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Ballina Arts Centre will be the venue for a unique celebration of the life of singer, Delia Murphy on Thursday March 26, at 8pm. I’ll Live ‘til I Die: A celebration in story and song of the iconic Delia Murphy will be a night of stories and songs made famous by Delia. Presented by Aidan O’Hara (RTÉ’s Fáilte Isteach, and author of the popular biography on Delia I’ll Live ‘til I Die), the evening will feature songs such as ‘The Spinning Wheel’ and ‘If I were a Blackbird’, sung by Joyce O’Hara and accompanied by Aidan. Reading and commentary by Carmen Cullen niece of Delia Murphy, and author of poetry books and children’s dramatist, from her novel Two Sisters Singing, a family memoir with a fictional base inspired by the personality of her famous aunt. Delia Murphy (born February 16 1902 in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, died February 11 1971 in Dublin) was a world famous singer and collector of Irish ballads.

Forget everything you’ve ever heard about Mick Flannery, because it’s all hype. Well some of it! The hype around his music is all true. He may have lost out to Jape for this month’s Choice Music Award but he’s still in the running for a Meteor Award.

LUCIA EVANS was born and raised in Zimbabwe but it was Galway where she received her musical education and fell in love with blues, jazz, and soul - the music that will dominate her new show 3volution.

An elderly priest originally from near Johnstown in County Kilkenny wept in a West Palm Beach Court in Florida as he heard that he was to be jailed for 14 months for misappropriating millions of dollars from a parish in the United States.

IT IS almost a decade since David Kitt released his debut album Small Moments in 2000 and he is fast approaching 10 years on the go - a milestone in anyone’s career.

“MUSIC WAS always there in some form but only gradually asserted itself on me.” So says Galway born singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley as he prepares to release his fifth album Season Of The Sparks and plays a homecoming concert at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh tonight at 9pm.

Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, is one of Ireland's most enduringly popular artists. Born and raised in Strabane, he was into a wide variety of music from an early age. A fifties child, his first sounds were the swing, jazz, and show tunes of his parents generation, then fifties rock 'n roll, sixties pop and Motown, blues, R’n’B, and country and western. Through all this ran the potent flavour of Irish traditional music and song.

THE SINGER Matt Keane will headline a concert of traditional Irish music in the Oranmore Lodge Hotel on Saturday at 9pm.

Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, is one of Ireland's most enduringly popular artists. Born and raised in Strabane, he was into a wide variety of music from an early age. A fifties child, his first sounds were the swing, jazz, and show tunes of his parents generation, then fifties rock 'n roll, sixties pop and Motown, blues, R’n’B, and country and western. Through all this ran the potent flavour of Irish traditional music and song.