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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Sun 19 Oct

Peadar O'Callaghan

Mabel Lane

Sun 19 Oct

Jack Ahern

The Welcome Inn

Sun 19 Oct

John Spillane

The Richmond Revival

Sun 19 Oct

Onoir

Cork Opera House

Sun 19 Oct

The Lee Sessions - Traditional Irish Music Session

The Gables

Sun 19 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

JJ Walsh's

Sun 19 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

The White Horse

Sun 19 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Charlie's

Sun 19 Oct

Luka Bloom

Coughlan's

Sun 19 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Sun 19 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Sun 19 Oct

The Blue Mist 2025

The Pavillion

Sun 19 Oct

Molly McCarthy

Arty's Bar

Sun 19 Oct

P90's

Crane Lane Theatre

Sun 19 Oct

Joe Mac

Cantys

Sun 19 Oct

Route66

Cantys

Sun 19 Oct

Bermuda County Council

Dwyers Of Cork

Sun 19 Oct

DJ Jus Me (Crystal Bar)

Crane Lane Theatre

Sun 19 Oct

Stripped To Kill (NC) [Four Films By Katt Shea]

Triskel Arts Centre

Sun 19 Oct

The Swallow (G)

Triskel Arts Centre