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Currafest Music Festival promises to be bigger and better than ever this year, and is set to become the most highly-anticipated Music Festival in the West of Ireland.

My grandmother was born in Moylough, Co Galway, in 1890, and when I knew her she projected an image of Irish Catholic propriety. She went to daily Mass, and stopped to say the Angelus at noon and 6pm. She was generous with the price of a jacket or a ‘smart’ pair of shoes if she felt that I looked a bit shabby. She’d make my mother jealous by making the best chocolate cake ever!

‘You cannot afford to miss this amazing show’, ‘Awesome’ and ‘the best night of my life’ were just three of the audience comments following a sold-out performance of the superb new Irish show Atlantic Steps in Chicago recently. Next week, Brian Cunningham and his family step across the Atlantic Ocean for their only Irish performance of Atlantic Steps this year at the Royal Theatre on Sunday, July 31. Apart from the superb Sean Nós dancing, music stars from across the West of Ireland will be joining Brian and his family on stage at the Royal Theatre for this once-off performance.

World-travelling street minstrel and poet, Felix Sonnyboy Wilson, comes to Skelly’s, Ballymahon for a free gig this Sunday November 29.