MUSIC AND arts feature strongly on what is due to be a relatively bright and sunny weekend.
The fourth annual Larkin Hedge School continues today with a number of musical performances starting from 11am at Liberty Hall Centre for the Performing Arts, Eden Quay, Dublin.
The event, which was inaugurated to mark the centenary of Jim Larkin’s founding of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, celebrates the lives of ordinary men and women through music, song, poetry, dance and literature.
Performers include Neilí Ní Dhomhnaill and Jimmy Crowley, as well as a lecture by Jesse Smith on the music of early 20th century Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman.
Music lovers could continue on to the Meteor Camden Crawl which brings together DJs, promoters, media and independent record labels for events in venues including the Stag’s Head, the Swan, Cassidy’s and Whelan’s.
Elsewhere in the capital, New Yorker Jerry Seinfeld, the creator of the eponymous TV series, brings his stand-up comedy show to the 02 tomorrow.
Bottom Dog Theatre Company bring Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens to the Players Theatre at Trinity College tonight and tomorrow night as part of the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. The play is a meditation on the loss of friends and loved ones through the spread of HIV and Aids.
The full programme is available at gaytheatre.ie
West Cork hosts the 20th Baltimore Fiddle Festival, while Drogheda, Co Louth, will be the main focus of National Famine Commemoration events.
Met Éireann is forecasting cool and bright weather today with sunny spells and highest temperatures of 11 to 14 degrees.
It says tomorrow will start dry with some sunny spells.
