Armagh Pipers Club Fundraising Concert
Liberty Hall, Dublin, Saturday January 20th, 8pm €25 armaghpipers.com
With literally hundreds of musicians owing their start to this vibrant club, there are many who will gladly support it as it struggles with funding. Tonight’s concert features a raft of impeccable musicians and singers including Lúnasa, Máirtín O’Connor, Cathal Hayden & Seamie O’Dowd, Buille with Niall and Caoimhín Vallely and Daoirí Farrell, among others. A stellar line up to brighten the dark days of January.
Clandestinos
The Bowery, Dublin, Saturday January 20th, €5 the bowery.ie
Clandestinos do not travel light. The seven-piece band pack with them their own brass section to help bring the ska, reggae and Latin songs that they love to life. The Galway group fuses elements of punk, Jamaican reggae, British ska scene and the Latin persuasions of Manu Chao and Buena Vista Social Club, resulting in a modern take on old favourites. Dancing is a requirement at their gigs so don’t let them down by leaning against the bar. Get in or get out.
Transit Gateway
The LAB Gallery, Foley St, Dublin, Until March 4th, dublincityartsoffice.ie
Nine maps, charting the development of Dublin Port from medieval times to the present day, were created by Silvia Loeffier. Commissioned by the Dublin Port Company, the maps are on loan to The LAB, where Moira Sweeney's essay film, Keepers of the Port, which juxtaposes images and accounts of the workings of Dublin Port in the past with its current role in a globalised world of containerisation, automation and computer-calibrated shipping schedules.
Alex Petcu
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Sunday January 21st, noon, Adm free 01-2225550
These days Alex Petcu seems to be Ireland's busiest percussionist. He's got the stage to himself at the Hugh Lane Gallery for a programme that begins with Bach (excerpts from the Third Solo Cello Suite) and weaves its way through Tom Lane, Keiko Abe, Michio Kitazume, Franco Donatoni and John Cage before ending with Evelyn Glennie's A Little Prayer.
Staying in
Call the Midwife
Sunday, BBC One, 8pm
The Christmas special was one of the Beeb’s big ratings-grabbers, so they’re calling on the nurses of Nonnatus House to deliver another bundle of telly joy. There’s a new midwife on the wards: Lucille, played by Leonie Elliot. Before she can start work, however, Lucille falls ill, but has to get out of her sick bed to help Trixie with a breech birth. Meanwhile, Nurse Crane and Dr Turner are caring for an elderly woman with bowel cancer, and are trying to persuade the council to hold off on demolishing her slum neighbourhood so she can die in peace.
