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SONS OF Gingerbread are not a band easy to pigeonhole, with a sound that encompasses funk, jazz, rockabilly, folk, reggae, ska, prog, and soul.

Mullingar has produced some fine performing talent to date, and Emmet Cahill (22) is a man whose time has certainly come!

Tired of all the gloom and doom stories we hear all day long? Feeling the need to kick-off the traces a bit, let the hair down, relax and enjoy a bit of down-home hootenanny, Irish-style? Come on down to the Mullingar Arts Centre - they have just the remedy…

THE ATLANTIC Pirates, one of Galway’s finest folk bands, take to the stage of An Taibhdhearc this weekend.

THE SUMBRELLAS, the Galway based folk-rock/Americana band, will play the launch party for The Scholars Rest, formerly The River Inn) in Newcastle tomorrow from 8pm.

THREE EXCITING local acts take to the stage tonight for Citóg at the Cellar. My Fellow Sponges are a diverse group from Galway with a taste for theatrics. This multi-talented group deliver an electric live show using instruments such as the banjo, glockenspiel, double bass, trumpet, and piano. Influences include diverse artists such as Kate Bush, Luke Kelly, Poncho Sanchez, Devendra Banhart, Steve Reich, Joanna Newsom, and Bootsy Collins.

Competitors who are competing in Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Cavan on August 18 and 19 are reminded that the timetable for the various events is now available on the Comhaltas website www.comhaltas.com

BLUES, SOUL, and indie-folk will be the order of day at HALO when Solarise, Oddsocks Revival, and The Raglans take to the venue’s upstairs stage.

LIMERICK FOLK-band Pervish, who delight in the tradition of bawdy, lewd, and suggestive Irish folk songs play Galway this weekend.