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KARAN CASEY and John Doyle, former members of Irish-American folk-trad band Solas, and now solo artists, play An Taibhdhearc tonight.

Folk singer Noriana Kennedy is joined by fellow musicians Nicola Joyce and Noelie McDonnell for a great night of Irish and American folk music at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Tuesday, February 14 at 8pm.

Join jazz vocalist Emilie Conway for the launch her debut album The Secret of a Rose with an evening of music to celebrate spring as a season of new love, hope, and change, as the dazzling young chanteuse makes a welcome return to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar with a trio of top musicians on Tuesday, January 31 at 8pm.

Ireland’s finest contemporary music group, Crash Ensemble, performs a fresh, fun, and funky celebration of world folk music with a contemporary twist at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday December 6 at 8pm.

THE YOURODNY were the nomadic bards of ancient Russia who collected, preserved, and created the folk music of that country.

In Mexico in the 1840s, Clifden man John Reilly led a band of Irish soldiers called The San Patricios, in an effort to help Mexico repulse a military invasion by the USA.

AFTER THE Beatles, there are few English bands that have cast as large or as long a shadow, or wielded greater influence on all areas of rock music than Pink Floyd.

While Radiohead (and many rock critics) will not admit it, we all know OK Computer was The Wall for the 1990s and that Thom Yorke and co are indebted to Pink Floyd.