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The Margate Soul Festival is set to bring a fantastic line-up of musicians to the town this weekend.

The music festival will return to Margate's old town for the 13th time from August 3-5, with stages and performances located at a number of venues.

This year acts include Atlantic Starr, Deniece Williams, Fatback Band, The Brit Funk Association and Eddie Piller’s 30 Years Of Acid Jazz and more than 50 DJs.

Children of Zeus, Daisy Hicks, Daniel March and Natasha Watts will all also be performing across the weekend.

Margate Soul Festival started out during the Margate Carnival 13 years ago. Olby's Soul Cafe owner Eli Thompson got his DJs to play music to complement the carnival, and the event has continued to grow since then.

And as the array of events and musicians descend on Margate for another year, there will be a number of road closures in place to make sure the weekend goes by smoothly.

The full list of road closures

(Image: Carsten Waesserling)

Fort Lower Promenade rear of Margate Winter Gardens - from 5pm Thursday, August 2 until 5pm Monday, August 6

The Parade - from 5pm Thursday, August 2 until 10pm Sunday, August 5

Duke Street - from 5pm Thursday, August 2 until 10pm Sunday, August 5

Market Place - from 8am Friday, August 3 until 10pm Sunday, August 5

King Street at Fort Road junction - from 8am Saturday, August 4 until 10pm Sunday, August 5

Mansion Street - from 8am Saturday, August 4 until 10pm Sunday, August 5

Understandably these road closures might put you off taking your own car.

But luckily, a new development for this year will see Stagecoach run the Loop bus service for 24 hours a day across the weekend, in order to help connect the towns and get the audience to and from the events.

Full weekend and day tickets are still available. For more information, visit the Soul Festival website .