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IRISH INDIE electronic quartet Codes have been making waves on the domestic music scene ever since they first got together three years ago.

Events taking place this week as part of the Coole Park Spring Programme will celebrate Galway’s musical and natural heritage.

When you think of Irish rock and indie, the traditional strongholds for major talent to emerge have nearly always been Dublin and Cork. Yet the last few years has seen a plethora of high quality bands emerge from other areas of the country and a growing willingness among the public to support them.

Fionn Regan, the Irish singer-songwriter with the colourful turn of phrase and a plethora of endearing folk-pop melodies, returns to play the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 21 at 8pm.

WHEN BELFAST songwriter Peter Wilson adopted the name Duke Special some years ago it led to a transformation that truly set him apart. With his long dreadlocks, dark eyeliner, and lovelorn songs, he became the pied piper of the Irish indie music scene.

The award winning singer songwrtier Cathy Davey will play Cleeres this coming Sunday, May 24, as part of her Bare Bones tour. This is a chance to experience Cathy in an intimate venue without being too noisy for sensitive ears. Songs are re arranged to better suit candlelight and plenty of chat will be on offer. There will be two people accompanying Cathy playing as many instruments as they can fit in.

If Ireland’s music scene has a first lady, Cathy Davey is surely the chanteuse who best fits the bill.

Standing on a Grecian style balcony looking over Cobh harbour, Cathy Davey reckons she’s pretty happy with how the year has turned out. After all she is an Irish Choice Music Prize nominated and Meteor Award winning singer/songwriter who is still gigging on the back of her critically acclaimed second album Tales of Silversleeve, which was released in October of 2007. “I’m going around Cork at the moment. It’s an amazing place, I’m happy this month,” she explains.

Meteor and Choice Music Prize nominee Mick Flannery showed Kilkenny fans exactly why he has been nominated for the prestigious Irish awards when he played to a full house in the top bar at Kyteler’s Inn on Thursday last.

JULIE FEENEY will perform songs from her new album pages, with the ConTempo Quartet, in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Thursday July 16 at 8pm as part of this year’s Galway Arts Festival.