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The annual Guinness Rhythm and Roots festival was launched last night in Kilkenny to much anticipation.

The Easter Rising Show on Saturday April 11 at Bar Ritz on April 11 promises to bring the best live entertainment to Castlebar over the bank holiday weekend as Finbar Hoban Presents… Dirty Epics along with support from Ballyhaunis group The Zen Yetis and local Castlebar group Alien Orphan.

I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the Easter bank holiday weekend than to head to Kyteler’s Inn next Thursday night to see one of the best bands on the Irish music scene show exactly why they are constantly on the radio and our television sets.

The annual Guinness Rhythm and Roots festival was launched last night in Kilkenny to much anticipation.

The Westport branch of the Chernobyl Children’s Project is getting ready for a bumper May bank holiday weekend of art and creativity.

A family fun day will take place at Kilkenny Castle on Saturday May 30, Sunday May 31 and Monday 1 June for the bank holiday weekend.

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.

Although the national lottery did everything in their power to remind people to check their old lottery tickets, a mystery lotto winner will now never reap the rewards of their €1 million euro winning lotto ticket as time has run out for the winner to claim their winning prize.

On May 7 next, St Gerald’s College centenary committee brings the hugely popular Who wants to be a Thousandaire to the Royal Theatre, Castlebar. This show has attracted large audiences all over Ireland over the past seven years and is fast becoming the most popular source of fundraising for schools and clubs. Contestants are drawn from ticket sales and each contestant will play for €1,000. The show is fully computerised with 50/50, ask the audience and a brilliant video linked phone a friend. The questions and four possible answers and displayed on two 8ft x 6ft screens, one at each side of the stage.

Since 1998, the Guinness Kilkenny Rhythm and Roots Festival has attracted some of the finest names in the Americana canon; acts like Calexico, Giant Sand, Ryan Adams, Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Eitzel, Guy Clark, Ray La Montagne, Richmond Fontaine, Rodney Crowell...the list is very long, and these are but a few names who have been drawn to the magnet of the Marble City Mardi Gras in the past.