Three-day music feast at Galway Arts Centre

 A three-day music event, GAC(h) Duine will take place at Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street from April 18-20.

During the event, the Arts Centre will host a series of performances, as well as offering aspiring musicians a chance to improve their skills.

There will be daily workshops with accredited musicians throughout the weekend, focusing on singing, song-writing and guitar playing.

On Thursday, April 18 at 4.30pm there will be sean-nós singing with Batsheva Battu. On the Friday there will be two workshops. At 2pm there will be a song-writing workshop with Mikey McCrory, and at 4.30pm Des Behan will give a guitar workshop. Tickets are €8 or €20 for three.

The line-up of live events features indie, rock, punk, and everything in between. Shows kick off on Thursday with Dead Red Light, Noriana Kennedy, and Red Eskimo. Tickets are €7. Friday will see sets from Peter Delaney and Mikey and the Scallywags. Again, tickets are €7.

On Saturday Dott, who specialise in shiny harmony-driven garage pop will feature, alongside Oh Boland, Hunk, Laminator, Adultrock and Cave Ghost. Tickets for this show are €10. These are Bring Your Own Bottle (BYOB) events, and doors will open at 8.30pm with shows running until 11.30pm. Tickets for all three nights cost €22.

For more information on the live acts or the master classes, contact Evie in Galway Arts Centre (091) 568642.