Will you be here? We start with a fanfare at 5pm www.youarehere.xyz

Join us on the first of March when with the Hebridean label Lost Map we return to Kent with some welcoming wonder in the incredible space and relaxed setting of Canterbury’s Gulbenkian Art Centre as part of new grassroots festival *You Are Here*. thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/you-a...

In just under two weeks!

Let’s rewind to the evening of Thursday 28th March 2024. Where the audience at Free Range went on quite the sonic adventure!

Screengrab of podcast artwork. It's available wherever you get your podcasts, folks.

The last episode of the Goodwin Sands Oral History project is up. This isn't your usual dull and worthy oral history ep - this is a hauntological radio feature doc about the sea and how it changes us. Broadcast from a wrecked ship in the Channel, it was recorded live in 2024.

Who will you present as part of YAH?

Free Range has worked closely with Smugglers to curate some of the artists. As well as this, we'll be curating some guerilla-style performance interventions over the course of the weekend. Dancers and musicians might crop up in unexpected places.

📷 Cath Dupuy

One of the things Free Range does is join the dots between people and organisations across East Kent, creating greater richness, strength and visibility for the cultural life of the region. That's what You Are Here is all about.

Why is Kent important to you?

East Kent has got so much going on culturally but there is no big city to join things up and provide a focus. This means that venues, scenes and artistic communities can develop in isolation.

Could you introduce yourself?

Hi, I'm Sam Bailey and I'm the artistic director of Free Range. Free Range presents free-entry adventurous music and combined arts events in Canterbury and we're the lead partner for the You Are Here festival 2026.

A little 'You Are Here' interview

A little 'You Are Here' interview...

Not long now. thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/you-a...

You Are Here is a new, wildly eclectic independent music festival in East Kent taking place on 27th Feb, 28th Feb and 1st Mar at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury.

Early bird tickets are £30 for all three days. This offer ends Today/31st January. thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/you-a...

You Are Here Festival - Gulbenkian Grassroots music promoters from across East Kent take over every space in the Gulbenkian Arts Centre presenting artists from a huge range of genres. Whether you’re into West African griot mixed with B...

Doing quite a bit of work today promoting You Are Here a new Kent festival which we're involved with directly on Day 3. There are £30 Early bird ticket across all 3 days till 31 Jan. More soon re Daylight. thegulbenkian.co.uk/festivals/yo...

It was a lovely surprise to stumble across this Robert Wyatt tribute in Canterbury several years ago. Created by Stewy (stewy.uk), it’s near the Kudos restaurant, which was formerly The Beehive Club where The Wilde Flowers and early line-ups of Caravan and Soft Machine played

You Are Here - Weekend Pass - Gulbenkian Grassroots music promoters from across East Kent take over every space in the Gulbenkian Arts Centre presenting artists from a huge range of genres. Whether you’re into West African griot mixed with B...

You Are Here (a new, wildly eclectic, three-day independent music festival in East Kent.).

Early bird £30 across all three day available till the end of January.

thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/you-a...

You Are Here - Weekend Pass - Gulbenkian Grassroots music promoters from across East Kent take over every space in the Gulbenkian Arts Centre presenting artists from a huge range of genres. Whether you’re into West African griot mixed with B...

You Are Here (a new, wildly eclectic, three-day independent music festival in East Kent.).

Early bird £30 across all three day available till the end of January.

thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/you-a...

We're big friends and fans of Daylight Music. Please consider supporting them at what is a near impossible time to be promoting grassroots music.

Piano in the Woods | Free Range In mid 2013 a piano was left outdoors in private woodland near Canterbury, A community of audience members and artists grew around the project and by the end of the year over 50 different musicians, d...

THURSDAY 11/12/25: Piano in the Woods

In mid 2013 a piano was left outdoors in woodland near Canterbury, a community of audience members and artists grew around the project and by the end of the year over 50 different artists had interacted with the piano.

freerangecanterbury.org/fr301

Doors 7pm, Music 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

Free Range Orchestra | Free Range The first half will feature duos, trios and quartets with performers names drawn from a hat by the audience .For the second half, the Free Range Orchestra reach into the coming ice of Winter and slowl...

THURSDAY 04/12/25: Free Range Orchestra

The first half will feature duos, trios and quartets with performers names drawn from a hat by the audience. The second half, the FR Orchestra reach into the coming ice of Winter and slowly thaw frozen Christmas songs.

freerangecanterbury.org/fr300

My latest experiment in what a colleague called 'schizocartography' is available for sale. How would you like an imaginary London tubemap but of your favourite Kent towns?*

*specifically Folkestone, that's the new one

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

A line drawing of a map of the Goodwins off the Kent coast

For those of you unaware of the Goodwin Sands and how important they are, here's a quick explainer.

They are a pair of hidden sandbanks off the coast of Kent that are hugely important in terms of the sociocultural history of the area. A map:

Episode 3: Tom Brown

Three eps deep now for the oral history podcast I've been producing, if you want to find it on Spotify then here's the link, folks:

open.spotify.com/show/1nSNely...

#kent #kenthistory #englishchannel #shippingforecast #folklore #dover #deal #ramsgate #canterbury

Free Women / Bloody Men | Free Range Rage through the Ages is the new show from Free Women exploring rage, and revolt.

TONIGHT! 20/11/25: Free Women / Bloody Men

Rage through the Ages is the new show from Free Women exploring rage, and revolt.

Doors at 7pm, Performance from 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

freerangecanterbury.org/fr298

Ensemble Nist-Nah - Gulbenkian Ensemble Nist-Nah is a eight-piece hybrid Gamelan / percussion group led by Nantes-based Australian drummer and percussionist Will Guthrie. Their music is influenced by traditional music from Indonesi...

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TONIGHT! 18/11/25: Nist-Nah Gamelan ensemble at Gulbenkian Arts Centre

Doors at 7pm, Performance from 7.30pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available. £5 entry. University Of Kent, Gulbenkian, Canterbury CT2 7NB

thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/ensem...

Daylight Savings Stream: Nightports with Matthew Bourne YouTube video by Daylight Music

Saturday was wonderful. You can catchup/rewind the show for the forseeable future- www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iN3...

I think it was a feeling / Bill Hawkes A performance experiment about self voyeurism, shame and sensation. It’s also about pissing yourself: what it feels like when you can’t control it, and when you can.

TONIGHT! 30/10/25: I think it was a feeling / Bill Hawkes

Doors at 7pm, Performance from 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available throughout from Fruitworks cafe/bar. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

freerangecanterbury.org/fr294

Right Here, Right Now / Nutter’s Corner A messy emporium of raw, raucous realness by the quartet Right Here, Right Now led by the gifted trumpeter Charlotte Keefe.

TONIGHT! 23/10/25: Right Here, Right Now / Nutter’s Corner

Doors at 7pm, Performance from 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available throughout from Fruitworks cafe/bar. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

freerangecanterbury.org/fr293

Guts & Gluts: a harvest gathering What happens if we put care and community at the centre of our climate crisis response? What small, creative acts of repair can we enact locally and daily? What does food security mean and how do we s...

TONIGHT! 09/10/25: Guts & Gluts: a harvest gathering

Doors at 7pm, Performance from 8pm, 🍷🍺🍰☕available throughout from Fruitworks cafe/bar. Free entry, donations welcome. Fruitworks Coworking, 1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP

freerangecanterbury.org/fr291