Seven things to do this week
TODAY Angel-voiced Sue Brady is usually found accompanying Dylan Rynhart in the acclaimed Irish jazz outfit Fuzzy Logic, but tonight she debuts her own ensemble with a contemporary mix of jazz, samba and funk. The Sue Brady Ensemble features Brady on vocals, Rynhart on Hammond Organ, Bill Blackmore on trumpet, Lee Tobin on guitar and Phil MacMullan on drums. They play at Cookin at the Wellington at the Wellington Bar on Baggot Street Bridge, Dublin 4, tonight. Admission €7. Doors open 9pm.
TOMORROW Former Irish internationals Ray Houghton and John Aldridge, along with Johnny Giles and ex-Liverpool midfielder Mark Lawrenson, line up against the Keith Duffy All-Stars and other Coronation Street veterans at Tolka Park to raise money for Childline. The match, now in its fifth year, is always a laugh and a good family day out. Tickets €15 from Ticketmaster.ie.
MONDAY Kathleen Edwards belts out her Canadian backwoods country songs tonight at Roisin Dubh in Galway (and at Whelan's in Dublin on Tuesday). She's a great live performer - catch her if you can, says our critic Tony Clayton-Lea. Concert starts at 9pm, 091-586540.
TUESDAY Last chance to witness Kylie Minogue shake that thing at the Point Theatre in Dublin tonight when she concludes her Showgirl gig. You should be so lucky. Tickets from Ticketmaster.ie.
WEDNESDAY Alessi, the smart, innovative Italian design company best known for making stainless steel kitchen-friendly in the 1950s and discovering Philippe Starck, among others, is celebrated in an exhibition at Equinox, the kitchen shop in the centre of Belfast now in its 20th year. Sixty Years of Alessi continues until May 9th at Equinox, Howard Street, Belfast. www.e-equinox.co.uk.
THURSDAY The Irish Chamber Orchestra begins a seven-stop tour tonight in St Mary's Cathedral. Limerick, before moving on to Askeaton, Athlone, Dublin, Monaghan, Newbridge, Co Kildare and Mallow, Co Cork. The programme includes the unabashedly romantic introduction from Strauss's opera Capriccio, as well as Janacek's early Suite for Orchestra and the premiere of Raymond Deane's Concursus. Tickets €10-22.
FRIDAY Remind yourself of your springtime student days - which, for some, means those terror-stricken pre-exam days - by visiting the National Library in Kildare Street at lunchtime, where Dublin Lyric Players are producing plays by W.B. Yeats this week and next at 1.10pm. Today, At The Hawk's Well and Purgatory. Admission €6, with lunch available from Brambles cafe. Book on 01-6030204.