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Westport will be bustling full of festival revellers this weekend as the Westport Festival of Music and Food will take place in the grounds of Westport House on Saturday and Sunday.

GALWAY FOLK and roots rockers The Cabin Collective join Elvis Costello, Christy Moore, Imelda May, The Waterboys, and ABC, at this year’s Westport Festival.

Three of the country’s finest musicians, Máirtín Ó Connor, Zoë Conway, and Dónal Lunny, join forces for a dream Music Network concert of traditional music at its very best at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday, May 13 at 8pm.

Legendary folk singer and balladeer Christy Moore, famed for his thrilling live performances, has been added to the line-up for this summer’s Westport Festival of Music and Food which takes place in the picturesque grounds of Westport House on June 29 and 30. Christy Moore will take to the Westport Festival main stage on Saturday June 29 with long-time collaborator, singer/song writer Declan Sinnott, who has performed with Christy for more 30 years.

Elvis Costello and Imelda May have been announced as the headline acts for the Westport Festival of Music and Food which was launched in Dublin on Wednesday night.

WHILE THE headliners include Elvis Costello and Imelda May, Galway bands and a stage hosted by the Róisín Dubh, will feature strongly at this year’s Westport Festival.

MUSICALLY, SOUTHERN California is associated with hip hop, punk, hippy singer-songwriters, and sleaze rockers, not bluegrass, country, and folk, but Sara Watkins and her family prove an exception.

THE 10TH Tuam Arts Festival opens tonight and runs each day up to and including Monday, with storytelling, music, theatre, and the legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke.

Acclaimed Irish artist Jack Lukeman – aka Jack L – will play in Kilkenny’s Set Theatre on Saturday October 22.

Mary Coughlan will play an intimate gig at the Hole In The Wall in Kilkenny city on Thursday, July 21.