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.

May
4
Sat
Carol Whitworth (Springboard Festival) @ Criterion Theatre
May 4 @ 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.

Sat 4th May: The Female Gaze

7.30pm – F***ing Feminists by Rose Lewenstein, director Olivia Marie.

8.00pm – Carol Whitworth (Music)

8.30pm – Zero Hour by Andrea Mbarushimana

9.05pm – Kinver Players present Vita and Virginia by Eileen Atkins, director Richard Delahaye.

May
5
Sun
Navkiran Mann (Poetry) & Wes Finch (Music) – Springboard Festival @ Criterion Theatre
May 5 @ 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.

Sun 5th May: Diaspora

7.30pm – Starlings by Miranda Gold, director Jacob Wolstencroft

8.20pm – Navkiran Mann (Poetry) & Wes Finch (Music)

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

9.25pm – Zsophia Hacsek

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

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.

May
8
Wed
Amit Datani (Springboard Festival) @ Criterion Theatre
May 8 @ 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.

Wed 8th May: On Contemplation of Mortality

7.30pm – We are Poetry Nation

8.05pm – Amit Datani (music)

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 – Neslihan Ozar

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

May
9
Thu
Stylusboy (Springboard Festival) @ Criterion Theatre
May 9 @ 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.

Thu 9th May: Gender and Control

7.30pm – F***ing Feminists by Rose Lewenstein, director Olivia Marie.

8.00pm – Stylusboy (Music)

8.40pm – Tituba by Winsome Pinnock, director Deb Relton-Elves.

9.20pm – Mr Incredible by Camilla Whitehill, director Gennie Holmes.

May
10
Fri
Lauren South (Springboard Festival) @ Criterion Theatre
May 10 @ 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.

Fri 10th May: The Day Everything Changed

7.30pm – Meet me at the Nightingale by Andrew Sharpe, director Helen Withers.

7.50pm – Lauren South (Music)

8.20pm – Jasmine Gardosi (poetry)

8.40pm – Tituba by Winsome Pinnock, director Deb Relton-Elves.

9.20pm – Mr Incredible by Camilla Whitehill, director Gennie Holmes.

May
11
Sat
Carol Whitworth and Wes Finch (Springboard Festival) @ Criterion Theatre
May 11 @ 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.

Sat 11th May: Finale

7.30pm – F***ing Feminists by Rose Lewenstein, director Olivia Marie.

7.55pm – Christy Ng (poetry)

8.00pm – Carol Whitworth and Wes Finch (Music)

8.40pm – Tituba by Winsome Pinnock, director Deb Relton-Elves.

9.20pm – Mr Incredible by Camilla Whitehill, director Gennie Holmes.