A feast for the ears and your mouth, a fab new culinary, musical delight comes to the city
A few months ago, an enticing-looking ‘gin and prosecco fete’ event started being madly shared on Facebook by Cambridge folk. Within the space of a five weeks, 27,000 people had clicked attending – a staggering 20{b486c5a37ab2d325d17e17d701cb2567b1ecd1814e8ceb33effa2a4f1f171d46} of the Cambridge population. The organisers, who’d originally intended for the event to be a boutique, 500-person capacity affair, were overwhelmed by the response, prompting them to take the idea back to the drawing board and scale it up – big style.
What they came up with was The Cambridge Club: a brand new one-day festival of food, great drinks and music, taking place at Haggis Farm on Sunday 18 June. On offer will be cocktail, gin, prosecco and champagne bars, and a plethora of foodie treats from local independent traders. Expect culinary delights from Churros Bar, Guerrilla Kitchen, Fired Up Pizza and Nanna Mexico, amongst others, plus three music stages playing everything from Motown to disco to chilled out acoustic tunes. The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club will see the actor and DJ delving into his expansive record collection to play a feel-good mix of stone-cold classics, red-hot new releases, modern remixes and quirky covers.
“We had originally planned to host a small, fairly intimate event – but the reaction was unlike anything we have ever seen before!” say The Cambridge Club organisers.
“We decided that we needed to scale up every aspect of the event in order to help get as close to fulfilling the high demand as possible. We really wanted to make sure everybody had a chance to come along and enjoy themselves, rather than turning people away at the gate. This has turned into something really exciting almost overnight and we’re thrilled to be capturing the city’s interest and making Cambridge proud.”
“It’s been a whirlwind few weeks, but we’ve secured a much larger site – the lovely Haggis Farm Polo Club – just a short journey from the city centre. The date change was annoying, but we now have the capacity to put together an incredible event for everyone to enjoy.”
Tickets to the event are available now for £16 (18+ only).
