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GALWAY/LONDON house collective, the Disconauts, play their first live date of 2012 at the Róisín Dubh for a St Patrick’s weekend show this Sunday from 10pm.

The Coronas, James Vincent McMorrow, Lisa Hannigan, Bressie, The Kanyu Tree, and Elaine Mai will be amongst the top attractions at this year’s Galway Arts Festival Big Top.

IT IS good to be Lisa Hannigan these days. Her second album Passenger, released in October, has enjoyed critical and public acclaim and her recent appearances in America have also been well received. Now 2012 starts on a bright note, with a Meteor Choice Award nomination for the Meath singer-songwriter.

JIM MCKEE, the Tyrone born, Kinvara based artist, singer, and songwriter, will play Monroe’s Backstage Bar with his band this Sunday 15 at 10pm.

IRISH FOLK-blues singer songwriter Marc O’Reilly has just released his debut album My Friend Marx. It will be launched in the Róisín Dubh nexy weekend.

ALBUM WISE without a shadow of a doubt I’m still listening to Becoming a Jackal by Villagers. Then again, who isn’t still listening to that album?

That’s the title to one of the songs played by Jason and The Scorchers in the Set Theatre last Sunday night and everyone in the packed out venue would surely agree.

Whether you are celebrating 300 years or 13 years, there can be few better ways to kick off the festivities than the sounds of Josh Ritter, a songwriter at the top of his game.

I’m not one of those indie-chic girls. I’d like to be, but in all honesty, I’m not. I like the stuff you hear on the radio, the stuff that plays in the background of Grey’s Anatomy, and the stuff you hear when your shakin’ your stuff in the nightclubs. I went and saw Blondie during the Arts Festival (highlight of my summer!) and I will go see Paddy Casey at the Roisin in January. My CD collection includes everything from opera to show tunes to gangster rap to bubblegum pop. My musical tastes are as wide and varied as you could imagine, so trying to put down on paper my favourite musical moments of the year isn’t an easy task, or a neat and tidy one at that, especially for such a brilliant year in music.

One of the most distinctive voices in music, lauded singer/songwriter and Brit Award nominee, Ray LaMontagne released his much-anticipated third album, Gossip In The Grain, last October to great praise, and with hit songs like “You are the Best Thing” it is easy to see why.