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The Snug Bar, Athlone have another top weekend of live music lined up.

THOUGH THEY were together for only three years and released just two albums, 1960s ensemble Sweeney’s Men enjoy legendary status in folk and folk-rock circles.

“I’LL TELL you something, I mightn’t be in this business at all if it wasn’t for a Galwayman, Des Kelly,” Phil Coulter tells me during our interview on Tuesday morning. “He was the leader of the Capitol Showband who were the biggest in Ireland when I was a student in Queen’s in Belfast.”

HIS FIRST time in Galway was in 1962 as a teen folk singing ‘wannabe’. A decade later he was back as part of Irish trad’s first ‘supergroup’. Ten years later he was a controversial supporter of the Hunger Strikers. And tomorrow he headlines the Galway Arts Festival Big Top.

THE ATLANTIC Pirates have become one of the best known bands in Galway through their constant presence on Shop Street, playing some of the great Irish folk songs.

THE CLIFDEN Arts Week is currently under way and among the events taking place will be a host of literary events and a Sunday Miscellany broadcast.

While at the Oxegen music festival in 2007, friends Shane, Joe, and Callum decided they wanted to be on stage, not in front of it, and thus Bipolar Empire was born! They approached Mark Maguire, a talented guitarist, songwriter, and longtime friend - and Bipolar Empire became a quartet.

YOU DO not have to be a native of a particular country to enjoy its traditional music. Many who have never set foot in Cuba love the island’s sounds, numerous white indie bands are in thrall to Afro-beat, and Irish trad wins converts wherever it is heard.

THE DUBLINERS were formed in 1962 by Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ciaran Bourke, and Barney McKenna and initially were known as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group.

The Dubliners will play a fundraising concert on Sunday October 17 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in aid of Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe.