A traditional Irish music class & session mainly for adult beginners/returners,  particularly those who wouldn't normally play in public unless perhaps wearing a balaclava 😁

First Wednesday of each month the lesson is taught by ZOOM

More info here

€5

Was Man & Band

Was Man is the solo musical endeavour of singer, songwriter and guitarist, Warren McCarthy.

In the Backroom of The Cobblestone, on Friday 5 June 2026, he will perform with a band for the first time. Bass and drums will accompany Warren's precise guitar playing and poignant vocals, to enhance the live experience of his emotive songwriting and his unique delivery of traditional folk songs.

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Doors: 8:00pm
Show: 9:00pm
Tickets: €13.95 here

A traditional Irish music class & session mainly for adult beginners/returners,  particularly those who wouldn't normally play in public unless perhaps wearing a balaclava 😁

First Wednesday of each month the lesson is taught by ZOOM

More info here

€5

The Dublin Jazz Co-op Presents: Laoise Leahy & Johnny Taylor

Laoise Leahy - Vocals Johnny Taylor - Piano

Live at The Cobblestone May 31st 2026 3.00pm , The BackRoom

Acclaimed vocalist and composer Laoise Leahy presents Breathe In & Let Go, a  special summer afternoon concert performed with master pianist Johnny Taylor in the intimate Cobblestone venue 

A native of Cork and a contemporary voice lecturer at MTU Cork School of Music,  Laoise is known for her rich, soulful tone and her instinctive, fearless approach to  improvisation. Her music moves fluidly between jazz, soul, folk and contemporary  sound worlds, guided by a deep curiosity about connection, presence and what it  means to be human. 

For this performance, she is joined by her longtime collaborator Johnny Taylor on piano, bringing an intuitive musical chemistry and a shared sensitivity to space, texture and groove. 

The music for this concert draws from her recently released EP ‘Breathe In & Let  Go’ alongside reimagined, revered jazz tunes, newly composed songs and open  improvisations. Inspired by breath, nature, time and the inner rhythms of life, the  set unfolds gently - at times grounded and earthy, at others expansive, soaring and  

searching - always leaving room in the moment for the unexpected. 

Breathe In & Let Go is an invitation to pause in the middle of the day, to listen  deeply, to soften and allow the music to carry you for a while. Intimate, reflective  and quietly powerful, this lunchtime concert offers a nourishing and transporting  moment shared in one of Dublin’s most cherished live music spaces. 

“Laoise Leahy’s must-hear ambient-jazz EP, ‘Breathe In & Let Go‘ is fuelled by intelligent arrangements, stunning performances and magnetic melodies. One thing is for sure, ‘Breathe In & Let Go‘ is a contemporary jazz EP that will stand the test of time….” 

VFM-music blog  

“Great Jazz Voice on Blue” 

Carl Corcoran - Lyric FM (Blue of the Night) 

“It may be some of the finest work by an Irish jazz artist in the last ten years. She is going to blow the scene out of the water...”  

BBC Jazzworld - Linley Hamilton 

Doors 3:00pm
Tickets €12 here
(bring a friend for free!)

A traditional Irish music class & session mainly for adult beginners/returners,  particularly those who wouldn't normally play in public unless perhaps wearing a balaclava 😁

First Wednesday of each month the lesson is taught by ZOOM

More info here

€5

Net album launch

Celebrate the release of Net's debut album Awakening at The Cobblestone in Smithfield featuring special guest performers.

Doors: 19:30
Gig: 20:00
Ticket €10.0 at the door or HERE

Knockshebane Concert with special guests Every Thing That Fles

Clare Eustace (Fiddle) and Róisín Gaffney (Vocals ) are members of the all female trad group Macalla. The band released two albums.

Róisín Gaffney released a solo album in 2018 titled :

"Her Earings Tipped Her Shoulders "

Joe Ryder is a singer / songwriter , composer , musician and activist. Joe is working on his 3rd album due for release this autumn.

Tadhg O Sullivan has played traditional music for years while also exploring blue grass and old time music. In recent years he has studied classical guitar .

Since 2019 Tadhg has formed a guitar/ fiddle duet with life partner Clare Eustace.

" Every Thing That Flies " perform a mix of original songs and unusual covers. They explore the pathos and comedy of life through song.

