Join Tim Smith for an engaging DJ Workshop designed to introduce and develop the core skills needed behind the decks. This session covers mixing techniques, track selection, reading a crowd, and building confidence in live performance settings. Whether you are new to DJing or looking to refine your approach, this hands on workshop offers practical guidance and industry insight to ... Read More ...

The Create Offshoots Showcase and Industry Q&A brings together a night of live emerging talent alongside an in depth conversation on stagecraft and performance. The showcase highlights a range of developing artists as they bring their music to the stage, each performance offering a glimpse into the next wave of live talent. Following the performances, the industry Q&A focuses on ... Read More ...

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FREE WORKSHOP Drop some beats over at the Bandstand where you can cut your own record (from cardboard of course) decorate it in the style of your favourite song then give it a spin with our resident DJ K.C-Ard! Free fun craft, play & music session for families & fun seekers! ...

SEATED EVENT Acclaimed for their refreshing energy, this extraordinary band brings you closer to the original spirit of Pink Floyd than ever before. This exceptional band are universally regarded as one of the UK’s most authentic live Pink Floyd tributes, with an expertly crafted sound that’s reminiscent of the classic 70’s Golden Floyd era. This is NOT Just Another Pink ... Read More ...

Join Hypha Studios for a unique life drawing experience. This month we have a fabulous model in flowing dramatic dress, think extravagance, with accompanying live music. This is an untutored life drawing class featuring a variety of poses held for different durations, with a short break midway through. This is a relaxed and welcoming session suitable for all experience levels. ... Read More ...

STANDING SHOW – LIMITED UNRESERVED BALCONY SEATING FIRST COME FIRST SERVED Now into their forty-sixth year, legendary underground band New Model Army show no sign of slowing down. Their most recent albums, from the ground-breaking Between Dog and Wolf (2013) through to roots-rocker Unbroken (2024), have been their most critically acclaimed and commercially successful for years, while the band’s astonishing ... Read More ...

18+ ONLY  The nights are drawing in, the jumpers are back out, and Comedy Tapas returns to Coachworks with a line up ready to warm the place up properly. October crowds hit different. Cosier. Louder. Fully committed to a big night out. It is the perfect time of year to pack the room, pour the drinks and let a stack ... Read More ...

***SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT *** SEATED EVENT – STRICTLY 14+  ONLY IF ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT(Adult Content and Language)  Join Romesh as he road-tests new material ahead of his brand-new tour. Multi award-winning comedian Romesh is known for fronting hugely popular series The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, BAFTA-winning Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Parent’s Evening, ... Read More ...

Come along and listen to the wonderful brass sounds by Ashford Band. This amazing community band perform around Kent raising funds for local worthwhile causes and we’re thrilled to bring them live to the Bandstand  for 2 sessions 11am-11.45am 12.30pm-1.15pm ...

A lively folk session where you’ll learn one or two Morris tunes and then try the Morris dances that go with them! Hosted by The Ashford Folk Group at our usual venue, The Elwick Club in Ashford. This two‑hour session will be led by Clare Hay, a well‑known local ceilidh caller and fiddle player. It’s designed for all abilities — ... Read More ...

SEATED EVENT – U16s Must be accompanied by an adult  Endorsed by Dolly Parton live on BBC’s The One Show “I wish them the best and I appreciate them doing Dolly and Kenny so well for so long” The World’s Biggest Country Music Tribute Touring Show is rolling into town with a spectacular, award-winning cast! As seen in London’s West End at the Adelphi Theatre where it ... Read More ...

Join us at Coachworks to kickstart The Big Weekend the right way. We’ll be keeping it loud and local with some of the most exciting emo, punk, and alternative acts tearing up the South East’s live band circuit. Sunday Best is a gang of heathens using groove-oriented emo and post-hardcore sounds to explore death, divinity, society, and the self. Known ... Read More ...

Seated Event – Over 16s Only Michael Spicer, the online sensation who brought you the award-winning viral hit The Room Next Door, brings another hilarious and brilliantly entertaining satirical stage show packed with sketches, short films and stories about why we’re witnessing such a gigantic political and global shitshow, featuring characters from his BBC Radio 4 show ‘No Room’ as well ... Read More ...

Saturday 17th October 11-12pm & 1-2pm Join Debz to create your own cardboard guitar! Use stickers, washi tape, felt tips and a whole bunch of other materials. In this hands-on fun creative experience we will be designing our guitars for the first 45 mins of the 1 hour session and then we’ll pretend to play them live on stage to ... Read More ...

We’re going off rails for this one… Create are launching their first town-wide live music takeover: ‘The Commuter Belt: Unplugged and on the Move’ Featuring 6 local emerging music acts, roaming between 4 of Ashford’s staple spots for discovering the best new live music. Choose how you want to play the day: Alight at all the venues and get a ... Read More ...

Register for FREE to audition for JVyoU, Jasmin Vardimon Company’s youth dance company for passionate dancers aged 12–18. JVyoU offers a unique opportunity to train with professional dancers and collaborators from Jasmin Vardimon Company, following Jasmin’s acclaimed creative methodology. Throughout the programme, participants develop their technical, creative and performance skills in a supportive and inspiring environment that encourages curiosity, collaboration ... Read More ...

ELECTRIC JALABA (Morocco/UK) – a real staple festival act on the UK and Europe for years, EJ are increasingly much more than the slick fusion of their origin. Their new music maintains the buzzing dance spirit, but with further exploration and boundary pushing of the trance and spiritual jazz elements of the sound. Electric Jalaba began their journey exploring the entrancing ... Read More ...

Sound Emergence are delighted to present Converge, a candlelit sound bath at the beautiful 13th-century Revelation Church in Ashford This one-hour immersive experience invites you into a contemplative exploration of listening through a live, improvised soundscape created with gongs, singing bowls, monochord, voice and electronic loops. Taking place in this beautiful historic setting for the first time, Converge continues Sound ... Read More ...

***TICKETS ON SALE 10AM FRIDAY 13 MAY*** SEATED EVENT- Under 16s Must be accompanied by an adult   Thea Gilmore is a prolific and fiercely independent singer-songwriter whose career spans more than two decades and 20 albums, beginning with her debut Burning Dorothy in 1998. Renowned for her raw, emotive writing as well as her ability to reinterpret others’ work, she ... Read More ...

Three pieces. One hell of a noise. Born in Cornwall, sharpened in Kent, LiVES are the kind of band that rock needs — a visceral, white-knuckle collision of post-punk fury and hard rock precision that doesn’t ask for your attention, it demands it. Their critically acclaimed debut album Let Them Eat Cake, produced by the legendary John Cornfield (Oasis, Muse, Supergrass), arrived like a fist ... Read More ...