Crowds flocked to a scaled-down Cambridge Folk Festival after a year’s break as it signed off with performances from “very proud” US singer\/songwriter Suzanne Vega, and English folk legend Richard Thompson.<\/p>\n
The festival also saw performances from punk\/folk singer Frank Turner and singer\/fiddler Seth Lakeman.<\/p>\n
About 4,000 attended the council-run event<\/a>, which usually has crowds of about 15,000-20,000 but was not staged last year<\/a> due to financial losses.<\/p>\n As well as international stars, the festival saw performances from local acts such as Cambridge singer-songwriters Emily Fraser and Lara Gisborne.<\/p>\n Also performing at the festival at Cherry Hinton Hall were BBC 6 Music favourites Christina Alden and Alex Patterson \u2014 traditional folk singers and multi-instrumentalists from Norwich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crowds flocked to a scaled-down Cambridge Folk Festival after a year’s break as it signed off with performances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725758","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\/725758","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=725758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}