The few main Broadstairs opportunities are rammed so you won't get much of a go, and the Woodshed if running is for joining in so don't do anything in 6 or 7 sharps or flats. The Yacht club is more for listening respectfully even to the rare people who do come with recorded accompaniment.

There are some shanty sessions, notably on the pier - but also often very rammed, and if you even open a guitar case to get a start note you will be FIRMLY scowled at, but you might escape with your life if using a threepenny bit to accompany a forebitter. The Sunday morning session in the Neptune is for God-bothering and ungodly songs are very sniffed at. There is diddly and humpty I believe in the Nelson. There have been some singarounds up past the Nelson on the right - it might be an adult education centre or something.

I don't know about this year but there have in the past been WONDERFUL sessions in the School on the official campsite if you can get in to the campsite, but there was a clampdown so that only the main hall could be used. It is a big gymnasium and getting any atmosphere going in there is hard, and gradually formal presentations of music hall song and so on have taken over.

Camping is expensive and limited to those with full season tickets of performing or playing or dancing with a side. Even so smoking is ABSOLUTELY banned on the campsite so if you have a midnight fag in bed in your tent you may in theory find a large person throwing you offsite in your nightie at 3 am. Most of the campsite, nighttime noise is banned - I was once cautioned for talking too loudly at 1 am.

There have also been some off-programme mixed sessions in the first pub going downhill on the right from the Pierremont Hall but it all depends.   Sometimes there are evening ones in the Albion, not far from the campsite.

Or you could ask for busking permission and take a tin around and see what you could get going in a side street.

Parking is a nightmare, and don't even think about popping a tent somewhere out of sight or sleeping rough with a bivvy bag in the allotments. Official transport (minivan) has much improved and taxis are cheap at least as far out as the school.

There are some nice campsites out near Manston, but it is a long way in in a taxi or on a bike and out again.