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GALWAY BAND The Amazing Apples will launch their debut EP 3 or 4 Shoes with two separate live performances tomorrow.

ANDREW LAWRENCE-King, one of the world’s leading historical harpists, will lead a concert of Spanish music in Galway this weekend.

THE GALWAY Early Music Festival returns in May and as a warm-up, leading Irish harpist Siobhán Armstrong will give a concert in Galway this weekend.

Conradh na Gaeilge in association with Claremorris library will host a concert of traditional music on Thursday February 23 at 8.45pm. The concert will feature Gráinne Hambly and William Jackson.

THE DUSTY Banjos traditional music for beginners class returns next week. There was a waiting list for the class last term, so early booking is recommended.

The WhistleBlast Quartet – Ken Edge (saxophone and clarinet), Mary Curran (French horn), Síle Daly (oboe and cor Anglais), and Andrew Synnott (piano) – start off their 2012 series of outreach/recital programmes with a three-day concert/workshop project with the children of Culleens National School, Ballina, on January 11, 12, and 13.

Well-known baritone, Derek Ryan, will join the choir foe this year’s Samaritan Concert.

The Music Makers is a music and film performance piece celebrating the creativity and skill involved in traditional music-making, from the actual making of musical instruments to the performance of traditional music on those very instruments. In the show, which takes place at the Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar on November 10 at 8pm, live music is interwoven with film footage of the craft workers as they fashion the instruments being played.

Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber’s 60th birthday gala at London’s Royal Festival Hall earlier this year was, in his words, a celebration of the “beautiful, temperamental instrument” that dominates his life. Now Julian brings the instrument - the Barjansky Stradivarius cello, dated 1690 - which famously gets its own seat on airplanes - on his Irish tour, Travels With My Cello: An Evening with Julian Lloyd Webber. The tour begins at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Wednesday, November 2, at 8pm.

THE GALWAY Music Residency will present Irish guitarist John Feeley at its next lunchtime concert on Tuesday in the Town Hall Theatre. Feeley will be performing a selection of works by J S Bach; Adagio and Fugue from Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor (BWV 1001), Cello Suite No 1 in G major (BWV 1007), and Chaconne in D minor from Partita no 2, (BWV 1004). He will preface the performance with a short talk about the music.