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TINA TURNER herself has described Irish singer, Rebecca O'Connor's tribute show to Tina, Simply The Best, as "so good, it’s scary!”, while Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood declared, "Rebecca is an amazing performer and vocalist. I was mesmerized."

TERRY REID could have been the lead singer in Led Zeppelin. Richie Blackmore wanted him to be Deep Purple’s frontman. Both incidents have cast him as rock’s great 'nearly man...’, but this is to forget Terry Reid has always been his own man.

An Inis Oírr based singer and songwriter, who was forced to spend the money she had originally saved to make an album on cancer treatment, is attempting to raise funds to finish the project. Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was five months pregnant at the age of 39. At the time, the singer was in the process of putting together her third album.

I must explain at the beginning of this column that I am compiling it before the Dáil meets on Wednesday, April 6. So I have no idea of what the outcome of that day will be but hopefully next week we will talk about it. I regret that my column must be in before the outcome of that Dáil meeting can be told. Let’s hope they come to some conclusion.

On Thursday April 7, Hidden Hearing are hosting a free health screening event in the Sheraton Athlone Hotel, in association with Active Retirement Ireland. The event is free and is on from 9am-5pm.

Due to popular demand will perform their live show ‘The Story of Swing’ at The Town Hall Theatre, Westport on Easter Sunday, March 27. A musical timeline of swing classics of the 1920’s to a modern day contemporary twist that features the music of Louis Armstrong, The Rat Pack, Michael Buble, Paolo Nutini and more.

Due to popular demand will perform their live show ‘The Story of Swing’ at The Town Hall Theatre, Westport on Easter Sunday, March 27. A musical timeline of swing classics of the 1920’s to a modern day contemporary twist that features the music of Louis Armstrong, The Rat Pack, Michael Buble, Paolo Nutini and more.

TWO SINGER-songwriters, one Canadian and one Irish, both of whom have worked with Steve Earle, will be in The Cellar Bar to play a free gig on Wednesday March 23.

The Crossmolina National School and School Parents Association are staging a concert featuring leading Irish singer James Kilbane on Friday April 8 at St Tiernan’s Church, Crossmolina.

'SEAS AN Fód/Stand Your Ground' is the defiant theme of this year's Múscailt, NUI Galway's annual arts festival, which brings a host of visual arts, music, performance, song, talks, and workshop to the campus in March. All events are free and open to the public.