Every generation has to find its own way to deal with the problems it faces. Red Wedge was our generation and it came out of a specific set of circumstances. Other generations will find other ways. (read more)
The sense of historical evolution removes from us a responsibility of safeguarding the hard-won victories of the last 100 years… interview with Hirsute folksinging historian Ben Caplan (read more)
There are certainly things to be avoided in Nashville as far as I’m concerned. But to me that’s a different business altogether and it’s a different thing, it’s really the entertainment business and not the music world to me. (read more)
My music has a powerful message behind it and I think that the Celtic tradition cradles that. The stripe is a symbol to remind me of the warrior within me and when people look at it, it reminds them of the warrior within them too. (read more)
CFF 2019 showcased some incredible new talent. Amy Montgomery is one of the few performers who stops you dead in your tracks and forces you to lower your lens to breathe in the sheer brilliance of it all (read more)
Returning this year with an ‘Outstanding’ A Greener Festival Award, Cambridge Folk Festival today furthers its sustainability commitment and announces the ban on single use plastics.
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Reacquaint yourself with folk legend Daoiri Farrell, with an ear pleasing All Star Celtic Session consisting of Michael McGoldrick, Donald Lunny, Niamh Dunne, Sean Og Graham, Donald Shaw and Robbie Walsh. (read more)
Their music has an underlying groove combined with an earthy spirituality that makes you want to kick off your boots and dance around the nearest stone circle. (read more)
Ferocious Dog shave the Mohawk and unleash the hell hounds on Highbury’s Garage. (read more)
It seems like just a few short weeks ago when, in the glorious heat of summer, we munched on succulent veggie burgers, supped fine ales and caught up with old and new friends alike. Each (read more)
Sarah Corbett-Batson: To what extent do you feel that you’re preaching to the converted? Grace: What is the converted these days? I tell you, I can’t remember another time in my life that I’ve felt (read more)
Singer-songwriter Grace Petrie talks about her renewed faith in the Labour Party, queer politics and Skittles (read more)
Trebuchet’s Sarah Corbett-Batson interviews Folk exponents Stick in the Wheel. Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 (read more)
Israeli vocalist, Orian Peled and American guitarist and singer, Obadiah Jones talk about how they first met and their songwriting experience with Paul McCartney (read more)
With headliners First Aid Kit and Patti Smith, Cambridge Folk Festival has become far more than a meeting of beardy real ale connoisseurs with pewter tankards and mandolins. (read more)
Cambridge Folk Festival 2018surely must be one of the most friendly and entertaining festivals on the calendar. (read more)
Trebuchet could not countenance summer without the Cambridge Folk Festival. At the curational helm of 2018’s vaunted cross-pollination with Newport folk fest is Rhiannon Giddens, whose Baez-like vocals go a fair way toward making that (read more)
‘If you sing about anything other than universal themes, you put people off’ (read more)
Some folk is more funky than others. Cambridge Folk Festival Photos (read more)
Like holding back the tide, folk singer and reluctant activist Chris T-T struggles to adapt to a life without opinions (read more)
Guerilla busking, singing with Jon Snow, and the prohibitive costs of haircare – CC Smugglers tell all (read more)
As ever, outstanding in its field. (read more)
Two titans of the folk festival landscape team up across the Atlantic (read more)
Photographs of folk in the fens at Cambridge Folk Festival 2016 (read more)
Music for partying, reflection, loss, love and protest, CFF wins again. (read more)
Blessed by great weather the festival was a sold out success with myth making performances from The Proclaimers, Joan Baez, Wilko Johnson, Joan Armatrading and The Unthanks. (read more)
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