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The founder of the Galway Advertiser; the first female conductor at the Academy Awards; and the west of Ireland man who spearheaded the global Covid-19 response are all among 14 individuals who will be conferred with Honorary Degrees by NUI Galway in 2021.

TWO OPERAS - Der Fliegende Holländer, starring Bryn Terfel, and Fidelio, starring Jonas Kaufmann - will be broadcast live from New York and London, to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Tonight, Friday November 29 in Ballintubber Abbey, two Mayo choirs – Cór Mhaigh Eo and Louisburgh Voices – will join together to perform the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, in a concert which will benefit the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association and Ballintubber Abbey Trust.

FOLLOWING ITS triumphant GIAF debut in 2017 with Tristan & Yseult, Kneehigh Theatre Company return with Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs), based on John Gay’s The Beggar's Opera.

THE STORY is well known - but only to an extent. Before she became Joan As Policewoman, she was a member of The Dambuilders, Black Beetle, and then Antony and The Johnsons. What is less remarked on, yet perhaps more crucial to her development as an artist and musician, was her time as a classical violinist.

THREE-TIME Grammy winning US choir, the Pacific Boychoir Academy, are making their debut tour to Ireland, and on the itinerary is a concert in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church this Saturday, July 6.

IF YOU have ever wanted to be involved a film, MayFly To The...Movies is your chance, with the audience invited to take part in a novel live cinema experience where actors and musicians provide real-time improvisation to a film on screen.

MUSIC AND songs from films like Star Wars, James Bond, Lord Of The Rings, and that masterpiece of homoeroticism, Top Gun, will be performed in Salthill by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

IN THE four years since poet Hollie McNish last appeared at the Róisín Dubh, her career has continued to flourish and diversify. Ahead of her return to the city next week, she declares: “I love coming to Galway. I’ll be spending two days there when I come.”

THE ANNUAL concert of sacred music for Good Friday returns to St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, with a performance of Heinrich Schütz’s setting of the last words of Christ on the cross: Die Sieben Worte Jesu Christi Am Kreuz.