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Galway’s winter cultural calendar is set for a major highlight this January as Music for Galway announces details of its much-anticipated Midwinter Festival 2026, titled The Quartet Extends. Running from Friday, January 23, until Sunday, January 25, at the Town Hall Theatre, the festival promises a rich celebration of chamber music, creativity and collaboration, and, in the words of its organisers, “total indulgence”.

The eight professional cellists who comprise Cello Ireland will be at the heart of a special Cellisimo Spectacular concert in Leisureland, Salthill this Saturday, May 25.

The latest radiant concert from Galway’s own orchestra, Luminosa, began with late evening sun still streaming through the windows into St Nicholas’s Church. It seemed a fitting metaphor to illuminate the latest in their concert series, bláthú, flourishing with the coming of spring.

The Irish Association of Youth Orchestras (IAYO) is delighted to return to the National Concert Hall on Saturday, February 11, for their Annual Festival of Youth Orchestras.

400 primary school children from Galway county attended a series of concerts in The Mall Theatre in Tuam this week on Wednesday September 28th as part of Music for Galway’s musical outreach programme. Children from Clydagh, Ballinlass, Bawnmore, Tuam, Athenry, Sylane and Glinsk got to ‘Meet the Violins’ where world renowned violinist, Sergey Malov introduced them to instruments from the violin family through contemporary and traditional music.

TOM STOPPARD’S latest play Leopoldstadt, and the Bolshoi Ballet’s production of Jewels will be on screen at the Eye Cinema this month.

CLADDAGH SWANS, a new classical ballet fused with contemporary dance, and inspired by the swans at Nimmo’s Pier, will be performed this weekend.

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FROM THE brilliance of Bach's Cello Suites to the haunting backing the cello provided to Nirvana's legendary Unplugged in NY concert for MTV, the cello has been one of the most versatile and admired instruments in music.

THE CELTIC Nutcracker, a fusion of Tchaikovsky's celebrated ballet score with Irish traditional music, comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday December 16 and Tuesday 17.