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Every July, something remarkable happens in Galway — already a city steeped in music, storytelling and artistic rebellion, it transforms into a living, breathing celebration of creativity. Streets hum with anticipation, conversations spill late into the night, and for a few precious weeks the ordinary rules of time seem suspended. At the heart of this annual transformation sits the Heineken Big Top at Galway International Arts Festival – a venue that has become synonymous with unforgettable nights, world-class performances and moments of collective exhilaration that linger long after the lights go down.

SITTING BY a river in the south of France on a windy day in 1980, as November and the dark and cold drew in, Eddi Reader made a decision that would change the course of her life, and define it over the next 40 years.

KAE TEMPEST, the award winning poet, spoken word artist, and Sunday Times bestselling author releases a new album in April, the same month they play the Róisín Dubh.

MEMORABLY DESCRIBED by MOJO magazine as "the Marge Simpson of soul", Macy Gray's distinctively gravelly, soulful tones, will be heard at the Heineken Big Top as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

MIKE SKINNER, Cafolla and Engel, and a host of leading Galway DJs - it's going to be one hell of a weekend for some seriously good music and many hours of dancing at HALO this Bank Holiday Weekend.

"DANCING IN the moonlight, everybody's feeling warm and bright, it's such a fine and natural sight..." Back in 1999 there was no getting away from Toploader's cover of the King Harvest song, which went on to eclipse the original.