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Something for the Weekend: Chris Thile's cultural picks

Acclaimed Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and MacArthur Fellow recipient of the prestigious 'Genius Grant', Chris Thile is a multifaceted musical talent, and then some.

Something For The Weekend • 29 Oct

Something for the Weekend: Alma Kelliher's cultural picks

Alma Kelleher is a composer, sound designer and musician, working across a range of media, from large-scale theatre to dance, live art, film, commercials and everything inbetween

Something For The Weekend • 22 Oct

Something for the Weekend: Le Boom's Christy Leech

Hailing from Navan, Le Boom are two brothers making high energy dance music - their sound has been described as "4am chats with your mates", and they've been selling out shows across the land.

Something For The Weekend • 16 Oct

Something for the Weekend: Carmel Winters' cultural picks

Her new play Cuckoo Time premieres in Glass Mask Theatre on Dublin's Dawson Street this October.

Something For The Weekend • 15 Oct

Something for the Weekend: David McCullagh's cultural picks

He's been co-hosting the Six One News and RTÉ's politics podcast Behind The Story, and next month takes the helm as the new presenter of Today on RTÉ Radio 1

Something For The Weekend • 21 Oct

Something for the Weekend: Brendan Mac Evilly's cultural picks

Deep Burn is the debut novel from Brendan Mac Evilly; it's a frenetic tale of art and the value of obsession; fame and the price of envy; friendship and the uncertainty of love.

Something For The Weekend • 09 Oct

Something for the Weekend: Maser's cultural picks

Visual artist Maser is judging this year's RTE's This Is Art! competition, supported by Creative Ireland.

Something For The Weekend • 08 Oct

Something for the Weekend: Panto dame Joe Conlan's cultural picks

Legendary Irish panto dame Joe Conlan, celebrating his fourth decade in the business, will play Nanny Potts in this year's Gaiety Christmas panto, the tale as old as time that is Beauty and The Beast...

Something For The Weekend • 01 Oct

Something for the Weekend: Dani Larkin's cultural picks

Acclaimed songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Dani Larkin's debut album Notes For A Maiden Warrior, garnered Irish Folk Award and NI Music Prize nominations...

Something For The Weekend • 24 Sep

Something for the Weekend: Linda Buckley's cultural picks

For this year's Music in Monkstown festival, celebrated Corkonian composer Linda Buckley will premiere a new work commissioned by the festival, Voix Enchantée for clarinet and piano.

Something For The Weekend • 17 Sep

Something for the Weekend: May Kay's cultural picks

MayKay is a singer, songwriter, TV presenter, and frontwoman of Fight Like Apes...

Something For The Weekend • 10 Sep

Something for the Weekend: Theo Dorgan's cultural picks

Celebrated poet, prose writer, documentary screenwriter, editor, translator and broadcaster Theo Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953.

Something For The Weekend • 04 Sep

Something for the Weekend: Mick Harvey's cultural picks

It's always a pleasure to welcome a right and proper music legend to these pages - and make no mistake, Mick Harvey is a legend.

Something For The Weekend • 03 Sep

Something for the Weekend: The Wild Geeze's cultural picks

If you're into wild Irish women, dark humour, striptease, enchanting harmonies, vagina puppets and talk of dismantling the agricultural patriarchy, then The Wild Geeze are definitely for you!

Something For The Weekend • 05 Sep

Something for the Weekend: Qbanaa's cultural picks

Cuban-Irish artist Qbanaa is one of the acts performing at Creativity on Tap: Where Bold Ideas Meet Iconic Spaces, an eclectic series of music and comedy events at this year's Dublin Fringe Festival.

Something For The Weekend • 28 Aug

Something for the Weekend: Alannah Thornburgh's cultural picks

Alannah Thornburgh is an award-winning instrumentalist and composer from the west of Ireland with a focus on traditional Irish harp.

Something For The Weekend • 30 Jul

Something for the Weekend: Rose Keating's cultural picks

Oddbody, the debut collection from Waterford author Rose Keating is a collection of ten bold, surreal and unsettling short stories...

Something For The Weekend • 24 Jul

Something for the Weekend: Guy Barker's cultural picks

Guy Barker is a trumpet player, bandleader, composer and one of the most sought-after arrangers of today – he's also an Associate Artist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Something For The Weekend • 23 Jul

Something For The Weekend – Luke Murphy's cultural picks

Choreographer and performer Luke Murphy founded Attic Projects in 2014 as an umbrella for his various independent projects in dance, film and theatre.

Something For The Weekend • 16 Jul

Something For The Weekend: Marty Breen's cultural picks

Marty Breen is the creator and star of BITCH, an 'explosion of theatrical chaos' that combines cabaret, stand-up and drag, with memorable results.

Something For The Weekend • 11 Jul

Something For The Weekend – Patrick Bergin's cultural picks

Over the past four decades, actor Patrick Bergin has been a welcome fixture on screens big and small...

Something For The Weekend • 09 Jul

Something For The Weekend: Séimí Campbell's cultural picks

Donegal-born director Séimí Campbell is a rising star in the theatre world, with a particular focus on musical theatre - he's currently developing a stage version of Cartoon Saloon's Oscar nominated Song Of The Sea.

Something For The Weekend • 04 Jul

Something For The Weekend: Aidan McArdle's cultural picks

Dubliner Aidan McArdle gained acclaim portraying figures like Dudley Moore, Albert Einstein and Igor Stravinsky in a series of acclaimed small-screen biopics.

Something For The Weekend • 25 Jun

Something For The Weekend: Oisin Fagan's cultural picks

Oisin's new novel, Eden's Shore, is a bold and inventive work that explores greed, love and power in an imagined South America at the close of the 18th century.

Something For The Weekend • 12 Jun

Something For The Weekend – Anna Carey's cultural picks

Anna Carey is an Irish Book Award-winning novelist, journalist, editor and scriptwriter who spent her teens and twenties playing in bands...

Something For The Weekend • 11 Jun