Rosie's rambles on / Down by the Glenside, 16/23 Dec.

The bluegrass jam session every Friday evening at Rosie O'Grady's pub, Harold's Cross Road, Dublin, should be continuing without a break during the holiday season - the management have not booked in Christmas/New Year parties, and bookings are less likely at this late stage. People who've come for the session in recent weeks, and have been deterred by finding a disco going on downstairs, have missed some good picking upstairs; the session has been taking place in the front room, where the racket is deadened (and the disco's not so loud, either).

For those who miss the Hog's Rose shows at the Glenside in Landscape Road, Churchtown, Dublin, earlier this year: Paul McEvoy and friends are playing at the Glenside on Saturday 16 and 23 December. Paul is one of the strongest singers in bluegrass over here, and the Glenside has been very hospitable towards the music, so the session is well worth supporting.