Self Esteem brings her powerful pop to the Winter Gardens, supported by the Cocoa Butter Club and Margate’s Social Singing Club

Power of Women Festival (previously POW! festival) returns to Thanet in-person after going virtual last year due to Covid.

This year, rising star Self Esteem (‘cene’s full interview here) headlines the 2022 festival, performing at Margate WInter Gardens on Sunday 6th March, with support from the Cocoa Butter Club and Margate’s Social Singing Choir.

The Power of Women Festival 2022 will run from Friday 4th - Tuesday 8th March.

The festival’s theme for 2022 is Reclaim and Reconnect. March 2022 sees the two year anniversary of the first UK Covid lockdown. The whole world has experienced struggle and suffering, and it’s time to Reclaim our joy and inspiration, and Reconnect with other people and ourselves.

Power of Women Festival 2022 celebrates the power of the arts and community through five days of inclusive events in-person and online for all genders, all ages, and all the family.

For Power of Women’s headline concert, Self Esteem brings her passionate, powerful pop to Margate’s Winter Gardens. Singing about sex, love, personal flaws, pleasure and everything life throws at us, she toured the UK festival scene in 2019, playing Glastonbury, British Summer Time and Latitude.

Her five star album Prioritise Pleasure was The Guardian’s album of the year 2021, described as ‘Britain’s funniest, frankest pop star drums out her demons.’ Self Esteem was Attitude Music Award 2021 winner, BBC Music Introducing Artist of the Year 2021 and has been nominated for the Brit Awards Best New Artist 2022.

Power of Women are proud to have supported Self Esteem from the early stages of her career, hosting an early Self Esteem gig as part of POW! 2019. Her latest album is full of feminist anthems, and Power of Women are proud to have her headlining their festival celebrating International Women's day 2022. Check out Self Esteem’s music video for Moody, which features Margate’s iconic sea front steps.

Supporting Self Esteem are the Cocoa Butter Club and Margate’s Social Singing Club.

The Cocoa Butter Club have risen to great heights in London’s cabaret scene. Led by Sadie Sinner, the company celebrates performers of colour, many of whom are queer, from all walks (and struts and sashays) of life. Combining spoken word and drag, their showcases serve as one big fabulous reminder that QTIBPOC (Queer Trans Intersex Black People Of Colour) not only exist but are here to stay – with flair. The Cocoa Butter Club were booked for POW! Festival 2020, but Covid meant the gig was unable to happen.

Margate’s Social Singing Choir formed in 2018 led by Hughie Gavin who says “The Social Singing Choir is not your average choir. The aim is simple, to sing some awesome songs together and have a good time. Singing brings people together and each term of the Social Singing Choir builds towards a concert in aid of a local charity. So far we have raised money for Thanet Winter Shelter, Oasis Domestic Abuse Shelter and Margate Pride.” The first single featuring The Social Singing Choir ‘To Feel Good’ was Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World’. The SSC also recorded Very.com’s Christmas advert in 2019.
You can book tickets for Self Esteem’s concert through Margate Live’s website here.

Further information about previous Power of Women Festivals and the history of the festival can be found at https://www.powthanet.com/