In pictures: Cambridge Folk Festival

Nic Rigby

BBC News, Cambridgeshire

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Cambridge Folk Festival

28 July 2024

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Robert Plant (with Suzi Dian) was on the main stage on Friday evening showcasing his folkier side, that was evident on some of his former band Led Zeppelin's recordings
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Adding a dash of colour was North Carolina drag queen Flamy Grant
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Capercaillie delighted fans on Stage One on Friday, some 40 years after the Scottish band's debut album Cascade
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After the wet spring, festival goers were able to bask in some sunshine at Cherry Hinton Hall Park
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Rebecca Lovell, of US sisters duo Larkin Poe, said: "Having played The Den we have been looking forward to coming back and playing the main stage. We hope the audience will like the way we have evolved as a band."
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Norwich country rock band Brown Horse hot-hooved it from the Latitude festival in Suffolk to appear in The Den on Friday for a rousing performance
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Norwich act Kitewing combine members of the Shackleton Trio, with Christina Alden and Alex Patterson
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Three-time US Grammy (Blues) award winner Fantastic Negrito, from Oakland in California, regaled the crowd in a gold cloak
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Massachusetts band Darlingside on Stage 1 on Saturday
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Cornwall/London singer Lily Lyons opened The Den on Thursday and said it was "amazing to be playing a really iconic festival"
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Australian singer songwriter Ernest Aines said playing the festival was "dream come true"
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Festival favourite Katherine Priddy has supported folk royalty including Richard Thompson and Loudon Wainwright III... as well as featuring on an album of covers by former Cambridge University student Nick Drake
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The festival also features music workshops and children's activities
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Australian singer and cellist Monique Clare was another who said it was a "dream come true" to play at the festival, and she treated The Den to a version of Beyonce's Crazy In Love
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Irish singer-songwriter Lorraine Nash said her first UK festival appearance was "a little bit daunting, but there is such a supportive atmosphere"
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Rising Americana singer Sorrel Nation in The Den
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Harpist and singer Anna McLuckie has been nominated for the festival's Christian Raphael Prize for emerging talent
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Tricia Collins, from Roscommon in Ireland, said she was "over the moon to be playing Cambridge, to play among such fantastic musicians"
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Now approaching his 80s, Ralph McTell told his audience on Thursday that he first played the festival in 1969
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Now in her late 80s, Peggy Seeger performed on Sunday. The US-born singer is the widow of Britain's Euan MacColl and half sister of Pete Seeger
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The festival will return to the site in south-east Cambridge in 2025

Thousands of music fans have come to one of the most prestigious folk festivals in England.

The famous Cambridge Folk Festival, which began in 1965, usually attracts about 14,000 people between Thursday and Sunday.

Acts this year included Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant headlining the event with Saving Grace, featuring singer Suzi Dian.

The weather at the Cherry Hinton Hall site has been mostly dry with occasional rain.

BBC Radio 2, which broadcasts The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe on Wednesday evenings, is a media partner of the festival.

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