Cork Folk Festival Review: Roy Harper, The Unthanks at St Luke’s, Cork

4/5

Soft music, hard old benches. Easy on the ear, hard on the rear. Could you find a more soulful venue for acoustic music than the former church St Luke’s in Cork?

You’d forget just how readily folk music lends itself to chat, audience interaction and anachronistic grey-beard diatribes about the evolving state of humankind. Of course, the gods prefer choristers.