Cork Folk Festival

Cork City

Thu 02 Oct 2025 - Sun 05 Oct 2025 (note: this event has already taken place)


Four days of music, song and dance in Ireland’s southern capital, Cork. This year Mary Black is heading up our festival, she is featured along with some of Ireland’s and Cork’s finest traditional talents. We have put the festival together with the help of the Cork City Council Arts Committee, The Arts Council, Failte Ireland and MTU Cork. The programme includes over 150 musicians from all parts of Ireland and a few from abroad performing in 20 venues around the city.

Our festival this year features 50 plus events hosted at theatres, art centres and pubs scattered across the city, shining the spotlight on local styles of fiddle, concertina, accordion, flute and song. In this 43rd edition of the festival we also offer workshops, films, open-air events and storytelling sessions for children, providing deeper insights into the Irish folk tradition and ensuring the whole family are well-catered for.





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Tony Milner

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Beoga

Cyprus Avenue

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The Fynches + guest Julia-Maria

Coughlan's

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Mark Lyndon

The Richmond Revival

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The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

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The Year Grunge Broke

Sea Church

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Winson

Cyprus Avenue

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Hank Wedel & Down In The City

Cantys

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The Long Shots

The Poor Relation

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Out Of Order

Arty's Bar

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The Rising

Dwyers Of Cork

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Abro'S

Seventy Seven

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Adam Raymond (O.b City)

The Park

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Fiesta Latina with DJ Wilros

Crane Lane Theatre

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DJ Big Daddy Can

Crane Lane Theatre

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DJ IIbuko (Crystal Bar)

Crane Lane Theatre

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DJ Val

The Vicarstown

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Fiesta Latina with DJ Mystic Gold & Guests

The Old Town Whiskey Bar at Bodega

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Keith Synott

The Pavilion

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The Best Of Cork Autumn Series

City Limits