The Cambridge Folk Festival, organized by Cambridge City Council, is returning in 2026 with an innovative new format, ...

Passim has been a hub in the folk music scene not only for the Boston area, but for the country, drawing performers such as Joan Baez and Patty Griffin. As Passim celebrates its 60th anniversary, we ...

Keeping everything in tune with the high levels of humidity can’t have been easy though most everyone managed it – even though, as Janis Ian joked, tuning has sometimes been antithetical to folkies.

Rolf Cahn has arrived in Cambridge on his yearly pilgrimage reviving old arguments about all aspects of his music. Is he a good blues singer? is he a competent flamenco guitarist? is his guitar ...

Ian A Anderson will be appearing at Black Fen Folk Club at the NCI Centre, Holland Street, Cambridge, on Sunday, 14 December.

One of the country's oldest folk festivals has confirmed it will return next year after this year's hiatus, but the event is set to only last two days. Cambridge City councillors will consider the ...

Maybe Boston-born James Taylor said it best: “New York had Dylan, but we had Tom Rush.” A Harvard graduate who almost didn’t, thanks to the amount of time he spent at folk mecca Club 47, Rush cut his ...

One of the oldest folk festivals in England was cancelled after making a £320,000 loss last year, council documents have revealed. The annual four-day Cambridge Folk Festival, organised by Cambridge ...

Some 1,400 people came to that first festival, which featured the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Shirley Collins, Bob Davenport, Peggy Seeger, Hedy West, Isla Cameron, the Watersons and Paul Simon, ...

A popular Cambridge music festival returns next year after being cancelled, but there will be some changes. The Cambridge Folk Festival will make a comeback to Cherry Hinton Hall in 2026 after the ...