ROOTS PAIR
The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band
The Highway, Crusheen, Co Clare 9.30pm €15 claregigs.com Also Sun, Cork
Two smart New York singers and songwriters – Jeffrey Lewis from the erstwhile late-1990s anti-folk scene, Pete Stampfel from iconic 1960s roots band, Holy Modal Rounders – team up over their mutual love of narrative art and authentic music. She an interview with Lewis on irishtimes.com.
FESTIVAL
Boxed Off
Fairyhouse Racecourse, Co Meath 2pm €64.50 boxedoff.ie
The Co Meath horsetrack was once a regular spot for festivals, previously housing Witnness and Planetlove. This one-day festival with four stages boasts a hot-to-trot line-up with Nina Kraviz, the excellent Daniel Avery, Andhim, HNNY, Patrick Topping and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs catching the eye, as well as a galaxy of Irish acts and DJs. Anyone fearing a muddy day can relax as all stages will be located on tarmac.
FREE JAZZ
Michael Janisch’s Paradigm Shift
JJ Smyths, Aungier St, 9pm, €15, jjsmyths.com (also 5pm, Sunday)
US-born bassist Michael Janisch is not only the leader of this starry sextet, on a European tour to promote their new release, Paradigm Shift. He is also the founder of fertile London indy label Whirlwind, the source of some of the most listenable contemporary jazz on either side of the Atlantic. As well as his bass, he's travelling with a suitcase full of Whirlwind sampler CDs, and there's one for everyone in the audience.
BOAT PARTY
Hidden Agenda
Galway 7pm €25 facebook.com/hiddenagendaclub
It's obviously Boat Week for Irish clubland. Hidden Agenda go west for a bit of a do which starts out on the Corrib Princess as it sails up and down the river, before all involved head to the Electric Garden to see out the night. Aside from the Hidden Agenda DJs, you've also the legendary Love From San Francisco deep house don Charles Webster, Today FM disco queenpin Kelly-Anne Byrne, DJ Deece, Sean Merrigan, Sol and friends. Ahoy me hearties.
