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American country star Brad Paisley has added a Castlebar date to his sold out Dublin show in August. His Olympia Theatre date sold out very quickly and now you have the chance to catch him in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar. On Saturday August 20 fresh after his sold out Olympia show Brad will take to the stage in Castlebar.

Sunday March 6 sees the opening of another new bar at Monroe's Live Music Venue. The Backstage Bar, located at the back of the venue's main stage upstairs, has a capacity of up to 180 people and will run a special Sunday Night Season.

On September 12 2003, the world lost one of its greatest music legends. Johnny Cash, the Man in Black, left a legacy of music that will last forever. Now that legend is brought to life when the band American Cash get on stage. American Cash deliver a truly powerful live tribute to the great man himself and his music and they play The Stables on Friday January 28.

SPECIAL CONSENSUS are a bluegrass band, but one with a difference. Instead of coming from the music’s heartland of the Southern US States, they come from Chicago.

GARTH BROOKS fans can look forward to The Ultimate Garth Brooks Experience which plays the Live Lounge in The Radisson Blu Hotel tomorrow.

Kris Kristofferson returns to the Royal Theatre on August 5, where he will perform classic hits and tracks from his new album Closer to the Bone. Like the master singer-songwriter’s 2006 cut This Old Road, the new album is produced by Grammy Award winner Don Was. The previous collection – Kristofferson’s first recording in almost a dozen years – was hailed by critics as “one of the finest albums of his storied career” (Rolling Stone), “a stripped-down stunner” (Esquire), and “a return to his best work” (Q).

BONNIE PRINCE Charlie was the leader of the oft-romanticised, but in truth deeply tragic Jacobite Rising in Scotland in 1745-6.

Country young guns The Cherokee Chicks play support to the veteran country music band Tennessee Breakdown in Mullingar’s The Stables next Thursday July 15.

HUNDREDS OF years ago the music played on Scottish and Irish fiddles combined with Spanish guitar, Italian mandolin, and West African banjo in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of America.

Iconic American country superstar Willie Nelson will be live in concert for one night only on Saturday June 5 in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar. Nelson’s latest album American Classic which is out now has become his most successful album of his career so far reaching number one on the Billboard’s country album chart and racking up more than five million in sales. It earned Nelson a Country Male Vocal Performance Grammy and, most significantly, helped to transform a colourful, middle-aged, cult figure into a mainstream star.