Tickets at this link

Balfolk Dublin presents Silk Pill

Let's have an exciting bal with Silk Pill, this passionate group from Brescia, Italy.

Alessandro Baroni and Giovanni Venturini explore the world by blending electronic and balfolk music.

Mykology

Mykology live at The Cobblestone celebrating their latest release Burning Letters with special guests Mechanical Wonders and Bróna Keogh. We’re playing The Cobblestone to celebrate our latest release on May 23rd with Mechanical Wonders and Bróna Keogh joining us on the night. Expect a mix of folk and acoustic music in one of our favourite venues in Dublin. Doors at 7:30pm. Tickets are €12 + booking fee. Would love to see you there.

Check us out on: Instagram & Spotify

Doors: 19:30
Gig: 20:30
Ticket2 €12 here

Alaskan Songwriters: Fortenbery, Vidic, Heist and Heist

Alaska-based songwriter Josh Fortenbery (guitar, bass, vocals) writes like a poet and moves between genres with ease, creating an inviting combination of country, folk, and bluegrass. His most recent album, Tidy Memorial, has received rave reviews from publications around the world and drawn comparisons to John Prine, cracking the top twenty on the US folk and alt-country charts.

The Heists have spent decades playing the bars and backrooms of Alaska, honing their close harmonies and collecting stories. Featuring Andrew Heist (mandolin, fiddle, vocals) and Erin Heist (guitar, bass, vocals), The Heists bring bluegrass drive, country emotion, and old-time groove to songs that speak to the heart of what it means to be raised in Alaska. Rounding out this Alaska supergroup is Taylor Dallas Vidic (snare, vocals), a prolific songwriter in her own right and one of Alaska’s most in-demand vocalists. Individually, members of this band have performed at Wintergrass, Rotterdam Bluegrass, Old Tone, Blackpot, and Treefort Music Festivals. This is their first tour in this configuration, and they bring a hard-driving, bluegrass attitude to new arrangements of their songs with an emphasis on toe-curling harmonies.

Check us out on Instagram: JoshVidic & The Heists

Doors 7:30pm
Gig 8:00pm

Tickets €10 at the door

A traditional Irish music class & session mainly for adult beginners/returners,  particularly those who wouldn't normally play in public unless perhaps wearing a balaclava 😁

First Wednesday of each month the lesson is taught by ZOOM

More info here

€5

Draighneach: An Ode to the Harmonium

“The icon of post-everything music” – Lawrence English (::Room40::)

Debut artist Draighneach presents An Ode to the Harmonium; a night of traditional and contemporary folk music and storytelling in which the harmonium takes centre stage. The North Dublin local will be joined by some very special guests on the night, blending drones, harmonies and visual performance. Funds in aid of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Oíche amhránaíochta agus scéalaíochta leis an armóin chun cinn / A night of songs and stories with the harmonium front and centre.

Imeacht dátheangach a bheidh ann / This is a bilingual event.

Díolaíocht ticéad ar son na Palaistíne / All ticket sales in aid of Palestine.

Tá fáilte roimh chách ag an imeacht seo / Everyone is welcome at this event.

Sa chás nach bhfuil tú in ann an praghas seo a íoc faoi láthair, bí i dteagmháil linn ag draighneach@gmail.com agus socrófar ticéad duit / If you're not in a position to pay the ticket fee at the moment, let us know at draighneach@gmail.com and we'll sort you out :)

Doors 20:00
Gig 20:30
Tickets €7 here

Eugene Chadbourne

Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents

Starting out playing rock and roll guitar, Chadbourne quickly grew bored with the form's conventions, going on to study the blues, country, bluegrass, free jazz, and noise before synthesizing those heterogeneous influences into a unique style of his own.

