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Formed in 2012 when three friends met busking at the Rory Gallagher Festival in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, Deuce is fuelled by a shared admiration for the guitar legend.

Rapidly becoming one of the most talked about groups in Ireland, Bricknasty emerged from Ballymun in early 2020 as a lockdown studio project that has developed into a band of tunesters.

Fresh from headlining sold-out gigs at the Cork Jazz Festival, Rory Gallagher tribute band Deuce will bring his iconic blues-rock fusion to Galway for the first time on Friday, 3 November.

THE 2019 Galway Jazz Festival takes place this week, and will be officially opened this evening at 6pm in the Kitchen Café of the Galway City Museum by Connemara environmentalist and educator Leo Hallissey.

SAOIRSE, A work specially commissioned by the 2019 Galway Jazz Festival, which fuses Connemara sean-nós with jazz and improvisational forms, will be premiered performed by vocalist Lauren Kinsella.

We are well into the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and winter is not far away but fear not — there is still lots to do in Galway as we prepare for the shorter evenings ahead. So grab a scarf and an extra layer of clothing, and get out and enjoy October in Galway.

THE HARDANGER is a distinctly Norwegian version of the fiddle, but with eight/nine strings instead of four, and decoration, with a carved animal as part of the scroll at the top of the pegbox, and mother of pearl inlay on the fingerboard.

MONDAY APRIL 15 will be a red letter day for Galway’s classical music aficionados as it sees the debut of the city’s new orchestra, Luminosa, at Galway Cathedral. The debut concert programme, Maestra, will feature works by female composers ranging from the 12th century Hildegard of Bingen to Galway’s own Jane O’Leary.

Exciting and innovative jazz guitarist Mike Nielsen performs at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday February 7 at 8pm.

Following sell-out performances in Westport in April and December 2016, one of Ireland’s top bands 'The Swing Cats' will return to Westport Town Hall Theatre on Saturday, November 3, with their smash hit musical timeline show.