Cork City - Sun 5th 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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Mon 22 Dec

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Sin É

Mon 22 Dec

Tony O ' Donovan

Arty's Bar

Mon 22 Dec

The Fynches – Carol-aoke !

De Barras

Mon 22 Dec

Celtic Knights

Dwyers Of Cork

Mon 22 Dec

Bermuda County Council

Seventy Seven

Mon 22 Dec

Jazz Improv! (All Players Welcome)

Crane Lane Theatre

Mon 22 Dec

Marybeth and The Supersouls

Crane Lane Theatre

Mon 22 Dec

Karaoke with Fitzies Magical Flute

Old Oak

Mon 22 Dec

DJ Sadbh Casey

The Vicarstown

Mon 22 Dec

DJ Lazar

The Vicarstown

Mon 22 Dec

DJ Che-k

Intermission Bar

Mon 22 Dec

DJ Denis (Crystal Bar)

Crane Lane Theatre

Mon 22 Dec

Home Alone (Pg)

Triskel Arts Centre

Mon 22 Dec

The Muppet Christmas Carol (G)

Triskel Arts Centre

Mon 22 Dec

Cinema | Home Alone

Briery Gap

Mon 22 Dec

The Cork Opera House And Neville Jewellers Panto - Aladdin

Cork Opera House

Mon 22 Dec

Conor O'Brien: Exhibition

Triskel Arts Centre

Mon 22 Dec

Elinor O’donovan: Winter Sun

Triskel Arts Centre