Highlights

Féach ar seo!

Festival Gallery

Donogh Hennessy

Catfish Keith 2

kilfenora

Sheema Mukherjee

Cork Irish Dance Company

Bog Blossem

Nigel Grufferty

Chris Newman

Martin Carthy

Cork Céilí Mór

Kathleen Begley

Seamus Begley

Tola Custy

Catfish Keith

Cork Folk Festival Arts @ Civic Trust House

50 Popes Quay, Cork.

Phone 021 4215150

infocorkfolk@gmail.com

Cork Folk Festival 2012 Survivors Guide

The Cork Folk Festival is an international celebration of world class Folk and Traditional Music. The festival is 34 years old and is one of Ireland's most exciting music events. This autumn thousands of musicians and followers of good music will throng to Cork for the four day event. Performances take place in concert halls, music venues, in 30 pubs and on the Streets. It will feature concerts, gigs, lectures, trad sessions, workshops, children's events, dancing and specialist instrument concerts in fiddle, accordion, pipes and traditional song.

We are also organising a special programme this year to celebrate the 'The Gathering 2013' our plan is to invite emigrant musicians back to Cork for one giant fling. We will have details on this event soon.

Paul Brady

Paddy Keenan

Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is one of Ireland’s most enduringly popular artists. He began to develop as a singer and performer joining a succession of R’n B / Soul bands including The Inmates, The Kult and Rootzgroop, Junior Walker and blues legends like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Chuck Berry.

Declan O'Rourke

Eddi Reader

Declan O’Rourke was a latecomer to the Dublin singer-songwriter scene. In his mid-twenties, O’Rourke found himself in the mix with the likes of Paddy Casey, Gemma Hayes, Damian Rice and many others.

The Kilfenora Ceili Band

Paddy Keenan

In the span of a century, entire countries rise & fall and cultures evolve. Yet some have endured. One such icon, Ireland’s oldest Céilí Band, was born a century ago in the tiny village of Kilfenora.

Serge Desaunay & Kieran Fahy

Eddi Reader

Serge Desaunay is very committed to Quebec and Celtic music and has been for many years. He played with Les Maudzits Français and many others, as well as with Kieran Fahy...

KAN

Paddy Keenan

KAN is a unique melding of the beautiful flute virtuosity of Brian Finnegan, from Armagh N. Ireland, with the fiddle deftness of Aidan O’Rourke, from Scotland’s Isle of Seil, with the organic drumming of Harrogate’s James Goodwin and the guitar reinventions of Ian Stephenson, of Selby in Yorkshire.

Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick

Paddy Keenan

The great guitarist and singer Martin Carthy and great virtuoso violin player Dave Swarbrick first became heroes of the British folk scene when they began working as an acoustic duo back in the 1960s...

Raw Bar Collective

Paddy Keenan With a refreshingly uncluttered approach to playing, the Raw Bar Collective present a vibrant and excitingly earthy style of Irish Traditional music. The Raw Bar Collective is a fluid gathering of Irish musicians, each of them an acknowledged standard bearer within the tradition...

Guidewires

Paddy Keenan

It’s no wonder that this band is being described as "The freshest sound in Irish music" with their high-energy performances, breathtaking arrangements and their infectious melodies. Guidewires have an all-star line up with many recognizable names such as Sylvain Barou and Pádraig Rynne.

London Lasses & Pete Quinn

Paddy Keenan

The London Lasses and Pete Quinn have toured Germany with the St Patrick’s Day Celebration Festival and they have brought their music to Cambridge Folk Festival, Glastonbury, and even in Ballyshannon...

Session Americana

Paddy Keenan

You sneak up on Session Americana. Oh, not literally, as you can discover them in an ever-widening circle of clubs and festivals, three studio records and one live set, and on a new, as-yet-untitled 10-song release due this spring....

2012 Cork Folk Festival Artist Videos

KAN	Guidewires	Declan O'Rourke
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick	London Lasses & Pete Quinn	Kilfenora Céilí Band
Session Americana	Serge Desaunay & Kieran Fahy	Kilfenora Céilí Band