Cork Folk Festival review: Coughlan, Black and Shannon provide fitting finale 

Sharon Shannon, Frances Black, Mary Coughlan closed out the 2023 Cork Folk Festival with a superb gig at Cork Opera House 

Mary Coughlan, Sharon Shannon and Frances Black with Aoife Scott at Cork Opera House for Cork Folk Festival.  Picture: Dan Geary

Sharon Shannon, Frances Black, Mary Coughlan; Cork Opera House, Cork Folk Festival ★★★★☆

Part folk, part cabaret, all chart-topping belters, grand finales don’t get much more emphatic than this stomping Sunday night fanfare for the 2023 Cork Folk Festival.