Festival Events

JAM on the Marsh · 4-14 July 2024

4 July · Thursday · 1:30pm

Cinemarsh · New Romney

Celebrating Edith Nesbit

Uncover the writer behind The Railway Children

4 July · Thursday · 3:00pm

Cinemarsh · New Romney

The Railway Children

Watch this iconic 1970’s family film
4 July · Thursday · 5:30pm

The Assembly Rooms · New Romney

Festival Launch

Hear Nicholas Cleobury’s vision for
JAM on the Marsh 2024

4 July · Thursday · 7:00pm

Old School Garden · New Romney

Present Laughter

A light-hearted farce that celebrates playwright Noël Coward

5 July · Friday · 6:00pm

The Assembly Rooms · New Romney

Meet the Composers

John Frederick Hudson and Jago Thornton talk to Paul Mealor about their new works

5 July · Friday · 7:00pm

St Nicholas Church · New Romney

From Holst to Hudson

Mark Padmore and Ben Goldscheider join the London Mozart Players

6 July · Saturday · 11:00am

St Clement Church · Old Romney

12 Dragonetti Waltzes

Hear this 1732 Gagliano bass for
the first time in over a century

6 July · Saturday · 3:00pm

St Dunstan · Snargate

1934:

A Changing Sound World

From Elgar to Maxwell Davies

6 July · Saturday · 7:00pm

St Leonard · Hythe

A Choral Feast

Stephen Layton makes his
festival debut with the Holst Singers

7 July · Sunday · 3:00pm

St Leonard · Hythe

An Afternoon in Vienna

Join Strauss and Haydn for a trip to the Austrian capital

9 July · Tuesday · 2:00pm

St Nicholas · New Romney

Community Singing

Hear our multigenerational choir
come together for the first time

9 July · Tuesday · 7:00pm

St George · Ivychurch

The Goldberg Variations

Bach’s masterpiece performed on
the harpsichord

10 July · Wednesday · 9:30am – 4pm 

Prospect Cottage · Romney Marsh

Prospect Cottage

A chance to see inside
Derek Jarman’s home

10 July · Wednesday · 3:00pm

Cinemarsh · New Romney

War Requiem

A rare opportunity to see one of Jarman’s finest films

10 July · Wednesday · 7:00pm

The Marsh Academy Theatre · New Romney

Jarman

A one-person play by Mark Farelly about the life of Derek Jarman

11 July · Thursday · 7:00pm

Old School Garden · New Romney

Henry V

One of Shakespeare’s great plays is given the ‘Changeling treatment’

12 July · Friday · 7:00pm

St Nicholas · New Romney

JAM Festival Orchestra

takes on an audacious programme with the London Mozart Players

13 July · Saturday · 11:00am

St Leonard · Hythe

The Blendis Trio

A coffee concert with a ‘Super Group’

13 July · Saturday · 3:00pm

St Nicholas · New Romney

Four Short Operas

Hear four new 15-minute operas written during the festival

13 July · Saturday · 7:00pm

St Leonard · Hythe

Fauré Requiem

Canterbury Cathedral Choir joins the
London Mozart Players

14 July · Sunday · 3:00pm

St Nicholas · New Romney

Mahler 4

Nicholas Cleobury conducts the
JAM Sinfonia

Exhibitions announced soon.