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Performing only one gig in the west this year is Ray LaMontagne, one of the most distinctive voices in music at the moment.

Having played to packed houses in Kilkenny in the past Carmina, the renowned Celtic jazz pioneers are returning to the stunning and most appropriate venue of Castalia Hall in Ballytobin Co Kilkenny as part of their 2009 Irish tour this July.

CO GALWAY singer-songwriter Jack Harrison sings in Sanskrit, Irish, and English and his music fuses kirtan chant, gospel, and Irish folk and trad.

INDIE-POP singer-songwriter Jann Klose is something of a ‘citizen of the world’ having spent much of his life travelling through Europe, Africa, and the US. He is now coming to Ireland.

If you are looking to venture towards something different on the music scene at this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival - maybe Low from the ‘Wired’ programme might just be the sauce for you.

Gemma Hayes has just been announced as the support act for Ray Lamontagne who plays the Royal Theatre Castlebar on Sunday September 6. Gemma is enjoying the success of an artist that comes from years of hard work and love of music, and this showed this January when Hayes was nominated for Best Irish Female at the 2009 Meteor Irelands Music Awards. Hayes' third album The Hollow of Morning was released in May of last year in Ireland, and debuted at number 12 in the Irish Albums Chart, and earlier this year she performed at the Oscar Wilde party in Los Angeles, California. The annual event takes place days before the Oscars, and celebrates the best of Irish popular culture.

IN THE 1930s at the height of The Great Depression in the United States a songwriter and bandleader by the name of Bob Wills toured with a 21-piece orchestra bringing joy and cheer from coast to coast. Wills was a huge influence on performers such as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, and John Prine and is widely credited with raising the spirits of a nation through his Western Swing ensembles.

OUTRAGEOUS AND irreverent, but always thought-provoking, Kinky Friedman, the crime novelist, songwriter, and ‘Frank Zappa of country music’ is coming to Galway.

UNIVERSITY IS not solely about academic work, it is also about opening the mind to new possibilities and experiences, and with Arts In Action, NUI, Galway wants students to engage with the arts and explore their own creativity.

IN THE 1980s and early 1990s Salthill hosted free, live, rock concerts each summer and those days look set to return with the Free By The Sea event as part of the Salthill Community Arts Festival.