Get ready for this week's live events at Toales Rock Bar in Dundalk

There is plenty of live music in Toales on Crowe Street in Dundalk this week along with a Craft and Food Market on Saturday.

Thursday 6th February - Fireside Sessions presents Caoimhin Brady + Astraea, starts 9pm, free admission.

Fireside Sessions is an acoustic club that showcases the best in acoustic acts, always inside by the fire in the bar, always free admission, and is proud to welcome back Dundalk's very own Caoimhin Brady, a young singer/songwriter whose honest, deeply personal songwriting shows a maturity that is well beyond his age.

His style is acoustic/indie folk and his passion is composing and performing his own material, with songs about the experiences and emotions that fill his head, the way he see things in the world today, and use those experiences to try and create a safe place where other lonely souls can feel at home and hopefully find something in the music and lyrics to help move past their fears, doubts and loss and feel ok again.

Louth pop-up shop will offer free Communion outfits this weekend

Parents will hold an event offering free preloved communion outfits for girls and boys in the Fairways Hotel in Dundalk this Saturday

Support on the night comes from singer/songwriter Astraea.

As always the Fireside Session is free admission and kicks off around 9pm.

Above: Caoimhin Brady

Friday 7th February - Crest Of A Wave - Rory Gallagher Tribute - Doors 8pm - Admission €10 online @ Eventbrite / €12 on the door

Dublin's Crest Of A Wave are a band on a mission - to bring the musical energy and live excitement of one of the worlds greatest guitarist together in one explosive wave.

This amazing Rory Gallagher tribute band promises to take you on a journey through Rory's expansive back catalogue with some Taste classics, deep cuts from the Irish Tour 1974 and even some of Rory's marvellous acoustic styles, guaranteeing a high energy, electric blues/rock show that is not to be missed!Doors open 8pm.

Above; Crest of a Wave

Saturday Morning 8th February - Crafts & Food Indoor Market - 12pm - 5pm

Kitsch Bitsch & Toales are back again with another Pop-Up Craft Fair, raising much needed funds for the Mater Foundations Big Heart Appeal, with local artisans & local crafters catering for everyone's tastes and needs.

Alternative & seasonal jewellery, household & children's items, vintage & retro clothes, delicious hot & cold food & even a pop-up Tattoo studio!

All this and so much more!!! Opens 12 midday and finishes up at 5pm

Above: Craft and Food Market

Saturday Evening 8th February – Andy Dale Petty + TJ Murphy - Show starts 9.30pm – Free Admission

Andy Dale Petty is a modern Americana BlueGrass folk singer, a troubadour, and multitalented songwriter in the tradition of Bert Jansch, Mississippi John Hurt and Woody Guthrie.

Born in Northern Georgia sometime between 1985 and 1986, raised by a single mother and clan of cousins, first instrument was harmonica then ukulele then got addicted to the guitar and the banjo, learning his craft busking at every street corner in the tiniest towns of south central Tennenesee and then went on travel (and we really mean travel) doing what he does best -  travel with the train or by foot, writing songs about it and about live in general, toured Europe a several times and America up and down, mostly on his own, no guitar amp ( too heavy to carry!!)  just the man and his guitar.

Support on the night comes from Dundalk's very own T.J. Murphy, a firm favourite of the Fireside Sessions.Show starts around 9.30pm and admission is free!!