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The latest radiant concert from Galway’s own orchestra, Luminosa, began with late evening sun still streaming through the windows into St Nicholas’s Church. It seemed a fitting metaphor to illuminate the latest in their concert series, bláthú, flourishing with the coming of spring.

THEY WERE formed in the turbulent years following the collapse of the Ceausescu regime in Romania, and in Ireland they survived the recession, and later, the lockdowns enforced by the Covid-19 pandemic.

ARVO PÄRT’S Passio, one of the best-known choral works of the late 20th-century, will be performed live from St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway on Good Friday.

ARCADIA is a region of Greece, which in ancient times was sparsely populated by farming communities. In the Renaissance imagination, it became the epitome of the bucolic, pastoral, idyll.

GALWAY CATHEDRAL will be the venue for the very first performance in this city of Inishlacken, a work by Riverdance composer Bill Whelan. It will be performed by Galway's new orchestra, Luminosa.

THE CONTEMPO Quartet have firmly established themselves as a Galway institution and one of Ireland's most popular classical groups, and as 2015 comes to a close they play two shows and have a new album.