Sunjay
2:00pm - 5:00pm
The Humber - Acoustic Music Session
Humber Road, Coventry CV3 1BA
Free Sunday afternoon music session.
Southbound Café-Bar (Shanade)Railway Arch, 12 Neilston Street, Leamington CV31 2AZShanade is an established singer/songwriter with a powerful, soulful voice, known for her captivating performances. Her music pairs classic song-writing and heartfelt lyrics with a gutsy modern sound. She released the critically-acclaimed single Gambling Man on her own label Lola Rose Records in 2016.Shanade performs at numerous festivals and venues all over the UK in addition to live radio performances (including BBC Radio 2).
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Temperance (TwoManTing - Album launch)
33 Bath Street, Leamington Spa CV31 3AF
Tickets £8.58 incl booking fee
We are delighted to welcome back this hugely talented duo for an evening of wonderful world music. Launching their fourth studio album!
TwoManTing was formed in 2004 when Sierra Leonean drummer Jah-man Aggrey, and guitarist Jon Lewis were playing together as part of dance band, Le Cod Afrique, at venues such as Montreux Jazz Festival and WOMAD.
Phone: 01926 730102
Email: mail@temperance.bar
Folk in the Lounge (Music and song session / singaround)Denbigh Arms, Main Street, Monks Kirby, nr Rugby CV23 0QXNormally third Sunday in the month but check with organiser csquire@btinternet.com (or add your email address to his mailing list)
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Monday 18th May
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Temperance (John Adams)
33 Bath Street, Leamington Spa CV31 3AF
Tickets £17.69 incl booking fee.
Phone: 01926 730102
Email: mail@temperance.bar
We are very excited to welcome this hugely talented singer-songwriter to perform his debut show in our atmospheric cellar venue. Don't miss!
John Adams is a Welsh singer-songwriter whose powerful, emotive vocals and deeply personal songs create intimate, quietly captivating live shows — ideal for a romantic evening out. Blending stripped-back acoustic arrangements with subtle modern production, his music sits comfortably between contemporary pop and the evocative folk he was raised on, exploring love, connection, and vulnerability in a way that feels both personal and widely relatable.
A favourite of BBC Radio 2, Adams has built a substantial global following, amassing over 250 million streams across his releases. You may have heard his music featured on major TV shows including Love Island, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and The Voice. His songwriting has also caught the attention of other artists, with recent cuts recorded by Calum Scott.
His live performances have earned praise from Clare Balding (BBC Radio 2), Gary Barlow, and Carol Vorderman, who described his shows as “Sensational.” With over a decade of live experience, sold-out UK tours, and support slots alongside major artists, John Adams delivers a live show that is both emotionally resonant and effortlessly engaging.
Warwick Folk Club (Sunjay + Bit The Pip)The Old Fourpenny Shop, 27-29 Crompton St, Warwick CV34 6HJ
Multi award-winning, critically acclaimed artist who effortlessly straddles the musical worlds of Americana, Blues, Folk & Country.
Entry £15 Please reserve your seats by email to robinfromwfc@gmail.com
Payment can be made in advance by BACS.
BACS details are:
A/C Name: Warwick Folk Club
Sort Code: 20 57 44
A/C Number: 23057348
Please show your name on the payment and use reference "WFC S".Please let us know if you have paid by BACS so we can add your name to the list. We will confirm your place by email.
Or you can also pay on the door by cash or card.
Session at the Four Provinces (Oakfield Band)Four Provinces Pub (Upstairs room),19 Allesley Old Rd, Coventry CV5 8BUMeets most Mondays but confirm with venue on 024 7667 2021
The host band has an eclectic repetoire of folk tunes with over 370 sets played from the music. Instruments include guitar, banjo, mandolin, accordians, violins, flute and whistle.
"CovTrad" traditional music session
Weekly on Mondays
Humber Hotel, Humber Road, Coventry CV3 1BA
Free casual music session focused on traditional tunes from Britain and Ireland with bits of Americana, Skandi etc. If you are a beginner with only a few tunes, let us know and we'll join in at a speed that works for you.
