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Airbnb are encouraging Galway organisations to apply for the second year of Ireland’s Rural Tourism Fund, doubling its support to locally led projects and organisations that help visitors discover rural Ireland, and strengthen rural communities, to €200,000. The Fund is open to community groups, rural tourism organisations, small businesses and local enterprises across the Republic of Ireland, with the application portal closing on 16 September 2026.

Following their sold-out headline performances at the Cork Jazz Festival and Wexford Spiegeltent, the duo will celebrate The Great American Songbook featuring the music of Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong and more.

If you are looking to immerse yourself and experience the Wild Atlantic Way to its fullest, then make sure you schedule in a stop at one of these festivals taking place along the coast of Clare over the summer months. There is no better way to get involved with the culture and community of where you are visiting than to join them in their annual festivals that make up their traditions.

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.