The
Cambridge Busker's & Street Performer's Festival

Calling Musicians, Dancers & Variety Acts; Cambridge Busker's and Street Performer's Festival is back in 2025!

The sound of guitars, accordions, cajons, tambourines, and voices will be heard across Cambridge this summer.

On the weekend of 7th-8th June, the Cambridge Busker's Festival will take place at some of the city's leading music venues, each of which will host a rota of buskers throughout the day.

Cambridge Busker's Festival began on the streets of Cambridge in 2008, but in recent years has become the Busker's Showcase Stage at Strawberry Fair on Midsummer Common.

Following the cancellation of this year's Strawberry Fair, Cambuskers Community Group have decided to run the Cambridge Buskers Festival on the same weekend the fair would have been held, as a fundraiser for Strawberry Fair itself.

If you want to donate directly to Strawberry Fair as well, click here:

Keep Strawberry Fair Free for Future Generations

Cambusker's Community Group are now taking applications from street performers for the 2025 event. So, if you think you have talent and want to showcase your act, you can enter here:

Application Form

Cambridge music venues who are interested in taking part in the festival should contact:

greg@strawberry-fair.org.uk

Cambuskers are asking for a donation of £200 from each venue taking part, which will go towards next year's Strawberry Fair.

Volunteers wanting to help run the festival should contact:

volunteers@cambuskers.org

Closing date for applications is the 7th May 2025.

Should we be inundated with applications, priority will be given to local acts.

Contacts

Email: contact@cambuskers.org

The aim of the Cambuskers Community Group is to celebrate and embrace all the talent and culture we have in the city and to highlight the Street Performers Code of Practice throughout the festival. This code of conduct aims to ensure that businesses, residents and visitors can enjoy a time honoured tradition which goes back to medieval times, when wandering minstrels and bards travelled from place to place and acted not only as entertainers, but also as news reporters and message bearers.

Cambuskers bring music and dance to the streets of Cambridge and Strawberry Fair!