SOUNDTRACK
Ennio Morricone
3Arena, Dublin 8pm €156/€131/€106/€86
3Arena.ie
A rescheduled date for the masterful film soundtrack composer. Ennio Morricone oversees and conducts an ensemble gathering of close to 200 musicians and singers (yep – that many!) as they perform soundtrack work from the likes of The Mission, those classic spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone, and other durables.
TRAD
Seán Ó Riada Competition Gala Concert
Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork 8pm €10
rte.ie/rnag
Over recent years, the Seán Ó Riada competition has been a lure for musicians from home and away. This year, 15 fiddlers compete for the Bonn Óir award. Tonight’s show features a host of past winners including Aoife Ní Bhriain, Tim McHugh, Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, Oisín Morrison and Cormac Begley on fiddle, flute, pipes, harp and concertina, respectively. A distillation of the best emerging musicians in full flight.
ART
Supernumerary – Ronnie Hughes
Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast Until Mar 6
fendereskygallery.com
Ronnie Hughes’s paintings seem to spring from a fascination with systems, structures and grand theories, be they language, maths or theoretical physics. But they also arise from a conviction that no system is quite up to the unruly nature of the world, or the human mind; that there is always something incalculable, something outside the rules. His paintings are visually engrossing and perfectly pitched, and they keep us guessing.
