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The upcoming Rhythm and Roots Festival is guaranteed to be a grand feast for all music fans once again this May bank holiday weekend. Musicians from across Europe, the United States, and Canada will fly into the marble city next month to perform at what is undoubtedly one of the best weekend music festivals in the country.

THE FIFTH Galway Voice Studios students showcase concert takes place on Sunday at 5.30pm in The Quays. More than 20 speech level singing students set to perform on the day.

TAKE A voyage from Ireland to Cyprus, through waters alive with mermaids, sirens, sailors, and romance, as part of the 14th Galway Early Music Festival from Friday May 15 to Sunday 17.

THE FEDERAL Republic of Nigeria was established in 1963 after gaining its independence from Britain. As with many countries under colonial rule it had been divided with no due consideration for linguistic, religious, or ethnic differences and thus a bloody civil war dominated much of the post-colonial period.

IF YOU are not planning to, or cannot, go to Venice for your holidays this year, then do the next best thing by taking in a concert by the Quartetto di Venezia and Italian pianist Roberto Nosè.

As part of the Queen of the Lakes festival the Ballinrobe No Name Club is holding a mid summer disco in the Valkenburg on July 22.

Saturday May 2 sees the return of the monthly underground club Disco Nouveau at The Stables, Mullingar.

The Athlone Choral Society (ACS) will present a musical evening on Sunday April 26 at 8pm in the Radisson Hotel, Athlone.

PRIMAL SCREAM guitarist Andrew Innes is ready for Galway. “When you get on stage you realise it’s all worth it,” he says. “When people are cheering you on it’s hard to beat that and you think, ‘It’s great to be in a band’.”

Lee Memphis King, after only five years as a full time professional Elvis Presley tribute artist, has risen to be one of the elite of the tribute world with a concert schedule that many could only dream about. After winning the renowned Elvis Festival at Collingwood in Canada in 2005 he embarked on building his career in theatre concerts with a live band performing a two hour one-man show. Promoted by John Hessenthaler of Original Entertainment Programming Ltd, his productions One Night with Elvis and Elvis On Tour have gone from strength to strength and now appear, often to sell-out audiences, in major concert venues across the UK. These include Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, The Birmingham NIA, Aberdeen AECC, Edinburgh EICC, The Hammersmith Apollo and London’s Indigo2 as well as large provincial theatres.