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RICK MARGITZA, the American saxophonist described by Allmusic.com as one of the “young lions” of modern jazz will play Galway as part of the Galway Jazz Festival.

THE GALWAY Early Music Festival returns from May 19 to 22 and to raise funds for the event there will be a ‘ye olde table quiz’ next week.

With the Christmas market coming to an end in Eyre Square, having attracted tens of thousands of people to the city over the past three weeks, despite the inclement weather, the Galway Advertiser is asking shoppers across the city and county to concentrate their Christmas spend locally to save jobs and to preserve communities.

GALWAY SINGERS and choirs are being invited to take part in a singing workshop with the leading Irish choir Resurgam.

THE GALWAY Music Residency is hosting its annual Autumn School on Thursday October 28 and Friday 29 and the guests of honour will be Holland’s Calefax Reed Quintet.

Sit on the balcony and listen to the roar of the river as it gushes towards O’Brien’s Bridge and makes its way to the Claddagh and the sea.

AS PART of the Galway Early Music Festival, innovative Dublin-based early music Ensemble eX will perform Possessed, a unique staged and costumed concert exploring the theme of possession through the prism of early music.

St Nicholas Collegiate Church will be one of the many venues in Galway city this Saturday holding a coffee morning in aid of the Galway Hospice.

Before the disbandment of the Connaught Rangers in 1922, it was customary on Sunday mornings for the Protestant members of this proud regiment to march in full uniform, with bagpipes and drums, out of Renmore barracks, through the town to attend service at St Nicholas Collegiate Church. It was an exciting spectacle for many of the girls of Galway. They would gather in small groups, or lean from windows, to catch the eye of a handsome soldier. Monsignor Considine would often precede the parade waving at the girls to go away. Pointing up to the girls at the windows (many of them apprentices, who lived above the shops whose trade they were learning), telling them ‘Not to be looking at those Protestant soldiers’. Most girls would quickly hide, and once the monsignor had passed, pop their heads out again.

Rev Patrick Towers, the former rector of St Nicholas Collegiate Church, will be honoured with a civic reception in City Hall on Tuesday May 5.