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FIDDLE PLAYER John Carty is one of the greatest practitioners of Irish traditional music and his virtuosity has been much praised. In 2003 he was TG4’s Traditional Musician of the Year and joined the ranks of previous winners such as Tommy Peoples, Matt Molloy and Paddy Keenan.

THE GALWAY Americana Festival 2009 programme was launched last Friday at The Crane Bar to a large captive crowd with music provided by the excellent Jeff and Vida Band. The festival runs from September 10 to 13.

Dessie O’Halloran, the Inishbofin Ceili Band, and singer-songwriter Luan Parle are just somde of the acts who will perform at next week’s Galway & Aran Lifeboat benefit concert.

THE THIRD annual Galway Americana Festival of music and culture takes place this weekend at venues across the city as well as Kinvara.

RAVEN, THE Californian poet who has shared the stage with Saul Williams, is the guest poet at the North Beach Poetry Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.

GER WOLFE, the Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane has described as “the poetic soul of Ireland” and who the Irish Examiner called a “unique creative talent” is playing Galway.

“HEIDI TALBOT sings in a voice that’s both awestruck and tender,” says The New York Times, while Village Voice describes her as “Björk combined with Enya”.

THE WRITERS Celeste Auge, Maureen Gallagher, Gerry Hanberry, and Hugo Kelly will read at North Beach Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.

“CHAZ DE Paolo is a fretburner with strong, undistorted Stratocaster tone, chops, and a grip on dramatic dynamics that brings a level of interest to his blues-rock compositions and covers.”

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.