FESTIVAL DIARY - SATURDAY
While we're at this end of the site, there's time to join the lengthy Signing Tent queue to meet sixties and seventies über-producer Joe Boyd - instrumental in the careers of Fairport Convention and Nick Drake to name but two.
Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble - who's just taken a turn for the folk on his debut solo album - isn't on the Cambridge bill, and neither is everyone's favourite crossover star Kate Rusby. But that doesn't stop the pair showing up for a special session with virtuoso fiddler John McCusker and members of Idlewild and another Scottish indie band, Sons & Daughters, for a few lucky people in front of the Signing Tent!
And if that's not enough offstage action, there's another all-star television session taking place in the artists' bar with Tim Van Eyken, Lau's Martin Green, the Anna Massie Band, Bodega and the Beeb's own Verity Sharp on violin. The golden gathering stick around for popular Irish songbird Cara Dillon, who starts her main stage set with the beautiful swell of 'She Moves Through The Valley'.
Eagerly awaited young Californian trio Nickel Creek are next. They've been a ubiquitous sight backstage, checking out as many bands as possible, and now it's their turn to be centre of attention. Technical niggles disrupt opener 'When In Rome', but they're ironed out in time to show off their bittersweet voices and great playing skills on the beautiful 'Reasons Why' and a mischievous cover of Britney Spears' 'Toxic'. Astonishing bandleader and former child prodigy Chris Thile plays like he was born with a mandolin in his arms.
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