Concert News

Cambridge Folk Festival Announce Headliners

• 7th Mar 2013

Europe’s most acclaimed folk festival the Cambridge Folk Festival, now in its 49th year, has revealed a number of artists confirmed for 2013’s characteristically eclectic bill.

Performances include recently reformed and hugely popular The Mavericks, whose infectious blend of rock, Americana and Tex-Mex is sure to have the festival on its feet; intoxicating, critically acclaimed, English folk big-band Bellowhead; Brit and Ivor Novello Award winning, multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter KT Tunstall and festival favourites, folk-punk band Levellers.

The bill so far announced looks like this:

The Mavericks (Sat) Bellowhead (Fri) KT Tunstall (Sat) Levellers (Fri)
Liam O’Flynn, Andy Irvine, Paddy Glackin & Dónal Lunny aka LAPD (Fri)
Capercaillie (Sun) Heritage Blues Orchestra (Sat) Lucy Rose (Thurs)
Martin Simpson (Sat/Sun) Le Vent du Nord (Sat/Sun) Mud Morganfield Band (Sun)
Sam Lee & Friends (Fri) Heidi Talbot (Sat/Sun) The Chair (Sat/Sun)
Mokoomba (Sat) Willy Mason (Thurs) The Bombay Royale (Fri)
Bella Hardy & The Midnight Watch (Sat) Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman (Thurs)
Frigg (Fri/Sat) Jim Moray’s Silent Ceilidh (Sat) Brian McNeill (Fri/Sat)
We Banjo 3 (Sat/Sun) Larkin Poe (Thurs/Fri) Monster Ceilidh Band (Fri)
The Willows (Thurs) Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar (Sat/Sun)

SUNDAY HEADLINERS AND MORE MAJOR NAMES TO BE ANNOUNCED