Cambridge Folk Festival

In case you missed the announcement on Radio 2's The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe, The Deep Blue are the winner's of this year's Christian Raphael Prize 2024 in association with the Cambridge Folk Festival!

The Deep Blue are now the sixth recipient of one of the most significant competitions throughout the country for key emerging talent in this genre of music – Tricia Collins is this year’s runner-up.

Read more about The Deep Blue and the prize here: https://www.cambridgelive.org.uk/folk-festival/news/deep-blue-have-been-announced-winners-christian-raphael-prize-2024

The camping stewards at Cherry Hinton Hall would like to say a huge thank you to all the Cherry Hinton campers for being so marvelous!

See you next year 👋

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Lost property: Has anyone accidently taken a blue backpack containing a concertina with H. Boyd written on the side home with them?

A festival goer is looking for a missing English Concertina, Wheatstone Boyd, five bellows, six sided with metal ends.

If you have it please contact our box office [email protected] so it can be returned to it's owner!

We want your feedback!

We'd love to know what you thought of this year's Cambridge Folk Festival, if you have 5 minutes to answer a few questions, please fill in our survey below.

If you’re happy to provide contact details, you will be entered in a draw to win 2 full weekend tickets for our 2025 festival!

Find the survey here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Yr5uzntVNkShnHZ-yizUUfj5P9tybtJCg3gvt38NM_5UQVNDMUY2MTE2OENKVzRSTkZaRjk3SlJDRi4u

In pictures: Cambridge Folk Festival

Cambridge Folk Festival 26/07/2024 Day 2 at the Cambridge Folk Festival with Alex, Linda and Julian.

I first played Cambridge Folk Festival 55 years ago. It’s an absolute joy to see it continue in all its diversity, with early audiences still returning, often with children and grandchildren.

Festivals are the lifeblood of our music scene and many are bidding sad farewells this year. I’m lucky enough to be visiting The Sidmouth Folk Festival and will be enjoying Fairport's Cropredy Convention Official page too. But these festivals need our support if the wonderful young musicians starting their careers are to enjoy the same opportunities that us old guard did!

It’s a big investment for many, but we plant acorns so others can sit in the shade of great oak trees. Music is part of our sometimes hard-to-define cultural identity and the chance to see what our younger artists are thinking, feeling and playing, alongside our older favourites helps bind our generations when there are few other opportunities to do so.

Hope to see you all Somewhere Down the Road at a festival this summer!

Photo copyright to Phil Carter

Thank you Cambridge Folk Festival - our hearts are so full! What a beautiful experience it was to perform for the most beautiful audience! So much love! ❤️❤️❤️

More pictures soon! This photograph reaffirms that our manager needs to buy a new phone with a good camera!

Early bird tickets have now sold out!

Thank you so much to everyone who booked, we'll be working hard to get the general sale tickets on sale later in the year. We can't wait to see you again in 2025!

What an INCREDIBLE weekend! Thank you all so much for coming… four days of glorious fun in the sun, we hope you loved it as much as we did.

We’re counting down the days till we can do it all again and are pleased to tell you that we have a SUPER limited batch of 2025 early bird tickets on sale now.

Treat yourself to another beautiful weekend at Cherry Hinton Hall here: https://www.cambridgelive.org.uk/folk-festival/tickets

Have you seen the posters around site! Last day enter, just scan the QR code and answer the question to be entered. Tickets are £2.50.

Can't be with us this weekend? You can enter here and win tickets to next year's festival and so much more: https://raffall.com/361252/enter-raffle-to-win-cambridge-folk-festival-tickets-and-other-prizes-hosted-by-cambridge-folk-festival

Amended Sunday Stage 3 timings for today, the Norwegian artists will be performing later in the day with the festival choir and open stage slots moving earlier in the day.

Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves 22:05 - 22:55

Frankie Archer 21:00 – 21:50

Hub Band Project 20:20 – 20:45

Music Norway Wrap Up 20:05 – 20:10

Julie Alapnes 19:20 – 20:05

Erlend Viken Trio 18:20 – 19:05

Ævestaden 17:20 – 18:05

Alexander Aga Roynstrand 16:20 – 17:05

Intro to Norwegian Music Showcase 16:10 – 16:20

Festival Choir 15:25 – 15:55

Open Stage 14:00 – 15:10

Lemoncello 13:00 -13:45

Jali Bakary Konteh 12:00 – 12:45

There are some programme changes today for Stage 3. Sian is now performing at a later time.

