ELECTRO-POP
Jape
Academy, Dublin 8pm €15 theacademydublin.com
Following the January release of his fifth album This Chemical Sea, Jape's Richie Egan embarks on a nationwide tour that will surely help to spread the word about his natural ability to fuse the common grounds of pop and electronics into something altogether bright and bouncy. TCL
TRAD
Paddy Keenan
Matt Molloy’s, Westport, Co Mayo 9pm €15 098-26655
The Bothy Band introduced this matchless piper to us, and ever since then Paddy Keenan has been ricocheting through the tradition with a style and shape that both celebrates and respects the pipes. His gigs are all too rare these days, but this is the first date in a short tour. Catch him before he hightails it off to distant climes. SL
ART
Campbell Bruce: A Life Together in Art
Origin Gallery, Dublin Until Mar 10
Until his sudden death early last year, Campbell Bruce was a central, ubiquitous figure in the Irish art world, well liked and known equally as an academic at NCAD and as a fine, exacting painter. Bruce’s partner, Jacqueline Stanley, has selected a representative range of his precisely observed, beautifully made work as a tribute, together with some of her own. AD
JAZZ
Tommy Halferty Organ Trio
JJ Smyths, Aungier St, 9pm, €10, jjsmyths.com
The great Derry guitarist’s associations with the French jazz scene go back decades, and he has enjoyed a particularly fruitful relationship with Hammond organist Jean-Philippe Lavergne. The French man is in town to do some recording with his old friend, and their reunion in the upstairs room at JJs, with Conor Guilfoyle at the drum set, will be a boisterous, hard-swinging affair. CL
