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THE MOLLY Hicks will bring the sounds of Appalachian, bluegrass, country and gospel music to the Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover this Saturday at 9.30pm.

A BLUEGRASS weekend will take place in Kilcolgan tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday and all are welcome to go along and enjoy the music.

With over 10 free gigs, one headline event and a whole lot of foot stompin’, who needs a tent when you have Irish pubs? Top-class local, national and international folk and bluegrass acts will be playing a plethora of free gigs in venues throughout the beautiful town of Westport over the last weekend in June. Musicians and singers near and far are tuning up their instruments and soaking their vocal cords in honey (or whiskey) in anticipation of the annual Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival.

THE TOWN Hall Theatre will resonate to the sounds of Appalachian, bluegrass, country and gospel when The Molly Hicks take to the stage.

THEY BEGAN busking on the street corners of Portland, Oregon, playing traditional old time and bluegrass, before graduating to square dances and bluegrass festivals along the west coast.

SPECIAL CONSENSUS are a bluegrass band, but one with a difference. Instead of coming from the music’s heartland of the Southern US States, they come from Chicago.

THE DUSTY BANJOS traditional music class is back this month with classes taking place upstairs in the Western Hotel, Prospect Hill, on Thursday evenings.

The Midlands will have a rare chance to catch the award-winning bluegrass band Carmel Sheerin & The Ravens at Hugh Lynch’s Lounge on Sunday September 12.

SOON TO be released album The New Farming Scene from Edinburgh band Southern Tenant Folk Union creates the first true crossover of the modern folk tradition with its not-so-distantly related bluegrass sound.

Explosive folk/bluegrass outfit Southern Tenant Folk Union brings its own unique brand of music to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday September 1 at 8pm. Taking its name from a multi-racial union of sharecroppers and tenant farmers founded in Arkansas in the 1930s, Southern Tenant Folk Union delivers a heady brew of old-time, bluegrass, gospel and Celtic folk music. The band comprises the formidable talents of Adam Bulley (mandolin/guitar/dobro/vocals); Silas Child (double bass/vocals); Ben Ivitsky (fiddle/vocals); Ewan Macintyre (guitar/percussion/vocals); Chris Purcell (guitar/vocals); Jed Milroy (guitar/vocals); and Pat McGarvey (banjo/guitar/vocals). Southern Tenant Folk Union’s third album, The New Farming Scene, has just been released.