Here's what's on this week: Kilkenny Gig Guide, August 22 - 29.
Live music and entertainment for the coming days
Wednesday
Roisin Dubh & Raglan Rogues, Kyteler’s Inn, 6pm.
Trad & Ballad, Matt the Miller’s, 6pm.
Trad Music, Paris Texas, 6pm.
Trad Music, Langton’s, 6.30pm.
Jim Maher Story Teller & Seanchaí, Club House Hotel, 8pm.
Hooly Night, Lanigan’s, 9pm.
Folk & Ballads, Dylan Whiskey Bar, 9pm.
Open Trad Session, Cleere’s Bar & Theatre, 9pm.
Thursday
Line Dancing, Home Rule Club, 10.30am.
End of Summer BBQ, Lyrath Estate Hotel, 6pm.
Drops of Green & Roisin Dubh, Kyteler’s Inn, 6pm.
Trad & Ballad, Band & DJ Eddie Hughes Matt the Miller’s, 6pm.
Druida Nua, Club House Hotel, 8pm.
Frank Martin Gilligan & Randy Brooks, Kyteler’s Inn, 8pm.
Stephen Murphy, Dylan Whiskey Bar, 9pm.
Big John’s Karaoke, Biddy Early’s, 9pm.
Langton’s Night Club, 11pm.
Friday
Town of Books Festival, Graignamanagh.
TGI, Bridies, 5.30pm.
Trad with Antony Maculey & friends, Drops of Green & Acousticats Kyteler’s Inn, 6pm.
Trad & Ballad, The Domino Effect & DJ Matt the Miller’s, 6pm.
Music, The Worlds End.
Granite, Mick Doyle’s Pub, Graignamanagh, 9pm.
Phil & Gill, Dylan Whiskey Bar, 9pm.
Divil The Bit, Lanigan’s.
Friday Sessions, Morrisson’s, 10pm.
Saturday
St Patrick’s Brass & Reed Band, St Mary’s Church, Gowran, 1pm.
Yard Beats, Brogan’s Bar, 6pm.
Trad with Antony Mcauley, Abbeyfolk & Roisin Dubh Kyteler’s Inn, 6pm.
Trad & Ballad, Party Night & DJ, Matt the Miller’s, 6pm.
Trad & DJ, Lanigan’s, 7pm.
Jack L, Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre, 8pm, €20.
Country Jamboree, Rhu Glenn Hotel, 8.30pm, €15.
Saturday Club, Marble City Bar.
DJ, Pumphouse.
Theme Time Retro Radio, Dylan Whiskey Bar.
DJ, Lanigan’s.
Joe Butler Group, Home Rule Club.
Culfish, Mick Doyle’s Pub, Graignamanagh, 9pm.
Mark & Frank Kelly, Medieval Tavern, 9.30pm.
Music, Rafter Dempsey’s, 10pm.
Langton’s Night Club, 10.30pm.
Sunday
Sunday Jazz Sessions, MacDonagh Junction Shopping Centre, 1pm.
Sunday Summer Sessions, Left Bank, 5pm.
Johnny Carroll, The Worlds End, 6pm.
Trad with Antony Mcauley & friends, Generation 5 & Tomas Jackman, Kyteler’s Inn, 6pm.
Trad, Matt the Miller’s, 6pm.
Trad Music, Paris Texas, 7pm.
Gavin Carroll, The Front Room, 8pm.
Paul Watchorn, Mick Doyle’s Pub, Graignamanagh, 9pm.
Kevin & Eugene, Dylan Whiskey Bar, 9pm.
The Kilkennys, Lanigan’s, 9pm.
DJs, Left Bank.
The Barflies, The Pumphouse, 9.30pm.
monday
Monday Club, The Worlds End, 6pm.
Abbeyfolk & Roisin Dubh, Kyteler’s Inn, 6pm.
Irish Music Session, Cleere’s Bar & Theatre, 9pm.
Social Dancing with Stuart Moyles, Springhill Court Hotel, 9.30pm.
Davey Cashin & Pete Fagan, Left Bank, 9.30pm.
After Dark & DJ Eddie Hughes, Matt the Miller’s, 10pm.
Tuesday
Abbeyfolk & Raglan Rogues, Kyteler’s Inn, 6pm.
Wallop the Cat, Matt the Miller’s, 6pm.
Swing Dancing, Home Rule Club, 8pm.
Kevin & Eugene, The Dylan Whisky Bar, 9pm.
Abbeyfolk, Matt the Miller’s, 10pm.
Any day
Heritage Week, various venues, to August 26.
Exhibition. OBJ – Digital Handmade, National Design & Craft Gallery, Castle Yard, to November 11.
Exhibition. I Smelled a Raw Recruit, Butler Gallery at Kilkenny Castle, to October 7.
Kilkenny Cinema has a variety of films to suit all ages and interests on show at a number of times daily.