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Galway Baroque Singers are giving you the chance to Win Two Tickets to hear Handel's Solomon on 19th November in Galway Cathedral.

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers will join forces with the Dun Laoghaire Choral Society, under conductor David Brophy, for Choral Fusion, a new project where both groups will tour and perform together for what they promise will be a "challenging double choir repertoire".

THE DEXTER Community Band from Michigan will give a concert of American music at St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, on Friday August 5 at 6pm.

Athlone Arts & Tourism is delighted to announce that the Band of the 2nd Brigade will perform in the courtyard of Athlone Castle this afternoon, Thursday July 14, at 12.30pm.

Sometimes when I think of Galway’s relationship with the sea, I am reminded of the insult that the famous conductor Sir Thomas Beecham uttered to a cellist who had performed poorly. “Madam,” he said, “you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands... and all you can do is scratch it.”

A rare musical treat Polar Voices – From the Arctic to the Atlantic will be held in St. Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Wednesday next June 22 at 8pm.

The Mayo International Choral Festival have announced that the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins and Mrs Sabina Higgins will attend as guests of honour at the Concert For Peace in Knock Basilica on Saturday May 14 which will commemorate the 1916 Rising and World War I. The unprecedented scale of such a concert in this venue will see close to 200 artists perform on the night, all presented by lauded broadcaster, RTÉ Lyric FM’s Liz Nolan. Conductor extraordinaire David Brophy of RTÉ’s award winning High Hopes Choir and instrumental fame brings his impressive experience to proceedings, conducting this special event.

GEORGES BIZET'S Les Pecheurs de Perles - aka The Pearl Fishers - featuring one of opera's best known and loved duets, 'Au Fond Du Temple Saint', will be performed in New York's Metropolitan Opera.

The Mayo International Choral Festival presents A Concert For Peace Commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising and World War One on Saturday, May 14 2016 in Knock Basilica. Doors open 6.45pm with the concert 8pm. Tickets cost €25 for all reserved seating and €15 for restricted viewing. A feast for the senses awaits. The Mayo International Choral Festival is proud to present this inaugural concert at the newly refurbished Knock Basilica, to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising and World War One.

If you have the opportunity, please try and get to see Brooklyn, the film which is now showing at major cinemas throughout the country.