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.

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May – June 2024 May – Jun 2024
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May
11
Sat
Scratchy Beard – Live & Local @ The Barn at Houlton
Tickets
May 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

What happens if you take the intoxicating swing and feel of gypsy jazz, add storytelling songs inspired by English and Celtic folk, and throw in a pinch of bluesy roots & rhythm? Gypsy-jazzy-rootsy-folk, of course!

Experienced performers, Scratchy Beard are an up-beat and enjoyable live quartet offering something a little different: very accessible roots/alt-folk/gypsy jazz music with an ear-catching line up of guitar, cello, drums & clarinet with, at times, three-part and four-part harmonies along with a reed organ, tin whistles, melodica & bottle-top slide guitar.

Having met in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Scratchy Beard are well-known in the Warwickshire area and have previously performed at the RSC. Describing themselves as ‘a cocktail of died-in-the-wool touring musos, classically trained instrumentalists and a celebrated illustrator.’ Founder member Spesh Maloney has scored and sound-designed for several feature films, film-shorts and theatre shows including the award-winning BBC documentary: ‘Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster’.

Prepare yourself for an entertaining evening journeying through an upbeat, fun and sincere collage of trans-European roots music.

‘Last time they packed the place out so maybe it’s best to get here early!’

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Tags: Live & Local Rugby Scratchy Beard The Barn at Houlton
May
19
Sun
Sarah McQuaid – Live & Local @ Pailton Village Hall
Tickets
May 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Singer and musician Sarah McQuaid presents a varied, eclectic programme, playing keyboard and drum as well as acoustic and electric guitars. A performer who will remind you of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Karen Carpenter and whose 90-minute show flies by!

Sarah McQuaid’s lush, chocolatey voice combined with her engaging personality, ‘subtle mastery onstage’ (Huffington Post) and ‘brilliant musicianship’ (fRoots) to create a truly immersive experience.

Born in Spain, raised in Chicago, holding dual Irish and American citizenship and now settled in rural England, she brings the eclecticism of her background to her ‘captivating, unorthodox songwriting’ (PopMatters) and choice of material, spanning genres and defying categorisation.

A must for music lovers with the opportunity for interaction that will bring a warm glow to listeners of all ages.

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Tags: Live & Local Pailton Village Hall Sarah McQuaid
Jun
2
Sun
Loshn Klezmer Trio – Live & Local @ Bulkington Community & Conference Centre
Tickets
Jun 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Collectively bringing together nearly 30 years of study and experience of Klezmer music to their playing, the members of Loshn are an exciting collaboration between three of the UK’s most established interpreters and teachers of the style.

Anna Lowenstein (fiddle) and John McNaughton (clarinet) are joined by Susi Evans (accordion) to form a trio of intimate, chamber music style Klezmer. Their interpretation and new arrangement of old repertoire sees their music speak, sing and dance with the tradition’s distinct Yiddish accent and vocabulary.

An evening with Loshn is both educational and entertaining – informing and engaging, as you embark upon on a journey through central and Eastern Europe the to the roots of Klezmer tradition. Deeply relatable, enchanting and engaging, Loshn warmly invites you along on this musical voyage unlike anything you’ve heard before!

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Tags: Bulkington Community & Conference Centre Live & Local Loshn Klezmer Trio
May – June 2024 May – Jun 2024