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The launch of musician and singer/songwriter John Faulkner’s new book about his career in music, Storm in my Heart, will take place on Friday, October 11 at Kennys Bookshop, Liosbán. The book will be launched by James Harrold and all are welcome - this is a free ticket event but booking is required.

A book on one of Galway’s traditional flute players will be launched this week, followed by performances in Ballinasloe, Loughrea and in Galway city by fiddler and flautist Frankie Gavin.

The great fiddle player, piano player and composer Charlie Lennon has passed away. He was 85. Born in Kiltyclogher in County Leitrim, on the border with Fermanagh, in 1938, he grew up in an area rich in music. At the age of seven, he began piano lessons with a local teacher, Theresa Gilmartin, and progressed through the grades of the Royal Irish Academy of Music until he was 13. At the same time, his elder brother, the late Ben Lennon (1928–2020), began teaching him the fiddle.

Three illustrious trad musicians, Gino Lupari, Tim Edey and Dermot Byrne, will come together for a special performance at Monroe’s Live on Thursday, February 29, at 8pm.

BY DECLAN VARLEY

University of Galway this week announced the recipients of Honorary Degrees at the 2023 Winter Conferring ceremonies which are taking place from until Wednesday November 29, when the Honorary Degree awardees will join more than 3,000 students graduating over six days.

Prior to 1961, public performance of Irish traditional music in Galway took place primarily in the form of céilís in large dancehalls — namely in the Hangar, the Commercial and the Astaire. These were enormously popular — remember the hundreds of bicycles parked outside the Hangar on a Sunday night — but they began to go out of fashion in the sixties and were regarded as old fashioned and backward.

A collection of 40 original paintings and graphics by renowned German artist Gertrude Degenhardt, will open at The Kenny Gallery in Liosbán on Saturday, February 11 at 3pm. The exhibition will run until St. Patrick’s Day in the gallery and online.

When I arranged to meet traditional music legend Frankie Gavin in a quiet corner of the Galmont this week, I didn’t know what to expect. I’d heard he had been seriously ill, had lost a significant portion of his body weight and that wonderful hair, but when he came around the corner, wrapped in a grey tweet coat and scarf, he was the same Frankie I’d ever known. Buzzing with energy and life, a head full of hair and keen to sit down for coffee and croissants to share the story of the last year during which he feared for his mortality.

Ballina will see the revival of their traditional Heritage Day which will take place on Wednesday, July 13, following a two year gap due to Covid-19.