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ABBAesque bill themselves as Ireland’s number one tribute show, and their homage to Sweden’s best-selling band of all time comes to Galway next month.

Music for Galway’s 43rd season, Irish Connections, kicks off next Friday, September 27, at 7.30pm in Leisureland featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra with special compère Marty Morrissey.

The 2024/25 season will be opened by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra performing in Leisureland on Friday, September 27, with Marty Morrissey compèring a special sporting celebration through music on the joys that the nation has experienced, especially during the recent the Olympic Games.

High on the successes of Cellissimo and high up on the roof of Bonham Quay, Music for Galway unveiled plans for its 43rd International Concert Season 2024/25.

Esker Festival Choir alongside its rising star soloist, Zo ë Nagle and conductor, Peter Joyce, will bring Gustav Holst's famous suite, The Planets, to the Galway Cathedral on Saturday, August 17 at 8pm.

Talented multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and composer Tara Howley will perform at Monroe’s Live on Sunday, July 28, at 8pm as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

The great fiddle player, piano player and composer Charlie Lennon has passed away. He was 85. Born in Kiltyclogher in County Leitrim, on the border with Fermanagh, in 1938, he grew up in an area rich in music. At the age of seven, he began piano lessons with a local teacher, Theresa Gilmartin, and progressed through the grades of the Royal Irish Academy of Music until he was 13. At the same time, his elder brother, the late Ben Lennon (1928–2020), began teaching him the fiddle.