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The Galway Sessions music festival swings into gear next week and one of the definite highlights is the appearance by bona-fide bluegrass great Curtis Blackwell, one-time sidekick of Bill Monroe and, with his band The Dixie Bluegrass Boys, one of the most popular acts on the US bluegrass scene for over 40 years.

The Saw Doctors are about to undertake their biggest tour of the USA and Canada to date, taking in 29 shows across 27 cities throughout February, March, and April.

Darragh Sheehan, a young Kilkenny student, is on the verge of joining the prestigious college basketball circuit in the United States.

Some 75 business leaders representing key players in renewable technology, tourism, arts and crafts, technology, and food came together this week in Tullamore to develop their plans for a new Midlands economy, based on co-operation and innovation.

A renowned educationalist with a special interest in how people learn best will address a conference at NUI Galway organised by its School of Nursing and Midwifery.

ALL AROUND us are influences. Everywhere we turn are inspirations and challenges that can affect our behaviour and thoughts. Are we ever truly free then if all these things affect us consciously and unconsciously?

DJ SHADOW, one of the world’s leading and most innovative DJs, will play the Live Lounge in the Radisson Blu Hotel this Saturday at 8pm.

FOR MANY DJ Shadow might be ‘the man from UNKLE’, but it is as a solo artist that he has truly made his mark.

ACCLAIMED IRISH group Republic of Loose have just been confirmed for the Sligo Live Sessions which takes place over the October Bank Holiday weekend.

INDIE IS the self-confessed home of all that is ‘quirky’ in pop and rock and in Darwin Deez the genre may have found a singer worthy to carry on its fine tradition of off-centre pop eccentricity.