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THE CITY is in for a treat with a weekend of jazz from leading practitioners of the genre from Norway, Germany, Italy, and Ireland at the Galway Jazz Festival which runs from this evening up to Sunday night.

The Chieftains are now recognised for bringing traditional Irish music to the world's attention. They have uncovered the wealth of traditional Irish music that has accumulated over the centuries, making the music their own with a style that is as exhilarating as it is definitive.

AT JUST 15 Dublin schoolgirl Laura Izibor won the 2FM/Jacob’s Song Contest and her winning song ‘Compatible’ received significant airplay. Hotpress chose her as its ‘Hot for 2006’ artist and she became the first unsigned artist to win a Meteor Award.

ANN HAYMANN, the world-renowned harper and expert on the ancient Irish harp, will play the Gort Library on Friday December 4 at 8pm.

TOM MIDDLETON, the pioneering producer and DJ, renowned worldwide for his visionary projects as Global Communication, Jedi knights, Cosmos, and Amba is coming to Galway.

Having performed for Nelson Mandela at the Yankee Stadium, for the Pope in Central Park, with the Chieftains on their US tour and on U2's Rattle and Hum album, film and tour, the Harlem Gospel Choir will, once again, return to Ireland for an extensive tour.

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers, with their musical director Audrey Corbett, will present their annual Christmas concerts in a new venue, the Franciscan Church (The Abbey), Francis Street.

Keep the Christmas spirit up this year on St Stephen’s night with one big party in the Royal Theatre. Basshunter aka Jonas Altberg was born 1984 in Halmstad, Sweden. He lives with his parents and younger brother five minutes from Sweden’s best beach, Tylösand. He can briefly be described as a stubborn and creative person. He started to produce music in 1999 with a little help from the computer programme Fruityloops. His interest of music became bigger and bigger. After a lot of demos spread over the internet, he started to get some phone calls from clubs that wanted to have him as a DJ. In April 2006 he got his first real contact to the music industry when he signed a record deal with Warner Music. He released his first single ‘Boten Anna’ in Scandinavia and it became a hit instantly. It all went very fast, much faster than Basshunter himself ever could expect. Right now Basshunter has just finished his debut album LOL and it is available in a store close to you.

Brighten up your winter evening on Tuesday December 15 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre with Athlone Film’s Clubs final film of the season, the timeless classic White Christmas, one of the best loved Christmas movies ever made.

PHILIP DONNELLY’S long musical career began in the 1960s when he was a member of Elmer Fudd, part of the emerging Irish rock scene which also included Them, Skid Row, Thin Lizzy, and Taste.