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.

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
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.

May
25
Sat
The Silver Wye (Album release) + Stylusboy @ Temperance
May 25 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

The Silver Wye is a band named after a moth, a river and a device for changing track.

The group is a collaborative project featuring a core of Midlands based musicians Ben Haines (drums & percussion), John Parker (double bass & electric bass) and Wes Finch (guitar and vocals) who are joined with various friends when circumstances allow.

It is a space for this group of musical friends to step a little outside of the realms of folk and Americana music into more electric, experimental and electronic places.

You can find their first EP on streaming sites and John & Wes’ LIVE@Temperance album at The Silver Wye‘s Bandcamp page. Search ‘Wes Finch The Silver Wye‘ on Youtube for visuals too.

Jun
16
Sun
WLDFLWRS @ Temperance
Jun 16 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

WLDFLWRS are a collective of songwriting friends with a love of West Coast Americana music, strong melodies, vocal harmonies and a good song. Featuring local musicians Katherine Abbott, Jack Blackman, Jono Wright and Wes Finch, you can expect some choice covers and some collaboratively crafted original songs.

Having met whilst working alongside each other at Stratford-based charity The Street Arts Project they were thrown together as a band to perform the songs written in group sessions there and promote the album they helped produce with the organisation. The experience was such fun they decided to start getting together regularly to play, write, drink tea and eat Jono’s cakes.

Temperance’s December 2023 Blues Night saw their first performance as a 4 piece which was well received by all and this early 2024 will feature the full 5 members and some new material in an extended set. We hope you can make it.