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THE GALWAY Jazz Festival returns from Tuesday October 9 to Sunday 14 for its eighth year, with an expanded programme which includes Irish-French trio Pinto.

TRYING TO write about jazz is a bit like trying to paint Connemara. The subjects are so elusive that to describe it conclusively is nigh near impossible and the writer or artist is reduced to focusing on an individual moment that most responds to or echoes their personal or artistic talent.

LEADING IRISH funk-soul band Solarise return to the upstairs stage at HALO this Friday from 11pm.

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.

ATHENRY ROOTS-ROCKERS The Deans return from their recent European tour, to play Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday July 20 at 9pm.

NEW YORK based Irish band Stand and soul group Soul Purpose play HALO, with Stand on tonight and Soul Purpose on tomorrow.

SINGER-SONGWRITER Síomha Brock has just released her new download-only single ‘Talk A Little Less’ and she will play two shows in Galway.

IT WAS like a scene straight out of a western. Five guys were sitting around a table one night playing cards and drinking whiskey. They wanted to hear some music that would capture the mood. They went through all the CDs they had lying around, but only one suited.

EARTHSHIP WILL bring their brand of accessible, groovy, funky, and above all, danceable jazz to the Bierhaus on Thursday November 10 at 9.30pm.

“RICK MARGITZA is simply a great tenor player.” This verdict, on the saxophonist who plays Galway this weekend, was passed by no less a person than Miles Davis.