What’s on Wednesday: CHOORPY Connect, Walking on Cars, Tom Rainey and Sue Rynhart

MUSIC/NETWORKING

CHOORPY Connect
Workman's Club, Dublin, Doors 5.30pm for full event (€11); 8pm for gig only (€10) choorpy.com

New monthly music networking event/live show which aims to bring Irish musicians and the music industry closer together. For the inaugural event, head honcho Patrick Cutliffe has secured the services of producer, manager, solo artist and Trouble Pilgrim Pete Holidai formerly of "Ireland's first punk band" The Radiators from Space. Up for discussion is the  topic: 'Why your network is your best friend'. Following is a live swap gig. featuring a local headline act and a visiting  support act. First up, Heroes in Hiding from Dublin and Belfast's Sons of Caliber.  A percentage of proceeds from the night go to Irish children's charity, BUMBLEance. Well worth a look.

POP/ROCK

Walking on Cars
Olympia Theatre, Dublin 8pm €25/€22.50
olympia.ie

With a trickle of EP releases over the past two years, and an accompanying increase in profile and audience reach (as well as signing with Universal), Dingle’s Walking on Cars might well be the next commercial success story out of Ireland. This Dublin headline date comes as no surprise to those of us keeping a close eye on the band

TRAD

North Strand Kontra Band
The Grand Social, Dublin 8pm €12/€10
fivelampsarts.ie

The Five Lamps Arts Festival rises to a gallop with this longtime Dublin outfit who mine the wide expanse of Bulgarian and Romanian traditional music to populate their repertoire, with no small tincture of their own original tunes tossed in the mix. Live performance is what they’ve built their reputation on: fast and furious high-octane rhythms that cry out for a roomful of elasticated joints – purely for swivelling purposes, of course.

JAZZ

Tom Rainey's Obbligato
Whelans, Dublin 8pm €15/€12,
improvisedmusic.ie

Tom Rainey is the drummer the New York “downtown” leaders call when they need creativity and originality, but they also need it to groove like hell. Obbligato is the drummer’s own deconstructed take on the Great American Songbook, in the company of the sort of heavy- duty downtown talent you don’t see every day on this side of the Atlantic: trumpeter Ralph Alessi, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, pianist Kris Davis and bassist Drew Gress. Support from the CEO Experiment.

JAZZ

Sue Rynhart/Dan Bodwell
Dolans (upstairs), Limerick 8.30pm €10
dolans.ie

Vocalist Sue Rynhart's 2014 debut album, Crossings, was a blast of fresh air, placing her quirky, unclichéd songs in the stark setting of American Dan Bodwell's bass. Rynhart is classically trained but draws on everything from jazz to folk to experimental music, weaving a spell with Bodwell's thoughtful counter lines and mapping out hitherto uncharted territory.