cambridge folk festival

In an exciting Festival first, Jon Boden takes the role of Guest Curator of Cambridge Folk Festival 2017. He reveals the stories behind his choices for the festival including LAU, Furrow Collective, Chris T-T, Kate in the Kettle and Martin Simpson.

Cambridge Folk Festival is delighted to reveal exciting new additions to this year’s bill, including Lisa Hannigan and Martin Simpson. They join a line-up that brings together up and coming artists and established folk legends in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall.

The latest names have been announced for Cambridge Folk Festival 2017, including the legendary Shirley Collins, Indigo Girls, Sharon Shannon, The Furrow Collective, Beth Nielsen Chapman and more

Jon Boden is announced as Guest Curator for Cambridge Folk Festival 2017 and, along with The Remnant Kings, will perform their first live show in several years with a one-off preview performance on the festival’s main stage of material from the brand-new Jon Boden album to be released in autumn 2017.

Cambridge Folk Festival announce another great line-up for emerging talent stage The Den this year and also the special Club Tent showcases including Anna & Elizabeth, The Rheingans Sisters and many more.

Cambridge Folk Festival make their first line-up announcement for 2016 which includes many great headliners including Christy Moore as well as a stack of artists we’ve featured over the past year.

Paul catches up with The Unthanks at Cambridge Folk Festival, they talk about future projects, what they’re listening to, nerves, and their ever popular Singing Weekends.

Prior to her amazing Cambridge Folk Festival performance we were lucky enough to grab some time with Gretchen Peters. She provides a great insight into her songwriting career and tells us what makes UK audiences different.

Paul catches the Ben Miller Band backstage at Cambridge Folk Festival before treating the audience to their own brand of Ozark Stomp…”And we don’t really form our shows, but before you know it you’re in the middle of something and it feels good.” It’s a tour-de-force performance from start to finish!

Paul catches up with The Stray Birds who were, for a lot of observers, the highlight of this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival. Plus watch them performing a backstage session and don’t miss their remaining UK dates.

We caught up with Bella Hardy at Cambridge Folk Festival. She provided one of the most deeply insightful interviews and tells us of her plans to visit China as artist in residence by the PRS For Music Foundation and the British Council in Kunming, south China. Plus Download a free live track from Bella’s performance at Cambridge.

At Cambridge Folk Festival this year The Lone Bellow arrived on the back of some decent press and left having stolen the hearts of everyone who watched them. Paul talks to the band back-stage and takes us through some of those magical moments.