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This Monday May 25 at 8pm The Shack pub presents a free concert with Seán Lightholder, Eva Coyle, and Resurrection Fern.

THE GALWAY Arts Festival takes place from Monday July 13 to Sunday 26 and this year’s programme will be launched on Tuesday June 2. However if you can’t wait until then, here is a sneak preview of what to expect.

HE’S PLAYED bass with The Last Shadow Puppets, shared the stage with Oasis, but Stephen Fretwell is very much his own man, with a line in descriptive, sweetly melancholic, and intelligent acoustic songs.

CORK SONGWRITER Jimmy McCarthy has written some of the most popular contemporary Irish songs, with Christy Moore, Mary Black, Maura O’Connell, Tommy Fleming, and Mary Coughlan all enjoying chart success with McCarthy compositions including ‘Ride On’, ‘No Frontiers’, ‘Mystic Lipstick’, and ‘Ancient Rain’.

THE GALWAY Sessions, the city’s folk, trad, and roots music festival, featuring singers and musicians from Ireland and abroad, takes place from June 15 to 21, mostly in The Crane Bar on Sea Road.

Paul Brady singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and one of Ireland’s most enduringly popular artists, is appearing at The Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone on June 12.

THE GALWAY Sessions, the city’s trad and folk festival, organised by Mick Crehan, takes place next week and will feature Mick Hanley, Ben Taylor, and Alec Finn.

Athlone businessman Noel O’Gara could have some rather high profile opposition on his hands if he decides to go ahead with plans to turn Dublin’s Dartmouth Square into a car park in the future.

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh celebrates its 21st anniversary this year and to mark the occasion - and as a way of combating the gloom of the recession - this year’s theme is ‘uplifting films’.

THE OFFSPRING of musicians often have a hard time in establishing their own musical identity if they choose to follow in their parents footsteps. One exception is Ben Taylor.