01/08/2012
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.
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Music Played
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Pine Leaf Boys
Keep Your Hands Off Of It
- Live Performance.
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June Tabor & Oysterband
If My Love Leaves Me
- Live Performance.
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Four Men and a Dog
The Shape I'm In
- Live Performance.
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Joan Armatrading
Kissin and a Huggin
- Live Performance.
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Treacherous Orchestra
Sea of Okhotsk
- Live Performance.
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Clannad
Elrigh Is Cuir Ort Do Chuid Eadaigh
- Live Performance.
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The Unthanks
Gan to the Kye
- Diversions Vol. 2.
- Rabble Rouser RRM010.
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Nanci Griffith
Hell No
- Live Performance.
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Roy Harper
When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease
- Live Performance.
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James Vincent McMorrow
This Old Dark Machine
- Live Performance.
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Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party
The Lover's Ghost
- Live Performance.
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Joe & Nic Jones
Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father
- Live Performance.
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The Unwanted
Sadly Grows the Rose
- Live Performance.
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Billy Bragg
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
- Live Performance.
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The Mighty Doonans
Dead End Street
- Live Performance.
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Loreena McKennitt
Bonny Portmore
- Troubadours on the Rhine.
- Cadiz Music.
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The Proclaimers
Spinning Around in the Air
- Live Performance.
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The Proclaimers
500 Miles
- Live Performance.
Broadcast
- Wed 1 Aug 2012 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2