Cambridge Folk Festival gears up for blockbuster 2018
First Aid Kit and Patti Smith will headline the Killer B-programmed CFF 2018 – the long-running event's best line-up yet, festival boss Neil Jones tells IQ
News By | 20 February 2018
This summer’s Cambridge Folk Festival – its first year twinned with US cousin Newport Folk Festival – has the strongest line-up in the festival’s 54-year history, according its operations director.
Neil Jones tells IQ the recruiting of big-name headliners such Patti Smith, First Aid Kit and John Prine is a key part of widening the appeal of Cambridge Folk Festival (CFF), which launched in 1965, and ensuring the venerable event is still around in another six decades.
“After the 2016 festival…