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AT FIRST it was a concert, then a film of the concert, now it is a concert of the film! The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese's celebrated documentary of the final concert by The Band, will be re-created in Galway.

THEY CITE Hank Williams and Kurt Cobain as their inspirations, and they seek to communicate messages of truth and honesty through harmony singing and the craft of songwriting in its simplest, purist, form.

FOLK/BLUES singer-songwriter and guitarist Charlie Parr is coming to Galway to play Monroe's Backstage Bar on Wednesday August 24 at 8.30pm.

NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS Marcum Stewart, award winning Irish born Pete Kennedy, and the award-winning Shantell Ogden, will play a triple bill concert at Monroe’s Live this Saturday.

4 MEN and a Bass bring their bluegrass fused harmonies to Monroe’s Live Backstage Bar on Sunday July 3 at 11pm, for a free gig.

OLD-SCHOOL rock'n'roll band The Alkove, a five piece playing all original material, play Monroe’s Live on Saturday April 30 at 9pm.

A NIGHT of bluegrass fused harmonies awaits at Monroe's Backstage Bar when 4 Men and a Bass play on Sunday February 7 at 11pm.

A bluegrass music legend from the US is set to perform at the Ballina Arts Centre this February.

The Galway Sessions music festival swings into gear next week and one of the definite highlights is the appearance by bona-fide bluegrass great Curtis Blackwell, one-time sidekick of Bill Monroe and, with his band The Dixie Bluegrass Boys, one of the most popular acts on the US bluegrass scene for over 40 years.

SPECIAL CONSENSUS are a bluegrass band, but one with a difference. Instead of coming from the music’s heartland of the Southern US States, they come from Chicago.