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A book on one of Galway’s traditional flute players will be launched this week, followed by performances in Ballinasloe, Loughrea and in Galway city by fiddler and flautist Frankie Gavin.

Prior to 1961, public performance of Irish traditional music in Galway took place primarily in the form of céilís in large dancehalls — namely in the Hangar, the Commercial and the Astaire. These were enormously popular — remember the hundreds of bicycles parked outside the Hangar on a Sunday night — but they began to go out of fashion in the sixties and were regarded as old fashioned and backward.

IN CONCERT footage of the 1970s Galway folk duo Dicklerfitz - singer Terry Smith and the late Mickey Finn on the fiddle - has been posted on YouTube.

THE LEGENDARY Galway fiddler Mickey Finn died on Spy Wednesday 1987 and to mark the 24th anniversary of his passing, a Wikipedia page on the man has been set up.

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.

A NEW six-part nature series, Ciomhtioch Gan Cuireadh, or 'Alien Invaders' starts on TG4 tomorrow at 8.30pm and features music by Galway’s Johnny Finn.

JOHNNY FINN has written a song about his brother, the late fiddle legend Mickey Finn, and put it on YouTube.