Friday
Next it's back to Stage 1 for Sam Lee & Friends, most of whom, like Sam, are involved in the Nest Collective so you know the quality of the musicians underpinning Sam's incredible voice.
Live Sam is even more expressive than he is on record, illustrating much of the songs, mainly from traveller communities, with hand gestures. Adding Indian instrumentation gives the music a trance quality and as the set progresses you can see Sam losing himself more and more into his material.
This is a set that puts song right at the heart of performance. You get the feeling that Sam could present the songs unaccompanied and still have the same impact on the audience, stunning. That's not to detract from the music provided by the friends, it gives the songs a context to work in. On this performance, if Sam Lee plays a gig anywhere near you go, whether he brings his friends or not.
Next it's one of my guilty pleasures and in a festival context, that means going off and seeing a band I've already seen, with the focus of that ubiquitous sin being Rebecca & Megan Lovell, aka Larkin Poe.
Having seen their metamorphosis from the old timey band of last year to the southern rock band of last night, I really had to get that double dose, especially as Stage 2 has got more space for them to open up into.
On the way into the stage, I overheard a couple of festival goers discussing Larkin Poe and they came up with the same phrase from last night, 'like a female Lynyrd Skynyrd and again, as like last night, they really rocked the place.
Larkin Poe decided that the stage was theirs and it was their job to make it shine and shine it did. There's an old politically incorrect nursery rhyme that claims the prime ingredient of little girls is sugar and spice. Well if the primary incantation of Larkin Poe was the sugar, this southern rock band is definitely the spice.
One of my great passions in music is narrative, I'm constantly amazed as to how much of a story you can tell in five odd minutes and when it comes to the Americana influenced section of the singer-songwriter world, an artist that has always impressed, but who I've never seen live is Patty Griffin and that's about to be corrected.
Having had her profile raised in this country by her work with Robert Plant and having recent released her seventh album, "American Kid", I was convinced that breaking the duck on Stage 1 at Cambridge was definitely the thing to do, something that would be proved correct in very short order.
Patty stood in the middle of a semi of guitars, of which I'm pretty sure she used everyone at some point during the set and was accompanied by Luther Dickson, although I stand to be corrected as I didn't hear his name being checked. I guess the best way to describe Patty's set was as a series of vignettes accompanied by music.
Her songs have an edge to them regardless of whether they come from personal events, such as her relationship with her father or more general themes such as the impact of greed. It's an edge that ensures you will give those songs the attention they deserve and one that makes you realise why so many artists come to Patty Griffin songs.
There's enough time to down a pint and a pizza before the next act LAPD, who were the subject of the MOJO interview that very morning, but it was a close run thing.
With the musical talent available in the combo it was almost inevitable that the focus of the set would be instrumentally based and so it proved to be, what did surprise was the range of countries the sets of tunes were inspired by, with most European regions represented at some point, if not the individual countries.
I cut my viewing of LAPD short as there are two other acts coming up on two different stages in short succession.
First up is an American singer-songwriter from the poor parts of Kentucky with a childhood in tobacco farms and from coalmining stock, a hard, but community centred upbringing that proved to be very fertile ground for songs and one of the reasons why Darrell Scott is so well regarded by peers and fans alike.