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THE SINGER Eleanor Shanley and Galway folk singer-songwriter Don Stiffe will join forces for a concert at the Fairhill House Hotel, Clonbur, this Saturday.

MÁIRTÍN O’CONNOR, one of Ireland’s finest accordion players and one of Irish trad’s most fertile and creative minds, will play the Town Hall on Monday May 4 at 8pm.

Galway’s newest live music venue, Monroe’s Live featuring three bars, two floors, and one stage in one venue, opens tomorrow with a gig by Galway band The Timbertramps.

Singer, songwriter, pianist and guitar-player, Max Greenwood is looking forward to his second trip in just four weeks, to play in Kilkenny.

“I HAVE sought, but I seek it vainly, That one lost chord divine, Which came from the soul of the organ, And entered into mine,” so wrote Sir Arthur Sullivan in his celebrated song ‘The Lost Chord’.

Legendary singer-songwriter Paul Brady has announced an 11-date Irish tour across May and June this year. Entitled the Travelin’ Light tour, Paul will perform solo on guitar and piano.

Amnesty International’s Freedom Café on Middle Street recently received a makeover and to celebrate its new look, Amnesty will host an evening of poetry, talks, music, and coffee on Wednesday May 14 from 12.30pm to 9pm.

IT’S BEEN five years since the Róisín Dubh was taken over by Kevin Healy, Gugai, and Co, and in that time it has become the leading music venue in the city, and to celebrate that fifth birthday milestone, the venue is hosting a major party.

“I CANNOT get enough of these guys, they soothe the soul.” So said US president Barack Obama about the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, who will launch their new album in Cuba*, Eyre Square on Friday May 29 at 8pm.

It has been said that Rossini is the P.G. Wodehouse of opera. His characters get themselves into the most complicated scrapes and of course, mischief and mayhem ensue, while they all try to sort themselves out. Nowhere is this more evident than in his most famous opera, The Barber of Seville.