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Fox Acoustic session
(Music and song session /singaround)
Weekly on Mondays
The Fox Inn, The Square, Attleborough, Nuneaton CV11 4JY
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Tuesday 19th May
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Weekly on Tuesdays
Hearsall Inn, 45 Craven Street, Coventry CV5 8DS
The Coventry Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann is a creative community nurturing Irish culture. We are dedicated to promoting Irish music, dance and language.We hold music classes for a range of traditional instruments, including fiddle, banjo, tin whistle, button accordion, mandolin and bodhran, every Tuesday evening commencing at 7.00 pm for tin whistle and 7.30 pm for all other instruments. Lessons are £2 per week with the first taster lesson absolutely free. Details https://coventrycomhaltas.wordpress.com/about/
Classes are followed by a session in which musicians of all abilities are welcome to come along and join in. If you do not play an instrument but enjoy listening to Irish music you are also more than welcome to join us.
The Coventry Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann is a creative community nurturing Irish culture. We are dedicated to promoting Irish music, dance and language.
We hold music classes for a range of traditional instruments, including fiddle, banjo, tin whistle, button accordion, mandolin and bodhran, every Tuesday evening commencing at 7.00 pm for tin whistle and 7.30 pm for all other instruments. Lessons are £2 per week with the first taster lesson absolutely free. Details https://coventrycomhaltas.wordpress.com/about/
Classes are followed by a session in which musicians of all abilities are welcome to come along and join in. If you do not play an instrument but enjoy listening to Irish music you are also more than welcome to join us.
Castle Inn, Warwick (Session)
88 West Street, Warwick CV34 6AW
Weekly on Tuesdays
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Wednesday 20th May
1:00pm - 3:00pm
The Kenilworth Centre
(Kenilworth Acoustic Traditional Session)
Weekly on Wednesdays
Abbey End Car Park, Kenilworth CV8 1QJ
https://www.thekenilworthcentre.com/whats-on/groups/kenilworth-acoustic-traditional-session/
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Temperance (Sarah Blasko SOLD OUT)
33 Bath Street, Leamington Spa CV31 3AF
Tickets Sold Out. Link to join waiting list: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indie-pop-temperance-sarah-blasko-tickets-1984060489333?aff=oddtdtcreator
Phone: 01926 730102
Email: mail@temperance.bar
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Atherstone Folk Club (Dryadic + Liz Wall)
Atherstone Red Lion Hotel, 99 Long Street, Atherstone CV9 1BB
Emerging Gloucestershire & Bristol folk-roots sensation, Dryadic deliver an infectious blend of rootsy folk with a melodic pop flair on strings, keys and stomp, peppered with heart soaring vocals and vibrant fiddle licks. Their inimitable balance of trad, new, romantic, feel-good and rousing rhythms underpin candid lyrics, tenacious hooks and intoxicating vocals to masterfully command the most diverse audience.
Expect a rhythmical mix-up of stomping feminist protest songs to travelling folk tales to dreamy, epic ballads with candid, hilarious, queer lyrics and five-string fiddles with oversized (double) bass guitars do-si-do-ing with the audience! Having built a reputation for compelling live shows, Dryadic has captivated audiences at venues and festivals across the UK, from Glastonbury’s Avalon Stage to Brighton Pride. With performances alongside folk luminaries like Grace Petrie, O’Hooley & Tidow and Heather Peace, Dryadic’s presence is both magnetic and purposeful, engaging listeners through both the music and the inclusive atmosphere created.
Dryadic members joining leader and song-writer Zora McDonald on guitar, stomp and piano, are Aly Rainey on fiddle and George Pearson on double bass.
Floor-spots available! Just email Phil Benson and ask.
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Doug's Bar Session
Greg Brice + Chessi O'Dowd. Hosted by Jack Blackman
Rother Street Arts House, 14 Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LU
After a fantastic debut Doug’s Bar Sessions last month, we bring to Rother Street Arts another intimate evening of original songs and stories.
Upon release of his debut album in November 2022, Greg Brice received 3 nominations in the 2023 UK Blues Awards, becoming a finalist in the ‘Emerging Act of the Year’ category. He has also been nominated for the 4th year in a row this year – Best Acoustic Act 2026. His intricate fingerstyle guitar and strident electric slide connects in the raw and immediate way that only proper roots music can. And that voice – clear as a bell, powerful and pure.
