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Bronagh Gallagher
Friday April 7th 20.00 – Whelan’s, Wexford Street Tickets €15 from www.whelanslive.com Bronagh’s acclaimed new album ‘Gather Your Greatness’ is her third album of original material. A strong personal statement and expressly honest, the record is the second of Bronagh’s to be self-produced, determined to make the sound of the recording live up to the emotional heart of the lyric. Following a recent sold-out…
Find out more »Dublin International Choral Festival Concert
Saturday April 8th 20:00 - St. Patrick’s Cathedral, St. Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8 Tickets €5 from www.eventbrite.ie In this first concert of the official Dublin International Choral Festival, we celebrate choral music in all its forms and performed by choirs of all ages. All the way from Connecticut, USA, we welcome the highly-regarded Guilford High School Voices and Guilford High School Concert Choir. Under the…
Find out more »From Darkness to Light
Sun 09 Apr 2017, 20:00, DLight Studios, Dublin Tickets €12-€20 from Eventbrite. From Darkness to Light is a once-off collaboration between Young Hearts Run Free and Nialler9 especially concocted for Musictown. Drawing on our two organisation’s established history, the event will bring new and established Irish artists in different creative fields together under the shroud of mystery and with an emphasis on a unique Dublin kind of alchemy: songs, voices, words and visuals. From Darkness to Light…
Find out more »Acis and Galatea by G.F. Handel
Tuesday April 11th 2017, 20:00, O'Reilly Theatre, Dublin €38/€35 concession from www.nch.ie 01 417 0000. Opera Theatre Company presents Handel Acis & Galatea Written in 1717, one of Handel’s most treasured works, Acis and Galatea is a high point of baroque repertoire. A pastoral romance between young lovers Galatea and Acis, is brutally rocked by the intervention of Polyphemus. He is determined to have Galatea for himself. Acis ignores the warnings that love is only a fleeting pleasure…
Find out more »Messiah on the Street
Thursday, April 13th. Fishamble Street, Temple Bar. FREE EVENT In association with Temple Bar Cultural Trust. No booking required. Celebrating the 275th Anniversary of the World Premiere of Messiah in Mr Neal's Musick Hall in Fishamble Street April 13 1742, Our Lady's Choral Society perform excerpts from Messiah with The Dublin Handelian Orchestra and soloist Peter O'Reilly (tenor). Conducted by Proinnsías Ó Duinn. Thursday 13 April at 1pm in…
Find out more »Mel C
Thursday 13 Apr 2017, 19:30, Vicar Street Tickets €39.50 from Ticketmaster With her stunning seventh album ‘Version Of Me’ released on her own Red Girl Records label in October 2016, Melanie C has announced a run of dates for April 2017. Melanie will take ‘Version Of Me’ on the road to major cities across the UK & Ireland, including Belfast on 12 April and Dublin on…
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John Prine
Thu 13 Apr 2017, 20:00, Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin Tickets €€44.05/€ 54.65 from Ticketmaster. Two time Grammy-winner, singer-songwriter, John Prine, is among the English language’s premier phrase-turners. Forty-five years into a remarkable career that has drawn effusive praise from Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt, Roger Waters, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, and others who would know, Prine is a smiling, shuffling force for good. He is a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member whose classic debut album, simply titled John Prine,…
Find out more »Chelsea Wolfe
Saturday April 15th 20:00 - Whelans, Wexford Street, Dublin 2 Tickets €20 from www.ticketmaster.ie Sleep paralysis plagues singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, and that strange intersection of the conscious and the unconscious has inadvertently manifested itself within her work. But until now, Wolfe’s trials and tribulations with the boundaries between dreams and reality have only been a subconscious influence on her work. With her fifth album,…
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