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A BUSKING and YouTube sensation long before they even approached a record company, Irish folk-pop duo Hudson Taylor have announced a nationwide tour in 2015, taking in Galway.

Revin Goff is the moniker of a Galway-born 23-year-old producer, soundtrack composer, and songwriter, whose real identity is as of yet unknown.

FROM THE lieder tradition in Germany to bands like Iron Maiden setting Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ to music, there has long been a connection between literature and song.

BANJO VIRTUOSO Dan Walsh has been described by BBC Radio’s Janice Long as “incredibly gifted - if anyone has the opportunity to see him they must”.

THE AMERICAN poets Thomas Lynch and Michael Heffernan will launch their new poetry collections this Saturday at 6.30pm in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop.

HE HAS a CBE for services to poetry, an Ivor Novello Award for his songlyrics, scripted award-winning documentaries, penned plays, novels, and memoirs, and, to round it all off, has developed a recent sideline performing with a rock group.

THE VERY best names in Irish and international comedy - performing stand-up shows in the Róisín Dubh - will feature on your TV screens over the next few weeks.

TWO OF Galway’s leading folk-rock acts - Niall Teague and The Fast Company and singer-songwriter Fia Rua - play Kelly’s this Monday at 8.30pm.

Serial entrepreneur, author and women in business expert Margaret Heffernan, who recently featured in Channel Four’s Secret Millionaire, will speak next week at a seminar in Galway on female entrepreneurship being organised by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). The seminar will take place at the Clayton Hotel on Thursday May 6 at 6.30pm.

“By far the hottest thing to leave Irish shores in modern times!!” so said Our House magazine of the Japanese Popstars, who play Cuba*, Eyre Square, on Sunday August 3 at 11pm.