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festival Love Sensation The Mother(ship) and MCD
roll out a new festival to ensure another large scale splash of Pride before the summer sun sets. This two-day venture is bedecked in retro pop stripes with noughties favs Lily Allen, Kelis and Gossip (pictured) headlining along with Clean Bandit. There’s a George stage bringing the drag fab and a dance section with solid loveens Horse Meat Disco and Honey Dijon. Crowd-pleasing potential, even if it lacks contemporary edge in its line-up. Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Saturday August 17 & Sunday August 18, €65.70, €96.25 (weekend) gig Graceland - London African Gospel Choir With Paul Simon bringing down the touring curtain of his illustrious career last year, up step the London African Gospel Choir who will perform his seminal album Graceland. A 16-member choir will perform all the classics including The Boy In The Bubble, Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes and You Can Call Me Al. After an unfortunate series of cancellations on shows scheduled for this month by Beirut and Broken Social Scene, by Selective Memory, the promoters behind this show, here’s hoping any choir member with a flu is kicked to touch at the earliest possible moment. There were a handful of tickets left at the time of going to print. National Concert Hall, Tuesday August 27, €32.50 theatre The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII An imagined re-creation of moments from the lives of women in WWII recalling stories of bravery, sacrifice and love amidst the horror of war, as women stood up against Fascism and totalitarianism and refused to accept oppression. The performance is followed by a post-show discussion. Women’s stories in the performance include Mary Elmes (1908-2002), a Cork woman who was the first Irish person honoured as ‘Righteous Among Nations’ for her work saving Jewish children from the Nazi gas chambers during World War II. Rathfarnham Castle, Thursday August 22, €5 88