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TO CELEBRATE five very successful years and to get the next chapter in its story under way, the Róisín Dubh will host Once Upon A Time In The West, a festival of music concerts, DJ sets, and pub trails throughout the west of the city from today until Bank Holiday Monday.

SWAN LAKE, one of the most famous, and best loved, of all ballets, will be performed by Ballet Ireland in the Royal Castlebar Theatre on Tuesday December 9.

The inimitable Des Keogh delivers a one-man delight of comedy theatre in Confessions of an Irish Publican at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday June 8 and Tuesday June 9 at 8pm.

There can only be two reasons why music highbrows are still a bit ‘iffy’ about the Welsh composer Karl Jenkins. One is probably a comment on his unusual route into classical music. A talented music scholar from Cardiff University and the Royal Academy London, he founded a jazz group Nucleus, which won first prize in the Montreux Jazz Festival. Then to keep bread on the table, he made a series of TV advertising jingles. One of them, called ‘got off the ground’, was for an airline. But it became so popular and catchy, that people were clogging the airline’s phones demanding what was that amazing music. Jenkins developed the theme and, extending its African and Arabic sounds, it became the energetic Adiemus. It topped the pop charts across the world.

CHRISTMAS is fast approaching, so for all those who love sacred Christmas hymns or those who like the pop variety sung by crooners, there are concerts coming up to suit you.

TWO OF the three characters whose stories are told in Judith Thompson’s powerful Iraq War drama Palace Of The End will already be familiar to Western audiences.

CHRISTMAS is fast approaching, so for all those who love sacred Christmas hymns or those who like the pop variety sung by crooners, there are concerts coming up to suit you.

Romanian music will fill the mediaeval surrounds of St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church this Saturday at 8pm when the ConTempo Quartet and Alexander Balanescu join forces.

President of Ireland Mary McAleese presided at a ceremony last Monday to mark the election of Achill-based visual artist Camille Souter and composer Seóirse Bodley as Saoithe in Aosdána. The honour of Saoi is bestowed for singular and sustained distinction in the arts, and Monday last the President presented both artists with the symbol of the office, a gold torc. The ceremony took place at the Arts Council’s offices at 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, which is also the headquarters of Aosdána.

Musician, songwriter, company director, and project executive are all words which aptly describe Linda Welby. However on meeting this artist in person there is even more to learn about this extraordinary woman who is now attracting the attention of media broadcasters up and down the country.