St. Mary's Arts Centre,
Strand Street, Sandwich, Kent, CT13 9HN
St. Mary's Arts Centre
Starts Thursday 19th May through to Wednesday 1st June
East Kent Art Society
Annual Exhibition
Daily - FREE ENTRY 10:00am - 5:00pm
(1st June closes at 4:00pm)
Wednesday 8th June - at 9:45am
Pettmans Auctions
Auctioneers and Valuers of Fine Art.
Sandwich Auction Room each month on Wednesdays
Viewing Day - the Tuesday prior from 9:00am to 4:00pm
Regular Valuation Days. Insurance and Probate Valuations.
Tel: 01304 621000
Email: info@sandwichauctionroom.com
Web: www.sandwichauctionroom.com
Saturday 11th June - 10am to 4:00pm
Springtime Celebration
A day of Yoga, sound and vegan food
Join us for a whole day of Yoga, Delicious plant powered food & Good Vibrations!
June is such a magical month. Everything in nature is still budding and blossoming into life and the air is full of possibility and joyful anticipation of summer.
Its a really lovely opportunity to shed our heavy winter layers along with anything we no longer need so that we can step into the warmer days lighter, with new energy and a spring in our step.
This will be our third year of running this day long event, and the venue we have chosen, St Mary's Arts Centre, is absolutely beautiful and Sandwich has lots of parking in the main car park which is a couple of minutes walk away, and there is also parking directly outside.
St Mary's used to be a church but is now a community arts centre.
It has such a lovely energy and is filled with natural light and high ceilings. Here is an overview of how the day will run;
- 10:00am arrival, ginger & turmeric drink
- 10.30am - Vinyasa Flow, Pranayama, Meditation
- 11.30am - Tea break
- 11.45am - Partner Yoga Workshop
- 1:00pm - High vibe plant based lunch with hand blended herbal teas
- 2:00pm - Yin & Sound Journey
- 4:00pm - Drift away home in a magical yoga bubble
Investment: £40 for members / £45 for non members
Sunday 12th June - 7:30pm
The MANWOOD SINGERS
Summer Medley
including works by Rutter, Shearing, Jerome Kern & Bernstein
Tickets: £12.00 to include a glass of wine
Available on the door . from members and Val Gould Gallery, 35 Harnet Street Sandwich CT13 9ES
Sunday 19th June - doors 7pm for show time at 8.00pm
Zoot Alors Promotions Presents
The Sandy Denny Experience
Julie July Band perform a celebration and tribute to Sandy Denny's defining role in British Folk Rock Music.
Tickets: £18.00 from St. Mary's Arts Centre or On-Line £19.80 (includes the booking fee) - To BOOK ON LINE - Please Click here
A celebration and tribute to Sandy Denny's defining role in British Folk Rock Music.
Julie July Band have built a substantial reputation with reinterpretations and arrangements of the work of singer-songwriter Sandy Denny.
In Sandy’s brief career she left a legacy of beautiful, haunting original and traditional compositions.
Richard Thompson called her - The greatest artist of her generation.
Inspired by Sandy’s work and the wider folk, rock and blues movements of the Sixties and Seventies.
The band will also perform songs from their own self-penned Albums 'Lady of the First Light' and 'Wonderland'.
Friday 1st July - doors open 7:00pm - start 7:30pm
Sheelanagig
supported by Open Water
Part of The Sandwich Folk and Ale Festival
A fabulous evening of Folk with Sheelanagig who play intricate, groove heavy arrangements of original and traditional tunes drawing influence from the folk music of Europe and beyond. sure to get you up off your feet and dancing. Sheelanagig for over a decade have brought their array of foot-stomping folk tunes to audiences across the globe.
A quintet with a well-stocked armoury of stringed instruments – guitar, fiddle, double bass – added with the rhythmic energy of flute and drums and a bagful of joint-jumping tunes, these boys from the South-West England create a real dynamic which is inherent in both their furious dance medleys as well as their interestingly arranged original pieces.
Supported by Open Water Open Water are an acoustic quartet steeped in the British Folk Tradition with influences of Celtic and American Bluegrass
Tickets: £15.00 from St. Mary's Arts Centre or On-Line £16.50 (includes the booking fee) To Book on Line see www.wegottickets.com/event/543949/
Sheelanagig
Open Water
Friday 26th August - doors 7pm for show time at 7:30pm
Mark Harrison Band
Tickets: £18.00 from St. Mary's Arts Centre or On-Line £19.99 (includes the booking fee) - To BOOK ON LINE - Please Click here
There is no one in music quite like Mark Harrison. With his band, or in solo or duo form, he is widely considered one of the most original and interesting artists currently operating in the UK.
