With great music (and even cakes & tea!) Back Room @ The Cobblestone is keeping the art of the intimate, cosy venue alive in Dublin city until the end of November!
The art of the intimate venue has been forgotten about in Dublin over the last decade with the live scene filled with new medium size venues and a number of famous venues like the Baggot Inn, the Beal Bocht and Mother Redcaps closing up.
The Cobblestone has long been a bastion of the intimate old style music venue. Originally the venue was upstairs and was home to some legendary nights of spellbinding music. Recently a backroom behind the bar downstairs was renovated and now the atmosphere is even more friendly and intimate than the old venue.
The Cobblestone has long been a bastion of the intimate old style music venue. Originally the venue was upstairs and was home to some legendary nights of spellbinding music. Recently a backroom behind the bar downstairs was renovated and now the atmosphere is even more friendly and intimate than the old venue.
With Orla Keeshan on hand to book the acts, the Backroom is assured a steady stream of quality acts with everything from Irish Traditional to American Bluegrass to British Folk. The venue is a welcome home to formidable Irish songwriting talent like Sonny Condell and John Spillane and is the place where all the exciting new acts from the Irish trad scene come to.
EVERY NIGHT
THE SESSIONS
Live traditional music and song in the main bar
FREE
THE SESSIONS
Live traditional music and song in the main bar
FREE
EVERY SATURDAY
BILL WHELAN & FRIENDS
Olde Timey sessions in the main bar.
Time: 16:00 - 19:00
FREE
BILL WHELAN & FRIENDS
Olde Timey sessions in the main bar.
Time: 16:00 - 19:00
FREE
EVERY SUNDAY
SUNDAY TEA PARTY
Tea, cakes, music and some of the best pints of Guiness you'll ever come across! Line-up changes every week .
Flinders
Date: 1st November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
One of Ireland's most talented singer songwriters with a quirky edge and a style that will capture the imagination of many. His original style combines looped vocals, melodic instrumentation and is backed by a sure sense of rhythm.
Room 202 Records Acoustic Night
Date: 6th November
Time: 20.30
Tickets: €8
This acoustic showcase is a new night welcomed into the arms of the cobblestone, room 202 records is a company promoting up and coming folk musicians and they have put together a night with Enda Reilly, Fia Rua, Darren Gaffney and Stephen Smith.
Date: 1st November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
One of Ireland's most talented singer songwriters with a quirky edge and a style that will capture the imagination of many. His original style combines looped vocals, melodic instrumentation and is backed by a sure sense of rhythm.
Room 202 Records Acoustic Night
Date: 6th November
Time: 20.30
Tickets: €8
This acoustic showcase is a new night welcomed into the arms of the cobblestone, room 202 records is a company promoting up and coming folk musicians and they have put together a night with Enda Reilly, Fia Rua, Darren Gaffney and Stephen Smith.
The Tumbleweed Love Sessions
Date: 8th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €8
This night showcases some of Ireland's best up and coming roots acts. This month we have the big band of country music peddlers The Paraire Dawgs, the excellent Followers of Otis playing a warm concoction of folk and gospel, and we also have Monorail with rock, trad and folk influences.
Date: 8th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €8
This night showcases some of Ireland's best up and coming roots acts. This month we have the big band of country music peddlers The Paraire Dawgs, the excellent Followers of Otis playing a warm concoction of folk and gospel, and we also have Monorail with rock, trad and folk influences.
Library Tapes & Kill Krinkle Club
Date: 12th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
This special gig with us is host to Library tapes and Kill Krinkle Club. Both bands have an uplifting style of ambient electronica. With Hefty Horse Promotions behind them the quality of acts is sure to inspire.
Black Thorn
Date: 14th Nov
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €5
This bands manages to blend many genres such as rock, soul, blues, latin and jazz with a drop of metal. Support on the night will be from Rebecca Massey
The Bottom Floor Band
Date: 15th November
Time: 21.009
Tickets: €8
This band is a excellent blend of Gypsy rhythms with influences for Sweden, Ireland and some other world. They write their own songs while also playing tunes form a time before.
