PERFECT 10
ENJOY A NIGHT OF NEW MUSIC WITH THE ELATION
AFTER spending 18-months honing their high-energy pop sound, Cork quartet The Elation released their debut singe ‘XO’ and accompanying music video in January of this year.
The single, a perfect reflection of their finely crafted and electrify live shows that are full of dance floor synths, funk guitars and pure passion , was followed up in March by their second release ‘Catch’.
Music fans will get a chance experience that live atmosphere when the band play a late night gig at Cork’s Crane Lane Theatre next Monday night.
The gig promises to be a high-octane night of pure musical in the company of a band that many critics believe are set to be the next big thing.
PETER BRODERICK LIVE AT CORK’S CYPRUS AVENUE
CRITICALLY acclaimed American musician, composer and producer Peter Broderick will play Cork’s Cyprus Avenue on Sunday evening.
The gig will see him perform his latest project ‘Peter Broderick Sings Arthur Russell’, an interpretation of the songs of his long time hero whose work spanned a number of different styles.
There are many reasons why Broderick is perfect for the challenge of interpreting the works of the legendary and hugely influential New Yorker.
The most obvious being that like Russell he is a talented multi-instrumentalist who also fearlessly crosses genres with ease and a genuine feeling of quality and innovation.
Tickets for the gig from www.eventbrite.ie priced at €15.
LAUGHS APLENTY AT THE ROUNDY’S CO CO CLUB
THE CoCo Comedy Club will return to the intimate surroundings of the upper floor of the Roundy Bar & Cafe on Cork’s tonight (Thursday).
Held weekly each Wednesday and Thursday night the alternative Club is hosted by founder and award-winning comedian Patrick O’Sullivan (Republic of Telly).
Each night it will feature slots by an eclectic array of weird and wonderful cast of characters including established acts trying out new material and new acts trying out old material.
The Club is free and offers people the chance to enjoy a midweek night out with plenty of laughs along the way.
YE VAGABONDS TO PLAY COUGHLAN’S LIVE GIG
IRISH folk duo Ye Vagabonds will play the Coughlan’s Live at 3pm on Saturday afternoon under the auspices of the Sounds From a Safe Harbour festival.
Brothers Diarmuid and Brian MacGloinn began making music in their native Carlow before relocating to the capital, with their style based on close harmonies and acoustic instrumentation inspired by various folk traditions quickly earning them a loyal and growing fan base.
The duo has also drawn the attention of music insiders, playing Other Voices and numerous different festivals in addition to touring with Glen Hansard and Villagers.
Tickets for the gig from www.coughlans.ie priced at €15.
FOLLOW THE PAPER TRAIL TO THE WHITE HORSE
COMPOSER and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Lucey will bring his acclaimed ‘Papertrail’ show to the stage of the White Horse in Ballincollig next Thursday night.
Lucey has spent three-years in his home studio quietly crafting a formidable repertoire of dark, ethereal and harmonic alt-rock. His unique style was perfectly encapsulated in his 2016 debut single ‘I Never Knew That I Was Anyone’, recorded with seven-piece band featuring some of Ireland’s top musicians.
Released in February, the follow-up single ‘Not Even Porcelain’ also received widespread national airplay and earned Lucy and the band a coveted live slot on Paul McLoone’s radio show.
Tickets for the gig, which will coincide with the release of a new single ‘ Golden Generation’, from the www.ticketweb.ie priced at €10.
INTRIGUING TAKE ON ONE OF OSCAR WILDE’S BEST
THE engaging play ‘ To Hell and a Handbag’ will enjoy a three-night run at the Everyman Palace Theatre from next Tuesday evening.
While others are preoccupied with cucumber sandwiches and railway cloakrooms, two minor characters from Oscar Wilde’s ‘ The Importance of Being Earnest’, a country rector and a governess.
Seemingly models of Victorian propriety in public, Canon Chasuble and miss Prism, are up to their necks in something else in their private lives.
A play behind the play, it is a tale of blackmail, false identity and money and a subversively funny new take in an Irish theatrical classic.
Tickets from the venue on 021 450 1673 priced at €20.
THE GREAT RED HURLEY AT CLOYNE CATHEDRAL
VETERAN Irish singer Red Hurley’s will headline the ‘ How Great Thou Art’ concert at the atmospheric Cloyne Cathedral on Saturday night.
The concert, an evening of spiritual, gospel and pop music with Hurley and his band, will be a benefit performance with proceeds going the Cloyne Round Tower restoration fund.
With a career spanning five decades, Red Hurley is one of Ireland’s most successful solo male singers and best-loved entertainers.
His Cloyne concert will feature a selection of classic songs including ‘How Great Thou Art’, ‘When’, ‘Love is All’, ‘Sometimes’, ‘I Never Said Goodbye’ and ‘Keeper of The Stars’.
Tickets for the concert from www.eventbrite. ie priced at €25.
CORK’S CRYSTALS TO SWING IN KILLARNEY
THE ever-popular Crystal Swing will play a concert at the Gleneagle Ballroom in Killarney on Friday night.
After the band’s video of the song ‘He Drinks Tequila’ was posted on YouTube in 2010 Crystal Swing gained national and international recognition performing on various TV shows including The Late Late and the Ellen DeGeneres Show in the US
They have also performed at venues across the globe and performed alongside stars such as Lilly Allen and Bonnie Tyler as well as most of the home-grown Irish stars of the music industry.
Their show at the Gleneagle is sure to get the audience going as they perform the big hits from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, right up to today’s favourites.
Tickets from www.inec.ie priced at €10.
SPOTLIGHT CHAMBER SERIES AT THE TRISKEL
THE Triskel Christchurch Arts Centre will host the first concert of its lunchtime Spotlight Chamber Music series this coming Saturday.
The concert will feature four young Cork musicians - Fiona Kelly (flute), Mairéad Hickey ( Violin), Ed Creedon ( Viola) and Aoife Burke (Cello) – who between them have won a dazzling array of national and international awards.
The programme for the concert will include Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D Major (K 285) & Flute Quartet in G Major, (KV 285a), J.S. Bach’s Sarabande from Violin Partita No. 4 in D minor (BWV 1004) and Aitken’s ‘Icicle’ for Solo Flute.
Admission at the door will be €10/€7.50.
RED HOT FOLK MUSIC AT DE BARRA’S IN CLON
DUBLIN folk four-piece Lankum will play De Barra’s in Clon next Thursday under the auspices of the 13th annual Clonakilty Guitar Festival.
The band combine distinctive four-part vocal harmonies with arrangements of uillean pipes, concertina, Russian accordion, diddle and guitar to produce a rousing sound that sets pulses racing and toes tapping.
Their repertoire includes humorous Dublin music-hall ditties and street songs, classic ballads from the Traveller tradition, traditional Irish and American dance tunes and their own material.
Previously known as Lynched, the band’s new name comes from the balled ‘False Lankum’ as sung by the Irish Traveller John Reilly jnr.
Tickets from the venue on 023 883 3381 priced at €15.