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GER WOLFE, the Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane has described as “the poetic soul of Ireland” and who the Irish Examiner called a “unique creative talent” is playing Galway.

Musician, songwriter, company director, and project executive Linda Welby has just landed her dream job, presenting her very own hour-long weekly Irish Country Music Programme from NBRN Radio in Nashville, Tennessee. The programme will be aired from Nashville every Tuesday evening at 6pm (local time) and can be heard on the internet in Ireland at 12am on www.nbrn.fm.

“HEIDI TALBOT sings in a voice that’s both awestruck and tender,” says The New York Times, while Village Voice describes her as “Björk combined with Enya”.

LINTON KWESI Johnson, the brilliant British/Jamaican dub poet and singer will be among the main guests at this year’s Spirit Of Voice festival.

RICHMOND FONTAINE, the Portland, Oregon, Americana band led by vocalist, songwriter, and novelist Willy Vlautin, play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday October 16 at 8.30pm.

JINX LENNON, the agit-folk singer-songwriter and social commentator, returns to the Róisín Dubh next Monday at 9pm, where he will be joined by solo singer Miss Paula Flynn.

“I CANNOT get enough of these guys, they soothe the soul.” So said US president Barack Obama about the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, who play Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday October 22 at 9pm.

Airneán sa gCathair is a new series of cultural evenings as Gaeilge which will take place on the second Tuesday of every month in Club Áras na nGael on Dominick Street.

A man who made his name as an entertainer on RTE’s You’re a Star in 2003, was ironically fined a total of €200 in the District Court this week (November 11) for not having a TV licence.

THIS SUNDAY at 6pm in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, a host of renowned Galway musicians, including the great folk singer-songwriter Sean Tyrrell, are getting together to play a fundraising concert.