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Galway’s international arts festival for children Baboró was celebrating last evening after it was awarded funding for a new international arts festival to be held in Galway in February 2018.

Galway’s international arts festival for children Baboró was celebrating last evening after it was awarded funding for a new international arts festival to be held in Galway in February 2018.

Silent Moves has topped the poll to represent 2015 in Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks by The Irish Times. Silent Moves is a film by Aideen Barry, Western Care’s Ridgepool Training Centre, and Scannán Technologies, hosted by Ballina Arts Centre and made possible through the IGNITE programme, funded by the Arts Council, Arts & Disability Ireland, and Mayo County Council.

While the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar is spending the month of July running its ever-popular summer workshops for children, so popular they have been sold out for weeks, it has not forgotten its evening audiences.

THE WONDERFUL ConTempo Quartet will give a lunchtime concert today from 1.10pm to 1.50pm - aimed at children as much as adults - in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

THE GALWAY Jazz Festival, described by The Irish Times as “a boutique festival with a big heart and growing international credibility”, returns from October 7 to 9 with three full days of music spread across the city.

MACNAS, noun: the frolic-like behaviour of a young calf let out to grass for the first time after being kept inside all winter; joyful abandonment; dalliance; wantonness.

IN FLOW, a unique and immersive performance fusing electronic music, gamelan percussion, and visuals, comes to the Nuns Island Theatre this Saturday at 8pm.

Westport four-piece The Halloran Brothers perform at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday June 16 at 8pm. Expect a vibrant evening of rhythm ‘n’ blues and rock ‘n’ roll, with a dash of country and jazz when guitarist and songwriter Liam Halloran presents an evening of original songs performed by the hugely popular Halloran Brothers.

AFTER A stunning performance last autumn on Later…with Jools Holland, and a whirlwind tour of Britain, Ireland's latest folk sensations Lynched have seen their popularity soar.