I have seen some interesting performances while here in Dublin so far. Most recently, as I was running errands downtown (which has become somewhat of a habit since I have a lot to do and because I love being in the O'Connell Street area), I saw a guy setting up his rather unconventional drum set. He used a big, plastic laundry basket as the bass drum, for example, and actually used the street poles as a separate instrument to hit against. Needless to say, it was an awesome sight to see, so I took a video to remember this in the future! Now I just need to find the guy in a Scream costume playing the accordion on the streets.. he honestly makes my day.

Also, I realize it's sideways, but I haven't quite figured out how to fix that myself. 

This one is taken at a personal favorite bar of mine - Fitzsimon's. It's located in Temple Bar, which is usually where all the tourists go (because I'm totally past the stage of being a tourist, right?) and most people always ask us why we go there since we are living in Dublin. The answer is always, "the atmosphere is great and the live music is just spectacular!" Sometimes they play similar songs but this first night we went was great because it was a duo that played. Above is an Adele song they played, but they also broke out the accordion a couple of times to play some classic Irish tunes, which I absolutely loved. 

We sing a lot in Fitzsimon's to the musicians playing, but we hardly ever get to hold the mike ourselves.. which is why we decided to go karaoke-ing one night. If I had a video of myself, I'd totally upload it but 1. I don't have one and 2. Grace is a vocal performance major, so clearly she sings WAY better than I do. Just sparing everyone's ears, you know? Please don't kill me for posting this, Grace.. but the guy in the background totally is in love with the way she sings (which you can see by the way he head nods every time she does a fancy run or what not).