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BACK WEST - Galway brother and sister duo Maureen and Brendan Browne, Tyrone's virtuoso PJ McDonald, and Lord of the Dance's Peter Vickers - launch their debut album in the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

MENTION GALWAY to Eddi Reader, and the Scottish singer is likely to go into a rhapsody about the city and county - and with good reason, it’s a place that appreciates her voice and music; it’s somewhere she has played often; and a region of deeply personal significance for her.

THE NEW 52 is a name that to many signifies DC Comics' relaunch of its superhero titles, but it is also the name of the new indie/pop-rock project of Dublin singer-songwriter Darragh Cullen, who has a new album and a show in Galway this week.

They are back. The Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader and John Douglas return to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar for another guaranteed musical barnstormer on Monday September 5 at 8pm. 

Ballinasloe will be alive with traditional Irish music, culture, and heritage from Friday, September 9, to Sunday, September 11, for Féile Cheoil Larry Reynolds.

“HE WRITES the sort of classic songs people don’t write anymore, songs that sound like they’ve been around forever...Listen to 'Galileo', possibly the greatest song written in the last 30 years.”

While the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar is spending the month of July running its ever-popular summer workshops for children, so popular they have been sold out for weeks, it has not forgotten its evening audiences.

Four of the leading lights of Irish trad - Sean Smyth, Alan Kelly, Jim Murray and Jim Higgins - will join forces for a Galway International Arts Festival concert next month.