Entertainment
Original Rudeboys for all-ages gig in Monroe’s
The Original Rudeboys play an all-ages show in Monroe’s Live on Sunday, July 13. The Dublin based trio released their second album last year, which they recorded in London.
Robert Burch is the band’s lead vocalist and guitarist, and Seán Walsh plays ukulele, while Neddy Arkins take on responsibility for rap vocals.
Robert and Seán come up with the band’s melodies and then Neddy responds with rapped verses.
“I’ve got my laptop and a notebook that’s littered with all sorts of lyrics about everything,” he says. “So if the guys come to me with a hook and it’s about, for example, falling in love, I’ll scrape through the notebook for anything that relates to it.”
It’s fair to say that writing pop songs with a ukulele and an Irish rapper is unusual. So it’s no surprise to hear the Original Rudeboys formed almost by accident. An impromptu session in Neddy’s flat eventually led to the lads playing in the 02.
“Walshie popped in to buy a Playstation game or something ridiculous,” says Neddy. “He said he had a ukulele, and came around with it. Our other friend who was there, we were fortunate enough that he wanted to record it. He got that on camera, and that was the video for Stars in My Eyes. That’s where it all started from.”
That video clocked up hundreds of thousands of hits and Original Rudeboys have had a loyal following since then.
Doors for the show are 5pm and tickets are €15.
A weekend of plein-air painting will take place in Kinvara in early June. The not-for-profit community arts event is being organised by members of the Kinvara Area Visual Artists (KAVA) group and will be led by experienced artists and teachers
Over the Bank Holiday weekend, participants will gather to explore the beauty and culture of the village and surrounding areas, including Thoor Ballylee and the Burren.
The tutors are Steve Browning, Geraldine Walsh, Róisín Curé and Mavis Gormally, who will provide seven full-day workshops in three different locations.
These are suitable for artists who work in oil, acrylic or watercolour. There will also be an exhibition space where participants can show work completed over the weekend. People can also engage in informal paint-outs and enjoy social activities and local attractions.
Steve Browning’s workshops in oils and acrylics will take place in Kinvara Village and the Burren. Steve, who is originally from the UK, initially worked as an art director in London and Dublin. He began painting at weekends, before becoming a fulltime artist. His work has been shown in London, at the Royal Hibernian Academy, and the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts in Belfast. It’s in collections in the UK, USA and Ireland. He has won prizes at the Dublin Plein Air Festival and Wexford’s Art in the Open Festival and has also been a finalist in the prestigious Plein Air Magazine of America’s annual art competition for three years in a row, winning the best acrylic painting award in 2022.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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Grammy-nominated Ukrainian-British violist Maxim Rysanov, multi-award-winning Russian violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky and rising cello star Dóra Kokas from Hungary will be in concert in Clifden’s Station House Theatre next Tuesday, March 21, at 8pm.
Their show is part of a national tour of Ireland, presented by Music Network.
They will perform Mozart’s only string trio, Beethoven’s Trio in G major and a work by Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova which aims to highlight the unity of sound that a string trio can create. A new commission, written by award-winning Irish composer Ed Bennett for Music Network, will complete the programme.
Maxim Rysanov has a worldwide reputation as a violist and conductor, often combining both roles in concerts. He has featured on stage with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Mariinsky in St Petersburg, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Moscow Philharmonic, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
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Arts Week with Judy Murphy
Oranmore-based soprano Helen Hancock will lead a night of music and song by composers including Schubert, Schumann, and Strauss this Saturday, March 18, for St Patrick’s Weekend.
The concert, entitled The Lark in the Clear Air will also feature a host of Irish tunes. It takes place in Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre on Saturday, starting at 8pm when Helen will be accompanied by Italian pianist Annalisa Monticelli and American clarinettist, Berginald Rash
The programme will feature Schubert’s Shepherd on a Rock and Arnold Cooke’s Songs of Innocence, both written for soprano, clarinet, and piano.
Shepherd on a Rock was composed in 1828, during the last months of Schubert’s life, and explores themes of longing, the arrival of spring, and journeying to the beloved. Cooke’s Songs of Innocence was inspired by the poetry of 19th century English poet and artist, William Blake.
Themes of nature and the cycle of life will be further explored in Strauss’s and Clara Schumann’s songs for soprano and piano, including Die Stille Lotosblume and Zueignung.
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