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ALBERT EINSTEIN once said that “life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”, while HG Wells opined that “Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race”.

Singer Ryan Sheridan has appealed to secondary school students in Mayo to support the 2013 Kellogg’s Fun Raise 4 Kids Campaign, to raise much needed funds for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin. The musician is challenging Mayo students to come up with the most creative ideas and events, to raise much needed funds for the hospital. Students are invited to register their event by emailing [email protected]. One lucky school will be in with a chance to win a performance from Ryan Sheridan. To support Kellogg’s Fun Raise 4 Kids donate now by texting Crumlin to 57500. Texts cost €2.50 plus standard network rate SMS.

Have you ever wanted to come up the home straight at Ballybrit with the sound of the crowd ringing in your ears?

Music Generation Mayo, part of Music Generation, Ireland’s national music education programme, funded by U2 and the Ireland Funds together with local partners, is offering an opportunity to experienced young traditional musicians and singers with a high standard of playing ability to form a traditional music ensemble. Participants, to be aged between 12 and 18 years, will participate in a six month music residency under the guidance and mentorship of acclaimed Mayo musician and performer Emer Mayock. The residency will culminate in a live performance opportunity by the ensemble in June 2013.

MUSICALLY, SOUTHERN California is associated with hip hop, punk, hippy singer-songwriters, and sleaze rockers, not bluegrass, country, and folk, but Sara Watkins and her family prove an exception.

Musical talents Philip Lawson and Anna Murray present an exciting evening of contemporary classical music with video accompaniments at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday January 16 at 8pm.

From January 10 to 13, Castlebar Pantomime is repeating a script of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, first seen on the Castlebar Town Hall stage in 1998. The 2013 version will again be directed by Donna Ruane. Jason Guthrie is choreographer and John Flatley is musical director.

A Bonniconlon farmer who died from injuries received when his quad bike overturned on his farm last Monday was laid to rest yesterday (Thursday).

MARCUS CONNAUGHTON, the broadcaster, writer, and an authority on blues music, will give a talk about Rory Gallagher in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop next week.

Éamon de Buitléar, film maker, musician, environmentalist, and Ireland’s answer to David Attenborough, has presented his personal archive to NUI Galway.