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Some of the best rising stars of song and dance will be showcased at a variety show style evening in the TF Royal Theatre on April 30. Five nationally and internationally acclaimed local performing arts companies have joined forces to stage the concert to help raise funds for Ballina’s new arts centre and theatre. The evening will include Irish dance, hip hop, traditional music, songs from the musicals, and swing performed by members of the Sylvan Kelly School of Dance, Aine Egan’s Danceworld, The All Star Academy under the direction of Lavinia Gilmartin, Michael Slater, and Patrick Lacken, The Bofield Céílí Band, and Cheryl Nolan and the Lambe Academy. All of the groups are based in Ballina but draw artists and students from throughout Mayo and south Sligo.

IAN RANKIN, JOYCE Carol Oates, Colum McCarthy, and The New Yorker’s Deborah Treisman, will take part in this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, which returns from Tuesday April 20 to Sunday 25.

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IRELAND’S LEADING ballerina, Monica Loughman, brings her Irish Youth Russian Ballet Company to Galway on Thursday February 18 at 8pm with its production of La Sylphide.

The Rambling Mummers, comprising performers from many parishes throughout East Galway, and organised by local New Inn girl Claire Smyth, took senior honours, while Lackagh dominated the junior competition at the annual Mummers Festival in New Inn last weekend.

The death has taken place earlier this month of Ms Mary ‘Ma’ O’Driscoll, the much loved Lady Dean of Residence at NUIG until her retirement. Her home at Taylor’s Hill, opposite the school, was a great meeting place for female students, who might have wanted nothing more than a cup of tea in a friendly home, or a sympathetic listener to a struggle with exams, a landlord, or boyfriends.

Ray McBride was born in Bohermore, the son of Bobby and Kathleen. He was educated in the Claddagh National School and in Saint Mary’s College. He was always very athletic and tried his hand at a number of sports. He was no good at rugby and his Gaelic football career was cut short by a broken wrist, but he was a nifty soccer player.

Choreography, visual art, spoken word, dance, music, sounds, and symbols will come together in NUI Galway for what promises to be a complex and mesmerising performance art and installation piece.

A very special guest arrives to Our Lady’s Bower, Athlone next week when Liam O’Maonlai plays in concert in the school. Next Wednesday, October 15, Liam will take to the stage at 6pm, as part of the school’s Arts Week celebrations.

Flamenco is a Spanish art form with deep roots in Andalusia - Spain's southern region.  There are different theories as to how this folk music evolved, but the details are lost in history.