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
4
Sat
‘Write a Song’ – Workshop w/Coventry Singer-Songwriters @ Albany Theatre - Clive Benfield Studio
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May 4 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm

Continuing our monthly series of workshops with leading musicians and performers from the folk circuit, we are pleased to present a practical songwriting session on Saturday, 4th May with local songwriting luminaries, the Coventry Singer Songwriters.

Starting at the earlier time of 11am, this two-hour hands-on event will help you write a song from scratch! No previous songwriting experience is needed – our friendly CSS team will help you generate ideas, build chord progressions and melodies, and write a song! You’ll be given lots of help and suggestions as used by the professionals, plus possible chord progressions and even musical accompaniment.

 

The emphasis will be on having fun making music together – but also showing you the way that modern songs are written by amateurs and professionals alike! Bring your own instrument if you want, but the team will be happy to add musical backing if needed.

The workshop will offer you the chance to record your song, or even perform it to the rest of the group, should you wish to, at the end of the session!

Launched in 2010, Coventry Singer Songwriters is a warm and supportive group of local musicians who meet monthly to help, motivate and inspire each other to write new songs and share songwriting resources and contacts.  Group members have appeared on local and national radio, as well as many local clubs and festivals, and have featured on a number of previous CVFolk concerts here at the Albany Theatre.

 

Leaders of this session will be Paul Monks and Jane Moss (who perform as Yonderland), John Neal (from the group Jericho), Bob Powell (from The Harvesters) and Jon Harrington from the bands Little Mountain and The Stationary Wilburys).

Admission £5 – book in advance or pay at the Box Office when you arrive.

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Tags: Albany Theatre Bob Powell Coventry Singer-Songwriters CSS CVFolk Folk Freshers Jane Moss John Neal Jon Harrington Paul Monks Songwriting Workshop Yonderland
May
12
Sun
Liam Vincent & the Odd Foxes + Julie Neale + Jamie Scott @ Albany Theatre Studio
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May 12 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Free admission – ‘caddy’ collection

 

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Tags: 2nd Sunday Albany Theatre CVFolk Jamie Scott Julie Neale Liam Vincent & The Odd Foxes
May
19
Sun
Dark Side of the Ledge (Meet on the Ledge play Pink Floyd) @ Albany Theatre Studio
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May 19 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Featuring Meet On The Ledge founder members, Allen Maslen and Ron Holmes, the folk-rock favourites appear as a 5-piece band to perform songs of Pink Floyd. The line-up includes keyboards-player Steve Bird, drummer Bo Davies and Craig Sunderland on bass.

They’ll be playing songs from The Dark Side of the Moon plus selections from Pink Floyd’s extensive back catalogue including Arnold Layne, Comfortably Numb, Another Brick In The Wall, Wish You Were Here and many more.

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Tags: Albany Theatre Allen Maslen Bo Davies Craig Sunderland Meet on the Ledge Pink Floyd Ron Holmes Steve Bird
May
25
Sat
The Fureys @ Albany Theatre
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May 25 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

When The Fureys make their eagerly awaited return, they will treat their audience to one of popular music’s richest legacies.

They are one of Ireland’s all-time most acclaimed and influential middle of the road, folk and traditional bands. Furey’s classics like I Will Love You, When You Were Sweet 16, Red Rose Café, Leaving Nancy, The Old Man, From Clare to Here and The Green Fields of France have become the soundtrack to the lives of fans all over the world.

The Furey brothers were still trying to make it as folk singers in the late Sixties when Eddie Furey shared flats in Scotland with then fellow folk stars-in-waiting, Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty (of Baker Street fame).

Eddie and George Furey 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. Eddie would return the compliment by joining Dave on stage in Paris for a jam during the latter’s wedding to Bananarama’s Siobhan Fahey.

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Tags: Albany Theatre The Fureys
Jun
1
Sat
Improvers Guitar Workshop w/Kevin Dempsey @ Albany Theatre - Clive Benfield Studio
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Jun 1 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

CV Folk Freshers Workshop

Here’s your chance to gain and develop your music-making and performance skills under the guidance of leading musicians and performers from the folk circuit.

CVFolk is hosting a series of specialist workshops at the Albany Theatre, Coventry on the first Saturday morning of each month. For 90 minutes you can build your expertise in a range of instruments and performance styles, inspired by experts.

Founder member of legendary bands Dando Shaft and Whippersnapper, Kevin Dempsey is regarded as one of the finest acoustic guitarists on the international folk scene. Based in Coventry himself, he is also an experienced tutor and welcomes guitarists at all stages to join him and improve on their abilities. Just bring your guitar and join the fun. He will be hosting a number of workshops on the CVFolk programme, so watch out for follow-up dates.

Admission £5 – book in advance or bring a fiver with you and your guitar!

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Tags: Albany Theatre CVFolk Folk Freshers guitar Kevin Dempsey Workshop
Jun
9
Sun
Tu-kay & Ryan + Yonderland + Katherine Abbott @ Albany Theatre Studio
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Jun 9 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Rescheduled after postponement from January

 

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Tags: 2nd Sunday Albany Theatre CVFolk Katherine Abbott Tu-Kay & Ryan Yonderland
May – June 2024 May – Jun 2024