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The acclaimed new contemporary folk musical ‘In the Midst of Plenty’ will tour to the Town Hall Theatre on June 7 and 8 as part of Roscommon-based Enchanted Croí Theatre’s Irish tour. The work of a women-led creative team, the piece amplifies the seldom-told stories of impoverished women and the choices they made as they fought to survive 19th-century cottier life.

Roscommon-based Enchanted Croi Theatre has recently announced that its new contemporary folk musical ‘In the Midst of Plenty’ will tour across Ireland, beginning with performances at the Mullingar Arts Centre on May 25 and 26, and including Town Hall Theatre Galway on June 7 and 8 and Westport Town Hall Theatre June 13 and 14.

AFROFUTURISM, Detroit Techno, the role of the Atlantic in the Slave Trade, the effects of Capitalism, and a mythology of an underwater Black nation will be explored in a new exhibition at Galway Arts Centre.

Born and raised in a smelter town in Northern Ontario, Canada, Chris Hawes grew up less than a mile from the NASA lunar landing practice site. The moon they called it. A barren desolate landscape just outside of Sudbury. Not much to do but play sports and dream of getting the hell out of there. As a child, he would revel in the few and far between opportunities to watch the Tonight Show. Like many before him, it was his dream to one day grace the Tonight Show stage, and be waived over to a coveted spot seated across the desk from Johnny Carson.

There are plenty of literary treats in-store all round Galway this week for the 38th Cúirt International Festival of Literature, which is on until Sunday April 23.

"This show was the highlight of our visit to Ireland" - Maura

Now in its ninth year, Poetry Day Ireland is an annual island-wide celebration of poetry which invites the nation to read, write, and share a poem on Thursday, April 27.

Writer of the bestselling album in Irish history, A Woman’s Heart, singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy talks about pandemic teachings, leaping into the unknown and the mind-altering drug that is music, ahead of her appearance in An Taibhdhearc on Saturday, April 14.

BY JORDAN LILLIS

Hugh Cornwell, writer and singer of classic and addictive tunes like Golden Brown and Strange Little Girl, is coming to Róisín Dubh on Friday April 14.