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Tickets are available at the Astor on 01304 370220 or at Sound House in Deal High Street.
On the Saturday the festival is hosting the masters of Shanty singing Kimber’s Men and the four-day event’s finale on the Sunday has Martha Tilston.
Friday sees the return to Deal of Nuru Kane. Nuru is a Senegalese singer/songwriter and master of the guimbri (a three-stringed Moroccan bass). His sell-out concert at last year’s festival was described as one of musical highlights of 2010.
On Thursday, September 15, there is a folk-punk hoedown dance from Cut A’Shine supported by Deal’s own Cocos Lovers.
There will be seven full concerts at the Astor and Deal Town Hall, 11 pub concerts, two dances, 11 singarounds/playarounds, five workshops and busking at the town Braderie on the Sunday.
It takes place between September 15 until 18 and will have more than 40 events with about 100 performers playing, singing or dancing.
“To this mixture, we have some fantastic headline acts at the community theatre in Stanhope Road.”
Ray Fielder, one of the festival organisers, said: “Deal has an amazing variety of great local folk music, from traditional groups like the Deal Hoodeners and the mass morris dance to the energy surrounding the new wave around the Smugglers and local venues like the Astor.
This month’s Deal Maritime Folk Festival is being hailed by its organisers as being one of the most varied and exciting musical experiences in Kent of 2011.