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If you love music, are interested in art, and enjoy good food, then Galway’s ‘West End’ is the place to be and local traders are encouraging Galwegians to “cross the bridge” and check it out.

UNCLE VANYA - Among the highlights of this year’s Galway Arts Festival so far was the visit of Bristol Old Vic and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory with their wonderful co-production of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya.

The following are some of the fires that occurred in the city in the last century.

GEORGE HARRISON sang “My sweet Lord”. St Augustine said: “To sing is to pray twice”, while Islamic Sufis and Native American holy men dance and sing themselves into trances, leading to religious ecstasy.

VIOLINIST MARK Feldman and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier are regarded as two musicians bringing chamber music into the future in the way they combine classical and jazz.

AN CRISIS, the new comedy series on TG4, has been nominated for a number of awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival 2010.

OVER THE past few years, actor/author Mark O’Halloran has proven himself one of Ireland’s most gifted dramatists with his justly-acclaimed scripts for the films Adam & Paul and Garage.

GALWAY’S STORY Night is moving from The Spirit Centre, Nuns Island, to the bigger venue of Blue Teapot Theatre Company on Munster Avenue.

A GROUP of mediaeval townsfolk, led by Mr Bumpkin, must prepare for a play about Noah’s Ark and it has to be good or else the king and queen will chop off their heads!

LITTLE JOHN Nee’s new show Dead Rooster Blues will get its Galway premiere at Nuns Island Theatre on tonight and tomorrow at 11pm.