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Galway Choral Association will present ‘Pax Mundi’, a concert dedicated to the theme of peace, on Saturday, May 11, 8pm at Galway cathedral.

Now celebrating its 20th anniversary as Ireland’s top show, Trad on the Prom continues to thrill audiences with outstanding live performances of authentic, traditional Irish music, song and dance.

Schumann’s iconic Frauenliebe und -leben, a song cycle charting the journey of life as defined by the experience of love, will be the centrepiece of a concert in Galway this month.

The latest radiant concert from Galway’s own orchestra, Luminosa, began with late evening sun still streaming through the windows into St Nicholas’s Church. It seemed a fitting metaphor to illuminate the latest in their concert series, bláthú, flourishing with the coming of spring.

The opening concert of the 2024 Cellisimo series will feature the National Symphony Orchestra performing alongside a star-studded cast at Leisureland, Salthill, on Saturday, May 18, including an address by Mary Robinson.

The final act to be announced for the Big Top at this summer’s Galway International Arts Festival will be fronted by Stewart Copeland, founder of English rockers the Police.

Galway Music Residency’s Concerts for the Celtic Calendar continues in March with a celebration of Ostara, the spring equinox, after the first stirrings of Imbolc.

With their single ‘Fairytale’ reaching the coveted Number 1 slot on iTunes' chart, folk musicians Ger O’Donnell and Trevor Sexton have had a meteoric start to 2024.

One of the pinnacles of the Music for Galway calendar, the 21st Midwinter Festival will take place from 19-21st January in the warm and welcoming ballroom of the Hardiman Hotel, Galway.

To music-lovers the name Kanneh-Mason describes a whole family of prodigiously gifted musicians. The pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, who sparkles on her recent acclaimed Children’s Corner album, and the feted young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a world-renowned recitalist since wining the 2016 BBC Young Musician competition, are so far the most notable of this extraordinary family.