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There will be two featured acts on the night, plus invited guests and a selection of local performers.

Traditional Irish music in the mid-20th century did not enjoy the revered position it now holds in Galway.

Prior to 1961, public performance of Irish traditional music in Galway took place primarily in the form of céilís in large dancehalls — namely in the Hangar, the Commercial and the Astaire. These were enormously popular — remember the hundreds of bicycles parked outside the Hangar on a Sunday night — but they began to go out of fashion in the sixties and were regarded as old fashioned and backward.