SINGER-SONGWRITER
Kimmie Rhodes
Black Box, Belfast 8pm £15
blackboxbelfast.com
You don't automatically become a highly respected US singer-songwriter without paying your dues, but when the likes of Joe Ely, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris (no mean songwriters themselves) cover your tunes you know you're doing something right. Rhodes is plugging her latest album, Cowgirl Boudoir.
ART
When the Wind Blows
Millennium Court Arts Centre, William St, Portadown, Co Armagh Until May 2
millenniumcourt.org
This thoughtful show includes works made for the Arafudo Art Annual in a hot-spring resort in the Fukushima region, following the nuclear disaster in 2011, curated by Yumi Song. The other strand features work by Northern Ireland-based artists who were invited by curator Shiro Masuyama to reflect on a newly renovated Cold War bunker in Portadown. The artists are Ursula Burke, Zoë Murdoch, Shiro Masuyama, Chiharu Mizukawa, Jun Kawada, Kouichi Tabata, Nobuhiro Kuzuya, Nyubo Abe, Ryo Shimizu, Satoru Aoyama, Shingo Aruga, Taihei, Takashi Hokoi, Tohru Matsushita and Yuji Shimono.
THEATRE
Stomp
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin Until Mar 21
bordgaisenergytheatre.ie
It may have started on the street, but Stomp has long outgrown its humble origins, and this is its second visit to the BGE Theatre in two years. If you have a toddler who regularly raids the kitchen drawer for "band practice", you will be amazed by the music the performers find in everyday objects – from kitchen brooms to plastic bags. With its urban aesthetic and street-inspired choreography, even the coolest, show-shirking teens will be impressed.
