Music Current contemporary music festival takes place this week at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin from 22 to 26 April.
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Blues
2.5.25 – Morgan Roussel: Reborn, The Portico of Ards
Choral
22.4.25 – NCH & Selective Memory Presents: Paul Simon’s Graceland The London African Gospel Choir, Main Stage National Concert Hall
24.4.25 – Cill Aodáin Choral Society – Spring Into Song, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
Classical
23.4.25 – The Cork Proms – The Ultimate Classics, Cork Opera House
24.4.25 – Harp and Flute Ruth O’Hara and Martina Rosaria O’Connell, St Ann’s Church Dawson Street
24.4.25 – Natalie Clein – Wigmore Series Dublin, Whyte Recital Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music
24.4.25 – Redmond O’Toole: Classical Guitar Recital, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
24.4.25 – Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Isata Kanneh-Mason, National Concert Hall
26.4.25 – Music in Monkstown Spring Concert – Magnes Ensemble, Monkstown Parish Church
26.4.25 – ConTempo presented by Con Brio with the National String Quartet Foundation, The Model Sligo
26.4.25 – Ignite Symphony Orchestra & Alice Neary: Elgar and Sibelius, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
26.4.25 – ConTempo Quartet in Sligo, The Model Sligo
26.4.25 – The Cork Proms – Kings, Queens and Princes of Pop, Cork Opera House
27.4.25 – Le Concert Spirituel – Sestina Music – Mark Chambers director, Thomastown Concert Hall, Co. Kilkenny
27.4.25 – Simon Leach and Ben Holland, The Portico of Ards
27.4.25 – Xuefei Yang & GuitaRIAM, Whyte Recital Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music
27.4.25 – ConTempo Countywide – Light, Claregalway Castle
27.4.25 – The Cork Proms – Kings, Queens and Princes of Pop, Cork Opera House
Comedy
26.4.25 – Skitz & Giggles, Board and Brewed
Contemporary
22.4.25 – Jaki Irvine (Audio-Visual Performance) @ Music Current 2025, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
22.4.25 – Music Current 2025, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
23.4.25 – Shane Latimer (Electric Guitar Workshop) @ Music Current 2025, Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin
23.4.25 – Who Owns Music? (Panel Discussion / Reception) @ Music Current 2025, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
23.4.25 – Dublin sound Lab (Concert – Frenzy) @ Music Current 2025, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
24.4.25 – Rob Canning (Digital Score Workshop) @ Music Current 2025, Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin
24.4.25 – Maximilian Marcoll (Composer Talk) @ Music Current 2025, Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin
24.4.25 – Pony Says Trio @ Music Current 2025, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
25.4.25 – Tim Cape (Music Theatre Workshop) @ Music Current 2025, Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin
25.4.25 – UCD Composition Ensemble Concert, Kevin Barry Recital Room National Concert Hall
25.4.25 – Maximilian Marcoll + Tonnta @ Music Current 2025, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
26.4.25 – SoundInitiative @ Music Current 2025, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
26.4.25 – The Men Who Knew Too Much, King House Boyle County Roscommon F52 WR26
26.4.25 – Małgorzata Walentynowicz @ Music Current 2025, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
27.4.25 – MenCon | Chihiro Ono, Neil Luck, Andy Ingamells & Kirkos, Dublin City Centre
27.4.25 – The Gentle Erasure of Time, Sundays at Noon, Hugh Lane Gallery
27.4.25 – The Sinking of the Titanic, Titanic Belfast
Country
25.4.25 – Legends of American Country, Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady
26.4.25 – Whistle launch new album ‘Seven Long Years’, The Wild Duck, Dublin 2
27.4.25 – Declan Nerney in Concert, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
Early Music
23.4.25 – Harmony Hub Family Concert, Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Belfast
25.4.25 – Sing with Sestina: Motets!, Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Belfast
25.4.25 – The Concert Spirituel, Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Belfast
26.4.25 – Music for Wexford present Sing with Sestina, St Iberius Church, Wexford
26.4.25 – Sing with Sestina: Motets!, St Iberius Church, Wexford
26.4.25 – The Concert Spirituel, St Iberius Church, Wexford
27.4.25 – The Concert Spirituel, Thomastown Concert Hall, Co. Kilkenny
Electronic
22.4.25 – Trevor Wishart – The Garden of Earthly Delights, Dance Limerick
Film
22.4.25 – Teki Cometh • Japanese Film Festival, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
22.4.25 – The Valley • The Early Films of Barbet Schroeder, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
23.4.25 – Ghost Cat Anzu • Japanese Film Festival, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
23.4.25 – Maîtresse • The Early Films of Barbet Schroeder, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
24.4.25 – Kenneth Anger: Films From The Pleasure Dome, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
24.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: Kill the Jockey, Irish Film Institute
25.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: Ramón Y Ramón, Irish Film Institute
25.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: The Freshly Cut Grass, Irish Film Institute
26.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: La Suprema, Irish Film Institute
26.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: We Shall Not Be Moved, Irish Film Institute
26.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: Rita, Irish Film Institute
26.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: I Am Nevenka + Q&A, Irish Film Institute
