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IRELAND’S ONLY viola quintet, the Altissimo Quintet, will give their debut Galway concert next week, performing music by Brahms and Dvorak, as well as premiering a new work.

There is a fantastic harmony singing opportunity on April 6 at the Rowing Club Hall, Woodquay from 10.30am to 4pm when Pete Linnett comes to Galway to lead a one day workshop.

A MEDITATION on Christ’s final words on the Cross and a homage to the patron saint of music, St Cecilia, will form part of a pre-Easter concert of sacred contemporary music in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

YOUNG JAZZ musicians from the west and the north come to Gort this weekend for a special show as part of the Coole Music Orchestra Festival.

MARY BERGIN, Johnny Óg Connolly, and poet Nuala Ní Dhómhnaill are among those who will perform at next month’s Éigse an Spidéal festival.

“I’LL TELL you something, I mightn’t be in this business at all if it wasn’t for a Galwayman, Des Kelly,” Phil Coulter tells me during our interview on Tuesday morning. “He was the leader of the Capitol Showband who were the biggest in Ireland when I was a student in Queen’s in Belfast.”

SEÁN Ó Riada’s Mass, in a new arrangement by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, will be performed in St Nicholas Church on Friday January 25 at 8pm.

Musical talents Philip Lawson and Anna Murray present an exciting evening of contemporary classical music with video accompaniments at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday January 16 at 8pm.

BEETHOVEN, THE genius German composer, will be celebrated in the New Year with a series of concerts and events organised by Music for Galway.

JIMI HENDRIX died after choking on his own vomit; Brian Jones drowned on a summer’s day in 1969; Jim Morrison died of heart failure in Paris; Kurt Cobain put a gun in his mouth and said farewell to life. All were young men - only 27 years of age.