What’s On

Your guide to folk events in Coventry and Warwickshire.

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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.

Oct
5
Sat
Improvers Guitar Workshop w/Kevin Dempsey @ Albany Theatre - Clive Benfield Studio
Oct 5 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

 

 

CV Folk Freshers Workshop

Here’s your chance to gain and develop your music-making and performance skills under the guidance of leading musicians and performers from the folk circuit.

Following the successful launch of our workshop programme in February, world-renowned guitarist Kevin Dempsey is back to provide another of his friendly and inspiring workshops for those looking to add flair and flourish to their guitar playing. His career has taken this Coventry-based musician across the international music scene, working with everyone from Dave Swarbrick to Percy Sledge! Kevin is also an experienced tutor and welcomes guitarists of all ages, and at all stages to join him and improve on their abilities. Just bring your guitar and join the fun.

Admission £8 (or £5 unwaged) – book in advance or bring payment with you (the Box Office will be open), and your guitar!

Jack Blackman and the Beautiful Wreck @ The Old Post Office
Oct 5 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Man The Lifeboats SOLD OUT @ Temperance
Oct 5 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Man The Lifeboats began life in a shanty-punk folk moshpit in 2016. Skinny Lister and Holy Moly & the Crackers were the two bands that lit the fire and blew the roof of the Garage that night.

Fast forward 6 years and 100 gigs and counting and Man The Lifeboats are an established band ploughing their furrow on the festival circuit, winning over audiences at WarwickSwanageBeardy FolkFolk in a FieldBearded TheoryDeepdaleRagged Bear and more, drawing comparisons to BellowheadWaterboysOysterband, the Levellers, and those folk-punk heroes the Pogues.

The second album Soul Of Albion hit no27 in the Official Folk Charts in 2022. Recorded at Rockfield Studios, it sounds like Led Zeppelin arm-wrestling Shane McGowan in a Birmingham brewery, like Jimbob and Fruitbat fronting Fairport Convention, like The Albion Band turned up to 11 with their fiddles on fire. Tonic for these troubled times.

 

Songwriters’ Circle with Shanade + Rob Clamp + Nicky Ager @ Earlsdon Carnegie Community Library
Oct 5 @ 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Earlsdon Carnegie Community Library is delighted to announce our very first Songwriters’ Circle from the Reading Room on Saturday, 5th October, featuring three gifted singer songwriters who will share their craft before performing songs from their outstanding catalogues.

Meet on the Ledge – ‘Dark Side of the Ledge’ @ Townsend Hall
Oct 5 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
To mark half a Century since the release of PINK FLOYD’S legendary album THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, we present an evening of Pink Floyd music, performed by Warwickshire-based folk-rock favourites MEET ON THE LEDGE.

The concert will feature songs from The Dark Side of the Moon – arguably the most influential rock album of all time – along with selections from Pink Floyd’s extensive back catalogue including Arnold Layne, Comfortably Numb, Another Brick in the Wall, Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, and many more.

Meet On The Ledge founder members Ron Holmes (vocals / guitar) and Allen Maslen (lead guitar) have been working the UK folk festival circuit for over 30 years, and are joined by Bo Davies (Sambasadors of Groove) on drums, Craig Sunderland on bass, and keyboard player Steve Bird, whose impressive CV includes tours and recordings with Don Fardon (Indian Reservation) and the legendary Marty Wilde.

Join us for an evening of rock music nostalgia, featuring Meet On The Ledge’s “masterful instrumentation and glorious harmonies.” (folking.com)

*LOCALLY BREWED BEERS AND BAR SUPPLIED BY THE AMAZING BORDERLINES BREWING www.borderlinesbrewing.com *

Saturday 5th October 2024, 8.00pm. All seats £12.00
www.motl.co.uk/floyd

Event Details

Doors Open at 7:00PM
Starts at 8:00PM

Location

Townsend Hall, Shipston-on-Stour, CV36 4AE

Oct
6
Sun
Hairy Folkers Session @ The Old Windmill,
Oct 6 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

An afternoon of song, music and spoken word in the round. Eclectic session of folk and folk related stuff. No PA.

The Craven Céilí @ The Craven Club
Oct 6 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Kristy Gallacher + Yonderland + Campbell Perry + Willow & Tool Band @ Willow & Tool's Music Parlour
Oct 6 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

 

Warwickshire’s most intimate folk club meets in Downtown LI. Free admission but please give generously to the jug collection.

 

 

 

 

 

Oct
7
Mon
Mick Bisiker + The B Road + Peter Reynolds @ Lighthorne Folk Club
Oct 7 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Banknote jug collection – please bring cash!
Further details: lighthornefolk@gmail.com
Singaround @ Warwick Folk Club
Oct 7 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

NB Further change of venue. Now back at Warwick Arms Hotel