Mount Ephraim Gardens lies in the heart of Kent, somewhere between Canterbury and Faversham.
Have just read that it has been the family home of the Dawes family since 1695, so the place has some historical background.
I first visited Mount Ephraim Gardens in the early 2000s for the Canterbury Fayre Festivals where I saw all kinds of interesting bands (Caravan; Gong; Colosseum; Arthur Brown; Man; Hawkwind; Porcupine Tree; Arthur Lee; The Stranglers; The Damned; All About Eve; Robert Plant; Bob Weir's Rat Dog; Roy Harper; The Buzzcocks etc.).
The place (and whole surrounding area) has a nice kind of agricultural feel, and getting onto the New Day Festival campsite this year, we passed through a few apple orchards:
On the campsite, there was plenty of space, as we arrived the day before the Festival, in the morning:
The tree below was our favourite place for a quick Jimmy Riddle if we didn't fancy walking to the chemical toilet places in the middle of the night:
The wooden building below looked like a cricket pavilion, and this is where the chemical toilets were located on our campsite:
When we arrived on Thursday morning to set up camp, final preparations for the Festival were calmly underway:
Been to the New Day Festival twice, once in 2019 (Fish; Glenn Hughes; Uli Jon Roth; Zal Cleminson; Soft Machine; Martin Barre; Hawklords; Focus; Thunderstick etc.), and this year, of course (Focus; Colosseum; Jethro Tull; Hugh Cornwell; Ten Years After; Kaprekar's Constant; Skinny Molly; Karnataka; Blackbeard's Tea Party etc.).
Have really enjoyed every Canterbury Fayre and New Day Festival that I've been to. How could it be otherwise with such great music line-ups in a quaint rural setting?
Think that the shots below fully show how beautiful the Mount Ephraim Site is once the Festival is up and running:
With festival-goers sometimes camping amongst apple trees:
And being in nice earshot of the music if they just want to relax and catch the music from a distance:
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