Cambridge Club Festival announces it will not run in 2025
The Cambridge Club Festival has announced “with a heavy heart” it will not be running in 2025.
The organisers have posted a message on their website thanking festival goers for “all the incredible memories” over the seven years it ran.
The event started out in 2016 as a gin festival and grew to a three day disco party at Childerley Orchard hosting big names including Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Nile Rodgers, Chaka Khan, Grace Jones, The Jacksons and Kool & The Gang.
In their statement, the organisers said: “It is with a heavy but full heart that we announce that The Cambridge Club Festival will not take place in 2025.
“After seven golden years in the festival field with you, we are now taking a few moments to reflect and look at what the future holds for this special community of music fans.
“A great deal of work and love has gone into growing together. We are a small team, and it has taken all of our passion, energy and commitment – but it’s been worth every ounce. We are truly thankful for those crazy, happy weekends.
“Starting life as a viral ‘Gin Festival’ Facebook event in 2016, The Cambridge Club became a local day party, before evolving into something we couldn’t have imagined in our wildest Disco dreams – with you there dancing, every step of the way.
“Being able to bring iconic artists to the stage – Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Nile Rodgers, Chaka Khan, Grace Jones, The Jacksons, Kool & The Gang – and sharing joy with you, even just for a few days a year, has been a unique pleasure and privilege.
“We’ll be in touch again when we have more information to share with you. But for now, thank you for all the incredible memories together, and for joining us on the CC journey.”
The festival was dreamt up by three friends who wanted to create an event that would appeal to their mums. When they decided to launch the festival, William Young, Sam Mellor and Frazer Robinson had already launched an urban music festival, Strawberries and Creem, built from running student club nights in Cambridge, which had started to become seriously successful.
Starting as a boutique local festival, it grew to a national event attracting thousands of visitors and big headline acts, including comedy performers and DJs.
