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Mike Harding presents musical highlights and interviews from the Cambridge Folk Festival.

Mike Harding presents two hours of musical highlights and backstage interviews from the 2012 Cambridge Folk Festival.

This year's coverage will include backstage interviews with popular Scottish duo The Proclaimers, singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, folk rock legend Roy Harper and Billy Bragg, who is celebrating Woody Guthrie's centenary with a set dedicated to the folk icon.

Other live performances will come from headline act Clannad, multiple Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2 Folk Award-winners June Tabor & Oysterband, Texan folkabilly star Nanci Griffith, Irish favourites Four Men and a Dog, and Dublin songwriter James Vincent McMorrow.

Mike will also catch up with the influential English folk guitarist and singer Nic Jones, who spent many years off the scene after an accident made it impossible for him to perform. Nic is playing a handful of festivals this year, of which Cambridge is one.

Over more than 40 years, Cambridge has earned its place as one of Europe's major folk festivals, hosting the world's biggest and best names from celtic, country, roots, reggae, zydeco, rock music and beyond.

The festival, run by Cambridge City Council in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, places great importance on being family- friendly and its inclusive atmosphere and array of events have helped it to sell out year after year.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Wed 1 Aug 2012 19:00

Music Played

  • Pine Leaf Boys

    Keep Your Hands Off Of It

    • Live Performance.
  • June Tabor & Oysterband

    If My Love Leaves Me

    • Live Performance.
  • Four Men and a Dog

    The Shape I'm In

    • Live Performance.
  • Joan Armatrading

    Kissin and a Huggin

    • Live Performance.
  • Treacherous Orchestra

    Sea of Okhotsk

    • Live Performance.
  • Clannad

    Elrigh Is Cuir Ort Do Chuid Eadaigh

    • Live Performance.
  • The Unthanks

    Gan to the Kye

    • Diversions Vol. 2.
    • Rabble Rouser RRM010.
  • Nanci Griffith

    Hell No

    • Live Performance.
  • Roy Harper

    When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease

    • Live Performance.
  • James Vincent McMorrow

    This Old Dark Machine

    • Live Performance.
  • Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party

    The Lover's Ghost

    • Live Performance.
  • Joe & Nic Jones

    Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father

    • Live Performance.
  • The Unwanted

    Sadly Grows the Rose

    • Live Performance.
  • Billy Bragg

    Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

    • Live Performance.
  • The Mighty Doonans

    Dead End Street

    • Live Performance.
  • Loreena McKennitt

    Bonny Portmore

    • Troubadours on the Rhine.
    • Cadiz Music.
  • The Proclaimers

    Spinning Around in the Air

    • Live Performance.
  • The Proclaimers

    500 Miles

    • Live Performance.

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Aug 2012 19:00