What’s On

Your guide to folk events in Coventry and Warwickshire.

We’ve linked to a new calendar format which should make more local folk events accessible and easy to update. Just click on the maroon lettering below – or scroll down for individual listing of forthcoming events.

Cov & Warks Folk Events Listing

If you are planning any folk event in the CV postcode area – big concert, back-room singaround, online performance, dance display, or whatever, click here to email us, providing the following details:

  • Date, start-time and end-time
  • Name of venue
  • Type of event
  • Artists/performers appearing
  • Location including postcode
  • Description – including how to book tickets, web links, etc
Please note that information on this page is based on advertising and public announcements by the venues and/or events organisers.
While every effort is made to ensure that details provided here are correct, CVFolk cannot guarantee its accuracy which is why we include contact information for each event so that you can check and confirm if necessary,

CVFolk is working in partnership with Folk21 Midlands region and many of the events listed here are shared in their own events listing.

Mar
19
Tue
Iona Lane @ Temperance Café
Mar 19 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Iona Lane is a folk singer, songwriter and storyteller. Iona released her debut album ‘Hallival‘ in March 2022 to critical acclaim, reaching number 36 in the Folk Album Charts and airplay across the country including the folk shows on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Wales. Iona’s music draws inspiration from landscapes and the natural world, finding stories in rural locations of mythology, folklore and science and giving them new life in folk music. Accompanied by intricate guitar playing and the hypnotic tones of a shruti box, Iona’s voice has been captivating audiences up and down the country.

Coventry Comhaltas – Irish instrument lessons plus Sessions. @ The Hearsall Inn
Mar 19 @ 7:30 pm – 11:00 pm

The Coventry Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann is a creative community nurturing Irish culture. We are dedicated to promoting Irish music, dance and language.

We hold music classes for a range of traditional instruments, including fiddle, banjo, tin whistle, button accordion, mandolin and bodhran, every Tuesday evening commencing at 7.00 pm for tin whistle and 7.30 pm for all other instruments. Lessons are £2 per week with the first taster lesson absolutely free. Details on https://coventrycomhaltas.wordpress.com/about/

Classes are followed by a session in which musicians of all abilities are welcome to come along and join in. If you do not play an instrument but enjoy listening to Irish music you are also more than welcome to join us.

Songwriting Workshop – Ellie Gowers, Steve Jones (Stylusboy), Lauren South @ Warwick Arts Centre - Creative Learning Space
Mar 19 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

SONGWRITINGWORKSHOPS

Every Tue during term

times 8pm – 10pm

Warwickshire based songwriter, Ellie Gowers returns for 23/24 along with Steve Jones (aka Stylusboy) and Lauren South to deliver a series of workshops across the year. Whether you’re just starting your songwriting journey or are looking to refine your craft then these free sessions are for you. Helen Martin Studio FREE

The Hawkesbury Trawlermen @ Wurzel Bush folk club
Mar 19 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Floor spots are available on a first come, first served basis. Contact us or message via Facebook to reserve a space.
https://www.wurzelbush.org/

 

Mar
20
Wed
Kenilworth Acoustic Sessions – Traditional @ Kenilworth Centre
Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Craig Sunderland + Cobalt Tales + WatlingStreet @ Atherstone Folk Club
Mar 20 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Free admission – paper money Jug collection

Your residents are WatlingStreet

WatlingStreet are Anne Beeson, Phil Benson, and Pete McParland.

Separately, they have been singing for as long as they can remember, and together, on and off, since the mid 2010s.

They formed the new band in September 2023, in order to become the residents at Atherstone Folk Club.

Floor-spots include Yonderland, Pete McParland.

phil@atherstonefolkclub.org.uk

Mar
21
Thu
Session with The Hawkesbury Trawlermen @ The Attleborough Arms
Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

The Hawkesbury Trawlermen now have a regular monthly afternoon session at The Attleborough Arms in Nuneaton on 3rd Thursday each month. They sing from 2pm for about an hour and a half, all very informal but good fun   –  all free and everyone welcome to come along and eat and drink before during and after.

Original Song Night: Nerys John + Paul Gibson + Louie Scheur + David Mauer @ Earlsdon Carnegie Community Library
Mar 21 @ 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm
The Wilderness Yet @ Tree House Bookshop
Mar 21 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

This new trio combines the acclaimed talents of folksinger Rosie Hodgson, traditional fiddler Rowan Piggott, and guitarist-flautist Philippe Barnes. With a voice that brings “a ruby-richness to lyrics new and old” (Folk Radio UK), it’s no surprise that Rosie has been a finalist for the BBC Young Folk Award. After a successful EP and the eponymous album from Crossharbour, she recorded her debut album Rise Aurora to critical acclaim, producing what fRoots called “audible magic”. Rosie’s own songs are heavily influenced by the English tradition and her love of literature and the environment. Rowan featured heavily on Rise Aurora, himself a fine singer with a “deep understanding and feel for tradition” (FolkWords) and he is known for his fiddle- playing with Georgia Lewis and The Songhive Project, which he founded to raise awareness of the plight of the bees. The winner of the ‘Future of Young Folk Award’ at Bromyard Folk Festival, he recently featured on the cover of The Living Tradition after releasing his solo album Mountscribe. Philippe is well-known on the folk scene as a virtuosic flautist, but is an equally magnificent guitarist! Since completing an MA in Irish Music Performance at University of Limerick, Philippe has toured with the David Munnelly Band, All Jigged Out, Dizraeli and the Small Gods and Crossharbour (alongside Rosie!). As a session musician he appears regularly on film/tv soundtracks and has recently recorded an EP with pianist Tom Phelan.

Thrilled to have this wonderful band come to Kenilworth!

7.30pm start, doors 7pm
BYOB

Organised by the Tree House Bookshop in collaboration with Kenilworth Arts Festival

 

Trad session @ The Oak
Mar 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm