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THE EPOCH nights at Factory will celebrate their first 12 months of running parties this Saturday with a set from leading Detroit DJ Scott Ferguson.

AMIRI BARAKA, the award-winning American poet, writer and political activist will be reading at 5pm today in the O’Flaherty Theatre in the NUI Galway main concourse.

WHEN HIP-HOP emerged from the Bronx in the late 1970s and spread throughout New York, punk and new wave musicians in the city btook notice.

TRYING TO write about jazz is a bit like trying to paint Connemara. The subjects are so elusive that to describe it conclusively is nigh near impossible and the writer or artist is reduced to focusing on an individual moment that most responds to or echoes their personal or artistic talent.

Galway’s newest nightclub has a wide variety of entertainment to suit most tastes. Here is a run down of the vairious rooms and some of acts on this weekend.

GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Carla Merrigan and Australian/Irish blues duo Hat Fitz & Cara will play Monroe’s Live and Backstage Bar on Thursday July 12.

LEADING POLISH singer Grubson is coming to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8pm.

Soul in the Blue is back once again to offer up more floor filling soul - frantic funk - scorching jazz - Latin boogaloo and what ever else ends up in the box - Joining Dave Barry this time on the decks is the now legendary Mr Whippy from the Mr Whippy Sound System.

JANUARY IS often a drab and dull month. It is the post-Christmas slump, the winter is not yet over, and the New Year has not yet fully kicked off.