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The High Kings Return for one night only at the Royal Theatre Castlebar
Having excited music fans on their inaugural sell out Irish Tour The High Kings return to the Royal Theatre Castlebar for one Night only on Sunday April 19 2009. Four top class performers create this unique ensemble, performing new songs and re-energising the great Irish ballads
Jim White is a must-see at this year’s Rhythm and Roots Festival
Since 1998, the Guinness Kilkenny Rhythm and Roots Festival has attracted some of the finest names in the Americana canon; acts like Calexico, Giant Sand, Ryan Adams, Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Eitzel, Guy Clark, Ray La Montagne, Richmond Fontaine, Rodney Crowell...the list is very long, and these are but a few names who have been drawn to the magnet of the Marble City Mardi Gras in the past.
Do you miss communism? Find out at the Linenhall theatre
Ines Wurth brings her spellbinding one-woman show I Miss Communism to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday May 13 at 8pm.
Castlebar to host Ireland's Music Awards
Ireland’s top traditional, folk and Celtic music industry stars will be recognised and awarded for their contribution to the industry at Ireland’s Music Awards which will take place in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar this summer on Saturday August 1.
Meet The Yellow Bittern director at The Eye
IRISH FOLKSINGER Liam Clancy, the man Bob Dylan called “just the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my whole life”, is now the subject of a major documentary feature.
Galway rock, folk, and indie is Free By The Sea
IN THE 1980s and early 1990s Salthill hosted free, live, rock concerts each summer and those days look set to return with the Free By The Sea event as part of the Salthill Community Arts Festival.
Immerse in 60s folk with Julie Felix
Julie Felix, one of the all time greats of the 60s folk music boom, is about to embark on her annual tour of Ireland, following her 2008 tour, which was a complete sell out of at all venues -including The Passionfruit Theatre on Thursday October 1.
Fiddler Frankie rekindles De Dannan at the Watergate
Traditional music fans will have been more than happy to hear that a new 21st century De Dannan has been regrouped with founding member Frankie Gavin at the helm.
Celebrate the music of Nick Drake in Kelly’s
NICK DRAKE, one of the greatest and most romantic figures in British folk music, died 35 years ago this year, and to mark the occasion, his life and music will be celebrated in Galway.
