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On November 25, 1951, the Galway Literary and Debating Society hosted a lecture by Dr Louis Evers on the composer Verdi. In seconding the motion of thanks, the Patrician Brother, Bro Cuthbert, said: “The present seems a fit time for Galway to step into the musical world. It would be a fine tribute to the subject of tonight’s lecture if a musical society were formed”. The Patrician Brothers' Past Pupils' Union took up this idea, and on February 29, 1952, the Patrician Choral Society was formed.

A recital to music of poetry by Seán Ó Ríordáin will be hosted at An Taibhdhearc this Saturday, April 18, at 8pm.

National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, led by the acclaimed Irish conductor David Brophy, now chief conductor with WDR Funkhausorchester, Cologne, returns to Galway with extraordinary uilliean piper Mark Redmond joining as soloist for Shaun Davey's epic The Brendan Voyage.

In association with Music for Galway, Ireland’s largest professional orchestra will perform Shaun Davey’s epic The Brendan Voyage, and Dvo?ák’s monumental ‘New World’ Symphony - one of the great symphonic showpieces.

It has been a decade since its last performance in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, but Handel’s Messiah is returning with a unique, local twist on Sunday, December 14, at 7.30pm.

Salthill’s own musical theatre star Aoife Mulholland returns to Galway next week alongside Britain's ‘king of swing’, vocalist Matt Ford, for A Swingin’ Little Christmas.

Salthill’s own Aoife Mulholland returns to Galway to take centre stage at Leisureland on Friday, December 12, for A Swingin’ Little Christmas – a big-band celebration promising Hollywood sparkle with hometown heart.

Aoife Mulholland shot to fame as one of the contestants in the hit BBC TV show How do you solve a problem like Maria? on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s search for the star of The Sound of Music in London.

Stile Antico, one of the world’s most accomplished and innovative vocal ensembles, will perform at St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, on Thursday, October 16, at 7.30pm.

The 2025 Galway Early Music Festival will celebrate the 500th anniversary of a giant of Renaissance music.