Throughout the 1990s An Emotional Fish was one of this country’s most outstanding rock bands, best known for the song ‘Celebrate’, which was to become…

Seamus Ruttledge was raised in Knockmore, Ballina before eventually settling in Tuam many years ago to become part of the artistic landscape of a creative…

Ever-evolving Mayo-based folk band Billow Wood has taken the inspiration for its latest single from a Behy Beg woman, Maisie O’Donnell, who emigrated from Mayo…

Whenever Ballina Punxx presents a show in town, you can be sure of a mad night of music. A Wexford band will join musicians from…

Well-known music teacher and conductor Regina Deacy is in charge of this weekend’s Midwinter Melodies, a night of delightful music by candlelight which will be…

The first EP from Siúcra, a sextet hailing from Galway, and with a strong Mayo input, is out at the end of next week. Rosetta…

The Lumiere Quartet is an exciting new group led by the well-known Irish Baroque Orchestra leader Claire Duff. For their concert in Ballina next Wednesday,…

Pleasure is a new alt rock song from Mayo’s Train Room, with a strong melodic line which takes the listener on a thoroughly enjoyable musical…

Embers Young People’s Film Festival 2024, which will take place in Ballina this weekend, includes a special schools’ showing of ‘Wall-E’, along with seven other…

Those in the Gen X and Millennial cohorts will have a particular affinity for the music of the 1980s, having grown up to the sounds…