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WHEN HIP-HOP emerged from the Bronx in the late 1970s and spread throughout New York, punk and new wave musicians in the city btook notice.

JANUARY IS often a drab and dull month. It is the post-Christmas slump, the winter is not yet over, and the New Year has not yet fully kicked off.

JANUARY IS often a dull month, given that Christmas is over, we are in the bleak mid-winter, and spring is some weeks away, but there is plenty happening in the Róisín Dubh to keep you entertained and keep your spirits up.

It is like a jungle sometimes unless you invented DJing with two turntables and a microphone back in the late seventies. Without the Grandmaster there would be no MC busting loose over your favourite hip hop jams, nobody scratching or mixing records and no grooves on the radio. The godfather of this genre, Grandmaster Flash, is coming to Castlebar this October 30 when he takes to the wheels of steel at Choice at the Royal. Grandmaster Flash introduced us to the seminal classics ‘White Lines’ and ‘The Message’ and in 2007 became the first hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame.