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Ireland’s foremost roots music festival returns to Kilkenny for the May Bank Holiday weekend with a mixture of revered favourites and new treasures to unearth.

THE SONGS of the Thin White Duke will go head to head with those of new wave’s blonde bombshell when the Róisín Dubh hosts the Hoot Night for Haiti on Easter Sunday at 8pm.

Druid will celebrate its 35th birthday this year and the internationally acclaimed Galway theatre company is set to mark the occasion in some considerable style with premiere productions and major international tours.

Irish music fans are already anticipating the return of Christy Moore who has confirmed that he will perform in Kilkenny for a summer concert.

St Patrick’s Drama Group Westport are honoured to be invited by The Mayo Association Dublin to perform in Liberty Hall Dublin, with their wonderful production of A Wake In The West. After over 20 sell-out performances from Westport, The Royal Theatre Castlebar, London and Chicago, St Patrick’s Drama Group resurrect this performance to thrill and delight an audience like never before. This play is like no other and their performance will leave everyone laughing for a long time afterwards. And now due to huge demand it is back better than ever with the original cast performing the one and only A Wake In The West. Before they go to Liberty Hall, Dublin they will stage the production for two nights only in Scoil Phadraig, Altamont Street, Westport, on Wednesday March 10 and Thursday March 11 before staging their third night on Saturday March 13 in Liberty Hall.

Having played many times with Scottish folkie James Yorkston and the late great John Martyn, Mayo man Seamus Fogarty’s music pedigree is in no doubt, but you can check out this singer-songwriter’s self-described “mongrel breed of folk, country and blues” for yourself in Cleere’s (tonight) Friday February 26 at 9pm.

The Crimlin Community Arts Music Collective presents From the Ocean to the Fringe at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Saturday February 27 at 8pm. Crimlin Community Arts is a community music collective of over nine bands including Batafada, Bata Óg, Rockafada, Na Ciotógaí, The Banned Joe Band and Píba Ríba. They cater for local musicians of all tastes and ages. Genres include samba, rock, folk, traditional and pipe band music as well as a fusion of all of these and more. Since forming in 2006, they have performed locally and at international festivals in Spain, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland and more recently at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival in Scotland. The Volvo Ocean Race Festival and the Mary from Dungloe International Festival were also major performances for the collective in 2009.

It’s time to rip it up and start again, nothing else will do for the Ireland we currently find ourselves in. Politically, institutionally, and economically, staying wedded to our current ideologies is no longer an option. They have proven to be either failures or past their sell-by date.

Top Irish violinist Geraldine O’Grady and her daughter and fellow-violinist Oonagh Keogh join forces for a very special concert the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday, February 11 at 8pm. Geraldine O’Grady has been in the forefront of Irish music since she graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with the coveted Premier Prix and First Place, and has had a distinguished international career as recitalist and soloist with major symphony orchestras. Geraldine’s daughter, Oonagh Keogh, is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and has an honours MA from the University of Limerick. She has performed extensively as a soloist and is a member of the much-acclaimed Irish Chamber Orchestra.

Galway’s arts community turned out in force on Monday evening for the official launch of this year’s Galway Arts Festival. Augmenting the large assembly of local festival devotees were visiting artists such as musicians Philip Glass and Richard Hawley, playwright Enda Walsh, and artist Ruth McHugh, all of whom feature in this year’s exciting programme.