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The great fiddle player, piano player and composer Charlie Lennon has passed away. He was 85. Born in Kiltyclogher in County Leitrim, on the border with Fermanagh, in 1938, he grew up in an area rich in music. At the age of seven, he began piano lessons with a local teacher, Theresa Gilmartin, and progressed through the grades of the Royal Irish Academy of Music until he was 13. At the same time, his elder brother, the late Ben Lennon (1928–2020), began teaching him the fiddle.

With a most distinctive vocal tone, singer and multi-instrumentalist, Sean Keane, returns to play a live date in Tuar Ard Arts Centre, Moate, On Saturday, January 25.

RYAN VAIL, twice nominated for the Northern Ireland Music Prize, will bring his acclaimed fusion of electronica and modern classical music to Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tonight at 9pm.