NCH EVENT
Blood & the Moon - a Provocation on Yeats
National Concert Hall Dublin 8pm €37.50/€32.50 nch.ie
And what exactly, you may be justifiably asking, is a 'provocation on Yeats'? We'll get back to you on that, but this event – curated by Thomas Bartlett and the NCH, with Paul Muldoon as Literary Advisor, and featuring the likes of Anna Calvi, Cathal Coughlan, Robert Forster, Sam Amidon, writer Pat McCabe and film image maker Tom Kalin – promises to be a showstopper.
TIGER DUBLIN FRINGE
Middle of the Road
Spiegeltent Fri 13 9pm €20 fringefest.com
Bourgeois & Maurice, the London alt. cabaret iconoclasts, and David Hoyle, the legendary Manchester drag performer are about as far from beige as you can get on the colour spectrum. Yet here they join forces to celebrate bland conformity, a subject they seem dangerously unqualified to discuss. After THISISPOPBABY's presentation at the Spiegeltent, 'normal' will be served up exceptionally. [/--------]PC
ART
Wicked Wit: Darly's Comic Prints
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle Until Jan 31 cbl.ie
Mary and Matthew Darly ran a fantastically industrious operation in 18th-century London, working with other artists in designing, engraving and publishing extremely popular prints which reached as far afield as America. The incomparably rich Chester Beatty collection includes over 100 hand-coloured prints and they are on view at the Library over the next few months.
JAZZ GUITAR DOUBLE
Dave Allen Trio
JJ Smyths, Aungier St, 5pm, €10, jjsmyths.com
Larry Coryell Trio + Buckley/ Moriarty
Sugar Club, Leeson st, 8pm, €30, thesugarclub.com
Two heavyweights of American jazz guitar hit the capital on the same day – but obligingly at different times . In the late afternoon, climb the stairs at JJ Smyths and check out Dave Allen, one of the leading guitarists of the contemporary New York scene, with bassist Ronan Guilfoyle and drum wunderkind Brendan Doherty. Then stroll round to the Sugar Club in time for bona-fide legend of jazz fusion Larry Coryell, with support from two of Dublin’s finest, Hugh Buckley and John Moriarty. That we should live to see such days.
