Welcome to Cambridge Folk Club
Intimate roots and acoustic music
Cambridge Folk Club presents Open Stage, Showcase and Guest Nights. Buy your tickets on-line from this website or phone 01638 603986
We are a live music club offering all styles of acoustic and folk music. We support local and national artists in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. We meet every Friday night at 8.00pm in the upstairs function room at The Golden Hind, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 1SP. This easily accessible pub offers a wide selection of draught lagers, beers and ciders, and a great range of pub food, and there's parking too.
For details of what's coming up, see the Programme at a glance page and the Detailed Programme page.
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Friday 28th November 2025:
Tom Ling and friends
Including 4Tunes Friends, Nick Barraclough & Brian Cleary
At the Golden Hind, 355 Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1SP
8pm (Doors open 7:30pm)
Entry: £10(door), £9(advance), £8(members).
4TunesFriends are Rowena Whitehead (ukulele,vocals), Tom Ling (fiddle, mandolin), Ian Turner (guitar, vocals) and Wendy Hardeman (whistle, vocals). Their wonderful variety of songs, with rich vocal harmonies, inspiring lyrics, finely crafted instrumentals and sense of fun, will delight and charm you. They have no internet presence as a group – they’re too busy playing music - but they are really rather lovely to listen to!
Nick Barraclough: Singer, guitarist, songwriter and music broadcaster, Nick is a ‘man of country’ with a passion for acoustic music. He currently performs solo and with Cambridge supergroup The Brokedown Palace with Liz Taylor, Phil Meyler, Mal Hyde-Smith and Dave Olney.
Brian Cleary (guitar, bouzouki) sings and plays ragtime, traditional Irish and American folk tunes and his own compositions in a duo with Hugh Boyde. He is also one of the 6-piece traditional English folk band, Camus.
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See the Detailed Programme page for information and tickets for our weekly concerts for the rest of the year.
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Praise for the Folk Club
Lester Lloyd Reason of The Lights made the following comment after they had performed at the Folk Club on 28th March 2025:
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"Cambridge Folk Club is an example of what a folk club should look like, and the direction I hope the folk scene continues to go in. With a commitment both to the tradition, and to creating events that welcome everyone. Cambridge Folk Club is a warm, welcoming and safe atmosphere for artists and audiences and a true embodiment of what folk music should be. People coming together, sharing music, laughter and community through song. The team are welcoming, friendly and helpful, the sound is beautiful and the audiences are appreciative."
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Open Stage 2024 album
This album is now available on streaming platforms.
A play list is available on YouTube at:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yLo4_Tifwg&list=OLAK5uy_lfzk4z7Fz8WqDfPC66H3enzvB_YWqhFGY
For more details see the Open Stage 2024 Album page.
