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MATT KEANE has released his second album Pictures In Time, recorded with his daughter Orlaith. They will launch it with a concert in the Claregalway Hotel this Sunday at 7.30pm.

Multi-award winning songwriter Dido could be set for the quiet life in Connemara

NASHVILLE IS the home of country music, and one of that city’s most respected producers Jim Rooney is returning to his second home of Galway to play a show at The Crane Bar, Sea Road.

One of the country’s finest musicians will make a welcome return to the Kilkenny stage next Tuesday night.

IN THE 1930s at the height of The Great Depression in the United States a songwriter and bandleader by the name of Bob Wills toured with a 21-piece orchestra bringing joy and cheer from coast to coast. Wills was a huge influence on performers such as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, and John Prine and is widely credited with raising the spirits of a nation through his Western Swing ensembles.

PHILIP DONNELLY’S long musical career began in the 1960s when he was a member of Elmer Fudd, part of the emerging Irish rock scene which also included Them, Skid Row, Thin Lizzy, and Taste.