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Friday 4th May to Monday 7th May 2012

NEWSFLASH  (2nd May at 19.00) - after a review of the ground conditions (on the main arena),the organising committee is pleased to say it's all systems go for the weekend. We may need to make some adjustments on the day, but in true Dunkirk spirit it's time to pull on your wellies and dress with a smile and have fun!

“The Best of British” is the theme of this year’s 48^th Kimpton May Festival. What a year 2012 promises to be with both the London Olympics and the Queens Diamond Jubilee to look forward to. Given these iconic events in the same year, the May Festival team have chosen a broad theme to allow the community groups of Kimpton to choose a float theme that could fit either of these!

Attracting thousands of visitors each year, the festival is recognised as one of the biggest and brightest village festivals in the UK. The Saturday street procession will be a genuine spectacular, with themed floats from every section of the Kimpton community, culminating in the crowning of the 2012 May Queen. 

Four solid days of events start on Friday 4th May with the Art show opening night in the 13th century church and an exclusive English wine tasting event hosted by Mark Buckenham of The Wine Society. Saturday night’s concert ‘Kimpton Entertains’ has helped launch a few showbiz careers and Sunday night showcases local brilliance of the cerebral kind at ‘Brains of Kimpton’ whilst the new  ‘Music Night” has music galore with a great Robbie Williams tribute act and many awesome local bands.

Children’s activities include fairground rides, candy floss, a football tournament, maypole dancing, a programme of entertaining arena events on the Saturday includes “Sheep racing” (truly hysterical) and Sheep Shearing that will educate and entertain the audience, music from our local Samba band. No May Festival is complete without some active resident participation and this year we add “Wacky barrow races” to the arena – “Gardeners World” this is not!

Jazz bands, 10k fun-run, a craft fair, barbecues, bars, a giant charity auction, Morris dancers, a car boot sale, traditional music sessions, maypole dancing – it’s wall-to-wall fun for the whole of the long weekend in this lovely village that won the title of Hertfordshire Village of the year 2008 (West).

Craft fair stall bookings click here

Street Procession

Fun Run

Traditional May pole dancing