SOUL
Jessie Ware
Mandela Hall, Belfast 8pm £18
mandelahall.com
Swiftly returning to Ireland (following her appearance at Other Voices in December), Londoner Jessie Ware (right) arrives armed with a class second album (Tough Love). With that and her 2012 debut (Devotion), prepare to be swayed and smooched by sophisticated soul/pop of the highest order.
ART
Sabina Mac Mahon: An Uliad
Belfast Exposed, QSS Gallery Until Feb 28
belfastexposed.org, queenstreetstudios.net
Sabina Mac Mahon is a scrupulous researcher with an admirable command of historical detail. Here she sets her sights on the brief flowering of the South Down Society of Modern Art, documenting its 1929 exhibition and presenting other archival material relating to the members’ interest in Gaelic themes with a Modernist twist. You may well be surprised that we haven’t heard more of them before.
