Tuesday 25th July 2006
I think the Festival Band is now officially withdrawn from the Faversham International Hops Festival. I’ve heard a lot about this in recent weeks and it’s still as confusing as it was at the start. Some say that there needs to be a change to the festival, to bring new acts in and make it less folky. Look at the programme though and you won’t see that reflected. Morris displays? Yes. Same Kent-based groups doing R&B, Cajun etc? Yes. Not a great deal of change then. The two days will start with not the Festival Band, but Tanglefoot Appalacian Cloggers on Saturday and Dindon Sauvage – Cajun on Sunday. (Used to be Wild Turkey)
The sessions are still going though. It’s the run up to the festival season – Broadstairs, Hops, Deal so there will be changes as there always is in August. Mutterings about new sessions at the Deal Hoy, probably on a Friday and also possibly the Anchor in Faversham possibly on a Sunday but nothing definite yet. I expect there to be an Irish Session one evening at the Hops festival – there usually is.