title The Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge - 27th July 2007 intro By the time it came to actually get a ticket, most of them had sold out leaving only a Friday night session. Which was fair enough, as having never been before it was good to try a small taster of the event before committing to the whole four-day thrash. The Folk Festival does have a good, hippy-ish vibe, but with only three stages there's not always tons of music going on. However, being "folky" means that the bars do have a good range of real ale, rather than the usual shite globo-mega-corp festival lager, and so it's almost like a music/beer-fest rolled into one. Just before turning up at the festival, Nosher had also met up with old college chum Liz and her husband Paul, having not really seen Liz for twenty years, apart from 30 seconds in New Milton Safeway about seven years back. dscf0525 A whistling dude heads out of the festival dscf0526 Tent city dscf0527 It's a very camping-chairs-and-picnics gig dscf0530 A wicker fiddler dscf0532 In the Club Tent, some folk music is underway dscf0536 On the main stage dscf0541 Nice lighting on the main stage dscf0554 Packed camping chairs outside the main stage dscf0556 The wicker fiddler seems to have a tail dscf0558 Isobel and a Qualcomm colleague dscf0560 Isobel sticks her tongue out dscf0562 Emma and Matt, with a festival hat dscf0564 A kids' circus skills workshop occurs dscf0576 Emma and Matt dscf0578 A million picnic chairs dscf0580 Our little pitch on the muddy grass dscf0583 Matt looks up dscf0584 More festival action dscf0587 The Chinese Noodle Bar dscf0595 A harpist and fiddler from Scotland, in the Club Tent dscf0598 The fiddler dude talks to the crowd dscf0612 A bunch of lads have some sparklers on the go dscf0616 Folk Fest hats, and tie-dye shirts dscf0640 It's time for Pimms dscf0653 A rock/Cajun band are great fun dscf0656 Green trees dscf0664 Flags accompany The Waterboys' "Whole of the Moon" dscf0667 There's an impromptu banjo workshop underway dscf0668 There's a circle made out of plastic cups dscf0675 Outside, a couple of kids are building another plastic structure