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One of Ireland’s greatest ever jazz and blues singers, Mary Coughlan, will play a homecoming gig next month as part of her Irish tour celebrating 40 years in music.

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.

FROM BACKING vocals with Gang of Four, to lead vocals with Fairground Attraction, to acclaimed solo artist, Eddi Reader has every reason to celebrate her 40 years in the music business.

MARY COUGHLAN, arguably Ireland's greatest jazz and blues singer, returns to her native Galway for a concert at the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday February 29 at 8pm.

PARIS, the French capital, one of the world's greatest cities, has been the subject of songs throughout the decade, many of which will be performed by Christine Bovill in her new show - Paris.

Mary Coughlan and her band are bringing her new show 'Live & Kicking' to Roscommon Arts Centre on Friday, October 27 at 8pm.

MARY COUGHLAN'S autumn/winter tour of Ireland will see her play a home town concert at the end of this month, making her upcoming show a welcome chance to see one of the nation's most outstanding singers in action.

MENTION GALWAY to Eddi Reader, and the Scottish singer is likely to go into a rhapsody about the city and county - and with good reason, it’s a place that appreciates her voice and music; it’s somewhere she has played often; and a region of deeply personal significance for her.

THE MUSIC of Bach, Liszt, Kreisler, Piazzola, and Offenbach, as well as Jewish klezmer music, and the songs of Edith Piaf, will be heard when the Far Flung Trio play two shows in County Galway.

EDITH PIAF was born 100 years ago this year in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris, and although she died more than half a century ago, her songs and her remarkable voice will never perish.