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Duke Special and friends present a night of songs written or made famous by this late, great American songwriter in Number 1, Mullingar on Sunday October 20.

The committee of volunteers behind Ballymahon’s multi award-winning boutique music festival Helium are delighted to announce the presentation of over €8,000 to Ataxia Ireland following the Helium 2012 events and awareness campaign surrounding the cause.

FILMS ABOUT individuals who surf the highest waves, row across oceans, and explore remote parts of the globe, along with talks, and music gigs, feature in a new film festival.

The Helium Micro Music Festival crew are delighted to announce that Delorentos have been added to the festival’s main stage line-up for 2012. The Dublin-based band will play the Helium Main Stage just before bill toppers Ash and their blend of critically acclaimed alternative rock is sure to set the scene perfectly before the last act of the night.

New York band ‘The Duke and the King’ are due to perform in the Set Theatre on October 21.

There’s been quite a lot of coverage for Turkey on the media recently. They looked like winning the Eurovision for a while, before eventually finishing in second place behind Germany.

Fresh from their second UK tour in the past 6 months and rolling out yet another crunching single are Kilkenny’s pop rock quartet Saving J.

Ah yes, looking back on the Rhythm and Roots Festival and heading into day three. Sunday is the biggest day of the weekend, with 38 shows scheduled between 1pm and early Monday morning. That’s 38 opportunities for something to go wrong, but, miraculously there’s hardly a hitch all day and night. The closest we get to a crisis is one of the bands turning up 10 minutes late.

THE GERMANS have a word for it - Gesamtkunstwerk - the ‘total work of art’ or ‘synthesis of the arts’, where a variety of different art forms go into creating one major piece of work.

Whether you are celebrating 300 years or 13 years, there can be few better ways to kick off the festivities than the sounds of Josh Ritter, a songwriter at the top of his game.