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“I LOVE the way Pierce Turner sings. He walks on the table tops and dances between the ashtrays and the glasses. As the women peek up the leg of his trousers he lets on not to notice.”

Don Baker at the Linenhall

Christy Moore is coming back to Castlebar next Friday night. The tickets for the show on March 27 have been selling well. Moore’s popularity in Mayo is unwaning and he and Declan Sinnott have a staunch following that keeps fans coming back for more.

RENOWNED GUITARIST, music arranger, and producer Declan Sinnott brings his Small Town Talk to the big city next week.

First and foremost a big thank you to the organisers of this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade.

CHRISTY MOORE, Liam Clancy, Virginia Kerr, Druid Theatre Company, and Opera UK are among the highlights in Town Hall Theatre’s programme for the coming months.

WHEN DUNDALK agit-folk singer David ‘Jinx’ Lennon arrived on the Irish music scene in the 1990s his spoken word diatribes poked at the back of what he called the Septic Tiger.

CORK SONGWRITER Jimmy McCarthy has written some of the most popular contemporary Irish songs, with Christy Moore, Mary Black, Maura O’Connell, Tommy Fleming, and Mary Coughlan all enjoying chart success with McCarthy compositions including ‘Ride On’, ‘No Frontiers’, ‘Mystic Lipstick’, and ‘Ancient Rain’.

Only a month after the superb Rhythm and Roots Festival, Americana fans in Kilkenny will be spoiled all over again with the much-anticipated arrival in town of the Handsome Family.

“Unfinished business,” was the reply given by Noel Eccles when asked why Moving Hearts were reforming. “When we last played in Ireland, the UK and at some European festivals in 1987, it was as an instrumental band and we always felt that we hadn’t finished exploring the possibilities of our unique line-up,” he said. Many people in Ireland were happy to see Moving Hearts back together as an instrumental band and duly filled Dublin’s Vicar Street for four successive nights in February 2007.