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The Westport Music Festival is back for its seventh year to brighten up the summer with a weekend full of family entertainment on Friday, July 27, and Saturday, July 28. Main performances over the weekend will be from The Saw Doctors on the Friday night and The Beatlez on Saturday evening. The venue for the festival remains the same with the massive state-of-the-art stage taking up residence in the Carrowbeg River once again, a aplendid feature for the bands and public alike. Over the last six years the Westport Music Festival has become one of the most popular and well attended festivals in the west of Ireland and guarantees to have something to suit all age groups.

The Saw Doctors are going all out to make the Christmas No 1 in Ireland this year with the release of their version of ‘Downtown’ with Petula Clark.

To help shake off some of those Christmas Day calories, the Saw Doctors will be rocking on stage at the Royal Theatre on Thursday December 29. Renowned for their live performances, Royal Theatre fans are in for a treat as this is one of only a few Irish dates over the Christmas period.

The Saw Doctors will today complete filming of the video for their reworking of the classic 1965 hit ‘Downtown’, which will also feature the song’s original singer Petula Clark.

THERE WILL be two chances to see, hear, and enjoy the songs and poems of the brilliant Tuam singer-songwriter Seamus Ruttledge in Galway this month.

The Saw Doctors will kick off their upcoming Irish Tour in Kilkenny at the Set Theatre this Bank-Holiday Sunday.

The Top Five chart success of The Saw Doctors’ ‘Red Cortina A cappella’, has led to Smyths Toys, which sponsored the charity single, donating €10,000 to the St Vincent de Paul.

2010 has been a great year for The Saw Doctors with sell-out tours in Australia, USA, and the UK in the first half of the year, summer festival appearances at Glastonbury in June, Oxegen in July, and the V Festivals in August, culminating in the September release of the band’s long awaited new studio album, The Further Adventures of The Saw Doctors. And what better way to celebrate 2010 ticking into 2011 than by joining them for the biggest New Year’s Eve party in the west in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar.

The Saw Doctors’ new charity single, the a cappella version of ‘Red Cortina’ has entered the Irish charts at number five.

The Saw Doctors and Smyths Toys are joining forces this week in a novel scheme to raise funds for the Society of the St Vincent de Paul this Christmas.