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)
This sold-out show was a call to arms that there is another way, and that we can take a great leap forwards to a fairer, more equal society. (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)
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)
The Dead South show a sold out O2 Forum they aint no punks (read more)
Nick Mulvey to choose artists for cambridge folk festival (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)
The Canadian Celtic diaspora (Loreena McKennitt) and the New World online (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)
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)
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)
Sometimes, the tropes of contemporary Western culture can combine with the music of other eras and nations to turn up unexpected results. (read more)
Napinco encounters songwriter Keenan Mitag-Degala’s project Elan Noon and new album ‘Have A Spirit Filled’. (read more)
Guts and Gusto win out whilst Grammar Gets Gutted. (read more)
Clatch’s music won’t make him rich, but it’d be a poorer world without it (read more)
Suffering for your art is common practice, but is it worth dying for? (read more)
‘If you sing about anything other than universal themes, you put people off’ (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)
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