New names announced for this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival

More artists have been announced for this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival, including names from folk, country, Americana and roots music.

This year’s event, which celebrates 60 years since the festival was established in 1964, takes place from 25-28 July in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall.

Tickets are now on sale at cambridgelive.org.uk/folk-festival/tickets.

The new artists to join the line-up include duo Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves, who won Instrumental Group of the Year and Traditional Album of the Year at the 2023 Canadian Folk Music Awards; Brighton-based singer-songwriter Bess Atwell; Scottish quartet Birdvox; and Butler, Blake & Grant (aka Norman Blake, Bernard Butler and James Grant) who are well known from their previous bands – Teenage Fanclub, Suede and Love & Money.

Also announced are Boston indie folk band Darlingside; Americana collective Dean Owens & the Sinners, whom Irvine Welsh calls “the pulse of all our lives”; Orkney female fiddle trio FARA, who also boast Highland pianist Rory Matheson, making them a four-piece again; French Canadian three-piece, Genticorum; Hollie Cook, daughter of Sex Pistol Paul Cook, classically-trained composer and tenor Jeremy Dutcher; and Uganda-born Jon Muq, who now calls Austin, Texas home.

Also, with two decades of albums and tours under their belts - not to mention being shortlisted for the Mercury Prize - Turin Brakes promise to get the audience up and grooving.

Alongside the music, there is much more to enjoy over the festival weekend, including children’s activities, workshops on instrument making and songwriting, a silent disco, storytelling, clog dancing, tai-chi, and a wide selection of food trucks and bars.

The new names (see the full list at cambridgelive.org.uk/folk-festival) join previously announced artists such as Robert Plant presents Saving Grace featuring Suzi Dian, Transatlantic Sessions, Aoife O’Donovan, Fantastic Negrito, Jerry Douglas, Katherine Priddy, Peggy Seeger and Family, and Ralph McTell.

[Read more: Robert Plant’s Saving Grace headlines 60th Cambridge Folk Festival]

Full festival tickets are priced at £230, Thursday: £35, Friday: £89, Saturday: £89 and Sunday: £89. Prices include booking fees. See website for concessions, camping and parking information. Day tickets go on sale tomorrow (Thursday, 21 March).