I was given to understand that there were problems at Sidmouth in finding legal powers to regulate the tat stalls and the amplified Peruvian buskers with pan pipes and backing tracks etc.   Presumably that does not apply to Faversham.

I would have thought that Morris sides were cheap for Faversham - am I not right that all they get paid is a few beer tokens (literally, not as a synonym for money)?   I, too, see the connection between hopping (down in Kent) and the Morris, but not the connection between hopping and Appalachian, hopping and foreign vernacular music, and hopping and electric pop.


If folk does return to the Faversham hop festival, I think there would be merit in having a range of session hosts: one man's meat is another man's poison. There would also have to be available information about where the sessions were (and what sorts of music each focussed on).