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JAZZ Natural Information Society MUSIC FESTIVAL M
ove Slowly Festival GIG Battle of the Buskers Could this competition unearth another Rodrigo y Gabriela, Glen Hansard, Keywest or Damien Rice? Busking is often an artists gateway to the bigtime so it’s nice to see our street entertainers come out of the cold and into the red hot atmosphere of rivalry. Contenders duel it out every Wednesday from 15 October to 26 November at Buskers Bar for the crown, the neat sum of €5,000 and a full day in a recording studio. Hosted by comedian and actor Eric Lalor, these Temple Bar Hotel-based events will feature buskers from Ireland and beyond. Weekly on Wednesdays 7–11 p.m. from 15 October to 26 October Buskers Bar, Temple Bar. Free entry Hen’s Teeth is craving out a great rep for event hosting and this weekend (with the support of some much appreciated Dept of Culture funding) the venue welcomes the lovingly curated Move Slowly Festival, a two-day genre-spanning music festival. The line up includes uilleann piper Liam Winnet, neo-soul duo Negro Impacto, folk artist Officer John, Altered Hours frontwoman Elaine Howley showcasing her incredible solo project, lo-fi dream popsters Nashpaints, Lucky’s in-house Pizza Jazz band and the always entertaining alternative rock group Fizzy Orange. For gourmands Assassination Custard will be cooking a ticketed slow food dinner on the second day. 17-18 October Hen’s Teeth Tickets available via hensteethdublin.com Chicago-borne Natural Information Society, an avant-garde minimal jazz ensemble, makes its Irish debut on 29th of October at the National Concert Hall. Formed in 2010 and led by composer-multi instrumentalist Joshua Abrams, the group performs with Lisa Alvarado’s free hanging paintings as mobile sets which allows NIS create environments at once meditative & propulsive. New album Manifestation is a cracker and tonight’s show sees the band as a quartet with Abrams on guimbri, Alvarado on harmonium, Mikel Patrick Avery on drums & Jason Stein on bass clarinet and is promoted by one of the city’s most progressive bookers, Enthusiast Eunuch. 29 October at 8:30 p.m. National Concert Hall Tickets via nch.ie CONCERT Kwaidan GIG Revolve An undoubted highlight of the Bram Stoker Festival program. Based on Lafcadio Hearn’s iconic collection of ghost stories and adapted for the screen by director Masaki Kobayashi, Kwaidan is accompanied by a newly-commissioned musical live score composed and performed by Matthew Nolan and Seán Mac Erlaine, with Japanese artist and musician Tomoko Sauvage. Irish actor Conor Lovett (Gare St. Lazare, Ireland) will blend Irish and Japanese traditions in performing a live, Englishlanguage Benshi narration (an integral part of early Japanese silent cinema), directed by Irish Times Irish Theatre Award Winning Director Judy Hegarty Lovett (Gare St. Lazare, Ireland). National Concert Hall, Saturday 1 November (Bram Stoker Festival 2025) 7pm. Tickets: nch.ie Thursdays are the new Fridays so the weekend definitely starts here. Revolve is a new weekly Thursday late night movable feast of Live Bands, DJ’s, listening parties, themed nights and more hosted by The Grand Social in their new Ballroom area. Kicking off on Oct 9th with live sets by Pebbledash and Ten Hail Marys, the night also sees Gurriers rhythm ace Pierce Callaghan spearhead the DJ crew who promise to feature new Irish releases on their playlists. Every Thursday Doors: 10pm The Grand Social www.thegrandsocial.ie STORYTELLING Bewleys x Craicly: In the heart of historical Bewley’s, a monthly storytelling night dubbed Craicly Stories in the James Joyce Room will begin on October 15th. The night will begin with a group dinner before attendees will gather to hear curated stories around a certain Irish cultural theme (aptly, October will be “ghosts”). Craicly, the co-hosts of these evenings, is a project aimed to gather people together for storytelling and community to honor the past and present of spaces and stories. Monthly. Commences 15th of October from 7–10 p.m. Bewley’s Grafton Street. Tickets via craiclystories.com or bewleysgraftonstreet.com 43