This weekend’s Cave concerts are performed 88 steps down in a chamber beneath the earth, says Alan O’Riordan

A highlight of Midsummer Festival was a series of plays performed in unlikely locations about Cork city, says arts editor Marc O’Sullivan

Corcadorca present a rehearsed reading of Pat McCabe’s Stars of Bel Air at Triskel at 6pm this evening. Also this evening at 8pm Bowerbird presents folk acts Andy Irvine, Sam Amidon, Adrian Crowley and Serafina Steer at Triskel Christchurch.

Continuing today are Siamsa Tire’s What the Folk?, Dylan Tighe’s Record at the Half Moon Theatre and Ronan Leonard’s Adventures of a Music Nerd at the Crane Lane.

AT Blackrock Castle Observatory tonight, the Buzz Aldrin All Stars perform a live sound-track to Spanish artist Esperenza Collado’s series of film loops, Moon.

* TODAY AT THE FESTIVAL

CORK Midsummer Festival launches today with openings that include Rian at Cork Opera House; the world premiere of Fearghus Ó Conchuir’s Starlight at Firkin Crane; Pat Kinevane in Silent at the Commodore Hotel in Cobh; Catherine Wheels’ White at the Granary Theatre; and TPO Company’s Kindur: The Adventurous Life of Icelandic Sheep at the Cork School of Music.