Cork City - Thu 2nd Oct 2025, 1am

Cork Folk Festival

Cork City

Thu 01 Oct 2026 - Sun 04 Oct 2026


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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Sun 21 Dec

Jack Ahern

The Welcome Inn

Sun 21 Dec

The Lee Sessions - Traditional Irish Music Session

The Gables

Sun 21 Dec

Chasing Abbey

Cyprus Avenue

Sun 21 Dec

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Sun 21 Dec

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Sun 21 Dec

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Sun 21 Dec

Stringbox

Arty's Bar

Sun 21 Dec

Joe Mac

Cantys

Sun 21 Dec

Route66

Cantys

Sun 21 Dec

Blues Jam (Players Welcome) House Band: Sanarblan Slim Jims

The Poor Relation

Sun 21 Dec

Jerry Fish

Connollys of Leap

Sun 21 Dec

Brewhouse Jazz

Franciscan Well Brew Pub

Sun 21 Dec

Four Faced Liars

Coughlan's

Sun 21 Dec

Abro'S

Seventy Seven

Sun 21 Dec

The Big Swingin' Mikeys

Dwyers Of Cork

Sun 21 Dec

The Tan Jackets

Crane Lane Theatre

Sun 21 Dec

Ger Wolfe & The Ferns Solstice Concert

Levis Cornerhouse

Sun 21 Dec

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

JJ Walsh's

Sun 21 Dec

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Charlie's

Sun 21 Dec

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

The White Horse