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MORE THAN 200 events, featuring international, national, and local artists will take place over the 11 days of the 38th Clifden Arts Festival which runs from September 17 to 27.

It has been 20 years since Riverdance burst onto the stage as the interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, prompting the whole world to sit up and take notice (and fall in love with) the power and beauty of Irish music and dance.

EQUINOX, THE acclaimed jazz/rock/fusion band, comprising Dutch, Irish, and American musicians, are coming to Galway to play the Town Hall Theatre.

The cream of Ireland’s artistic talent will gather in Athlone on the first weekend of October for the 14th annual Athlone Literary Festival.

Ireland’s longest running arts festival, the Clifden Community Arts Festival, begins today, and this year’s programme boasts a line up that includes Mary Coughlan, Mairtín O’Connor, Sharon Shannon, and novelist Dermot Bolger.

Renowned Irish musician, composer, producer and arranger Bill Whelan officially launched the programme of events for the 36th Clifden Community Arts Festival on Monday August 19 at the Clifden Station House Theatre.

The drumming band from Killocraun National School, Crossmolina, are to perform on the Late Late Toy Show on Friday November 30.

THE SAW Doctors, DruidMurphy, The Waterboys’ Mike Scott, paintings by Jack B Yeats, and the presence of Uachtarán na hÉireann, will be part and parcel of the 35th Annual Clifden Arts Festival.

THE CLIFDEN Traditional Music Festival takes place from tomorrow to Sunday and will see the town come alive with gigs, sessions, dances, and outdoor events.

ALEXEJ GORLATCH, described by The New York Times as a “remarkably talented pianist” and by The Irish Times as a musician “who can take you into areas others just can’t reach” is coming to Galway.