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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Sat 18 Oct

The Pat Fitz Band & DJ 'Til Late

Mabel Lane

Sat 18 Oct

Tony Roberts

The Welcome Inn

Sat 18 Oct

Gemma Hayes

Cyprus Avenue

Sat 18 Oct

Gemma Hayes

Cyprus Avenue

Sat 18 Oct

The Frank & Walters

The Richmond Revival

Sat 18 Oct

Rhod Gilbert - The Giant Grapefruit

Cork Opera House

Sat 18 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

JJ Walsh's

Sat 18 Oct

Son Of Crazy Chester

Coughlan's

Sat 18 Oct

A Close Encounter with Mary Coughlan & Ultan Conlon

Briery Gap

Sat 18 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Sat 18 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Sat 18 Oct

Stuart Wilde & The Birdmen

The Poor Relation

Sat 18 Oct

Aaron Fitz

Arty's Bar

Sat 18 Oct

Souldriven

Crane Lane Theatre

Sat 18 Oct

Jack Ahern

Cantys

Sat 18 Oct

Century

Cantys

Sat 18 Oct

Dotwork

Fred Zeppelins

Sat 18 Oct

The Old Moderns

Dwyers Of Cork

Sat 18 Oct

Nicole Lonergan

Seventy Seven

Sat 18 Oct

An Evening Of Magic Steve Spade

Sea Church