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FRIDAY JUNE 12 is Dia dos Namorados in Brazil, the Latin American nation's equivalent of Valentine’s Day, and to mark the occasion, Monroe’s Backstage Bar will host a night of Brazilian music and dance.

THIS YEAR marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest singers of the 20th century - Edith Piaf - and her music is to be celebrated in the Town Hall Theatre.

Kilkenny-born star Ciara McCollam was discovered at the Hole in the Wall earlier this year with her show Being Edith Piaf. Following on from highly successful ‘sell out’ shows during the Kilkenny Arts Week, it was confirmed that McCollam would perform a Christmas show at Set Theatre.

MARTIN TAYLOR, one of the world's foremost exponents of solo jazz guitar, will play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday November 7 at 9pm.

YANN TIERSEN, the Breton composer and musician, best known for his soundtracks for Amélie and Goodbye Lenin! plays the Róisín Dubh on Monday at 9pm.

Love, soul, and music, those are three words that come to mind when one thinks of the legendary French singer, Edith Piaf. A cultural icon, she is universally thought of as France’s best singer. Famously referred to by Marlene Dietrich as the ‘soul of Paris,’ her funeral was the only time since World War Two that Parisian traffic completely came to a stop.