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THE TRAD lunchtime concerts have been a feature of the Galway International Arts Festival for more than 20 years, and this year boasts a superb line-up playing Monroe's Live - especially appealing for those who love trad fiddle - and it all kicks off on Thursday.

GALWAY POETS and musicians will gather in Thoor Ballylee in south Galway, the one-time home of WB Yeats, for an evening of poetry, song, and story when The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society presents At Home With Yeats, on Poetry Ireland Day this eveing at 8pm

SOME OF Galway’s greatest trad/folk acts, including Dolores Keane, We Banjo 3, and Dessie O’Halloran, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 8pm for the Walk In My Shoes Campaign.

SINGER-SONGWRITERS Niceol Blue and Ruth Dillon play the Mná Mná showcase in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh tonight at 8.30pm.

The stories behind famous songs about Galway will be the subject of a lecture at the Galway City Museum this evening at 7pm.

UACHTARÁN NA hÉireann, Michael D Higgins, will officially open the inaugural PJ Conlon Festival, in Milltown, north County Galway, this weekend.

A BLUEGRASS session and gig takes place in Rafftery’s Rest, Kilcolgan, this Sunday from 12 noon.

THE CELEBRATED folk-singer, songwriter, and cultural historian John Faulkner returns to the Galway City Museum this Saturday for another of his popular ‘songs and their stories’ sessions.

Emigration is one of the major themes of Irish folksongs, and the origins and stories behind those songs will form a concert and talk at the Galway City Museum.

LEADING IRISH figures in blues, trad, and folk, will be heading to the Aran Islands this month to play the Inis Oírr Music Festival.