Medway Council recreates this traditional, colourful and lively festival each year. Local chimney sweeps, Morris sides and folk groups from all over the UK join in the fun.
It takes a special kind of event to last more than a quarter of a century. Medway's Sweeps Festival, with its incredible selection of musical entertainment, an ever-expanding range of activities and worldwide popularity, goes from strength to strength each year.
Details of the Sweeps Festival 2009 are now available in the 2009 Sweeps Festival programme (pdf 972KB). To use this file, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this on your computer, please use our advice page.
Lots of exciting activities will be taking place, as always. This year there are even more live gigs. Kate Rusby (www.katerusby.com) will be playing on Saturday, 2 May. Details of this and other acts can be found in the programme and on the theatre booking website, where tickets for the gigs are now on sale.