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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Tue 30 Dec

Abbaesque

Cyprus Avenue

Tue 30 Dec

Mossie The Band

Crane Lane Theatre

Tue 30 Dec

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Tue 30 Dec

Madhouse Presents Everlong Echoes and Small Town Politics

The Pavillion

Tue 30 Dec

William O' Halloran

Arty's Bar

Tue 30 Dec

Dr Dec and The Side Effects

Cantys

Tue 30 Dec

Jenny Greene

Connollys of Leap

Tue 30 Dec

Tuesday Trad Session

Franciscan Well Brew Pub

Tue 30 Dec

Wild Orange Country Club

Dwyers Of Cork

Tue 30 Dec

Ricky Kelleher

Seventy Seven

Tue 30 Dec

FC&C Christmas Gig

Levis Cornerhouse

Tue 30 Dec

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Blarney Castle Hotel

Tue 30 Dec

Dr Herringbone Dread

The Vicarstown

Tue 30 Dec

DJ Alex

The Vicarstown

Tue 30 Dec

DJ Ian Richards(Crystal Bar)

Crane Lane Theatre

Tue 30 Dec

The Cork Opera House And Neville Jewellers Panto - Aladdin

Cork Opera House

Tue 30 Dec

Conor O'Brien: Exhibition

Triskel Arts Centre

Tue 30 Dec

Elinor O’donovan: Winter Sun

Triskel Arts Centre