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THERE IS an endearing group of musicians doing the circuit at the moment. All wonderfully talented, creative, and in love with what they do. Watching them perform is always a pleasure.

There’s an endearing group of musicians doing the circuit at the moment. All wonderfully talented, creative, and in love with what they do watching them perform is always a pleasure.

NIWEL TSUMBU, one of Africa’s leading guitarists, is bringing his band Motema to Galway to play a free show in the Volvo Ocean Race stage and to mark the celebration of Africa Day in the city.

Drums/percussion, vocals, and guitar workshops for aspiring young musicians (10-18 years) take place during the Guinness Castlebar Blues Festival in association with JABACC (Jazz and Blues Appreciation Club, Castlebar) on Saturday May 30.

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CORK SONGWRITER Jimmy McCarthy has written some of the most popular contemporary Irish songs, with Christy Moore, Mary Black, Maura O’Connell, Tommy Fleming, and Mary Coughlan all enjoying chart success with McCarthy compositions including ‘Ride On’, ‘No Frontiers’, ‘Mystic Lipstick’, and ‘Ancient Rain’.

If you’re looking for some good music tonight, but you’re not too sure where to go, get yourself to Danny Byrne’s, Mullingar where Ever27, Zombie Cops and Hitman Lord are sure to entertain.

Performing only one gig in the west this year is Ray LaMontagne, one of the most distinctive voices in music at the moment.

Having played to packed houses in Kilkenny in the past Carmina, the renowned Celtic jazz pioneers are returning to the stunning and most appropriate venue of Castalia Hall in Ballytobin Co Kilkenny as part of their 2009 Irish tour this July.

One of the most exciting bands to come to Kilkenny this ‘arts festival’ season has to be the 10-piece multi-cultural Grupo Fantasma.