SECOND DAY Nanci Griffith called it “the finest festival in the world’. Just as heartfelt, if a little less decorously, Keb Mo reckons it’s a “bad-ass mo-fo” but the love for the Cambridge Folk Festival is obvious. Opening the Main […]
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FIRST DAY – Friday July 27 One of the many reasons why the Cambridge Folk Festival is the pre-eminent event of its kind in Europe is that for decades the organisers have fearlessly programmed popular veterans alongside up-and-comers and the […]
You’ll probably have heard and read a lot by now about Bruce having the plug pulled on him in London, while he was jamming with Macca. Of course it was stupid and irritating if, like me, you’d been there all […]
“We face neither East nor West, we face forward,” said Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of an independent Ghana in 1960, emphasising his country’s resistance to Cold War superpowers. Now that evocative phrase We Face Forward is the name of a […]
LANDKAPPLEIKEN JUNE 28-JULY 1 in OTTA, NORWAY Established in 1896, Norway’s folk music and dance competition Landskappleiken is arguably the main reason why the traditions of the Norwegian folk music have remained so dynamic over the past 100 years. Every year, […]
THE POWER AND THE STORY Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band at Etihad Stadium, June 22 What’s always made Bruce Springsteen such a uniquely compelling figure is how he completely understands that rock’n’roll can be so powerful and glorious that […]
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