Cork Folk Festival

Cork City

Thu 02 Oct 2025 - Sun 05 Oct 2025


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 5 Oct

Jack Ahern

The Welcome Inn

Sun 5 Oct

The Rock Orchestra

Cork Opera House

Sun 5 Oct

Shaskeen: 46th Cork Folk Festival 2025

Triskel Arts Centre

Sun 5 Oct

Season Ticket An Spailpín Fánach

An Spailpín Fánach

Sun 5 Oct

Box/Concertina Concert

An Spailpín Fánach

Sun 5 Oct

Shaskeen

Triskel Arts Centre

Sun 5 Oct

Bernadette Nic Gabhann, Rhona O’ Driscoll, Antóin Mac Gabhann, Seamus Sands, Mikaela Ní Mhurchú, Aishling Walshe

An Spailpín Fánach

Sun 5 Oct

The Lee Sessions - Traditional Irish Music Session

The Gables

Sun 5 Oct

Brewhouse Jazz

Franciscan Well Brew Pub

Sun 5 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

The White Horse

Sun 5 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

JJ Walsh's

Sun 5 Oct

The Lee Sessions Trad Trail

Charlie's

Sun 5 Oct

Cork Folk Festival: The Oars & guest Eoin Jordan

Coughlan's

Sun 5 Oct

Quiz 3 Of The Original 7 Pure Cork Quiz League

Fred Zeppelins

Sun 5 Oct

Cork Voices Of The Irish Revolution

St. Peters Cork

Sun 5 Oct

Ava Hayes: Residency

Triskel Arts Centre