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Ken continued as Festival organiser and artistic director up until his death in 1993. This was a great blow, but the team of staff and friends which he had built up over the years, backed by the commitment and resources of the City Council, pulled together to carry on the great tradition he fostered.
For the last 22 years, the Festival has been programmed by Eddie Barcan, who worked as Ken’s assistant for three years prior to his death. To this day the Festival shares much of the same philosophy from the early days, though it has never stopped moving forward and developing, incorporating new ideas and features. The last two decades have seen a huge growth in awareness and popularity of the festival, in part due to great reviews and many years of national television and radio coverage, but most often due to word of mouth and recommendations.
Cambridge Folk Festival 1991
Clanned, Suzanne Vega, Janis Ian, Steve Earle, Roddy Frame, The Charlie Mussel White Band, Gene Clark, Dick Gaughan, Gregson & Collister, Erik Hokkanen & The Offbeats, The Steve Ashely Band, Alistair Anderson’s Syncopace, New Celeste, Toni Arthur’s Music Box, Happy End, Ruby Blue, Four Men & a Dog, Roaring Lion Lord Pretender & Rough Rides, Cheryl Wheeler, Rumillajta, Allan Taylor & Mike Silver, The Fallen Angels, Wizz & Simeon Jones, The Bouncing Czecks, Huw & Tony Williams, Andy Caven, Great Easten Ceilidh Company, The Foolhardy Folk
Cambridge Folk Festival 1992
Nanci Griffith, Buddy Guy & Band, John Prine, Black Velvet Band, Capercaillie, The Blues Band, Gallagher & Lyle, Eddie Reader & The Patron Saints of Imperfection, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyption, The New Blue Velvet Band, Sharon Shannon, John McCutcheon, The Brley Works, Storm, The Klezmorim, Cilla Fisher Artie Trezise & Gary Coupland, The Doonand Family Band, Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys, Dave Vousins & Brian Willoughby, Hamish Imlach, Tom Kimmel, Dave Burland, The Cambridge Crofters, Bib & Braces
Cambridge Folk Festival 1993
Christy Moore, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Jerry Jeff Walker, Iris DeMent, Tom Robinson, Oyster Band, The Rockingbirds, Stockton’s Wing, C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band, Stravaig, Show of Hands, The Dubliners, Michelle Shocked, The Roches, Loudon WainWright III, Bronte Brothers, The Rankin Family, Jay Owens, Goats Don’t Shave, Catriona Macdonald & Ian Lowthain, Jim Couza & The D’Uberville Ramblers
Cambridge Folk Festival 1994
Joan Baez, Mary Black, The Saw Doctors, Otis Rush, Jools Holland & His Big Band, Ralph McTell, Steeleye Span, Tommy Makem, Altan, Clan Alba, Leon Redbone, John Hammond, The Cactus Brothers, Bert Hansch, Jphn Renbourn & Issac Guillory, Davey Graham, Wolfstone, Chuck Prophet & The Creatures of Habit, Darden Smith, Boo Hewerdine, Dervish, Chris Wood & Andy Cutting, Pooka, The Cambridge Crofters, Shave The Monkey
Cambridge Folk Festival 1995
Elvis Costello, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Capercallie, Clarence”Gatemouth” Brown & Gates express, Lindisfarne, Leo Kottke, Balfa Toujours, Keb Mo, Exio, Otis Grand, The Equation, Leon Rosselson, Olge, Paul Brady, Nick Lowe & The Impossible Birds, Sharon Shannon, Shawn Colvin, Guy Clark, Tim & Mollie O’Brien & The O’Boys, The Ashley Hutchings Dance Band, Edward II Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Chris While, & Julie Matthews
