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 any event listed here will also appear in their own events listing.

Agenda
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November – December 2023 Nov – Dec 2023
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Nov
16
Thu
Gerry Colvin trio @ The Folk Club - Stratford Play House,
Tickets
Nov 16 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

The Folk Club

Stratford Playhouse

Now in his fourth decade in the music industry, Gerry Colvin has carved a niche for himself in
the folk world and established himself as a folk pop legend. In 1995 he co-founded the five-
piece folk band Colvinquarmby. They released six critically acclaimed albums and were voted
best band at the prestigious Fairport Convention Cropredy Festival in 2009. In 2010 they won
the Hancock Award for ‘Best Live Folk Act’.

The new Gerry Colvin Band were delighted to be invited to re-appear at Cropredy Festival
2017 to celebrate 50 years of Fairport Convention, where they received a standing ovation!!
His live concerts are unmissable. A great performer and raconteur as well as a brilliant
songwriter, Gerry has released three self-penned solo albums with his own band, ‘Jazz Tales of Country Folk’ followed by ‘Six of One Half a Dozen of the Other’, featuring his original songs. His latest CD ‘Back and Forth‘ was launched at Cropredy in 2018.

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Dec
13
Wed
Jackie Oakes and John Spiers @ Stratford PlayHouse
Tickets
Dec 13 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Multi award-winning contemporary folk artists Jackie Oates and John Spiers meld together their shared love of English traditional folk tunes and songs with their fine voices and expertly played acoustic instruments.

Audiences can look forward to a fresh, uplifting and poignant evening. Their FESTIVE CONCERTS are a beautiful and heart-warming antidote to the materiality that can be a feature of the Christmas season. The duo perform captivating traditional Christmas carols and tunes from England and beyond.

Concerts AT OTHER TIMES OF THE YEAR include music from the duo’s debut album, Needle Pin, Needle Pin, released in early 2020 and featuring songs from the Oxfordshire area which they have researched and arranged. Many of the songs were originally sung by lace-making factory girls to keep time whilst crafting lace and to add enjoyment to their work; the album title makes reference to a line from one of such songs. Beautifully in synergy with the handmade nature of the source songs, the CD comes as a limited edition, hand-stamped, entirely handmade album.

Although followers of British folk music will be familiar with Jackie and John from their other high calibre bands, this collaboration began quite innocently and spontaneously when the pair first started playing together for fun during guest spots at Nettlebed Folk Club in Henley-on-Thames. Recognising the potential, they began working together on material from their native county of Oxfordshire.

 

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