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No Plastic – Folking Fantastic

16/07/2019 Carl Byron Batson

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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Cherry Picking Names For The Folk Festival

19/05/2019 Carl Byron Batson

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)

Cracking Nuts Under The Apple Tree

05/05/2019 Carl Byron Batson

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)

Hair Of The Dog – Or Not?

17/03/2019 Carl Byron Batson

Ferocious Dog shave the Mohawk and unleash the hell hounds on Highbury’s Garage. (read more)

Chewing Up A Banjo Plucking Storm

19/02/2019 Carl Byron Batson

The Dead South show a sold out O2 Forum they aint no punks (read more)

News

Nick Mulvey “It’s In Your Hands”

25/09/2018 Carl Byron Batson

Nick Mulvey to choose artists for cambridge folk festival (read more)

Arresting Motion – Cambridge Folk Festival Lives

22/09/2018 Carl Byron Batson

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)

Loreena McKennitt, folk singer and activist

31/08/2018 Trebuchet Magazine

The Canadian Celtic diaspora (Loreena McKennitt) and the New World online (read more)

Solidarity And Songwriting – Grace Petrie Interview Part 2

17/08/2018 Sarah Corbett-Batson

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)

Solidarity and Skittles – Grace Petrie Interview Part 1

14/08/2018 Sarah Corbett-Batson

Singer-songwriter Grace Petrie talks about her renewed faith in the Labour Party, queer politics and Skittles (read more)

Dig That Crazy Rhythm – Stick In The Wheel Drill Down

12/08/2018 Sarah Corbett-Batson

Trebuchet’s Sarah Corbett-Batson interviews Folk exponents Stick in the Wheel. Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 (read more)

Orian, Obadiah and McCartney? – Cambridge Folk Festival With O&O

10/08/2018 Sarah Corbett-Batson

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)

Cool As Folk – Cambridge Folk Festival 2018

08/08/2018 Sarah Corbett-Batson

ambridge Folk Festival 2018 poured the perfect mix with the extended weekend getting off to a flying start on Thursday with the fast and wild trashgrass of Whiskey Shivers. With a lead singer sporting a (read more)

Sexy As Folk – Cambridge Folk Festival 2018

07/08/2018 Carl Byron Batson

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)

Get Yer Tankards Out – Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 Is Close Enough To Taste

30/07/2018 Carl Byron Batson

Cambridge Folk Festival 2018surely must be one of the most friendly and entertaining festivals on the calendar. (read more)

Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 Is On The Shimmering Horizon

18/07/2018 Carl Byron Batson

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)