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Acclaimed Irish artist Jack Lukeman – aka Jack L – will play in Kilkenny’s Set Theatre on Saturday October 22.

The highly successful Lady Gregory Autumn Gatherings continue in Coole Park, Gort, Co Galway, running from Friday to Sunday, 23 to 25 September, and will this year recognise the remarkable influence of Lady Augusta Gregory on the development of Irish theatre and literature.

Jack L will make his first visit to The Royal Theatre in a long time when he performs there on Saturday July 23. Upcoming highlights throughout this year for Jack will include a series of shows in The National Concert Hall to celebrate its 25th anniversary in November.

Award-winning Connemara Hotel, Ballynahinch Castle, is to celebrate its 65th birthday with a special evening of music and entertainment in aid of Cancer Care West.

THE 2011 Cúirt Over The Edge reading, a major showcase for emerging writers, takes place in the Druid Lane Theatre on Wednesday at 3.30pm.

CELESTE AUGÉ, Marie Cadden, and Hedy Griffin have been announced as the winners of this year’s Cúirt New Writing Prize.

With January being officially Ireland’s most depressing month, what better way to remedy the winter blues than the prospect of a duvet day for a great cause. To help support the work of Ireland’s almost 275,000 family carers, broadcasters and patrons of The Carers Association, Marty Whelan and Mary Kennedy, have teamed up to launch Ireland’s first Win a Day Off Work campaign. The campaign offers Westmeath employees the chance to win a duvet day while raising vital funds for family carers.

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra show, which took place recently in Leisureland, can be heard again on the Lyric FM website.

There’s a musical treat in store when Mayo Girls Choir and the Ladybirds vocal ensemble present Old and New at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday, May 6 at 8pm. United by a love of singing, Ladybirds vocal ensemble evolved out of The Bells of Mayo into a highly entertaining vocal ensemble. In the short time they have been together they have wooed audiences with snappy arrangements of songs from the swing era of the 30s to musical treasures of the 21st century. The Mayo Girls Choir was founded in 1994. Since then the choir has been awarded prizes in the Derry Feis Ceoil, Michael Van Dessel Festival, Pan Celtic Festival, Lyric FM Choirs for Christmas competition and in 2008 and 2009 they received the top prize for youth choirs in the Dublin Feis Ceoil. The Mayo Girls Choir and the Ladybirds vocal ensemble perform at the Linenhall Arts Centre on Thursday May 6 at 8pm.

THE MUSIC of two of the great 18th century composers for harpsichord, François Couperin and Domenico Scarlatti, will be performed in Galway at a charity convert for COPE.