Cambridge Folk Festival Day 4

Sunday morning was as fuzzy as Saturday...I had to wander down to the corner shop to get some cash and a paper. After a morning sitting around reading the paper and waiting for the world came back into focus for some of us, we headed into the arena for the final day's music where we met up with Helen and Phil plus a couple of their friends who had day tickets. It was a very international line up.

First up were Rodrigo Y Gabriela. My note says "mexican version of stairway to heaven"!
The traditional north English folk tradition was represented by John Tams and Barry Coope: "quirky humour and traditional folk songs"
Capercallie gave us the Scottish tradition: "chill out session for a Sunday afternoon"
The John Butler Trio from Australia: "OK- Mel big fan" - she was VERY excited to hear that they would be in the signing tent after their set and she headed off as soon as they finshed to get her CD signedEddi Reader finished the afternoon: "perfect" was my one word description of her set.
Mozaik kicked off the evening session but we only stayed for a couple of songs before heading back to the tent for a wash having been sat in the hot sun all afternoon, so "no comments".
We returned at the end of their set and heard an amazing set from Betty LaVette "growly voice and solid soul/blues and 60 years old"
Emmylou Harris was the big star for Sunday night: "crowd worships her, told joke - vegetarian is a native american word meaning bad hunter"
The closing act was Croft No.5. I was looking forward to them but "good but too tired to enjoy" was my pithy review.The end of the music found us all gathered around the gas lanterns back at the tents talking about the weekend, what we had enjoyed and what we had not. the consensus seemed to be that it was a good festival, very relaxed with nice toilets (and those who have been to Glastonbury and used the "back to back long drops" will know just how important the sanitary arrangements are for a festival). I enjoyed myself, Sonia says she did too, and maybe we'll do it again next year...