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Dublin Bowie Festival
From Tuesday, February 24th, until Sunday, March 1st, various venues, times and prices, dublinbowiefestival.ie
Marking 50 years since David Bowie released Station to Station, and 10 since his final album, Blackstar, this year’s Dublin Bowie Festival pulls out quite a few stops. A coup is the debut appearance of Earl Slick, the US guitarist who performed with Bowie on several of his studio albums and tours. He’s part of the four-person panel discussion Word on a Wing: Life on the Road with Bowie (Thursday, February 26th, RCSI, 5.30pm, €23.65) and will also participate in a public interview (Saturday, February 28th, RCSI, 12.30pm, €26.88). Other events include the historian Donal Fallon on David Bowie in Dublin (Tuesday, February 24th, Whelan’s, 7.30pm, €10.75) and Bowie’s Golden Years, with Slick, Mike Garson, Gerry Leonard and Mark Plati (
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