‘A virtuoso guitarist who sings like Lowell George, you’re gonna like him’ – Andy Kershaw,
Chessi O’ Dowd’s music is often described as Indie folk or Indie Pop-Folk and has drawn comparisons to singers such as Lana Del Rey, Dodie and Beth Orton. Her songwriting is a unique mix of personal insight, loves, struggles and laughs fused with a sunny summer vibe that reaches out to her listeners and entwines her experiences with their own, drawing the listener in. In 2023, Chessi won the ‘Godiva Calling’ songwriter competition to open the Main Stage at Godiva festival, where she was featured on the bill alongside Mel C, Diversity and Trevor Nelson.Hosted by Jack Blackman.
Jack Blackman is a contemporary singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Warwickshire, recognized as a leading figure in the UK’s acoustic roots and blues scene. Jack has shared the stage with industry legends such as Tony Joe White, PP Arnold, Paul Jones, and Dave Swarbrick of Fairport Convention.
Tickets £14(incl booking fee):
Student tickets £6 (incl booking fee)
8:30pm - 10:30pm
Wednesday Tuneworks at Kenilworth Ale Room
(Tuneworks music session)
Weekly trad tunes session, upstairs at the Ale Rooms, Kenilworth.
£3 (£2 unwaged) contribution towards room hire appreciated please.
All sensitive musicians welcome, beginners, improvers and established players.
More info @www.tuneworks.co.uk #
Why not pick up an instrument and learn to play traditional tunes in a sociable and welcoming environment?
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Attleborough Arms (The Hawkesbury Trawlermen)
Highfield Rd, Nuneaton, Warwickshire CV11 4PL
Shanty Session (3rd Thursdays)
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Southbound Café-Bar (Martin and Milda)Railway Arch, 12 Neilston Street, Leamington CV31 2AZ
Milda (guitar, piano and vocals) and Martin (guitar and vocals) have different backgrounds, Milda in classical and folk, Martin in rock and blues. They have found that their mutual love of music has melded into an eclectic mix of folk, blues and popular music along with self penned numbers and moving harmonies.
All Around My Kitchen (House singaround)Dick & Sue's house, Coventry. Please call or email for location.
All welcome – teas and coffee are on the house.
Please bring your own beer or wine.
Phone or email for details
07831 890905
Godiva Sessions
(Singaround Hosted by Yonderland)
The Humber, Humber Rd, Coventry CV3 1BA
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Friday 22nd May
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Mark Harrison is an established, multi-award-nominated singer-songwriter, storyteller and guitarist with an ever-growing reputation for being unlike any other artist out there. He performs all-original songs in his own very individual style, with elements of rock, folk, blues and Americana. He has been frequently featured on BBC Radio, including the Radio 2 Pick of the Week show and the Radio 2 Folk Show, and he and his band have been live guests on Cerys Matthews’s Radio 2 show. He has been described on the BBC as an artist who 'makes you think afresh' and by countless reviewers and audience members as 'uplifting' and 'inspirational'. He has brought something genuinely new and distinctive to the roots music scene.
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Saturday 23rd May
3:00pm - 5:00pm
7:30pm - 11:00pm
Tin Music & Arts (Charlie Parr + Jamie Scott)Units 1 - 4, The Canal Basin, Coventry CV1 4LYTickets from £18
In the music of Charlie Parr, there is a sincere conviction and earnest drive to create. The Minnesota-born guitarist, songwriter, and interpreter of traditional music has released 19 albums over two decades and has been known to perform up to 275 shows a year.Parr is a folk troubadour in the truest sense: taking to the road between shows, writing and rewriting songs as he plays, fueled by a belief that music is eternal and cannot be claimed or adequately explained. The bluesman poet pulls closely from the sights and sounds around him, his lyrical craftsmanship built by his influences. The sounds from his working-class upbringing—including Folkways legends such as Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie—imbue Parr’s music with stylistic echoes of blues and folk icons of decades past. Parr sees himself merely as a continuer of a folk tradition: “I feel like I stand on a lot of big shoulders,” he said in an interview. “I hope that I’ve brought a little bit of myself to the music.”With a discography simultaneously transcendental in nature and grounded in roots music, Charlie Parr is the humble master of the 21st century folk tradition.In his 2024 release, Little Sun, Parr weaves together stories celebrating music, community, and communing with nature. Putting forth an ambitious and raw album that exemplifies the best of Parr’s sound: a blend of the blues and folk traditions he continues to carry with him and the steadfast originality of a poet.14+ Show (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
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