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 15 Nov

Tony Roberts

The Welcome Inn

Sat 15 Nov

SexyTadhg

Wavelength (Cyprus Avenue Rooftop)

Sat 15 Nov

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Sat 15 Nov

Fist Of Pure Emotion - Lonely Street Of Dreams

Cyprus Avenue

Sat 15 Nov

Breen | Rynne | Murray | with special guest Nell Ní Chróinín

Briery Gap

Sat 15 Nov

Gina The Champions 3

Sea Church

Sat 15 Nov

Graham Lynch & The Crisis Actors

Coughlan's

Sat 15 Nov

The Hollyz

Crane Lane Theatre

Sat 15 Nov

D'shamrocks

Cantys

Sat 15 Nov

The Biz

Cantys

Sat 15 Nov

The P90s

The Poor Relation

Sat 15 Nov

Stringbox

Arty's Bar

Sat 15 Nov

Celtic Knights

Dwyers Of Cork

Sat 15 Nov

Abraham Live

Seventy Seven

Sat 15 Nov

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Sat 15 Nov

Guaya Latin Party

Cyprus Avenue

Sat 15 Nov

DJ Che-k

Crane Lane Theatre

Sat 15 Nov

DJ Mossy (Crystal Bar)

Crane Lane Theatre

Sat 15 Nov

DJ Bdc

The Vicarstown

Sat 15 Nov

DJ Sadbh Casey

The Vicarstown