Niall Connolly and band the Upstairs for Christmas tour 2004 Fri/Sat 17th /18th December –the lobby bar, cork. tickets on sale now Sun 19th dec –the Stag’s Head, the parlour(upstairs), Dame st, Dublin Tuesday 21st Dec-Busker Browne’s(upstairs), Galway.*solo gig Wednesday 22nd Dec- Dolan’s (upstairs), Limerick . Niall will be accompanied by Stephen Moore (guitar), Aisling Fitzpatrick (cello) , Gavin O’Sullivan (bass) and Billy Marnane (drums and backing vocals). Special guest for this tour will be New York based English singer Rachel Loshak. Before this illustrious irish tour, Rachel’s biggest claim to fame was that she played bass and sang backing vocals with a ms Norah Jones at the Grammy awards. www.niallconnolly.com www.rachelloshak.com