Hank and the Lost Cowboys emerge from the rubble of Covid lockdown to come back to Bridport again for this year’s iconic Hat Festival, with new songs and old favourites.

And a new album Holey Holey released with impeccable timing in the middle of the first lockdown.

Full of new songs from Hank crafted out in Rancho Wangford on the wild Connemara shore, you will hear many at the Palace with a good few from the darkest months of lockdown.

Hank is backed by the stellar Lost Cowboys with guitar colossus Martin Belmont, bass hero Lord Kevin Foster, pedal steel guru BJ Cole, new drummer Mike Pickering and the sublime vocal tones of Anna “Spanna” Robinson.

Here’s a special message from Hank……

Come and share Hank’s joy in songs of pain, separation, lies and jealousy, death, divorce, murder, alcoholism and heartbreak as he takes you on another heartfelt and hatfelt journey into the dark and miserable recesses of Country music.

It will be an emotional night as Hank pays his personal if lugubrious tribute to the inspirational Mr Roger Snook, Bridport’s own legendary Mad Hatter.