April 2024

Friends and guests were in fine voice as the Maidstone town centre shop once again hummed to the distinctive sounds of three of Kent’s finest folk singers.
For their third annual concert, Bob Kenward (guitar and harmonica), Di (vocal) and John Cullen (guitar) enchanted a large audience on April 11, 2024, with a musical journey through history, Kent and beyond.

The trio opened with Great Navy Days, a tribute to the golden age of Chatham Dockyard. The audience joined in the chorus: “Bring back those Great Navy Days, When Chatham had anchors to weigh….” Similarly, they loved the Dubliners’ evergreen “The Leaving of Liverpool.” Another favourite The Day We Went to Bangor – a Top Ten hit by Fiddler’s Dram – also won keen audience participation.

The concert concluded with Man of Kent: “The hop’s on the bine down Faversham way, and the Apple’s in fruit around Marden, Here’s health to the Darent, likewise the Medway, and the Downs that surround England’s Garden.” 

As they left, audience members said how much they had enjoyed the concert and hoped the talented trio would return. One remarked that Di’s clear voice and often poignant lyrics had moved her to tears. Bob said: “We do enjoy this gig, you have some enthusiastic singers.”