2023 Edition of Britain's largest Mardi Gras (French for Fat Tuesday) event - 18th February.

Music is the lifeblood of Hastings and nowhere is this more in evidence. Bars and restaurants of Hastings Old Town/St.Leonards host a packed afternoon of 300 (mostly) acoustic music sessions, in play 15-minute sets at participating venues. Here below are The Hastings Punk Choir, Dhol Players &Band Baja, Atli, Creature Creature, Dead Rabbits, The Rufus Stone Band, Coral Palms, The Shady Pines, Shady Baby, and Stormy-T and Bluesman's Lane.