MONDAY
Cormac Begley and Libby McCrohan
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway 8pm €15 tunesinthechurch.com
If you thought the concertina was a one-dimensional instrument, tonight’s gig will feature this small but perfectly formed gem in its many guises: bass, baritone, treble and piccolo concertina. Begley , a master of them all, will be accompanied by McCrohan on bouzouki. Yet another inventive pairing as part of this summer’s Tunes In The Church concert series.
Inner Game
Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin Until Aug 6 hillsborofineart.com
Prominent parents can overshadow their offspring. It’s no secret that George Warren is the son of one of Ireland’s foremost sculptors (Michael Warren). And, yes, he does sculpture as well as painting. But from the beginning Warren has worked in an entirely different idiom to his father, one influenced by his tutor, Patrick Graham. His richly organic works delve into the Jungian notion of the collective unconscious, dredging up images whose meaning only become clear to him through the process of making.
TUESDAY
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
Cyprus Avenue, Cork 9pm €15 cyprusavenue.ie Also Thurs, Galway
Something very interesting this ways comes, as Scottish folkie James Yorkston teams up with New Delhi classical singer Suhail Yusuf Khan and jazz double bass player Jon Thorne. Think an idiosyncratic blend of world music and raw indie-folk as the trio plugs its new album, Everything Sacred.
In Support
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow Until Sep 3 mermaidartscentre.ie
“Often only when something stops functioning do we take notice of the underlying infrastructure,” Rachael Gilbourne writes of Andreas Kindler von Knobloch’s metaphorical exploration of the cooperation and negotiations inherent in the working of support systems. An artist adept at looking at communal and collaborative undertakings, von Knobloch sets out to manifest that invisible infrastructure.
WEDNESDAY
47 Roses
Bewley’s Café Theatre. 47 Roses: Ends Aug 6; AYHAL: Aug 8- Aug 20 1pm
€8-€12 (lunch €4) bewleyscafetheatre.com There are many qualities we expect from a memoir and some that we attach to solo performances, but self-effacement doesn't rank high among them. That, however, is how Peter Sheridan begins his monologue play, adapted from his autobiographical 47 Roses, when he fails even to respond to his own name, announced on a bus to Derry, trailing a grave message. Warm, disarming and wry, Sheridan starts as he means to continue, putting his voice at the service of another Peter Sheridan, his father, whose death reveals a complicated relationship between his parents and another woman, Doris. As Sheridan recalls the woman who, for nearly 50 years, had been considerably more than a family friend his story becomes an intriguingly shifting narrative; part memoir, part bildungsroman, part detective story.
Love Forever Changes
Grand Social, Dublin 8pm €10 thegrandsocial.ie
Wednesday is the 10th anniversary of the death of Arthur Lee, the man behind one of the finest psych/pop records ever recorded, Forever Changes, which celebrates its 50th anniversary next year. In Honour of Lee, musicians Dave McGuiness, Duncan Maitland and others play the album in its entirety – plus, we’ll bet, a few other ’60s psych-pop gems.
Feakle Festival
Community Hall, Feakle, Co Clare 7.30pm Adm free 061-924917
This boutique fest happens through the sheer power of will, in the heartland of great music in east Clare. Tonight’s opening concert, coralled by Mary McNamara, concertina player and tutor, will set the scene for what promises to be a humdinger of a weeekend.
THURSDAY
The Provincial Condition
Roscommon Arts Centre Until Aug 5 roscommonartscentre.ie
Not a million miles removed from Edward Hopper’s approach to painting the American city, Vida Pain depicts an overlooked aspect of the contemporary Irish landscape: the vernacular architecture of industrial and commercial rural Ireland. She made the work as the recipient of the Roscommon Visual Artists Forum Award, a modest but valuable bursary that includes Linda Shevlin’s equally valuable curatorial input.
Fang Club
Whelan's (Upstairs), Dublin 8pm €10 whelanslive.com
To say that north Co Dublin trio Fangclub tick the boxes marked “dynamic”, “granite- tough”, “melodic” and “feral” is an understatement. Now together three years, Steven King , Kevin Keane and Dara Coleman plug their latest EP, Bullet Head. Ear plugs, Vicar? Yes,please.
