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The fourth annual Cranbrook Town Music Festival – CRANFEST 24 – will take place on the evenings of Thursday 5th and Friday 6th, and all day on Saturday 7th September. This year, in a new innovation for the festival, we will open proceedings with a ticketed event at The Queen’s Hall Theatre featuring Jon Cleary, the renowned New Orleans R&B and funk icon. All events on the Friday and Saturday will, as usual, be completely FREE, continuing the community spirit of the last three years.

As usual, we will be using a variety of venues in town to provide a veritable flood of live music covering a wide variety of genres so that there will be something for everyone to enjoy whatever your age or musical inclination. Do have a look at the festival programme and the artists pages, we are sure you will find something to tickle your fancy.

We have some terrific headliners this year; the aforementioned Jon Cleary on Thursday (SOLD OUT), on Friday we have nationally acclaimed vocalist Naomi Bedford and her band, and, in The George Hotel, Kent’s favourite party band, The Waves. The superb Alice Armstrong, winner of the UK Blues Artist of the Year 2024, will be playing that night too.

On Saturday we have amazing powerful blues-rock from Catfish, an acoustic set from Rupert Wates, all the way from New York, some smooth funk and soul from one of our favourites, Unit 48, and storming metal from Brighton’s favourite sons, Sainted. Other artists booked to play include Green Diesel, The Paul Dunton Orchestra, Paul McClure, Songs Of The Folk, Nu Metal Army, Thee Headshrinkers, Dirty Lexi and Milton Hide, plus many others too numerous to mention. What a choice to have!

To help us fund the highest quality artists that we can muster this year we have set up a crowdfunding page on the website JustGiving and we invite you all to make a contribution. Every penny raised will go directly towards the cost of the event, there are no overheads or commissions to be paid, and your donations will help to ensure that this year’s festival is the biggest and best yet.

We look forward to welcoming you all to CRANFEST 24.

For more information please email us at info@cranfest.co.uk