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The music video for Billow Wood’s song 'If You Come Back' featured on German TV recently to promote their tour of the country, which opens on Saturday. Read more at daviddwane.ie/blog

The video for Mayo singer songwriter Katie Cassidy's new single was shot in Keane's Pub, Ballina. It is an impressive new, collaborative track, with lyrics centring around a painful and sometimes frenetic love story. Read more and watch the video at daviddwane.ie/blog

Esteemed Chairman of Moy Valley Resources, Denis Michael, has stepped down after three decades, and I am honoured to have been elected to succeed him in that role. I look forward to working with all of our stakeholders in the exciting times ahead. westernpeople.ie/2023/04/04/new…

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Billow Wood, the Mayo group which has just completed another successful tour of Germany, will release a new single shortly. Read more at daviddwane.ie/blog

As part of the Connacht Fleadh, which starts in Ballina next Friday, button accordion player Máirtín O’Connor and his trio will perform at Ballina Arts Centre on Saturday 24th June. Read more at daviddwane.ie/blog

Best of luck to all music students, including my own bunch, who are sitting their Leaving Cert Music Listening and Composing papers tomorrow.

Mayo's Cathal Connolly - aka Cathal Faughnan from Knockmore - is scornful of the dubious social conscience of a generation in his new single 'Wugo'. Watch the video of his remarkable debut and read more at daviddwane.ie/blog

Paddy Casey, one of the country's most successful singer songwriters, plays a show in Castlebar next month. Read more at daviddwane.ie/blog

Indie-pop Berlin-based artist Lydia Ford is releasing a remix of her most recent single ' Burning Out'', with a debut album also on the way. Read more about this Castlebar songwriter at daviddwane.ie/blog

Music students from The Core will be demonstrating their instrumental and vocal skills on The Core Stage, an outdoor amenity in the grounds of The Jackie Clarke Collection, Pearse Street, Ballina during Ballina Salmon Festival 2023. Read more at daviddwane.ie/blog

Padraig Jack was born into a musical family from the Aran Islands. His dad is the songwriter Barry Ronan and he is the nephew of the Irish poet Mary O’Malley. Read about the latest project from this songwriter, including his Mayo dates, at daviddwane.ie/blog

A serious car accident hasn't halted the creativity of Ballina's Katie Cassidy. The feisty lyrics of her new single describe the impact from conflicts within the inner self that arise from anxiety. Read more and watch the video at daviddwane.ie/blog

Mayo musician Brian Duffy has come together with Glen Brady of Def Nettle to release a song which pummels the anti-immigrant sentiment that is becoming more prevalent in Ireland. Read more at daviddwane.ie/blog

Blues rock and one-time showband star Rob Strong will be among the talented acts appearing at this August public holiday weekend's Healyfest Music Festival in Ballycastle, Co. Mayo. Read more at daviddwane.ie/blog Healys Bar Mayo North Tourism, Ireland

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Michael Moloney’s appearance at this year’s Electric Picnic will be another great milestone in the career of the teenage Ballina singer songwriter, who saw his new single recently enter the Irish Charts at No 17 ahead of Inhaler and Damien Dempsey. See daviddwane.ie/blog

Renowned Ballina folk and trad group Billow Wood, whose huge following extends beyond Ireland and our continental borders, has been selected to showcase its music at Folk Alliance International in Kansas City, USA next February. Read more at daviddwane.ie/blog/?p=3232

Parts of the North Mayo and West Sligo region have been classified as 'very disadvantaged’ to ‘extremely disadvantaged’ in the newly-published Pobal HP Deprivation Index, revealing them to be among some of the most deprived areas in the province of Connacht.

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