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.

May
7
Tue
Wes Finch and the Mechanicals (Music) & Emilie Lauren Jones (Poetry) – Springboard Festival @ Criterion Theatre
May 7 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Springboard Festival 

May 4th to 11th 2024
Various

Following the tremendous success of our festival last year, we present Springboard 2024 – a week of one act plays, poetry, music and art, bringing together amateur and professionals in one space, with in house company performances and community/Criterion collaborations alongside external artists, musicians and theatre companies, poetry workshops and art exhibitions.

Tues 7th May: Who am I?

7.30pm – Side by Side Theatre present Follow Me… Alice? By Barbara Gunstone, Penny Amis and Sian Hampton, musical director Rob Parish and artistic director Sian Hampton.

7.50pm – Wes Finch and the Mechanicals (Music) & Emilie Lauren Jones (Poetry)

8.40pm – Meet me at the Nightingale by Andrew Sharpe, director Helen Withers.

9.20pm – Honey and Salt by Zsofia Hacsek, director Karen Evans.

9.25pm – Olugbemi Moronfolu

9.30pm – Grace by Dean Sheridan, director Dean Sheridan.