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MIKE SKINNER, Cafolla and Engel, and a host of leading Galway DJs - it's going to be one hell of a weekend for some seriously good music and many hours of dancing at HALO this Bank Holiday Weekend.

ICELANDIC CHORAL music will be heard within St Nicholas' Collegiate Church when the Selkórinn choir perform a tea-time concert in the city centre church next week.

SOME OF the finest traditional musicians and singers from the west of Ireland, including the great Inishbofin singer Dessie O'Halloran, join forces for the upcoming Bofin to Burren concert.

PINK FLOYD, the visionary English rock adventurers whose explorations of rock, jazz, folk, prog, psychedelia, and avant garde have inspired Radiohead, Aphex Twin, The Orb, and much of the Krautrock scene, will be celebrated in Galway.

THESE last few weeks I've reviewed new albums by Slowdive, The Charlatans, and The Jesus and Mary Chain, while RIDE's comeback, Weather Diaries, awaits a listen. It all leads me to ask: What year is this?

The world's greatest dating show is coming to TV3 this autumn, with Al Porter stepping into the role of mischievous matchmaker. TV3 are looking for contestants and are calling on all the single men and women in Ireland looking for love to apply. If you think you can tell a charmer from a chancer, take a shot at romance and apply on tv3.ie/blinddate now.

SAINT SISTER, the Irish electro-folk duo of Morgan Macintyre and Gemma Doherty have released a new single - ‘Causing Trouble’ - ahead of their Irish and European tour, which includes a show at the Galway International Arts Festival.

Athlone Community College won the top prize in the Best Costumes category for their production of We Will Rock You at the Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards on May 17.

Sonoran Desert Chorale, the top professional choir of the American South West will perform in Galway Cathedral on Wednesday June 7.

Today is Africa Day and is a day for Galwegians and the city’s African community to celebrate and experience each other’s culture and to stimulate exchange between different music traditions.