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THE CORONAS, one of Ireland's best loved bands will play a headline at the Big Top to close the Absolut Big Top music programme at the Galway International Arts Festival this summer, while the day before 2FM’s Jenny Greene and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra will join forces for a night of dance anthems.

Galway is known for many things, arts, culture, and its vibrant food scene holding its own on the international stage. We have enjoyed the status of burgeoning foodie paradise for a few years now, with new places to eat springing up all around the city. Not to be outdone there has been an explosion in the bar scene also. Throngs of bars line almost every street in the city, from traditional to exotic to the hidden gems only the locals know about.

Galway International Arts Festival is delighted to announce that celebrated UK theatre company Kneehigh will bring their five-star show Tristan & Yseult to the Galway International Arts Festival in July.

HE HAS amassed 1.3 billion views on YouTube for his hit single 'Let Her Go', won the Independent Music Award in 2013 and an Ivor Novello Award in 2014, and enjoyed a No 1 album with 2016's Young as the Morning Old as the Sea. This year he plays Galway.

As I type, the Red Box is being dismantled in Eyre Square, with the Spiegeltent soon to follow, and Bob's Blunderbus is about to journey on, as the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway is over for another year - but the 2016 festival will linger long in the mind.

Tribeton is on Merchants Road, in the building formerly known as McDonagh’s which dates from 1825 and features flourishes that reflect its art deco origins. In a previous life this building was the administration area for McDonagh’s timber yard across the street, where the Eyre Square Shopping Centre now stands, and the site of the beginning of the big fire of 1971. This inferno spread throughout a six acre block, causing an estimated £2 million worth of damage to 26 premises. Some of us will remember fondly going to McDonagh's paint and hardware to see the wire pulley system that took orders and receipts on a Willy-Wonkaesque journey overhead. It has had many reinventions since then, as a furniture and lighting store, a media centre for the Volvo Ocean Race, and an art gallery for the Galway International Arts Festival. Most recently it was a homeware store and woollens shop, stuffed full of tables and chairs, cushions, and jumpers.

OUR LADIES of Perpetual Succour is The National Theatre of Scotland's second visit to the Galway International Arts Festival and a raucously entertaining affair it is too.

SOUL, JAZZ, Afro, Latin, and Caribbean styles, biting social commentary and a core message of hope, will come together in the music of French-Canadian collective The Souljazz Orchestra.

DAN DEACON is "a self-confessed pop weirdo who sits at the edge of pop and experimentation," according to The Guardian, who makes "teeming crackpot electronica" says The Times, and he plays Galway next week.

THE WHILEAWAYS, Siobhán Peoples, and Mary Shannon, are among the musicians who will play the Galway International Arts Festival Lunchtime Trad Concerts at Monroe’s Live this July.