from around the world will flock to Maidstone this weekend for a festival showcasing top dance acts.

Former boyband member and international DJ Marvin Humes is booked to play a set at a new Kent bar.

The four piece that gave the world Naive and Ooh Laa are performing in the county on their forthcoming UK tour.

It's been a meteoric rise to fame for punk pair Slaves, and the Kent boys will play a more intimate venue later this year.

Four of the finest voices around are coming together for a summer celebration of opera.

Ex-Britain's Got Talent stars the Jive Aces will get one of Kent's historic buildings bopping.

A high profile dance festival has been pulled weeks before it was due to go ahead.

Indie outfit Foals are the first act to be announced for a new mini-festival coming to the seaside.

Eighties teen idol Paul Young tops the bill at a new Kent music festival taking place this weekend in a pub garden.

Boutique festival Forgotten Fields has kicked off for the first time in Eridge Park near Tunbridge Wells.