Festival wins top environmental award for third year running!

The Co-operative Cambridge Festival has once again been awarded the prestigious A Greener Festival Award 2010 for their environmentally friendly efforts for the third year running!

The Festival joins the likes of Glastonbury, T In The Park and Isle of Wight Festival as recipients of this leading eco-award.

Eddie Barcan, Folk Festival organiser said: "We're absolutely thrilled to receive The Greener Festival Award for the third year running. It's great to be recognised for our hard work in sustaining and improving our green credentials and we intend to carry on in this way.

"A big thank you has to go to all staff involved and to our loyal audience for embracing our greener ways and making The Co-operative Cambridge Folk Festival an award-winning event once again."

And the news from our CD stall...

Every year, our good friends on the Proper CD stall give us a breakdown of which artist seold the most CDs at the Festival. Who do you reckon it was then? Does it mean that they were the best band of the weekend? Let the debate start.

Here's the Top 20...in reverse order:

*cue Top of the Pops chart rundown music*

No.20    The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain - Secret of Life
No.19    Sharon Shannon - Saints and Scoundrels
No.18    Jackie Oates - Hyperborean
No.17    Lissie - Catching A Tiger
No.16    Imagined Village - Empire And Love
No.15    Julie Fowlis - Uam
No.14    Salsa Celtica - En Vivo En El Norte
No.13    Seasick Steve - Songs For Elisabeth
No.12    Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends - Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends
No.11    Carolina Chocolate Drops - Heritage
No.10    Stornaway - Beachcombers Windowsill
No. 9     Gretchen Peters - Circus Girl
No. 8     Show Of Hands - Roots: Best of Show of Hands
No. 7     Breabach - The Desperate Battle Of The Birds
No. 6     Pink Martini - Splendour In The Grass
No. 5     Seth Lakeman - Hearts & Minds
No. 4    Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep
No. 3    Quebe Sisters - Timeless
No. 2    Burns Unit - Side Show

...and at the top spot

*drum roll*....

Carolina Chocolate Drops -  Genuine Negro Jig

    

Thank you and goodnight!

We hope you enjoyed the Festival as much as we did! Don't forget to keep up to date with the Festival all year round via this blog or via our Facebook and Twitter accounts or by joining our email list.

Thanks for coming, hope you had a blast - and we hope to see you again next year!

Country music and Hollywood legend headlines Sunday night

Image taken by Nigel Cooke (www.nigelcookephotography.com) 

We were privileged to have US Country music legend, Kris Kristofferson, performing on the last night of the Festival.

In his only UK outdoor Festival, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter played songs from his latest album, Closer to the Bone, as well as classic hits such as Me and Bobby McGee and Sunday Morning Coming Down.

The audience swayed and sung along in celebration of another successful Festival nearing it's end with true star on stage to mark the occasion.

The final podcast of the Festival

On the final podcast of 2010 we talk to Carolina Chocolate Drops, C.W. Stoneking, Ian Smith from Creative Scotland as well as the rather fantastic Jolly Boys.

The (Stone)King of hokum blues!

There are many special acts at this year's, but what a special one C.W. Stoneking is! His deep and rich vocals and southern drawl captivate the audience on stage 2 as the Festival gets close to the finishing line.

C.W (which stands for Christopher William) is dressed in a white shirt and trousers with a red bow tie which, with his dulcet tones, gives a complete element of cool to his performance and takes you back to the 50s where you can imagine his music being played.

For those eagled-eyed people in the audience, you would be able to see he has tattoo on his hand saying 'Atticus' and 'Ishmael', which are indeed the names of his sons named after characters in To Kill A Mockingbird and Moby Dick.

How did they get in?

Taking the bringing chairs into the arena debate to whole new level.