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 17th January 2025:
Christina Alden and Alex Patterson
Support: Elly Tree
At the Golden Hind, 355 Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1SP
8pm (Doors open 7:30pm)
Entry: £12(door), £11(advance), £10(members).
Christina Alden and Alex Patterson are multi-instrumentalists and songwriters from East Anglia. Their music is rich with intertwining harmony, sensitive accomplished musicianship and a creative song-writing style that is both delicate and moving. Deeply inspired by the world around them, they have a keen environmental eye to craft stories with the natural world at its heart, reflecting on the relationship between humans and the wild.
They have toured extensively in the UK and Europe, including a twenty-three-date concert hall tour with Show of Hands (including Union Chapel and St David’s Hall, Cardiff), a show at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for Celtic Connections, headline and main stage performances at some of the UK’s most prestigious folk festivals and performances in Norway, Belgium, France and Ireland. They have written and self-released four albums, composed music for a BBC Radio 4 documentary series and have had over a million streams on Spotify.
“A milestone for contemporary folk song-writing” – Bright Young Folk
https://christinaaldenandalexpatterson.com
Elly Tree aka Helen Woodbridge: Bringing passion and flair to music you can dance, listen, laugh and cry to, EllY Tree sings original, intelligent and irresistible folk songs performed with a driving rhythm and a voice that seems to “summon up the gods”. Vocal comparisons (surprising or otherwise) have been made with Edie Reader, Hazel O'Connor, Mama Cass, Joan Armatrading and Joni Mitchell and the songwriting of David Byrne.
EllY has made multiple appearences at FolkEast, Weird and Wonderful Wood, Woodbridge Festival of Arts and Music, WAMfest in Felixstowe, Cosmic Puffin, Ipswich Music Day, the John Peel Centre, Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival and Farmfest in Somerset, as well as pubs and venues throughout East Anglia and beyond. Her songs have also been played on BBC Introducing and she has appeared on local radio.
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Praise for the Folk Club
Maddie Morris sent us this after performing at the Folk Club on 16th February 2024:
"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 togend tickets.
ther, 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.
