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Galway Folk Festival is delighted to reveal its programme for 2024, featuring an exceptional line-up of world-renowned artists and brilliant Irish acts. Returning for its third edition, the festival will take place from Wednesday, June 5, to Sunday, June 9, showcasing the best of folk, roots, and traditional music in venues across Galway city.

The third Galway Folk Festival has unveiled its 2024 programme with folk, roots, and traditional music in several venues across Galway city from Wednesday, June 5, to Sunday, June 9.

As part of his national tour, renowned singer/songwriter Declan O'Rourke will perform at Roscommon Arts Centre on Friday, October 6, at 8pm.

JOHN PRINE, the late, great, American singer-songwriter, best known for such songs as ‘Same Stone’, ‘Illegal Smile’, and ‘Angel From Montgomery’, will be celebrated next month in his adopted home of Galway.

“HE WRITES the sort of classic songs people don’t write anymore, songs that sound like they’ve been around forever. Listen to 'Galileo', possibly the greatest song written in the last 30 years.”

THE LATE, great, Mary McPartlan once noted that Irish folk music must not continually rest on a handful of standards, instead new material must be added to keep the form alive.

THE SPIEGELTENT returns to Eyre Square to house another week of raucous, riotous, comedy, but this year it will not just be comedy that takes place within - some of the very best of Irish music from Declan O'Rourke to The Undertones will be heard also.

LEADING IRISH singer-songwriter Declan O'Rourke will join a gathering of Irish trad titans in the county this weekend for a charity concert in aid of Down Syndrome Galway.

DECLAN O'ROUKE will re-imagine and re-interpret many of his finest songs on his forthcoming album In Full Colour, and perform those re-imaginings in concert in Salthill in November.

“HE WRITES the sort of classic songs people don’t write anymore, songs that sound like they’ve been around forever...Listen to 'Galileo', possibly the greatest song written in the last 30 years.”