Ukulele Festival at the Chequers Inn Doddington Saturday 2nd August 2025

29/07/2025

Link to Song Book in post below.

29/07/2025

Song Book for the Strumalong at the Ukefest. Print it out and bring it along.

25/07/2025

One week to go!

Please use the car parks on below map.
Roadside parking is required by villagers.
Thank you!

12/06/2025

22/04/2025

Final lineup for our Ukefest just released:
New acts :
- FayMai
- Invicta Ukulele Club Band
- Los Tres Amigos

01/03/2025

We are pleased to announce the date of this year’s Ukefest!
Full line up to be released shortly.

30/07/2024

Ukulele Festival at the Chequers Inn Doddington Saturday 3rd August 2024
See you there!

Please use the car parks on the below map, any spaces on the street are required for villagers, thankyou!

20/07/2024

Hobgoblin Music are coming to our festival with a selection of ukuleles and accessories for you to try before you buy.
See you there!

16/07/2024

Counting down ….just over 2 weeks to go. Some information :
The Venue: The Chequers Inn is situated in the village of Doddington, Kent postcode ME9 0BG. Our local pub is the heart of village life and serves excellent food lunchtimes and evenings. The food is traditional, home cooked and locally sourced. If you would like to have lunch or dinner it is recommended to book in advance tel 01795 886366. There will be a barbecue and an outside bar selling beers and lagers and soft drinks.
www.chequersinndoddington.co.uk
The Venue : The stage will be at the top end of the car park. There will be 60 + seats close to the stage. The stage will also be visible from the garden and there are table/benches and shade in the garden and also tables and benches in front of the pub. We suggest you bring some seats if you would like to sit close to the stage or blankets/chairs if you prefer to sit in the garden.
The stage faces south! If it’s a sunny day we recommend you bring hats and plenty of suncream!
Car Parking : There will not be any parking at the pub except to drop off people, equipment and instruments. We have set up two parking areas a short walk from the venue:
1. Just off the street behind the Village Hall.
2. Aproximately 250 yards up Chequers Hill in the left.
Both will be signposted. We ask that you use the designated parking areas and avoid parking on Chequers Hill or The Street as we do not wish to inconvenience our neighbours.


This year’s line up:
12.20 Introduction-Welcome + DUM
12.40 Tabou
13.05 Ukelear Subs
13.30 Caramellos
13.55 Sevenukes
14.20 Stevedores
14.45 10 minute Break
14.55 Cahon John and The Blanks
15.20 Rye Ukulele Experiment
15.45 Market Strummers
16.10 DUM
16.35 Merry Mondays
17.05 Strum along
17.30 End of performance event-Pub and garden remain open

14/07/2024

Our Charity for this years Ukulele Festival is MNDA.
One of the musicians playing at the festival; Alli, will be collecting on the day. This is her story:

“I am raising money to support our local Motor Neurone Disease Associations in Kent. There are approximately 200 people in Kent who suffer with this cruel condition which as yet, has no cure.
My friend was diagnosed with MND last year and I was keen to do something as I felt so helpless. So far, I have held an Afternoon Tea for 64 guests and had an Open House Coffee morning/afternoon for our Local MND Associations raising just over £2300. I will also be running the Kielder Marathon in Northumberland in October in aid of this charity. All the money I raise is helping provide support for local sufferers and their families with things like tablets to communicate, hoists, beds as well as Visitors from the Association Visitors programme, group and individual talking sessions.
I am delighted that DUM have agreed that their nominated charity this year is MNDA and I hope you will agree this is a worthwhile cause. As well as being able to make a donation you will also have the opportunity to buy new books for £1 each – a great opportunity to fill your shelves. I will also have some leaflets available for you to have a little more information about this disease.
Thank you in anticipation
Alli”
Let’s see how much we can raise to help this Charity.

30/06/2024

Songbook for The Ukefest:

Shared with Dropbox

28/06/2024

Only 5 weeks to go.
We are planning to have a strumalong after all performances, about 5pm so bring along your Uke if you would like to join in.

Please print out and bring along a copy of our strumalong songbook.

See you all there !