Tuesday night trad folk session with open mic and jam at the fishermen's pub The Royal Standard on East Street.
The Royal Standard hosts its Trad Folk Session on Tuesday 10 November, the first of a run that keeps the music going well into the winter. It's a traditional folk session with an open mic and a jam, so it's as much about playing as it is about listening.
The session is a Tuesday night fixture at the pub, and this one is just the start of a long stretch: it runs on 10, 17 and 24 November, then continues on 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 December. If you're around Hastings throughout the autumn and winter, you've got plenty of dates to choose from rather than just one.
The venue itself is a proper piece of local history. The Royal Standard is a fishermen's pub that's stood since 1707, facing the Stade and Britain's largest beach-launched fishing fleet. In 1899 it was sold to the Old Town brewer Herbert Burfield and later passed to Shepherd Neame, whose colours it still wears, with Master Brew and Spitfire on the bar. Every Good Friday it hosts the town's marbles championship, a tradition that draws a crowd, and the trad folk session has become its Tuesday night equivalent. It sits on East Street next to the London Trader, a minute from the net huts of Rock-a-Nore and the Fishermen's Museum.
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Because it's an open mic and a jam, the music comes from whoever turns up on the night. If you play, you can get involved; if you don't, you can just pull up a chair and listen. The session starts at 8.15pm on Tuesday nights at The Royal Standard, East Street, Hastings, TN34 3DW.
