As one’s own tally of birthdays piles up, a certain amount of nostalgia almost inevitably creeps into the annual festivities. That’s okay, I think, as long as you keep looking forward as well. So it was with the great Cambridge […]
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These days, the blues is pretty much universally acknowledged as integral to the world’s music DNA. Even ad-men get it. But, fifty years ago, when a bunch of English white kids with names like Clapton, Jagger, Jones, and Page first […]
A few weeks ago, Spiers and Boden played at the Royal Northern College of Music here in Manchester as part of their final tour as a duo. As ever, it was a heartfelt and hugely-entertaining show. But Bellowhead, the frankly rather unlikely eleven-piece folk-jazz-burlesque ensemble they embarked […]
The annual Folkelarm festival has been a key showcase for Nordic folk music acts since 2005. After a break for reconsideration last year, it was back in force this year at Oslo’s rather impressive Rikscennen hub for traditional music and […]
It was a remarkable coup for Manchester Jazz Festival, with the help of co-sponsors the Instituto Cervantes, to persuade Spanish harmonica virtuoso Antonio Serrano to break off from touring with Paco De Lucia for this one-off date, his solo debut […]
Even with a cracking band led by her husband John McCusker, Heidi Talbot took a chance by opening her Main Stage set with a singalong. Luckily, a Cambridge Folk Festival crowd is a resilient bunch and even those still recovering […]
Launching his terrific new album Vagrant Stanzas on the Main Stage, Martin Simpson reflected that he’d been coming to the Cambridge Folk Festival since he was a teenager, playing onstage for the first time in 1976. This year he celebrated […]
With its fiftieth anniversary looming next year, the Cambridge Folk Festival remains the pre-eminent event of its sort, quite probably in the world. They’ve developed an uncanny knack for mixing big names like Bellowhead, Amadou & Mariam and The Waterboys […]
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