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,

Agenda
Agenda
June 2025 – May 2026 Jun 2025 – May 2026
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Jun
27
Fri
Up Close & Acoustic. A Musical Journey with Rob Halligan – assisted by Bill Bates @ Albany Theatre: Courtyard Studio
Tickets
Jun 27 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

The first of a new series of intimate and informal music events by CVFolk.

Celebrated singer-songwriter, Rob Halligan presents an interactive show which includes music, chat, and conversation.

Many of us who have seen Rob on stage only know a little of his amazing history and musical journey, his influences and contacts in the music business and some of the incredible people he’s met. Some of their stories have been turned into powerful and moving songs.

Rob will be performing his own material, talking about his background, answering audience questions, and might even invite one or two special guests to join him.

Tickets wRe £14.50 (comc £10.50)

Box Office 02476 998964

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Tags: Albany Theatre Coventry Rob Halligan Up Close & Acoustic
May
10
Sun
The Fureys Farewell Tour @ Albany Theatre
Tickets
May 10 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

After two previous performances, THE FUREYS will play their last ever concert here as part of their FAREWELL TOUR on Sunday 10th May. Legends of Irish music & song, The FUREYS – renowned for their hit songs ‘I will love you’, ‘When you were sweet 16’, ‘The Green fields of France’, ‘The old man’, ‘Red rose café’, ‘From Clare to here’, ‘Her father didn’t like me anyway’, ‘Leaving Nancy’, ‘Steal away’ etc – take to our stage for the final time as part of their FAREWELL TOUR.

The oldest of the brothers, Eddie Furey left home in 1966 and travelled to Scotland at the time of the great folk revival where he met and shared accommodation with then unknown folk singers Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty. In 1972, Gerry Rafferty wrote ‘Her father didn’t like me anyway’ for Eddie. BBC Radio 1 presenter, the late John Peel made it his single of the year.They are particularly proud of their UK chart success with songs such as I Will Love You and When You Were Sweet Sixteen, which in turn helped bring Irish folk and traditional music to a completely new audience. The band made their Top of the Pops debut in 1981.

Eddie Furey recalls how “many musicians have told us we influenced them after hearing a record from their parents or grandparents’ collection”. Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics has credited Eddie with teaching him his first chords on the guitar while still a teenager. Eddie would return the compliment by joining Dave on stage in Paris for a jam during Dave’s wedding to Bananarama’s Siobhan Fahey.

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Tags: Albany Theatre The Fureys
June 2025 – May 2026 Jun 2025 – May 2026