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ONE EVENING in 1951, in the Massachusetts town of Dedham, a young Irish-American teenager happened to tune in to the local radio station as a country band called The Confederate Mountaineers were playing.

THE ALAN Kelly Gang, along with De Dannan’s Alec Finn and Johnny ‘Ringo’ McDonagh will play a fundraising concert in An Taibhdhearc tomorrow at 8pm.

SOME OF Inishbofin’s finest musicians, along with an array of Galway folk and trad talent, will gather for a special concert in Monroe’s Live on Friday March 9.

Balla Golf club

From Wednesday to Monday August 3-8, the Feakle Traditional Music Festival will celebrate its 24th year with a vibrant programme of Traditional music, song, and dance.

MICK LALLY’s life and work will be remembered and celebrated this Sunday from 5pm when Sean Tyrrell, Johnny Mulhearn, Wally Page, Johnny Moynihan, Tony Small, Lena Ullman, Eugene Lambe, Terry Smith, and Mary Staunton take to the stage for Music and Song Tribute to Mick Lally in Monroe’s Live.

Tourmakeady-born accordionist par excellence Mary Staunton performs with a dazzling line-up of fellow musicians at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday, September 16 at 8pm.

Tourmakeady-born accordionist par excellence Mary Staunton performs with a dazzling line-up of fellow musicians at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday, September 16 at 8pm.

Tourmakeady-born accordionist par excellence Mary Staunton performs with a dazzling line-up of fellow musicians at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday, September 16 at 8pm.

Mary Staunton, née Kenny, felt privileged to have been born and reared in such a beautiful place as Westport. To wake up every morning to the magnificent view of Croagh Patrick. To smell the trees, wild flowers and grass on her way to school. The sights, sounds and smells of a rural setting, surely one is forever moulded by an environment such as this.