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Multi-award-winning singer-composer Julie Feeney returns to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar for a very special concert on Monday, December 10 at 8pm.

Multi-award-winning singer-composer Julie Feeney returns to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar for a very special concert on Monday, December 10 at 8pm.

Musical Toast are a vocal trio formed only a couple of years ago. Their dazzling programme ranges from the works of Schubert and Bizet, to those of American composer Stephen Foster and musicals of the 20th Century.

PIANO SONATAS and flute quartets by the great Austrian composer Jospeh Haydn, a friend and teacher to both Beethoven and Mozart, will be performed in NUI Galway’s Aula Maxima.

Celebrations are in full swing in Ballina to mark the bicentenary of composer William Vincent Wallace who has been described as the rock star of his day with many compositions to his name, including the 1850s smash hits ‘Maritana’ and ‘Lurline’.

What has been described as ‘an exciting 10 days of rediscovery’ will be unveiled in Ballina from September 6 to 16 with the presentation of the Wallace Bicentenary Celebrations in the town.

MARINA CARR’S powerful play The Mai is coming to the Town Hall Theatre in a new staging from Galway’s Mephisto Theatre Company which is sure to be a definite highlight of the venue’s August programme.

With many shows sold out this year’s attendance at the Galway Arts Festival is well on its way to reaching record numbers proving that not even the recession can keep lovers of the arts away from an event which has gained national and international recognition.

MORE THAN 50 years after it premiered on London’s West End, Lionel Bart’s classic musical Oliver! remains as much-loved as ever. Now Galway audiences can look forward to a new staging of the show from Brian and Sean Powers’ Twins Production Company which takes to the Town Hall Theatre stage next week.

IN FRENCH, ‘nouvelle vague’ refers to daring, iconoclastic, films made in the 1950s and 1960s by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. In English, ‘new wave’ was music by bands like Blondie and Joy Division.