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.

Apr
20
Sat
Shakespeare Morris – Shakespeare’s Birthday procession @ Stratford Town Centre
Apr 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • 11:04am – In recognition of its 200th anniversary, the Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon, the oldest Shakespeare Society in the world, will lead the Birthday Parade behind the band of the Air Training Corps. Students from King Edward VI Schools and local primary schools children will follow.
  • 11:20am – The WMFS Band will accompany the Civic Procession and other guests from Bridge Street and adjoining streets, along High Street, Chapel Street, Church Street and Old Town to the church.
  • 11:28am – The Compere invites spectators, intent on going to church to lay flowers, to join the end of the Procession as it moves into High Street.
  • 11:40am – The Procession will pass through Holy Trinity Church, depositing flowers at Shakespeare’s grave.
Elks Jumping High, feat. annA rydeR, Carol Whitworth & Nicky Cure @ The Old Post Office
Apr 20 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

annA plays all her usual instruments!

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Apr
21
Sun
Hairy Folkers Session @ The Old Windmill,
Apr 21 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

An afternoon of song, music and spoken word in the round. Eclectic session of folk and folk related stuff. No PA.

Folk in the Lounge – music and song session @ Denbigh Arms
Apr 21 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Apr
22
Mon
‘CovTrad’ traditional music session @ Humber Hotel
Apr 22 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Free casual music session focused on traditional tunes from Britain and Ireland with bits of Americana, Skandi, etc.

If you are a beginner with only a few tunes, let us know and we’ll join in at a speed that works for you.

Fox Acoustic Sessions @ Fox Inn
Apr 22 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Fox Acoustic is an intimate singaround.   Music of any style on any instrument.

Performers Night with MC Don Arthurson @ Warwick Folk Club
Apr 22 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
MC Don Arthurson. 8pm -10.30pm (Doors open 7.30pm). Entry £3
Quigleys Music Session @ Quigleys
Apr 22 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Monday and Saturday night sessions have been going on now for 30 years Featuring Eric, Bob and Leslie Robson, Phil Gregg, Robin, Joe Heckles, Terry Mc Hugh, and Trevor from the famous Daventry Boyz. Occasionally Dave Broadfield.

Apr
23
Tue
Coventry Morris – St.George’s Day celebration @ Broadgate
Apr 23 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Findlay Napier @ Temperance
Apr 23 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

From the Main Stage of Cambridge Folk Festival with folk rock supergroup The Magpie Arc to an intimate acoustic show in the back room of a pub Findlay Napier is widely regarded as one of the finest performers on the UK music scene. This fact was further highlighted when Napier was the first solo act ever to be nominated for Live Act of the Year at the Scot’s Trad Music awards in 2018. Tirelessly creative he has been touring and releasing music since the early naughties.

First with groundbreaking trad folk band Back of the Moon, then with Nu-Folk pioneers Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers and most recently as a solo act working under the guidance of legendary songwriter Boo Hewerdine. His breakthrough solo album VIP: Very Interesting Persons, produced by Boo Hewerdine, was number 2 in The Telegraph’s top folk albums of 2014. He followed it with 2017’s Glasgow described by The Scotsman as “a paean to his adopted home town” which led to a number of high profile gigs including a couple of seasons as opening act on Eddi Reader’s UK tour.

In 2021 he released It Is What It Is a collaboration album in all but name with producer and multi-instrumentalist Angus Lyon which Folk Radio UK called, ”A captivating, indispensable work; it is what it is and what it is, is magnificent.” Described as a “miracle lyricist’ by the Sunday Herald and “an original and engaging treat” by The Telegraph his skills as a songwriter and collaborator have led him to work on some surprising and interesting projects. In 2017 he was invited to take part in Greg Russell’s ‘Shake the Chains’ project with Nancy Kerr and Hannah Martin where they toured, recorded and released a double live album. After meeting award winning songwriter Megan Henwood at an EFDSS songwriting retreat he formed the duo The Story Song Scientists writing songs about science releasing two EPs and touring the UK.

In late 2021 he joined folk rock supergroup The Magpie Arc with Martin Simpson, Tom A Wright, Alex Hunter and Nancy Kerr performing on festival main stages and arts centres across the UK. Their debut album “Glamour in the Grey”, featuring three of Napier’s original songs including a co-write with Max O’Conner was released in October 2022. He is often commissioned to write songs including one for The 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, two songs for Morgan Fisher’s Miniatures 2020 and more recently penning an anthem for the 125th anniversary of the Scottish TUC. As a teaching artist he regularly runs songwriting workshops. He set up Glasgow Songwriting Festival in 2016 and consults on various other songwriting events and festivals around the UK. He has hosted many songwriting retreats at Moniack Mhor (Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre) alongside Boo Hewerdine, Karine Polwart and Bella Hardy and works with Vox Liminus and Feis Rois delivering music and songwriting workshops in Scottish prisons.

Findlay lives on the Isle of Arran with his family. His next solo album “An Extensive List of Lost Things” will be released in early 2024 accompanied by a UK and Canadian tour.