Sunday, April 15
Down In The City
The Sugar Club, Leeson Street 7.30pm €25 thesugarclub.com
Enticingly billed as an opportunity to reclaim your Sunday evenings, this newly-minted series of three monthly concerts offers “an alternative Sunday service” with some finely-tuned programming to match. Tonight’s guests are the ever young Scullion, The Gloaming’s sublime singer Iarla Ó Lionáird and poet Paula Meehan. Praise be.
Wednesday, April 18
Bríd Harper, Tony O’Connell and Cyril O’Donoghue
St. John's Theatre, Listowel 8pm €12 stjohnstheatrelistowel.com
The finer points of Donegal fiddle music couldn’t find a better exponent than Bríd Harper, whose playing is exemplified by a rich attention to detail. Tonight she’s joined by concertina player Tony O’Connell, a west Limerick musician now resident in Kerry, and guitarist/bouzouki player Cyril O’Donoghue.
The Clé Club
Liberty Hall 7.30pm €5 cleclub.wetpaint.com
Francis Devine delivers the Hugh Geraghty Memorial Illustrated Talk, the focus of which is Jim Connell: Songs of Hope & Struggle. Noel Pocock, fear a' tí, will keep order on the evening's proceedings.
Thursday, April 19
Notes & Narratives
Na Píobairí Uilleann, Henrietta Street 8pm €10/€5 pipers.ie
This monthly lecture/recital series continues tonight with a lecture from Bernard Flaherty titled Irish dance music, rhythms of another generation? An intriguing interrogation of the context in which our traditional dance originated and of the space it occupies now.
Friday, April 20
Patrick Bergin, Hank Wedel Triad and Ronán Ó Snodaigh
DC Music Club, Camden Row 9pm €16/€14 musiclee.ie
American singer/songwriter, now resident in Cork, Hank Wedel resumes his collaboration with actor Patrick Bergin for a night of raucous merrymaking, aided and abetted by Kíla’s Ronán Ó Snodaigh, whose presence will surely add further mischief to what was already a rapscallion’s delight of a night.