His highly individual, all-original music goes down very well with audiences of all kinds, and it has taken him and the band to some of the top venues and festivals in the UK, attracting acclaim wherever he goes.
Recent appearances on BBC Radio 2, as guest on Cerys Matthews’s show and on Anneka Rice’s Pick Of The Week show, have further added to his growing reputation.
more about Mark see: www.markharrisonrootsmusic.com
Saturday 10th September - doors 7pm for show time at 8.00pm
Zoot Alors Promotions Presents
Richard DIGANCE
Richard Digance is a BAFTA Nominated entertainer and a recipient of The Gold Award from The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
He has also won a Sony Award and is one of only three British folk singers mentioned in The Virgin Anthology of Songwriters for his contribution to comedy songwriting.
Richard Digance has supported such stars as Steve Martin, Robin Williams and played a guitar duet with Brian May of Queen.
He is also a BAFTA nominated entertainer and received The Gold Award from The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in 2003 and is featured in The Virgin Anthology of Songwriters.
It's on stage Richard is most comfortable, giving two hours of original material with just a guitar, no support acts, no gimmicks, just one man with a treasure chest of stories collected over 40 years in the music and entertainment industry.
Tickets: £20.00 from St. Mary's Arts Centre or On-Line £22.00 (includes the booking fee) To Book on Line see www.ents24.com/sandwich-events/st-marys-arts-centre/richard-digance/6489170
Saturday 29th October - doors 7pm for show time at 8.00pm
Zoot Alors Promotions Presents
The ALTER EAGLES
The ultimate Tribute to The Eagles
Seated Show
Tickets: £18.00 from St. Mary's Arts Centre or On-Line £19.80 (includes the booking fee) - To BOOK ON LINE - Please Click here
2023 Events
Friday 24th March 2023 - doors 7pm for 7.30pm start
Folk in the Barn presents
‘Follow me Down’ Songs from the West with Steve Knightley
Steve is a multi-award-winning singer-songwriter/musician and founder member of folk/acoustic roots trail-blazers ‘Show of Hands’ described by Peter Gabriel as ‘one of the great English bands’.
A constant throughout Steve’s work is his ability to root his songs in time and place, notably the West Country where he was raised. Informed by a love of narrative and English traditional folk music, Knightley writes historically accurate songs that resonate with contemporary meaning.
He has an extraordinary ability to bring the past vividly, smack bang into the present. It’s a gift that fuels his reputation as an ‘issues’ writer.
The seminal ‘Country Life’ earned him the title ‘the gravel voiced spokesman of the rural poor’ and his anti-banking rant ‘Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed’ picked up the gong for ‘Best Song’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Steve has a degree in History and Politics and in 2015 he was presented with an Honorary Doctorate from Plymouth University for his services to geography and music.
Steve is also Patron of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter and last year he was awarded the title of Honorary Rifleman by the 6th Battalion the Rifles Regiment.
Tickets: Online £20 - On the door £23 - Under 25s £10 from: www.wegottickets.com/event/533203
2023 Events
Saturday 6th May 2023 - doors 7pm for show time at 8.00pm
Zoot Alors Promotions Presents
The Music of SIMON & GARFUNKEL - performed by
THE SOUNDS OF SIMON
Tickets and booking: TBA
Pettmans Auctions - Auctioneers and Valuers of Fine Art.
Sandwich Auction Room in St. Mary's Arts Centre each month on Wednesdays: as below - starts at 9:45am
Viewing day the Tuesday prior from 9:00am to 4:00pm
Regular Valuation Days. Insurance and Probate Valuations.
Tel: 01304 621000
Email: info@sandwichauctionroom.com
Web: www.sandwichauctionroom.com
Catalogue available online.
Wednesday Auction Dates: 2022
- 12th January - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 11th - 9am to 4pm
- 9th February - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 8th - 9am to 4pm
- 9th March - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 8th - 9am to 4pm
- 13th April - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 12th - 9am to 4pm
- 11th May - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 10th - 9am to 4pm
- 8th June - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 7th - 9am to 4pm
- 13th July - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 12th - 9am to 4pm
- 10th August - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 9th - 9am to 4pm
- 14th Sept - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 13th - 9am to 4pm
- 12th October - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 11th - 9am to 4pm
- 9th November - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 8tth - 9am to 4pm
- 14th December - Auction starts 9:45am - viewing day 13th - 9am to 4pm
Past Events at St. Mary's
Postal Address:
SSMCT, Siobhan Matthews, 104 St Georges Road, Sandwich, Kent, CT13 9LE
Location:
St. Mary's Church, Strand Street, Sandwich CT13 9HN.
