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'WATER MUSIC' a new work by Irish composer Donagh Marnane will receive its world premiere as part of the Esker Festival Orchestra's summer tour, which takes in Galway on Thursday August 8.

Over 14 days, the city can look forward to more than 200 events, across 32 venues, and involving more than 600 artists and performers, in what is to date, the largest Galway International Arts Festival ever staged.

A PSYCHEDELIC journey for the ears with The Flaming Lips, and for the eyes and feet with the Miracoco Luminarium installation; getting up close and personal and with the moon (even its dark side); to harrowing stories from victims of the Syrian civil war to a survivor of the Holocaust - this is the Galway International Arts Festival 2018.

"ROCK'N'ROLL is not about safety or politeness, it is not about perfection. It is expression and it is spirit." So say the Hothouse Flowers who are coming to next month's Galway International Arts Festival.

FRANKIE GAVIN and Liam Ó Maonlaí will headline Éigse an Spidéil 2017, the village's annual arts festival, which has been running for more than 30 years, and which runs from Thursday March 2 to Sunday 5.

Hothouse Flowers frontman Liam Ó Maonlaí and top concertina player Cormac Begley join forces for what promises to be a great evening of traditional music at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday January 18 at 8pm.

HE PLAYS a 10-string fiddle called the Hardanger d'Amore, has recorded 12 albums, and worked with The Gloaming. This month he tours with Cormac Begley, and they will play the Róisín Dubh.

President Michael D Higgins will be the guest of honour on Monday night next at a spectactular birthday party at NUI Galway held to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of TG4.

RTÉ 2FM presenter Rick O’Shea officially launched the 19th Galway Science & Technology Festival, part of National Science Week, hosted by the main sponsor Medtronic Parkmore in their Customer Innovation Centre on Tuesday.

THE LUCIA Comnes Band, a four-piece folk powerhouse fusing rock, blues, Irish trad, and bluegrass, led by a singer with a "singular voice", according to the San Francisco Chronicle, are coming to Galway.