“One of the underground community's most well-known and well-regarded eccentrics.” All Music Guide

Chadbourne fronted Shockabilly (1982–1985) with Mark Kramer (bass/organ) and David Licht (drums) and has worked with numerous artists including John Zorn, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Carla Bley Band, Paul Lovens, Toshinori Kondo, Kommissar Hjuler und Frau, Camper Van Beethoven, Jello Biafra, Turbonegro, They Might Be Giants, Sun City Girls, Violent Femmes, Aki Takase, Walter Daniels, Kevin Blechdom, Biff Blumfumgagnge, Zu and Jimmy Carl Black

Check him out on youtube here & here

“Chadbourne is a great songwriter and a true banjo virtuoso. His inclination to experimentation draws on his love of traditional country and bluegrass. The way he can scoop up techniques and then have them resurface in unexpected guises is part of what made his performance so engaging.” – London Jazz Review

“Chadbourne’s inventiveness, technical skill, and sense of whimsy are on full display here, reminding us once again of all the things that place him in the pantheon of avant rock/free jazz/free improvisation guitarists, among the likes of Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, and Henry Kaiser.” – The Quietus

Doors: 20:00
Gig: 20:45

Mike Cooper

“The icon of post-everything music” – Lawrence English (::Room40::)

For the past 60 years Mike Cooper has been an international artistic explorer constantly pushing the boundaries.

He plays lap steel guitar and sings, he is an improviser and composer, song-maker, a visual and installation artist; film and video maker and radio arts producer.

Initially a folk-blues guitarist he is as responsible as anyone else — and more so than many — for ushering in the acoustic blues boom in the U.K. in the mid ’60s.

He has, arguably, stretched the possibilities of that genre even more than his better known contemporaries Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourne etc. by pursuing it into the more avant-garde musical areas occupied by guitar innovators such as Elliott Sharp, Keith Rowe, Fred Frith and Marc Ribot, with an eclectic mix of the many styles he has practiced over the years. Ranging freely through free improvisation, his own idiosyncratic original songs, electro-acoustic music, exotica, traditional country blues, folk, pop songs, and ‘sonic gestural’ playing utilising open tunings, extended guitar techniques and electronics

Watch him here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EXtncJ_MVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBT781Tcy2Y.

"Mike Cooper’s output of the past half century has been described as ‘post-everything’. It’s a fitting phrase really when you consider he has been at the beating heart of so many critical musical moments. From the development of the blues touring circuit in the UK, through the growth of the folk scene and into the explosion of free improvisation that came to define a generation of UK musicians. Amidst it all, working at stitching these disparate forms into some kind of deterritorialised zone, was Mike Cooper." - Lawrence English Room 40 Records.

“Cooper is making the most adventurous music of his life… incredibly rich and evocative, and as a live performance, it’s utterly flawless. Cooper takes live guitar processing and sampling as his raw material, using it to build something complex and substantive, full of ideas and surprises, not just abandoning it half-formed.” – Jonathan Dean – Brainwashed

Doors 20:00
Gig 20:30
Tickets €21.50 here

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The Onlies, on tour from America, are a longstanding collective of young friends defining a powerful new generation of stringband music. Described as “the best old-time stringband out there” (Songlines), their music moves with a pulsating drive, sharp arrangements, and rich vibration — it resounds with the present.

Multi-instrumentalists and vocalists Sami Braman, Riley Calcagno, and Leo Shannon formed The Onlies in Seattle as young kids, bringing in celebrated guitarist/singer Vivian Leva 10 years later. “ Their fourth album, You Climb The Mountain, marks 20 years as a band. It was recorded by Grammy winner Joel Savoy and powered by the unmistakable bass groove of Nokosee Fields as it takes listeners on a climb up no ordinary mountain. If it sounds like a volcanic journey, it is—with fiddles, banjos, guitars, bass, autoharp, harmonium, electric guitar, and two to four-part vocal harmonies, in a generous 15 tracks including a cameo from Bluegrass legend Alice Gerrard.

The Onlies have earned first place at the Appalachian Stringband Festival in Clifftop, WV, and are currently Artistic Directors of Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend, Wash., one of the largest and most venerable fiddle festivals in the country. As individuals, they are members of Viv & Riley, Willie Watson (Sami), and Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Leo). As influential fiddler Bruce Molsky says. “all four of the Onlies are shining stars. Together, what impresses me most about them is that they’ve grabbed this old music we all love by the reins and dragged it into the 21st century.” Indeed, you can hear their joy and decades of playing with one another in an “energy so palpable and vivid, it’s like you’ve been transported into the center of their sonic world, burrowed deep down with the variegated melodies and sparkling string-band grooves” (Bandcamp Daily).

