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Now in its 11th year, The Galway Sessions is looking forward to an exciting June. As part of the event’s ongoing partnership with Stirling in Scotland, from June 11 to 17, the organisers are looking forward to welcoming back the Scots to the streets of Galway. Last year saw record crowds with over 15,000 in attendance, half of whom were from overseas.

THE GALWAY Sessions festival, a celebration of the music of Ireland, Scotland, and America, and the historical, cultural, and ethnic links between the three nations, returns next month.

MANCHESTER-IRISH fiddle player Mike McGoldrick will be in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, this Monday from 9pm.

The Aftermath are pleased to announce details of Shane MacGowan, The Aftermath & Friends new single, “The Rockier Road to Poland” which will be released on Live Transmission Records as a limited edition CD and download from Friday May 4.

JOHNNY MOYNIHAN, one of the great Irish folk singer-songwriters, plays the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday April 24 at 9pm.

THE MÁIRTÍN O’Connor Band, featuring the Máirtín on accordion, fiddler and banjo player Cathal Hayden, and singer-songwriter Séamie O’Dowd play Ballinasloe next month.

A brand new season of classes for young people begins at Roscommon Arts Centre in January, offering the perfect opportunity for children and young people to learn a new skill or improve an old one.

A FESTIVE concert of French and Irish traditional music and dance takes place in the Corrib Rowing and Yachting Club, Earls Island, on Thursday December 15 at 8pm.

The Cathair na Mart branch of Comhaltas Ceoltórí Éireann recently hosted a two-day féile to commemorate aspects of Mayo’s cultural and heritage, including music, language and folklore. This annual event was centred round the figure of John McGrath from Erris, a famous composer, fiddle player, and teacher of Irish music. McGrath’s contribution to Irish traditional music is largely forgotten by the general public and remembered mostly by the older generation of Irish musicians.