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.

Jul
27
Sat
3 Rivers Gang + Anne Beeson and Pete McParland @ OSCA (Owen Street Community Arts Centre)
Jul 27 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Aug
21
Wed
Annual August Singers Night w/WatlingStreet @ Atherstone Folk Club
Aug 21 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Appearing so far: Dave Fry, Liz Wall, Malc Gurnham & Gill Gilsenan

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 available! Just email Phil Benson and ask.

phil@atherstonefolkclub.org.uk

Sep
18
Wed
Lauren South + WatlingStreet @ Atherstone Folk Club
Sep 18 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Free admission – paper money Jug collection

Support act TBA

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 available! Just email Phil Benson and ask.

phil@atherstonefolkclub.org.uk

Oct
16
Wed
Rack and Ruin + Indigo + Watling Street @ Atherstone Folk Club
Oct 16 @ 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 available! Just email Phil Benson and ask.

phil@atherstonefolkclub.org.uk

Nov
20
Wed
Sunjay + Steve and Julie Wigley + Watling Street @ Atherstone Folk Club
Nov 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 available! Just email Phil Benson and ask.

phil@atherstonefolkclub.org.uk

Dec
18
Wed
Keith Donnelly + Watling Street @ Atherstone Folk Club
Dec 18 @ 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 available! Just email Phil Benson and ask.

phil@atherstonefolkclub.org.uk

Jan
15
Wed
Winter Sing 2025 w/Watling Street @ Atherstone Folk Club
Jan 15 @ 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 available! Just email Phil Benson and ask.

phil@atherstonefolkclub.org.uk

Feb
19
Wed
Gerry Colvin Band + Watling Street @ Atherstone Folk Club
Feb 19 @ 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 available! Just email Phil Benson and ask.

phil@atherstonefolkclub.org.uk

Mar
19
Wed
Hazjak + Watling Street @ Atherstone Folk Club
Mar 19 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Free admission – paper money Jug collection

Hazjak are Yorkshire duo Steve Chapman Smith and Lynne O’Malley, both well known and respected musicians on the Northern acoustic scene.  Together they play an eclectic style of Roots, Americana and Folk music.

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 available! Just email Phil Benson and ask.

phil@atherstonefolkclub.org.uk

Apr
16
Wed
Farefeld + Watling Street @ Atherstone Folk Club
Apr 16 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Free admission – paper money Jug collection

Described by Bright Young Folk as “experienced storytellers” who bring “timeless quality” to their music, award-winning duo Farefeld (Chris Elliott, Caitlin Jones) have been playing music together since they met in 2014. Previously performing alongside Bella Gaffney (Magpies) and Heather Sirrell (Pilgrim’s Way) in the four-piece ‘Bric-a-Brac,’ they formed as a duo in 2017.

In 2022, the duo joined forces with virtuoso bassist Mike Seal, who gigs with them as much as he can (when he’s not doing something very clever!)

Both proudly from Staffordshire, Farefeld bring a mix of traditional and self-penned ballads about place, identity, old and new. Driving guitar and bouzouki accompany haunting whistles and harmonium along with intricate and warm vocal harmonies. Expect to hear songs written for and collected from all around the Midlands and beyond, accompanied by the heartfelt human stories that inspired them, their charming storytelling and warm Midlands humour.

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 available! Just email Phil Benson and ask.

phil@atherstonefolkclub.org.uk