Intro to Scotland 12:55
Paul McKenna 13:05 - 13:45
Constant Follower 14:00 - 14:40
Paper Sparrows 14:55 - 15:35
Ainsley Hamill 15:50 - 16:30
SIAN 16:45 - 17:20
Scotland wrap up 17:20 - 17:25

Flower Garden Songwriting Workshops

Are you struggling to make your song feel ‘complete’?
Not sure why established writers’ work sounds so professional?
Ready to connect with your audience - if only you knew how?

Freshen up your songwriting! Join The Bridge in the Flower Garden for a second year of informal workshops on songwriting skills.

Friday 11am-12.30: Song clinic. Got work in progress that you need help to finish? Bring along an unfinished piece to get tips from fellow writers.

Saturday 11.45am- 13.30: The finished article. Meet festival performers Annie Dressner, Ernest Aines, and Lorraine Nash as they discuss why their songs work.

Sunday 10am-11.30: It’s not just the song - it’s how you put it across. Share performance skills to help your song stand out.

The Bridge is an umbrella organisation that makes connections between local music providers and performers. Set up in 2017, they have enabled over twenty artists to appear at the festival for the first time. Today, they focus on their members’ considerable experience to bring out the best work from aspiring and established songwriters alike.

We look forward to welcoming you on Coldhams Common Campsite this weekend. You will find the entrance to the site at www.what3words.com/blur.quest.props 🏕️

Broken something? Our team of volunteers at the Community Repair Corner might be able to help with repairing (nearly) anything (except wristbands).

Come and find them by the Info Point between 10:00 and 17:00, Friday to Sunday.

One of the best parts of the festival experience ... filling your belly with delicious festival food!

Eat around the world with stall serving Japanese, Mexican, French, Tibetan, Greek and Indian cuisine.

There'll be burgers, steak, vegetarian, squid and pizza a plenty, and if you're wanting something sweet there'll be gelato, crepes, cakes, churros and milkshakes galore!

The shortlist for the Christian Raphael Prize is here! Don't miss the opportunity to see these incredibly talented artists in The Den across the weekend.

Konykieh
Tricia Collins
Lily Lyons
The Deep Blue
Anna McLuckie
Annie Baylis

The Christian Raphael Prize was established in 2018 by Cambridge Folk Festival, Christian Raphael and his family. The prize provides the opportunity for an up-and-coming folk act performing at The Den to progress their career to the next level. Now in its sixth year, the prize continues to build an important legacy of helping the next generation of folk music talent.

Local sponsor Cranes Cider will once again be bringing their delicious Premium Apple and their New Wild English Berries Cider to Cambridge Folk Festival.

Cranes refreshingly natural ciders are handcrafted by co-founders and twin brothers Ben & Dan. Cranes Ciders only use the real fruit juice.

We hope you’ll join us for a drink and enjoy the goodness they have in store for us.

Stage Times for 2024 have been released! Find who you want to see and when they'll be playing.

Physical copies of the programme will be available to buy throughout the weekend. The perfect pocket size, easy to pull out to find something to see what's happening across the festival and discover new artists!

Plan your weekend here: https://www.cambridgelive.org.uk/folk-festival/folk-festival/line-up/stage-times

Come along to Folk Idol!

Located in the Children's Area, bring your nippers along and to have a go on our mini stage and let them perform whatever they like - a song, a joke, a dance. Even have a go yourself!

Bring an instrument or make use of what we've got - led by Howard Monk, with local Singer Songwriter Luke James Williams.

Every one who takes part wins a prize (it's a vegetable)!

Sun, glorious sun!

Not long to go until we're together at Cherry Hinton Hall basking in the sun, beer in hand, listening to great music surrounded by our nearest and dearest. ☀️💜🍻

There's still time to join us for a magical weekend: https://www.cambridgelive.org.uk/folk-festival/tickets

We’re delighted to say that long term sponsor Otter Brewery, based in Devon, will once again be bringing their fantastic cask ales and lager to Cambridge Folk Festival.

Handcrafted, award-winning beers including Otter Amber, Otter Ale and Otter Bitter will be served in bars across the festival ground along with their Tarka Lager. For every brewer’s barrel sold, Otter will plant a tree via the ‘saving Devon’s Treescapes’ project.

Head to the bars to grab yourself a delicious pint!