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Dublin DJ Annie Mac will headline the Heineken Big Top tent at the Galway International Arts Festival this summer.

Having signed his first major record deal with Sony Music/RCA Germany, Kerry’s Conor Byrne is making waves internationally with his unique blend of contemporary pop and heartfelt song writing. Inspired by the likes of Damien Rice, James Bay, James Morrison, and Coldplay, the influence of these lyrical stalwarts is palpable throughout his work.

Irish band, Whenyoung, are from Clare and Limerick, but based in the UK. Brought up with a love for music, they're started off into everything from Irish trad to 00's pop, eventually stumbling upon punk and rock music of old. This became their mutual escape, which eventually resulted in Aoife and Andrew moving to London to start a band. In between, Aoife studied Landscape Architecture and Horticulture and Andrew studied Architecture.

RISING GALWAY indie band NewDad, Hardy Bucks star and comedian Owen Colgan, and photographer Ruth Medjber are among those who will be taking part in an exciting new festival - Leasta, created for young people, by young people.

FOLLOWING THE release of their debut EP, Galway indie quartet NewDad have announced a series of Irish shows in November.

GALWAY is their origin, but London is now their base of operations, and the experience - the good, bad, inspiring, and repellant - of one of the world’s major cities is captured in The Clockworks’ new single.

WE MAY be exiting lockdown, but the aftermath of Covid-19 - social distancing, the absence of a vaccine, an oncoming world-wide recession - will remain with us for some time.

STEVE GRIBBIN is a guitar-wielding satirist from Liverpool whose scabrous comedy songs, and off the wall observations, are firmly based in rock‘n’roll and pull no punches.

BRIAN GALLAGHER, Richie Sheehy, and Cathal Shanagher will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh for the next instalment of the Comedy KARLnival on Tuesday October 1 at 8pm.

“IF I could rewind 10 years, and if I saw a band like us on stage, I would be obsessed." So says Pillow Queens' drummer Rachel Lyons, and while modesty may not rest easy on this band's shoulders, they have every reason to walk tall right now.