Lockdown and its restrictions may have impacted the seaside resort of Broadstairs more than most.

When the town’s lively pubs and venues fell silent last year it also meant the cancellation of the Broadstairs Folk Week for the first time in more than 50 years.

But the event is bouncing back this year – from Friday, August 6 until Friday, August 13 – and will see music and entertainment take place across the town, both indoors, in venues such as pubs, and outdoors.

The event was thrown a lifeline with a grant of £59,420 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help the organisation recover and reopen.

This year there will be a new concert arena at Broadstairs Memorial Recreation Park, a 20-minute walk from the festival campsite where there will be an outdoor stage hosting the headline acts.

Other venues offering up live music include the Bandstand, Broadstairs Sailing Club and the Sarah Thorne Theatre.

Highlights this year include Track Dogs and Noble Jacks playing at the Festival Arena on Sunday, August 8 and Tim Edey and guests including Granny’s Attic on Monday, August 9.

There’ll be some fast and furious playing from George Hinchcliffe’s Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain when they play the Arena on Friday, August 13.

Belshazzar’s Feast play the same day in the afternoon with Will Pound and the James Patrick Gavin Trio.

Folk rock Faversham band Green Diesel play on Tuesday, August 10, alongside Nick Hart and Brown Boots.

There is a also pub programme which includes the likes of Beggar’s Belief, the Hot Rats, The Captain’s Beard and Two Man Ting, among many others.

Alongside the live music, morris sides are also a familiar sight at the festival and organisers hope to welcome a reduced number back this year. You can see them in the afternoons at the Bandstand.

Workshops are also a popular part of the festival. Although the programme has been scaled down this year, there are still opportunities to learn new skills, including playing the ukelele, Flamenco guitar, as well as hula hooping and African drumming.

They will be held at the Festival Arena; early afternoons at the Bandstand and at the campsite hub tent.

Long-time organiser and performer with the Hot Rats, Doug Hudson, will be doing a book reading and signing at Folk Week of his memoir Have You Stopped Being Funny? at the Sailing Club in Harbour Street on Monday, August 9 at 11am.

TICKETS

Tickets range from a festival day ticket from £18 up to full week ticket, which starts at £110, although individual events can be as little as £7.

You can also buy a souvenir programme from the website or by visiting any of the shops in town featuring a notice in the window. Details at broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk

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