Bands across the water: Iconic folk festivals join forces

The partnership between Newport and Cambridge Folk Festivals "will allow us to bring a little bit of Newport to Cambridge, and vice versa", says Newport's Jay Sweet

Gogol Bordello at last year's Cambridge Folk Fest © Cliqmo (Alison Clarke)

Two of the world’s most famous folk music festivals, Cambridge Folk Festival in the UK and Newport Folk Festival in the US, have announced plans to ‘twin’, forming a…

“transatlantic partnership” that will allow the events to explore “unique and extraordinary artistic opportunities” together.

While twinning is a practice more often associated with cities (and, occasionally, dreary English towns and Disney theme parks), Cambridge Folk Festival director Steve Bagnall says the partnership will allow for coordinated programming…

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