The Grand Social

Wednesday 24th May - FRANK QUINTERO EN DUBLIN

€25 pre-sale €30Door - Frank Quintero, Ronix, Dj Renny. Don’t miss the amazing opportunity to see Venezuelan most iconic popular singer of all times Frank Quintero in private. Reserve your tickets before it’s sold out. We’ll have a great Latin Music Dj plus a Special act to open the gig. Wednesday 24th of May.

Frank Quintero is a Venezuelan Singer, songwriter, musician and producer with big popularity in the Latin American community worldwide. Along his successful career Frank, has interpreted and written more than 160 songs and 18 albums. “Química”, “La Dama de la Ciudad”, “Canción para ti” and “Feeling” are just a couple of Quintero’s most emblematic pieces.

Frank is currently living in Miami, He’s been nominated several times to the Grammy Award, He’s earned 10 Gold Albums and 7 Platinum albums.

Venue: The Loft: Doors: 8pm - 11pm Admission: €30 Buy Tickets Now!

Thursday 25th May - Table Quiz Thursdays

The Grand Social’s weekly Pub Quiz starts at 8:00pm sharp every Thursday in our Ballroom. It’s free to enter and every week the winning team gets a place in the Grand Final this summer where prizes include 4 tickets for Electric Picnic as well as other festival and gig tickets. There’ll be prizes on the night for the winning team as well as spot prizes. So come down it you think you think you’re smarter than the average bear.”
Venue: The Loft Doors: 8pm - 11pm Every Thursday Admission: FREE

Friday 26th May - SEA PINK

Retro Revival Indie Club & The Grand Social present
Sea Pinks w/ September Girls & Cat Palace
The Grand Social Dublin.
Doors: 8pm. Entry €12
Advance tickets available from www.tickets.ie
Sea Pinks don’t know when to stop. A band who seem to eat, sleep, and breathe music, the Northern Irish group have almost insane levels of productivity.

Recently stepping back into the studio – y’know, just to see what happens – they emerged with a clutch of perfectly formed noise pop jams.

“We’re a singles band hell-bent on making albums,” says singer Neil Brogan. “We went in for a couple of days. Then it was a couple more and a couple more, and by autumn we had about 16 songs recorded, which we eventually pared down to ten”.

New album ‘Watercourse’ is the result. The band’s sixth album in seven years, it drops on May 26th.
‘Into Nowhere’ is a taut return, all muscle and sinew with Sea Pinks applying a minimalist mindset to their vintage indie pop.

https://soundcloud.com/cf-records/sea-pinks-into-nowhere

Venue: The Loft: Doors: 8pm - 11pm Admission: €30 Buy Tickets Now!

Saturday 27th May - Ha’penny Market

Weekly Saturday market in The Grand Social. Join us every Saturday for a great event, drop by and browse by our stalls, we have collectors, vinyl records, vintage accessories and clothing. Men & Women’s apparel, Art, Crafters, Producers and lots more. You can get dry cuts or up styles by our ladies at our pop up Locks & Lashes every Saturday to finish that Sat night going out look…
We have lots of drinks specials each week…
Venue: The Ballroom Doors: 12am - 6pm Every Saturday Admission: FREE

Thursday 1st June - Table Quiz Thursdays

Saturday 3rd June - Ha’penny Market

Saturday 3rd June - Cronin

Cronin release new single Little London on 19th May and Irish tour for vinyl release of debut album on Live Transmission Records now. Cronin return for their biggest run of Irish shows for new single release and vinyl release of debut album. Little London will be released on 19th May. The remixed track from their debut album features a string arrangement by long time collaborator Terry Edwards who is currently on tour as PJ Harveys band which was recorded in London’s the Church studios famous fro sessions such as Bob Dylan and The Stone Roses to name a few.
“It’s a dark, brooding tale of a young man trying to stop his love leaving him for the bright lights of London, kind of our Bond theme.” Mick Cronin reflects reflects on the Scott Walker tinged track. To coincide with the release and finally the release on vinyl of The First Kiss of Love Album Cronin are doing their first Irish shows since their 2 night run in The Olympia supporting Ocean Colour Scene.
Venue: The Loft: Doors: 8pm - 11pm Admission: €10 Buy Tickets Now!

Thursday 8th June - Table Quiz Thursdays

Saturday 10th June - Ha’penny Market

Saturday 10th June - Down With Jazz

The Jazz Lab Jam session kicks off early from 7:30pm downstairs in the Grand Social.
Saturday opens with vocalist Ríona Sally Hartman’s new sextet FÓD, with a collection of joyous, uptempo song cycles inspired by a smorgasbord of influences from West African percussive singing to the inventive Brazilian melodies of Hermeto Pascoal.

Cormac O’Brien’s Gamerz fuse elements of Americana, electronic music, free improv and some old skool jazz swagger. An exciting new band featuring some of the finest musicians to come out of Ireland and the UK in the last decade, featuring rising star, UK pianist Kit Downes, the quartet reflect both the jazz quartet tradition and an expansive modern aesthetic.

South African saxophonist Chris Engels’s BigSpoon, our Irish act for 12 Points 2017 in Denmark, also features a cohort of Ireland’s leading improvisers and electro-sonic explorers to create mesmerising jazz for the 21st century. With influences from experimental pioneers Jaga Jazzist & Flying Lotus to Weather Report, BigSpoon deliver genre defying goodness with organic heart and electronic soul.

Mining diverse influences from jazz, hardcore punk and contemporary classical music, Belfast natives Robocobra Quartet sound utterly unique, with a no-holds-barred live approach, complete with howling drummer-vocalist and menacing saxophones, they have been described as are a “must-see” live act. Think “Fugazi meets Mingus.” – Drowned in Sound

‘Round about midnight on Saturday at Down With Jazz We Three Kings take to the decks; Hipdrop Records co-founder, Keith Fennell, 70’s Funk & Soul specialist and South American connoisseur, James Keating, and top dollar jazz drummer and Dublin’s hip-hop’s premier beat man, Dennis Cassidy ensure you are in good (jazz) hands into the wee hours.

Venue: The Loft: Doors: 7.30pm - 2.30am Admission: €15 Buy Tickets Now!

Sunday 11th June - Down With Jazz

Doors 4pm. An Nota Gorm DJ and Dublin’s top jazz aficionado Billy O hAnluin will be spinning records from the early days of jazz in the upstairs garden at The Grand Social from 4pm on Sunday.
We are chillin’ on a Sunday afternoon and evening with some choice picks for Down With Jazz starting with Dublin jazz singer Stella Bass and renowned Irish guitarist Hugh Buckleyperforming a tribute to the life and music of Ella Fitzgerald in her centenary year with an intimate kick off to our Sunday programming featuring many of her iconic songs.

Continuing in the jazz vocal tradition, internationally acclaimed jazz/blues singer Honor Heffernan presents ‘The Whistling Girl’, a unique show from Heffernan and composer Trevor Knight featuring a darkly sardonic body of work inspired by the poetry of Dorothy Parker, fusing ‘dirty’-cabaret, electronic-vaudeville, rock and jazz.

Cork trombonist and composer Paul Dunlea performs with his super septet utilizing some of Ireland’s finest improvising musicians to produce melodic and groove-driven music fusing influences of Jazz harmony, pop, funk and R&B.

Down With Jazz is moving indoors in 2017 but keeping that jazz temperature high at The Grand Social Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th June. Weekend tickets are a steal at €25 with Daily tickets just €15.

Get Down with that sort of thing!

Venue: The Loft: Doors: 4pm - 9pm Admission: €15 Buy Tickets Now!