Hooden Horses, Clarence the Dragon and Morris groups of many varieties are among those that can be seen at this year’s Broadstairs Folk Week festival.
The event kicked off last Friday (August 8) and runs until this Friday (August 15).
People have already enjoyed workshops, music and the Grand Parade, which took place on Saturday, and there is more to come.
There are over 400 events crammed into one week across 20+ venues of which over 160 are free – including workshops for all abilities in music and song, parade, full programme of dances and ceilidhs, Poets’ Breakfast and Craft and Music Fair. The ever-popular official free pub gig programme takes place in pubs around the town.
The annual festival includes everything from family shows at the Bandstand, featuring Kent’s traditional Hooden Horses, to some of the biggest names in folk music. There are plenty of opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to join in with singing, playing and dancing.
For 2025 the concert programme has been expanded to include even more of the UK’s best-loved folk performers, and there will be a new series of ‘Coffee Concerts’ which will take place during the festival week.
Headline acts include: Folk rock legends Lindisfarne, Folk icons Martin & Eliza Carthy, Scottish star Eddi Reader, Anglo-Irish favourites Flook, Global artists: Khiyo (Bangladeshi folk fusion), Gonora Sounds (Zimbabwe), Falle Nioke (Guinea) Festival favourites Noble Jacks, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Whapweasel, Banter, and Brown Boots Boogie Band.
all very disturbing , and awfully strange behaviour from so called adults
How lovely to see the people of east Kent embracing foreign, exotic culture like Morris dancing so enthusiastically.