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.

Jun
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Andrew Waite @ Tree House Bookshop
Jun 14 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Andrew co-founded the band TYDE in 2008 and got to the finals of the BBC2 Young Folk Awards. He also secured a record deal when he was 15 years old and recorded two studio albums. In 2011 Andrew was a finalist in the BBC Young Traditional Musician Of The Year and was an Up And Coming Act Of The Year nominee at Na Trads 2015.

In 2015 he joined the band Dallahan who were Folk Band Of The Year nominees at Na Trads 2016 and released the album ‘Matter Of Time’ which was also nominated for Album Of The Year at Na Trads 2016.

Andrew joined Eliza Carthy And The Wayward Band in 2013 and has been regularly touring with them since. In February 2017 they released their debut album ‘Big Machine’ and it reached number 25 in the UK charts.

As well as playing with different bands, Andrew has also appeared on stage with Sting, The Unusual Suspects, The RSNO and performed as a guest on over 15 albums. When he was 13 years old he performed at the Royal Albert Hall at the first ever BBC Folk Proms. Most recently, he launched his solo album ‘TYDE’.

7pm doors for a 7.30pm start.
BYOB

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