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KEVIN BARRY, the award-winning, Booker Prize nominated, Irish author of City Of Bohane, Beatlebone, and Night Boat To Tangier, will launch a new programme of events from the Engage Arts Studio in Salthill.

HANDEL'S MESSIAH will forever have a place in the hearts and minds of Irish classical music enthusiasts as the work was premiered in Ireland, being performed as a charity fundraiser in Fishamble Street Hall, Dublin, in April 1742.

THIS SUMMER, they supported The Academic in the Big Top during the Galway International Arts Festival. As the year draws to a close, they return to Galway, this time as headliners.

WHILE THE name Ivor Raymonde may not be familiar, the songs he wrote, produced, or provided orchestral arrangements for, are among the finest of British sixties pop.

A STALWART of the Irish stand-up comedy scene, Joe Rooney is best known for his roles as Father Damo in Father Ted and Timmy in the RTÉ sitcom Killinaskully, and he is about to headline the Comedy KARLnival.

SEAN KEANE, the great Galway singer, brings his popular Christmas By The Hearth concert back to the Town Hall Theatre on Friday December 6 at 8pm, performing folk and festive music.

DAVID MCSAVAGE is a self-proclaimed national treasure. It has been said he is to comedy what the Abbey is to theatre, and perhaps believes he is more important than he is.

HE WOULD never have cut it as Henry John Deutschendorf jr, but as John Denver, he charmed the world with now undisputed classics like 'Take Me Home, Country Roads', 'Annie's Song', 'Rocky Mountain High', and 'Thank God I'm a Country Boy'.

FOLLOWING THE release of his latest album, Magic Nights, the great Christy Moore has announced his return to Galway next year, with a concert in Leisureland, Salthill, on Friday August 14.

THEIR 2014 and 2017 concerts were among the most magical shows in the Galway in recent years, and in 2020 Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott will begin their Irish tour in Leisureland, Salthill.