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.

Dec
9
Sat
The Young’uns at Christmas @ Warwick Arts Centre
Dec 9 @ 7:45 pm – 9:45 pm

The Young’uns’ live shows are renowned roller coaster rides.

With heart-on-the-sleeve storytelling, beautiful lyrics, warm harmonies and relentless repartee, Sean Cooney, Michael Hughes and David Eagle (the award-winning stand-up comedian) write and sing folk songs for today. Join one of the UK’s best loved folk groups for a special set of seasonal songs old and new.

Sat evening and Sunday matinee

Dec
10
Sun
The Young’uns at Christmas @ Warwick Arts Centre
Dec 10 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

The Young’uns’ live shows are renowned roller coaster rides.

With heart-on-the-sleeve storytelling, beautiful lyrics, warm harmonies and relentless repartee, Sean Cooney, Michael Hughes and David Eagle (the award-winning stand-up comedian) write and sing folk songs for today. Join one of the UK’s best loved folk groups for a special set of seasonal songs old and new.

Sat evening and Sunday matinee

Dec
12
Tue
Songwriting Workshop – Ellie Gowers, Steve Jones (Stylusboy), Lauren South @ Warwick Arts Centre - Creative Learning Space
Dec 12 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

SONGWRITINGWORKSHOPS

Every Tue during term

times 8pm – 10pm

Warwickshire based songwriter, Ellie Gowers returns for 23/24 along with Steve Jones (aka Stylusboy) and Lauren South to deliver a series of workshops across the year. Whether you’re just starting your songwriting journey or are looking to refine your craft then these free sessions are for you. Helen Martin Studio FREE

Dec
19
Tue
Songwriting Workshop – Ellie Gowers, Steve Jones (Stylusboy), Lauren South @ Warwick Arts Centre - Creative Learning Space
Dec 19 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

SONGWRITINGWORKSHOPS

Every Tue during term

times 8pm – 10pm

Warwickshire based songwriter, Ellie Gowers returns for 23/24 along with Steve Jones (aka Stylusboy) and Lauren South to deliver a series of workshops across the year. Whether you’re just starting your songwriting journey or are looking to refine your craft then these free sessions are for you. Helen Martin Studio FREE

Jan
9
Tue
Songwriting Workshop – Ellie Gowers, Steve Jones (Stylusboy), Lauren South @ Warwick Arts Centre - Creative Learning Space
Jan 9 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

SONGWRITINGWORKSHOPS

Every Tue during term

times 8pm – 10pm

Warwickshire based songwriter, Ellie Gowers returns for 23/24 along with Steve Jones (aka Stylusboy) and Lauren South to deliver a series of workshops across the year. Whether you’re just starting your songwriting journey or are looking to refine your craft then these free sessions are for you. Helen Martin Studio FREE

Jan
16
Tue
Songwriting Workshop – Ellie Gowers, Steve Jones (Stylusboy), Lauren South @ Warwick Arts Centre - Creative Learning Space
Jan 16 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

SONGWRITINGWORKSHOPS

Every Tue during term

times 8pm – 10pm

Warwickshire based songwriter, Ellie Gowers returns for 23/24 along with Steve Jones (aka Stylusboy) and Lauren South to deliver a series of workshops across the year. Whether you’re just starting your songwriting journey or are looking to refine your craft then these free sessions are for you. Helen Martin Studio FREE

Jan
23
Tue
Songwriting Workshop – Ellie Gowers, Steve Jones (Stylusboy), Lauren South @ Warwick Arts Centre - Creative Learning Space
Jan 23 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

SONGWRITINGWORKSHOPS

Every Tue during term

times 8pm – 10pm

Warwickshire based songwriter, Ellie Gowers returns for 23/24 along with Steve Jones (aka Stylusboy) and Lauren South to deliver a series of workshops across the year. Whether you’re just starting your songwriting journey or are looking to refine your craft then these free sessions are for you. Helen Martin Studio FREE

Jan
30
Tue
Songwriting Workshop – Ellie Gowers, Steve Jones (Stylusboy), Lauren South @ Warwick Arts Centre - Creative Learning Space
Jan 30 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

SONGWRITINGWORKSHOPS

Every Tue during term

times 8pm – 10pm

Warwickshire based songwriter, Ellie Gowers returns for 23/24 along with Steve Jones (aka Stylusboy) and Lauren South to deliver a series of workshops across the year. Whether you’re just starting your songwriting journey or are looking to refine your craft then these free sessions are for you. Helen Martin Studio FREE

Feb
6
Tue
Songwriting Workshop – Ellie Gowers, Steve Jones (Stylusboy), Lauren South @ Warwick Arts Centre - Creative Learning Space
Feb 6 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

SONGWRITINGWORKSHOPS

Every Tue during term

times 8pm – 10pm

Warwickshire based songwriter, Ellie Gowers returns for 23/24 along with Steve Jones (aka Stylusboy) and Lauren South to deliver a series of workshops across the year. Whether you’re just starting your songwriting journey or are looking to refine your craft then these free sessions are for you. Helen Martin Studio FREE

Feb
9
Fri
Fisherman’s Friends – Rock the Boat Tour @ Warwick Arts Centre
Feb 9 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Following a sold-out tour across the UK earlier this year, Fisherman’s Friends have announced a brand-new major headline tour for 2024.

Fisherman’s Friends have nine albums to their name, two feature films, a stage musical, a book, a TV documentary, they’ve played for royalty and to tens of thousands of fans in sell-out tours year in year out… No, it’s not The Beatles, Take That or One Direction – it’s The Fisherman’s Friends!

A decade ago, The Fisherman’s Friends signed a million-pound record deal that saw their album Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends go Gold as they became the first ever traditional folk act to land a UK top ten album.

And thanks to the small film with a big heart that shares their name, the story of the original Cornish ‘buoy band’ is known around the world – bound by shared experience, for more than 30 years they have gathered on the Platt on the harbour in their native Port Isaac to sing the songs of the sea, songs that in some cases have been handed down for hundreds of years, songs that connect them to generations of Cornish fishermen that have come before them.

The film’s sequel Fisherman’s Friends 2 was released last year. The story follows the group from the highs of starring on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, through the lows of struggling to make a follow-up album. Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical broke all box office records selling over 250,000 tickets in the UK and Canada.

The Fisherman’s Friends are lobster fisherman Jeremy Brown, writer and shopkeeper Jon Cleave, smallholder and engineer John ‘Lefty’ Lethbridge, builder John McDonnell, lobster fisherman Jason Nicholas, filmmaker Toby Lobb and potter Bill Hawkins.

Box Office: ticketing@warwick.ac.uk

Web: www.warwickartscentre.co.uk