Howth Roots & Blues Festival - previously known as Howth Jazz and Blues Festival - is broadening its scope to encompass Americana. Don Baker will headline this year's festival. Still performing the songs of Blues legends and adding to the Blues canon with songs and compositions of his own, Don Baker has developed his talent from musician to gifted songwriter in his own right. Howth Roots and Blues Festival will have 25 gigs and all - bar two of them - will have FREE ENTRY. Friday August 16th 7.00pm - Gavin Povey Band - The House - Dinner and Show €35 - Booking Essential. Call 01

Love Sensation - A next generation two-day music and arts festival aimed at the LGBT+ community and their many friends. A brand new shining beacon in the Irish festival scene has just launched at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin. Love Sensation sees Lily Allen, Clean Bandit, Gossip & Kelis top the bill across the weekend. Who else could host the main stage for the weekend, there really is only one woman for the job, step forward Panti Bliss! Expect tons of surprises from The George stage, a Mother Dance Tent you won't want to leave and a host of RuPaul Drag Queens brought to you by

Irish Youth Choir 2019 Presents, Heart Strings. Few works amalgamate a style, an era and a composer more succinctly than Handel's Dixit Dominus. Written in Rome when he was only 22 years old, surrounded by the finest singers and instrumentalists in the world, Handel's precocious mastery of counterpoint combined with a powerful grasp of musical gesture make this piece one of the standout works of his lifetime. The text, taken from Psalm 110, portrays Christ as the all-powerful; reigning over all nations. Often times aggressive and confrontational, it can make uncomfortable reading, but it a