Danny Neill shares his highlights of Cambridge Folk Festival 2024, featuring notable performances by Leyla McCalla – a set that was tingling with magic, Fantastic Negrito, Konyikeh, Katherine Priddy, Lizzie No, Peggy Seeger, Oysterband, Rioghnach Connolly and more.
Cambridge Folk Festival has just made its first lineup announcement for 2023 – what is probably one of its most diverse offerings to date. Including Ibibio Sound Machine, Lady Blackbird, Catrin Finch and Cimarrón, Angeline Morrison, Oi Va Voi, Arrested Development, Angélique Kidjo and lots more.
Cambridge Folk Festival announce more names for 2022 including Billy Bragg, Afro Celt Sound System, Orchestra Baobab, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Sam Lee, Elephant Sessions, Admiral Fallow, Trials of Cato, O’Hooley & Tiddow, Samantha Crain, The Magpie Arc, The Copper Family and more.
Cambridge Folk Festival reveal the first names for 2022 including Spell Songs, Spiers & Boden, Katherine Priddy, Passenger, Seasick Steve, Suzanne Vega, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, This Is The Kit, Show of Hands, Julie Fowlis, N’famady Kouyaté, VRï & more.
We rewind the clock to 1974 and the Cambridge Folk Festival. Watch archive footage featuring Planxty, Loudon Wainwright III, Arlo Guthrie and more. From the canvas tents to the impromptu laid-back performances, this short video is dripping in gorgeous folk nostalgia.
The Cambridge Folk Festival will not go ahead this year, it has been announced. Ticket holders will be offered a choice of a full refund or rolling their tickets forward to 2022.
Further details of the line-up for Cambridge Folk Festival 2020 have been revealed including Patty Griffin, Seth Lakeman, Julie Fowlis, Sam Lee, Elephant Sessions, Chico Trujillo, The Delines and more.
Tickets for Cambridge Folk Festival which takes place 30 July – 2 August 2020 in the picturesque grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, go on sale next week on 10 December.
We chat to Nick Mulvey, this year’s guest curator of Cambridge Folk Festival. He talks about avenues into Ethnomusicology studies, climate crisis, his recording process and of course his personal experience – both on-and-off stage – at Cambridge.
Part Two of our Cambridge Folk Festival features Rura, Karine Polwart, José González, Calexico and Iron & Wine, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle and Daoirí Farrell’s All-Star Celtic Session.
The first live review coverage of Cambridge Folk Festival is in – featuring Ben Caplan, The Rails, Ralph McTell, Graham Nash, Tunng, Chloe Foy, Lisa O’Neill, Lucinda Williams, Nick Mulvey, Richard Thompson, Crooked Weather, Daoiri Farrell’s All-Star Celtic Session and more.
