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Cambridge Folk Festival 2023 - Extended Highlights

Rufus Wainwright, Eliza Carthy and Lady Blackbird are among the performers as Mark Radcliffe returns to Cherry Hinton Hall for the 2023 Cambridge Folk Festival.

Live music highlights and backstage interviews from the celebrated roots music festival.

Rufus Wainwright, Eliza Carthy, Lady Blackbird and Angeline Morrison are among the performers, as Mark Radcliffe returns to Cherry Hinton Hall for the 2023 Cambridge Folk Festival.

There鈥檚 also music and chat from artists including James Yorkston & Nina Persson and acclaimed jazz and soul singer Lady Blackbird.

Rufus Wainwright, son of Loudon Wainwright III and the late Kate McGarrigle, is currently exploring his folk roots. His new album, Folkocracy, features a set of folk duets with a surprising set of musical friends: John Legend, Chris Stills, Chaka Khan, Andrew Bird, Nicole Scherzinger and more.

Eliza Carthy, a singer and musician long established as an outstanding talent at the vanguard of British folk, is appearing with her band The Restitution.

Angeline Morrison, the songwriter based in Cornwall, will perform with her Sorrow Songs Band, named after Angeline鈥檚 landmark album, The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs Of Black British Experience. In 2022, Angeline won the Christian Raphael Prize for emerging talent, which is presented annually at Cambridge Folk Festival. Angeline also took part in Radio 2鈥檚 21st Century Folk.

Scottish folk songwriter James Yorkston has teamed up with Swedish singer Nina Persson of The Cardigans, and assembled the Second Hand Orchestra. They perform songs from their touching and distinctive album, The Great White Sea Eagle.

Jazz and soul singer Lady Blackbird (real name Marley Munroe) is based in Los Angeles and released her outstanding album, Black Acid Soul, in 2021. She takes to the main stage on Friday evening.

Cambridge Folk Festival was founded in the 1960s and continues to take place at Cherry Hinton Hall Park in the south east of the city.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Sat 12 Aug 2023 02:00

Music Played

  • Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

    Good Morning, Mr Walker (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • Le Vent du Nord

    Dans l'eau-de-vie de l'arbre (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • Gangstagrass

    Nickel and Dime Blues

  • Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

    My Father's Mansion (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

    Stumbling On (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • The Sharon Shannon Trio

    Jigatha Christie (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • The Sharon Shannon Trio

    Galway Girl / Music For a Found Harmonium (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023) (feat. Jack Maher)

  • James Yorkston & Nina Persson

    An Upturned Crab (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • James Yorkston & Nina Persson

    Harmony (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • Le Vent du Nord

    La Soir猫e Du Hockey - Live at Cambridge Folk Festival - RX29/07/2023

  • The Sharon Shannon Trio

    Moondance / The Congress (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • Angeline Morrison & The Sorrow Songs Band

    Black John (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • Angeline Morrison & The Sorrow Songs Band

    The Beautiful Spotted Black Boy (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • Rufus Wainwright

    Hush Little Baby (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • Lady Blackbird

    It'll Never Happen Again (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • Rufus Wainwright

    Shenandoah (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

  • Lady Blackbird

    Proud Mary / River Deep, Mountain High (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023)

Broadcast

  • Sat 12 Aug 2023 02:00