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Singer, songwriter, pianist and guitar-player, Max Greenwood is looking forward to his second trip in just four weeks, to play in Kilkenny.

“I HAVE sought, but I seek it vainly, That one lost chord divine, Which came from the soul of the organ, And entered into mine,” so wrote Sir Arthur Sullivan in his celebrated song ‘The Lost Chord’.

Following on from the success of his first Mayoral Hootenanny, Mayor Malcolm Noonan has taken it upon himself to organise a second musical extravaganza in aid of the thousands of people displaced in earthquake-torn Haiti.

Kilkenny certainly has no shortage of new music thanks to the very successful venture of Ken McGuire and his One Take Sessions which have taken off with gusto in Cleere’s for another season.

NIWEL TSUMBU, one of Africa’s leading guitarists, is bringing his band Motema to Galway to play a free show in the Volvo Ocean Race stage and to mark the celebration of Africa Day in the city.

ABOUT 20 years ago American country music singer Collin Raye signed a major deal with Epic Records and almost overnight became a big name on the Nashville scene.

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This June enjoy some free workshops in the Museum of Country Life, Turlough.

Mayo Rose of Tralee Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin will be one of three presenters in a brand new seven part traditional music series on RTÉ.

HAVE YOU heard the one about the Yorkshireman who moved to Galway in the 1970s and changed the course of Irish traditional music forever? Well this is, in essence, the story of Oranmore-based musician Alec Finn and his journey with De Dannan.