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SCANDINAVIA has been a great centre of pop and rock over the last 30 years and without question Sweden is the dominant nation. It has given us pop giants ABBA; a thriving heavy metal scene; and inspired indie/alternative acts such as I’m From Barcelona, Jens Lekmann, and Peter Bjorn and John.

The awesome foursome of musicians that is NoCrows bring their energy and flair to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar for a concert on Wednesday October 12 at 8pm. NoCrows boasts a line-up of flamenco/manouche guitarist Felip, Waterboy fiddle star Steve Wickham, cello/mandolin talent Anna Houston, and hot double bassist Eddie Lee. The band’s repertoire is truly global as their music ranges from Irish traditional to classical and gypsy swing as well as folk tunes from Finland, Moldova, Russia, Venezuela, Greece and beyond, as witnessed on acclaimed albums Magpie and the recently released No Crows On The Moon. NoCrows has toured widely in Europe and Ireland, including major festivals Glastonbury and Dranouter in Belgium. Come and check them out.

The warm, funny, poignant and critically acclaimed new Irish play Brighton by Jim Nolan plays at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday October 5 at 8pm.

THE LEGENDARY folk singer Peggy Seeger plays The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Friday October 14 at 9pm.

The HSE is urging parents to ensure their children are vaccinated against measles following a large pan national outbreak of the disease in Europe.

BELGIAN SOPRANO Cristel de Meulder and organist Jan Van Mol will give the closing concert at this year’s Galway Cathedral Recitals.

Toyota has been named as the greenest brand in the first ever Best Global Green Brands report published by Interbrand brand consultancy agency.

Toyota has been named as the greenest brand in the first best global green brands report published by Interbrand brand consultancy agency. The study takes into account publicly available information on a brand’s environmental performance coupled with the public’s perception of the brand’s environmental sustainability, or green image, to produce the report’s green performance score.

Galway rower Siobhán McCrohan has claimed a bronze medal at the prestigious Lucerne Regatta, the third of the World Cup series.

Researchers at NUI Galway are to lead a €2.7 million European project to develop a new product for use in hernia operations.