With the floods getting higher, and the wind getting colder, the festival season marches defiantly on. This weekend’s offering features The BBC Radio 2 Cambridge Folk Festival from 26th- 29th July at Cherry Hinton Hall. Since its beginnings in 1964, Cambridge Folk Festival has grown to become one of the biggest and sought after folk festivals in the world, regularly selling out well in advance.

With the legendary Richard Thompson headlining last year's festival, you would wonder how they could surpass themselves, but with Joan Baez, The Waterboys and Nanci Griffith topping the bill, this years festival looks set to be quite a treat!

Having just released their new album Book of Lightning, The Waterboys (appropriately named for the wettest festival year ever) will be wowing the soggy hippies on Friday night with classics such as The Whole of the Moon and (again aptly titled) Fisherman’s Blues.

Saturday night will feature folk royalty Joan Baez. After receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences earlier this year, Baez will be belting out her signature freedom and civil rights tunes that she first made her own back in 1959 when she played the Newport Folk Festival.

Closing the festival on Sunday is the Grammy Award-winning, southern belle Nanci Griffith. With over twenty albums under her belt she may struggle to even scratch the surface of her latest album, Ruby’s Torch, which brings together Griffith’s original style with that of her greatest influences. Griffith, who will be playing with her band The Blue Moon Orchestra, with whom she has played since 1986, is sure to bedazzle her legions of fans and leave them gagging for next year's festival.

Other acts speckling the bill with lutes, fiddles and banjos aplenty will include Martha Tilston, Bellowhead, Kate Rusby, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and many many more.

As if all that was not enough, there will be songwriting workshops, a club tent, plenty of kids' entertainment so parents can go off and get drunk and all your regular festival features of crazy hat stands and noodle vans.

If you have not got your tickets already though, it’s tough, as the festival sold out long ago! However, if camping in the rain and traditional folk are your thing, check out Fairport’s Cropredy Convention from the 10th-12th August.

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