27.4.25 – Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
27.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: Traslados, Irish Film Institute
27.4.25 – One to One: John and Yoko, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
27.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: Manas, Irish Film Institute
27.4.25 – The Return, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
27.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: Memories of a Burning Body, Irish Film Institute
27.4.25 – IBERSCREEN 2025 at the IFI: Portrait of a certain Orient, Irish Film Institute
Folk and Traditional
22.4.25 – Jim Page in Concert, Murphy’s Bar
23.4.25 – Jim Page, Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo
24.4.25 – “Airdí Cuan” – Fiona Tyndall ft. Fergal Scahill, Brendan Hayes & Padraig Rynne, Cobra Promotions
24.4.25 – Ceol sa Séipéal, St Columba’s Church Binden St Ennis
24.4.25 – Zoé Basha – Album Launch Galway, Club De Burgos, Galway
24.4.25 – Sarah McQuaid, Esker Arts Centre
24.4.25 – Niall McCabe @ Hen and Chicken, Bristol, Hen and Chicken
24.4.25 – Jim Page in Concert, The Cobblestone
25.4.25 – Launch of ‘Go dtí seo’, St. Columba’s Church
25.4.25 – Andy Irvine with Quilty, Live to your Living Room (Online)
25.4.25 – The Sugarloaf Sessions, Bray
25.4.25 – Friday Night in the Old Ground, Old Ground Hotel, Ennis
25.4.25 – The Haar, The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre
25.4.25 – Niall McCabe @ Bar Silo, Cornwall, Bar Silo
25.4.25 – Sarah McQuaid in Concert, Cavan Townhall Theatre
25.4.25 – Kilfenora Traditional Music Festival 2025, Kilfenora Co Clare
25.4.25 – A Celebration of Music & Song – North West Suite Premiere, Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo
25.4.25 – Séamus and Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta, St Brendan’s Church, Bantry
25.4.25 – Zoé Basha – Album Launch Leitrim, The Glens Centre Manorhamilton Co Leitrim
25.4.25 – The Haar live, Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre, The Naul, Dublin
26.4.25 – Ceol sa Séipéal, St Columba’s Church Binden St Ennis
26.4.25 – Jim Page in Concert, The Seamus Ennis Cultural Center
26.4.25 – Zoé Basha – Album Launch Belfast, The Duncairn, Belfast
26.4.25 – Consairtín Gala Concert, Glór Arts Centre, Ennis , Co. Clare
26.4.25 – The Haar live in Donegal, The Social Gaoth Dobhair
26.4.25 – Ralph McTell ‘Time Drift of the Road’, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
26.4.25 – Niall McCabe @ Fiery Bird, Woking, Fiery Bird
26.4.25 – Sarah McQuaid in Concert, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
26.4.25 – The Luke Kelly Story | Dubliner, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
27.4.25 – Perry Hall Folk Music Night, featuring Cody Summit, Perry Hall United Methodist Church
27.4.25 – Niall McCabe @ Great Easton Village Hall, Great Easton Village Hall
27.4.25 – Sarah McQuaid in Concert, The Court House Bangor
Ideas
24.4.25 – Nature Boy: A Journey of Birdsong & Belonging with Seán Ronayne, The Source Arts Centre Thurles Co.Tipperary
Jazz and Improvised
26.4.25 – Route 66 Big Band Live in Concert, Visual Carlow
Literary and Musical Event
26.4.25 – WAC Punk Festival, Wexford Arts Centre
26.4.25 – WAC Punk Festival – WE ARE DEAD STARS – PUNK ROCK FUTURESHOCK, Wexford Arts Centre
26.4.25 – Buile Shuibhne: Sweeney’s Madness: Cork World Book Fest 2025, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
Literature
25.4.25 – Open Mic Social hosted by Marion Moynihan, Banner Books Kilrush
Musical Theatre
25.4.25 – Off-Broadway Musical ‘Hothouse’, Siamsa Tíre, TraleeOpera
25.4.25 – Cardiff Cotswold Opera: Tristan & Isolde (Act II), Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Opera
26.4.25 – Out of the Ordinary / As an nGnách – Virtual Reality Opera Experience, Draíocht, Blanchardstown
Rock and Pop
24.4.25 – Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
25.4.25 – Pete Holidai – A New Revolution, Pilgrim Sound
25.4.25 – ELLYD – Were You Ever Loved, Shadow Records25.4.25 – Jinx Lennon, The Duncairn, Belfast
26.4.25 – WAC Punk Festival – Punks on Parade – 50 years of Punk!, Wexford Arts Centre
26.4.25 – WAC Punk Festival – Punk Gigs – All Ages! All Welcome!, Wexford Arts Centre
26.4.25 – The Illegals with Niamh Kavanagh, Draíocht, Blanchardstown
26.4.25 – The 4 of Us, Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo
Visual
22.4.25 – Art History Reframed: Canova in Cork: Our Collection & Artists in the 19th Century, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
26.4.25 – WAC Punk Festival – Punk Art Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre
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Upcoming Festivals
22–26 April: Music Current – Contemporary Music Festival, Dublin
23–26 April: Cruinniú na bhFlúit
24–26 April: Jazzahead!, Bremen, Germany
24–27 April: Consairtín – National Concertina Convention, Ennis, Co. Clare
24–27 April: Clifden Trad Fest, Co. Galway
25–27 April: The Sugarloaf Sessions, Bray, Co. Wicklow
30 April–4 May: Cork International Choral Festival
2–4 May: Bray Jazz Festival
See a full list of upcoming festivals here.
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Upcoming Job and Funding Deadlines
23 April
Assistant Music Librarian
National Concert Hall
24 April
Agility Award
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
24 April
Cuore auditioning advanced singers now
Dublin City Centre
25 April
Producer
BBC Singers
27 April
NCH International Master Course 2025 – Open for Applications
National Concert Hall
27 April
Producers, Radio 1, BBC Audio, (London)
BBC
28 April
Emerging Artist – Casting Officer
Scottish Opera
28 April
Project Officer for the Christy Moore Collection at ITMA
Irish Traditional Music Archive / Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann
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