Folk Tent

The Folk Tent is a unique venue at Cambridge. For a start it's the only one with it's own public bar. Secondly it's one of the few festival venues in Britain and the only one at Cambridge where it's possible to turn up and put your name down on a list and play. There are a few showcase sessions that go on here during the festival, but apart from that it's pretty much open house. Local folk clubs take it in turns to host sessions. Normally they set one or two of these aside for their favourite act, but everything else is down to being in the right place in the queue. Acts travel from across the world to sign up for a slot. For many of the acts a slot in the Cambridge FolK Tent is the highlight of their year. The Folk Tent can be refreshingly different and an oasis from the hurly burly of the louder main stages.