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Gerry Cahill was born in Caherlistrane and started playing music from the age of eight..... first the melodeon, then the double row accordion, and later the piano accordion. He was a great admirer of musicians like Will Starr and Jimmy Shand. He soon developed a distinctive style of his own and he was very much in demand at house dances and roadside dances, which were very common at the time.

Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story is the multi-award-winning, world-wide smash hit musical celebration of the life and tragic death of Buddy Holly. Buddy has been seen by over 20 million people around the world. It’s had audiences on their feet in both London’s West End and New York’s Broadway and now Buddy, the world’s most successful rock ‘n’ roll musical, is coming to the Royal Castlebar Theatre and Event Centre. This toe-tapping, hand-clapping live music extravaganza starts on Tuesday November 18 and runs until Sunday November 23.

IF YOU are going to get an endorsement, a presidential endorsement is the one to get - or at least from the man who went on to become president.

Donal Dineen, the man who defined the musical taste of a generation through No Disco in the 1990s, will perform a DJ set at LowerState in The Cellar this Friday.

LET’S BE honest, hip hop has gone stale these last couple of years...very stale. With the return of indie guitar bands, hip hop has retreated to the margins in a mind numbing orgy of bling and clichéd beats.

Philip Donnelly one of Ireland's most gifted and popular musicians, is treating Kilkenny fans to a night of fun and excellent music in Cleere’s this weekend.

BRITISH PUNK, funk, indie, and electro band Does It Offend You, Yeah? will launch The Alternative Disco, the new clubnight at Cuba*, Eyre Square, this Saturday at 11pm.

“I love that music and art can become anything you want. They’re a window into your mind. I can put things in motion? I can turn a squid into a bearded Zeus head? It’s just endless what you can do.”

LEADING IRISH banjo player Enda Scahill has just released a guide to playing the Irish tenor banjo.