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A new opera partially based on the life of Savita Halappanavar will premier in Kilkenny this summer.

The Byrne Brothers, an award-winning family band from Donegal, will bring their energetic style of folk and trad music to Monroe’s Live on Saturday, April 19, with doors at 8pm.

Oboist, Nicholas Daniel, returns to Music for Galway leading the Britten Oboe Quartet on Tuesday, March 11 at 7:30pm, performing an eclectic programme in the beautiful acoustic of St. Joseph’s Church, Presentation Road. A Music for Galway encore will take place the following night, March 12, in association with The Platform Series at Campbell’s Tavern, Headford.

Galway Music Residency will dedicate its 2025 artistic programme to Nature and Ecology.

Galway Music Residency and Galway County Council Biodiversity Office are delighted to co-present a special programme for World Wetlands Day. On Saturday February 1 at 5:30pm in the AV Room at Connemara National Park, the collaboration celebrates this important day through music and film.

Celebrated multi-instrumentalist and composer Dee Armstrong will launch her highly anticipated debut solo album at Monroe’s Live on Saturday, February 8, from 7pm.

The Swiss piano maestro François-Xavier Poizat will perform and discuss the works of Maurice Ravel next week as part of Music for Galway’s celebration of France’s greatest modern composer.

Following Music for Galway’s survey of the works of Gabriel Fauré in January 2024, another French composer comes under the spotlight at the 22nd Midwinter Festival from 17 th to 19th January 2025, this time the exquisitely inventive Maurice Ravel. Born 150 years ago to a Swiss engineer father and a Basque mother, Ravel was internationally regarded as France’s greatest living composer in the 1920s and 1930s.