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Join Ireland’s ‘King of Swing’, Luke Thomas and his band The Swing Cats, for their KINGS OF THE SWING TOUR in the Roscommon Arts Centre on Saturday, March 23, at 8pm.

Toshín, the dynamic six-piece led by commanding vocalist Tosin Bankole has emerged as a tour de force in the contemporary music landscape.

A new era of razor-sharp funk and disco has emerged thanks to Scottish band High Fade, who are on a meteoric rise.

Dancing like no one is watching is not only permitted - it is encouraged at Galway Funk's upcoming Midsummer event, in the Rowing Club, Woodquay on Saturday, June 24.

Written and directed by Jess Harkin, I did WHAT!? is an experimental audio experience, a work in progress, that delves into the lives of young students in Galway City.

Galway Funk - Get the Funk Out is a free event organised by two local residents, Ciarán Folan and James Silke, who hope to fill the “huge gap” in dance venues across the city following the closure of multiple nightclubs during the pandemic.

MARY MCPARTLAN, a powerhouse of Irish folk music - as a vocalist, a supporter of songwriters, an event organiser, as someone who nurtured the tradition, not just keeping it alive, but giving it a future - will be celebrated in Galway in April.

KARL CLEWS, the bass player, session musician, and founder of the Galway jazz-funk-fusion band, Earthship, has just released his new album - Navigator.

BILLY BRAGG, one of the most powerful and incisive political songwriters of the last 40 years, will play the Black Box Theatre, Saturday November 6 2021.

Nature, for reasons best known to herself, seems to favour shades of yellow and pink. That is, I am sure there are botanists and scientists who know why this is, but I only know that it is so. Check out the wildflowers growing by the roadside or in fields – they are still looking fabulous even in late August here in the west of Ireland – and you’ll see what I mean. There are plenty of pinks, yellows and whites, but apart from the odd vetch scrambling up a blackberry bush, blues are few and far between. And even the vetches are mostly mauvey - purple.