This article highlights various events taking place in January, including the First Fortnight festival, Christy Moore's musical performances, and an emerging artist showcase at Whelan's.
The year always gets off to a good start with First Fortnight, the diverse mental-health, arts and culture festival that runs through most of January.
Highlights are plentiful, but we suggest you check out Au Revoir Tristesse (Joe Chester’s solo classical guitar compositions accompanying, Monday, January 6th-Friday, January 24th), The Tightrope Walker (writer and performer Jenny McDonald’s pithy exploration of illness, Smock Alley, Dublin, Thursday, January 9th, to Saturday, January 11th), Emma Langford (with Luke Clerkin and Dagogo Hart, St Patrick’s University Hospital’s live performances feature a seemingly unending display of sold-out signs: Ireland’s greatest living musician (according to RTÉ’s People of the Year Awards in 2007) simply does what he has always wanted to: perform songs in a room in front of people who respect the form. Moore has never gone out of fashion or favour, although it has helped that his quality control has rarely slipped. His 2024 album, A Terrible Beauty, is an autumnal career highlight containing songs, we noted on its release, in October, that hit the “bull’s eye repeatedly and with force”. (Also, Sunday, January 12th, and Monday, January 20th, at the same venue.) Music promoters, bookers, close friends, extended family, occasional foes and “I’m with the band” wannabes land on Whelan’s like bees on honey as almost 100 emerging acts perform across three stages. A portion of the musicians you’ll see here will be tomorrow’s hot-button bands and performers, so between anxiety and bravado, false starts and flourishing finales, flagrant ambition and cautious optimism, call in and offer them as much support as you can. Performers include Martina & the Moons, Curtisy, I Dreamed a Dream, Delivery Service and Florence Road
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