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THE REALISATION that one day we die, and that this existence is over, never to be re-experienced, hits two men one night as they sit at home, sending them on a journey, not into misery, but outrageousness and laughter, and a route whose end, ironically, they cannot even begin to guess.

Galway City Museum has opened two new exhibitions for those interested in either music or maritime history.

THE ACCLAIMED Scottish pianist and composer James Ross and students from the Galway Music Education Partnership will be in concert this Saturday from 7pm.

IS IT surprising Damon Albarn has taken this long to make a solo album? As one of the major figures in British popular music for close to 25 years, Blur, Gorillaz, his collaborations with African musicians and composer Michael Nyman, have given him plenty creative endeavours to be going on with.

MUSIC FOR Galway’s 33rd season comes to a close with the Irish début concert by the Serafino Quartet, on Wednesday May 7 at 8pm.

WE CUT Corners release their second album, Think Nothing, on the Delphi label, tomorrow, and play the Róisín Dubh that night at 9pm.

COURT ROOMS are not associated with musical concerts - unless there was a fall-out between artist and promoter - but they are places of performance and controversy.

The word ceili means a gathering of neighbours in one house, which emphasised the social nature of the gathering. This inevitably led to music, singing, and dancing, to people doing their party pieces. There were a lot of ceilis in Mick and Maisie Hession’s household on Kingshill in Salthill. Mick Hession was an uileann piper who played a number of other instruments as well, and he regularly had other musicians visit the house for sessions.

THE GREAT Irish pianist John O’Conor will perform John Field’s Three Nocturnes in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Friday March 28 at 8pm.

SHOSTAKOVICH’S VISIT to Ireland in 1972 and ‘Jewish themed’ works by him andf Aaron Copeland will be the centerpieces of a Music For Galway event.