TEX-MEX
Calexico
The Limelight, Belfast 9pm £22.50
limelightbelfast.com
There’s melting pot, there’s a stew of influences, and then there’s Calexico. Named (20 years ago) after a border town in California, the band blends all manner of Latino and country music with post-rock and ’60s jazz. The result is an idiosyncratic strain of what has been rightly termed “desert noir”. Dive in.
CLUB
Henrik Schwarz
Twisted Pepper, Dublin 10.30pm €15/€13
henrikschwarz.com
Henrik Schwarz is the only guest at the Twisted Pepper this month who has just released an album for Sony Classics. That’s Schwarz’s in a nutshell, a house and techno producer with the vision and gumption to try new things out including that recent team-up with the Tokyo Secret Orchestra. Henrik’s starry CV, already lists tracks for Innervisions and !K7, as well as a Panorama Bar residency. Support from Shane Mannion, Sol and Trev, with full rig-outs in the basement and cafe as well.
ART
Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915): Dublin's Legacy and Loss
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin Until Oct 4
hughlane.ie
Notes on the Lusitania
Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co Cork May 2-24
siriusartscentre.ie
The Lusitania was torpedoed on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. One of the some 1,200 people who lost their lives in the controversial sinking was Sir Hugh Lane, and the gallery that bears his name remembers him with a show documenting his patronage of living artists at the time. Much nearer the site of the disaster, Sirius takes an intriguing approach by inviting artists to explore the lives of some of the victims.
JAZZ
Manhattan Transfer
NCH, Earlsfort tce, 8pm, €55/€30,
nch.ie
Manahattan Transfer were the toast of the grown-up, dinner party set in the 1970s, and if prawn cocktails, sideburns and the Cold War can make a comeback, then why not the quartet who brought us The Boy from New York City and Chanson D'Amour? The line-up may have changed over the years but they still have the moves, the flawless harmonies and the dazzling Broadway smiles.
