PREVIEW: The Co-operative Cambridge Folk Festival

Tickets have now sold out for the Cambridge Folk Festival, apart from Thursday evening tickets, which are still available at a price of £17. 

The Festival, which takes place this year in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall from Thursday 30 July until Sunday 2 August, has been a highlight of the Cambridgshire music year since its inception in 1964, and has become the premier folk festival in the country, attracting a crowd of 10,000 each year. This year the title sponsor is The Co-operative.

This year's line-up features Lucinda Williams, The Zutons, Los Lobos, The Saw Doctors, Booker T., Paul Brady, The Waterson Family, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Oumou Sangare, Eddi Reader, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Bellowhead, Cara Dillon, Martin Simpson, Susan Tedeschi, Blazin' Fiddles, Edward II, Lau, Jim Moray, Imelda May, Máirtin O'Connor, Cathal Hayden & Séamie O'Dowd, Diana Jones, Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds, Watermelon Slim & The Workers, Hayes Carll, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings, Hot Club Of Cowtown, Crooked Still, Brian McNeill, Alela Diane, The Demon Barbers, Bella Hardy, Pete Molinari, Genticorum, Rupa & The April Fishes, The Treacherous Orchestra, New Rope String Band, Mumford & Sons, The Shee, Megan & Joe Henwood, Steamchicken, Ruaridh Macmillan, Calan and Sunday Driver. 

Should be good!

 

Co-operative Cambridge Folk Festival website

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