The sound of music brought a massive financial windfall for Sligo over the bank holiday week-end, with an estimated spend of nearly ?4millon during a number of major music festivals.The big attraction ...

When it comes to Irish traditional music and its evolution, it is always more intriguing to think in circular patterns than it is in linear ones when marking certain milestones in its history. It was ...

To mark International Day of Music last week, outgoing Mayor, Clr. Declan Bree hosted a Civic Reception to honour the Sligo Academy of Music, and to pay a special tribute to the academys inspirational ...

A COUNCILLOR has called for a Westlife museum in Sligo – to rival tributes to WB Yeats. Three members of the Irish boyband hail from the county, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Kian Egan all growing up ...

When you cast your eye back over the past hundred years in the history of traditional Irish music, one of the seismic events was the arrival on America’s shores of the Sligo-born fiddle player Michael ...