ART
Light Falls – Liadin Cooke, Marcia Hafif, Mark Joyce, Sofie Loscher, Scott Lyall and Bridget Riley
Green on Red Gallery, Park Lane, Spencer Dock, Dublin Until June 11
greenonredgallery.com
From Marcia Hafif's richly coloured, monochromatic Shade paintings to Bridget Riley's abstracted evocation of swimming in the sea at Bassacs – ". . . as though one was swimming through a diamond" – and Liadin Cooke's "Stacks" of water and colour, all the artists included are fascinated by the qualities of natural light.
POP/FOLK
Little Hours
Whelan's, Dublin 8pm €13.50
whelanslive.com
Donegal's Ryan McCloskey and John Doherty made lots of friends earlier this year when their song, It's Still Love, made its way into the Meteor Choice Song of the Year 2014 list . Now signed to RCA Records, the duo can look forward to a very productive year playing to an ever-growing audience.
EXPERIMENTAL JAZZ
Okkyung Lee/Paul G Smyth Duo
Kevin Barry Room, NCH 8.30pm €15
nch.ie
Jimmy Cake pianist Paul G Smyth continues his explorative duo series at the NCH with an encounter with acclaimed Korean cellist Okkyung Lee. Based in New York since 2000, Lee is a musical outlier, mixing contemporary classical, jazz, electronica and Korean folk music with some of the biggest names on the NYC experimental scene, including Laurie Anderson, Vijay Iyer and John Zorn.
