{"id":724173,"date":"2026-08-02T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724173\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:22:10","slug":"cambridge-folk-festival-returns-after-years-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724173\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Folk Festival returns after year&#8217;s hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CBeebies musician Nick Cope opened the main stage and singer Melody Cole kicked off the festival at the Club Corner stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other acts playing the festival include the return of folk singer and instrumentalist Seth Lakeman, singer-songwriter This is the Kit, singer Amelia Coburn and BBC Radio 2 presenter Mark Radcliffe&#8217;s partnership with fellow musician David Boardman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radcliffe told the BBC: &#8220;It&#8217;s so good to have it back and David and I are honoured to be taking to the stage on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Save us a couple of spiced ciders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBeebies musician Nick Cope opened the main stage and singer Melody Cole kicked off the festival at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}