Doors
Show

Tickets €20 here

Ben Turner: Songs and Stories in the Backroom

From the hills of Wexford to the theatres of Germany, Ben Turner has done a lot of miles in the last few years. Cutting his teeth on the streets and in the pubs of Dublin, he soon packed up his guitar and headed to Europe. Through street shows and pop up gigs in bars, living rooms, train stations, barbershops and other unique locations he gathered a modest but loyal fan-base, and soon attracted the attention of many respected musicians.

He has gone on to share the stage with a variety of artists such as fellow Wexford songwriter Wallis Bird, Mark Geary, German folk hero STOPPOK and English master songwriter Scott Matthews. With influences ranging from Bob Dylan and Paul Simon to nineties grunge icons Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, Ben's powerful whisper to a roar vocals and clever guitar playing are something to experience.

https://www.benturnerproject.com/

Check Ben out here

Tickets available at this link

Alice Jago previewing her forthcoming ‘Look to the Sky ‘ new Album

Alice Jago Live @ The Cobblestone - Backroom.

Alice Jago is a Dublin-based singer-songwriter with distinctive voice comparisons of ''a breezier Gillian Welch, a folkier Rickie Lee Jones, a touch of Dusty on the vocal.”Hotpress Magazine.

Her best single yet High Time as described by The Goo Magazine "is set to a beautiful lilting groove of acoustic guitar, bass, drums and strings ,that soothe the soul immensely “ and her latest single 'Life of Pi highlights .."her soft but persistent harmonies", demonstrates her ability to blend the world around her into poetic lyricism. Her much anticipated new album ' Look To The Sky' beautifully blends her unique voice and songwriting style echoing influences of folk , alt country and Americana styles whilst unmistakably maintaining her own sound.

Tickets €12 at this link

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Gráinne Brady & Michael Biggins

Fiddle player and composer Gráinne Brady (Co. Cavan) and pianist and multi-instrumentalist Michael Biggins (Newcastle / Glasgow) come together to explore a vibrant and expressive blend of traditional music.

Gráinne is known for her lyrical fiddle playing and thoughtful approach to composition, shaped by her roots in the musical traditions of Cavan, Leitrim, and Clare, and her longstanding involvement in Glasgow’s traditional music scene. Her critically-praised albums and collaborative projects draw on storytelling and history, creating music that is grounded, imaginative, and full of heart.

Michael, BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year (2021), performs internationally with TRIP, and The Canny Band. A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he brings a rich musicality, sensitivity, and rhythmic lift to the piano that has made him one of the most sought-after accompanists of his generation.

Together, the duo perform music from Gráinne’s newly recorded third solo album: a collection of traditional Irish tunes - some long cherished, some recently discovered - alongside a few Scottish melodies and modern compositions from both emerging and established tune-makers. The result is a warm, dynamic, and conversational sound: grounded in tradition, yet open, spacious, and full of personal expression.

https://www.grainnebradyfiddle.com/

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Ciaran Moran |'Back where I Began' Intimate Acoustic Hometown Show

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Inner City Rising Artist Ciaran Moran announces his Annual Intimate Hometown Show for May 1st 2026 along with an Irish & UK Tour

One Night Only (Limited Spaces)

Dublin singer-songwriter Ciarán Moran is quickly making his mark with raw, heartfelt storytelling rooted in his North Inner City upbringing. Last November he released his highly anticipated EP, Love in the Gutter, showcasing his most honest and powerful work to date. Recently, Moran has supported Gavin James, John Spillane, Macy Gray, Damien Dempsey and joined The Wolfe Tones for 3 Nights supporting at Dublin’s 3Arena, cementing his reputation as one of Ireland’s most exciting rising artists.

Get tickets at this link

Doors 7pm

Celebrate International Jazz Day with us 🎷✨

Join us for an evening of timeless classics, featuring two sets of music drawn from The Jobim Real Book and The Great American Songbook.

Featuring the best of the Irish Jazz scene with Jennifer McMahon – Voice, Chris Guilfoyle – Guitar, Leopoldo Osio – Piano, Eoin O’Halloran – Bass and Fiach O’Briain –Drums.

📍 Live in the Backroom of The Cobblestone Bar

Come soak up the atmosphere, and celebrate International Jazz Day 🎶

Tickets €9.55 at this link