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HER MOTHER did not want her "hanging around the streets", so "if you’re spending all your time indoors, what else is a music-mad kid gonna do with her time except learn to play an instrument?”

THE SCYTHIANS were a group of Iranian people and Eurasian nomads who inhabited the western and central Eurasian steppes from the 9th to the 1st centuries BC. Scythian is also the name of a US roots-rock band.

SISTER ACT, the musical about a soul singer who is placed in witness protection in a convent and who revolutionises the life of its nuns, will be staged by Twin Productions in the Town Hall in March 2018.

CAMPBELL'S TAVERN in Cloughanover, near Headford, is about to mark a major milestone, celebrating its 1000th trad session in a row this weekend.

FOLLOWING THE release of the 'Serve The Rich' single, Manchester indie-rock/post-punk band PINS hit the road for a European tour, with four dates in Ireland, including one in Galway.

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER and Tim Rice's much loved musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre by Claregalway's 9 Arch Musical Society.

NOTIFY, IRELAND'S experimental trad virtuosos, and America's Mark Lettieri Trio, featuring members of the Grammy Award winning jazz supergroup Snarky Puppy, will give a special collaborative performance at Monroe's Live.

DX2, A double bill of duets from the award winning Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre, and acclaimed dancers Laura Murphy and Rob Heaslip, will be performed in Galway as part of a national tour.

SHE GREW up 100 miles from London in the English East Midlands city of Leicester, but being away from the metropolis has proven an advantage for Mahalia, and her dreams of a career in music.

SHE HAS played the piano dangling high from a crane in Sãu Paolo; she has played it while being pulled by a car past the canals of Amsterdam; but never let these distract from the fact that Daria van den Bercken is one of the most outstanding young classical pianists at work today.