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A CONCERT of guitar and cello music, with ConTempo’s Adrian Mantu and John Feeley, takes place in the Druid Lane Theatre tomorrow at 1pm.

THREE OF the best trad fiddlers in the country - Cathal Hayden, Dezi Donnelly, and Tóla Custy - have joined forces to become Blazing Bows.

MONSTERS AND fairies, poets and singers, heroes and villains will all be part and parcel of the Galway Early Music Festival, which runs from May 9 to 12.

ALED JONES is a classical tenor but he knows a good singer when he hears one, regardless of what genre s/he sings in, and he has high praise for Sarah McQuaid.

On Saturday, April 20 at 8pm multi-talented, Scottish-born guitarist and singer-songwriter Dick Gaughan will be taking to the stage in the Ballina Arts Centre. Gaughan’s songs are known for the passion and political conviction he puts into them and his music has been recorded by the likes of Billy Bragg, Christy Moore, Mary Black, Roy Bailey, and Capercaillie. Tickets cost from €12 to €15 and booking is essential.

FOLK LEGEND Pete Seeger, former US presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and classical music great Yo Yo Ma, are among banjo player Michael J Miles’ fans.

ENGLISH GUITARIST and singer-songwriter John Smith has just released his new album Great Lakes and is coming to Galway as part of his current Irish tour.

Ireland’s ‘Queen of Rockabilly’ Imelda May will play the Galway Arts Festival Big Top on Friday July 26, joining an excellent Big Top line up that includes Grizzly Bear, Josh Ritter, and Glen Hansard.

LATIN AMERICAN salsa and Irish trad collide to exciting effect in the music of Baile an Salsa who play Monroe’s Live on Saturday February 23 at 9pm.

MARK EITZEL, founder of alt.rock icons American Music Club and a critically acclaimed solo artist, had a rough start to the current decade, but over the last few months he has become “more believing in people’s kindness”, and released one of his finest albums to date.