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Musicians and fans of Bob Dylan can celebrate the legendary bard’s 69th birthday in an appropriate manner at Ryan’s on Friary Street next Wednesday.

ACOUSTIC BLUES singer-songwriter Eric Bibb was born in New York in 1951 and grew up surrounded by the Greenwich Village folk music and literary scene which included Bob Dylan, Dave Von Ronk, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Judy Collins, and Joan Baez.

JAKOB DYLAN, the son of the great Bob Dylan, and an acclaimed singer-songwriter in his own right, will make his Galway debut at the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday July 28 at 7.30pm.

Whether you are celebrating 300 years or 13 years, there can be few better ways to kick off the festivities than the sounds of Josh Ritter, a songwriter at the top of his game.

“Come with me, I’ll guarantee you the best time you’ve ever had,” growls Chris Smither enticingly on the first line of ‘Don’t Call Me Stranger’, the opening song from his latest album ime Stands Still.

JOYCE CAROL Oates, one of the most distinguished American novelists of the last 50 years will be reading at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature on Saturday April 24.

PAUL BRADY was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, in 1947 and was playing guitar by 11. His early music career saw him travel throughout the northwest of Ireland playing piano at holiday resorts such as Bundoran and Rosses Point.

The world of politics is in flux. Never has it been so unstable and volatile. One minute, long-standing and up-standing members of cabinet are there and next they are gone.

POLITICS IS a word Fionn Regan admits he “can’t relate to” but his first album was named after a provocative book by a right-wing American political commentator, while his new album contains references to colonial and industrial exploitation.

TEXAN SONGWRITER Nanci Griffith released her debut album Lone Star State Of Mind in 1987 and made an immediate impact when it peaked at number 23 in the US charts.