Date: 12th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
This special gig with us is host to Library tapes and Kill Krinkle Club. Both bands have an uplifting style of ambient electronica. With Hefty Horse Promotions behind them the quality of acts is sure to inspire.
Black Thorn
Date: 14th Nov
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €5
This bands manages to blend many genres such as rock, soul, blues, latin and jazz with a drop of metal. Support on the night will be from Rebecca Massey
The Bottom Floor Band
Date: 15th November
Time: 21.009
Tickets: €8
This band is a excellent blend of Gypsy rhythms with influences for Sweden, Ireland and some other world. They write their own songs while also playing tunes form a time before.
Ballyfermot Traditional Music Showcase
Date: 16th November
Time: 20.30
Tickets: €10
Ballyfermot college has moulded many of the best contemporary traditional music performers in recent years. This gig showcases the performances from current students with a last 12 people taking the stage.
Appalachian Roots - Riley Baugus & Ira Bernstein
Date: 20th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
Appalachian Roots is a duo show by Ira Bernstein with virtuoso old-time musician and singer Riley Baugus.
Caruso
Date: 21st November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
Caruso the brainchild of Shane Ó Fearghail, is a band that gives an attractive stab at contemporary folk, their songs are decorated with spine-tingling harmonies and infectious simple rhythms. The bands album 'The Watcher & The Comet' has received great reviews here and abroad, their live gigs are quite unmissable.
Neill Lyons - Album Launch
Date: 27th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: FREE
2006 World Bodhran Champion Neill Lyons from Dublin launches his much anticipated debut album "Skins and Sins". joining Neill on the night will some of the finest exponents of Irish traditional music of this current generation including Paul mc Nevin, Eamonn De Barra, Mick Broderick, Leonard Barry and many more.
Al O'Donnell
Date: 28th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
Al developed his interest in folk music during while attending Art College in Nottingham listening to Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger, Martin Carthy, The Watersons. Learning from such fine singers he started to play gigs in nearby folk clubs.
Eamon Dowd & The Racketeers
Date: 29th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
Dowd & The Racketeers have been bringing their fiery brand of Americana to audiences far and wide for the past 12 years. There's a new album due in 2009, and with Dowd now resident in Sweden this is a rare Dublin show.
Date: 16th November
Time: 20.30
Tickets: €10
Ballyfermot college has moulded many of the best contemporary traditional music performers in recent years. This gig showcases the performances from current students with a last 12 people taking the stage.
Appalachian Roots - Riley Baugus & Ira Bernstein
Date: 20th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
Appalachian Roots is a duo show by Ira Bernstein with virtuoso old-time musician and singer Riley Baugus.
Caruso
Date: 21st November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
Caruso the brainchild of Shane Ó Fearghail, is a band that gives an attractive stab at contemporary folk, their songs are decorated with spine-tingling harmonies and infectious simple rhythms. The bands album 'The Watcher & The Comet' has received great reviews here and abroad, their live gigs are quite unmissable.
Neill Lyons - Album Launch
Date: 27th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: FREE
2006 World Bodhran Champion Neill Lyons from Dublin launches his much anticipated debut album "Skins and Sins". joining Neill on the night will some of the finest exponents of Irish traditional music of this current generation including Paul mc Nevin, Eamonn De Barra, Mick Broderick, Leonard Barry and many more.
Al O'Donnell
Date: 28th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
Al developed his interest in folk music during while attending Art College in Nottingham listening to Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger, Martin Carthy, The Watersons. Learning from such fine singers he started to play gigs in nearby folk clubs.
Eamon Dowd & The Racketeers
Date: 29th November
Time: 21.00
Tickets: €10
Dowd & The Racketeers have been bringing their fiery brand of Americana to audiences far and wide for the past 12 years. There's a new album due in 2009, and with Dowd now resident in Sweden this is a rare Dublin show.
The Cobblestone
North King Street
Smithfield
Phone: 0863384460
E-mail: thecobblestone@gmail.com
For concessions/advance booking, email with no. of tickets, name & band in the subject title.
For future listings, email with `mailing list' in the subject title
Websites
www.myspace.com/thecobblestone
www.cobblestonedublin.com
