Artist Info

Festival Gallery

Beamish Cork Folk Fest

Slide 2001

Jer Wolfe and the new skylarks

Four Star Trio 2002

The Boat Band 2003

Steve Cooney & Tony McMahon 2003

Lena Bean ui Shea Gus Mcgloughan 2003

Jimmy Doyle & Michelle O Sullivan 2003

Dermot Byrne & Mauread Ni Mahonaigh

Beamish Cork Folk Festival Launch 2009 group photo

Festival Programme

This year's festival is promising to be our best one yet with lots of acts already confirmed. Check out what's on in our gig guide...

The Imagined Village

Eddi Reader

This exciting wild band have taken English traditional folk music to new heights with their roots in well known acts such as Tunng, Tiger Moth, Trans-Global Underground and the deft musical touch of Paul Weller...

Sarakina

Eddi Reader

This Polish-based ensemble play Macedonian, Bulgarian and other Balkan music with charged energy, a flair for jazz and folk, and the curiosity of non-natives discovering a secret code..

Beoga

Eddi Reader

The Wall Street Journal dubs them the most exciting new traditional band to emerge from Ireland this century. We're really looking forward to having them at the festival again this year..

2010 Cork Folk Festival Artist Videos

Beoga - Eamon Murray

Niwel Tsumbu

Iarla Ó Lionaird

Alan Kelly

Eddi Reader

Kilfenora Céilí Band

Festival Partners

30th Cork Folk Festival Commemorative Print
by Colm Murphy

30th Cork Folk Festival Commemorative Print by Colm Murphy.

To commemorate the 30th Cork Folk Festival we have commissioned a print by Cork artist and bodhran player Colm Murphy. 200 copies have been printed - each print numbered 1 to 200 is signed by the artist. Bookings of the print can be made by sending an email to cfolkf@gmail.com with the subject title : Commemorative print

The costs of the prints are €40 each and are A2 size. Post & packaging €2.50.