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Last Sunday President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina led the distinguished guests of St Patrick's Brass Band at the memorial concert for the band's late president and long serving member Tom Feeney. Mr Feeney, a native of Bohermore who passed away in December of last year, was deeply involved with the band and played a key role in the band's revival in the 1960s.

The Bailey Allen Hall in NUI Galway will be the venue for the first Galway Youth Orchestra concert of 2014 on Saturday January 4 at 8pm.

GEORGE GERSCHWIN’S ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, one of the great orchestral works of the 20th century, fusing jazz and classical, will be performed in Galway.

THE AMERICAN soprano Marcy Richardson will make her debut Irish performance in Handel’s Messiah in Galway Cathedral on Friday December 21.

The Galway Youth Orchestra will give the last concert of their 30th anniversary year in The Black Box Theatre on Saturday December 15 at 8pm.

An important stage in Galway’s housing drive was reached in 1952 when the Minister for Local Government, Mr P Smith, opened three housing schemes comprising 142 new houses, 12 at Ballybrit, 30 in the Claddagh, and 100 in Shantalla.

THE MUSIC OF the great Austrian composer Joseph Hayden will be performed at a special concert in the Augustinian Church on Thursday May 31 at 8pm.

GALWAY YOUTH Orchestra will play Seapoint Leisure Centre, Salthill this Saturday at 8pm to celebrate the orchestra’s 30th birthday.

“I AM the very model of a modern Major-General/I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral/I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical/From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.”

GILBERT & Sullivan’s much loved comic opera, the Pirates of Penzance, will be performed in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway, on Saturday, January 7.