An all-star, eclectic line-up is expected to draw 20,000 revellers to the Killarney Festival of Music and Food, on June 27-28.

I’ve leant that some stuff simply doesn’t matter. In fact, most things don’t matter. 

Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody will help kick off celebrations in the North's first City of Culture, it has been confirmed.

David Bowie is obviously a Starman for the University of Limerick, which is staging the world’s first symposium examining the career and cultural impact of the iconic British singer.

Music fans are heading to Mayo in their thousands this evening for the first ever Westport Festival of Music and Performing Arts.

Music fans are heading west in their thousands this weekend for the first ever Westport Festival of Music and Performing Arts.

The Who guitarist Pete Townshend will discuss the future of the music industry when he gives the first John Peel lecture in honour of the legendary DJ.

Hooleygan: Music, Mayhem, Good Vibrations. Terri Hooley and Richard Sullivan, Blackstaff Press; £14.99.

More acts have been added to the line up for this year's Electric Picnic festival.

Guinness today announced the line-up of artists for Dublin’s Arthur’s Day 250th anniversary celebrations on September 24.

Hip hop favourites Black Eyed Peas and rockers Kasabian are among music stars lining up for a clutch of global concerts to toast 250 years of Guinness this autumn, it was revealed today.

Tickets for this year's Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally, Co Laois, are going on sale from 9am this morning.

Jewels of the British rock and pop industry catalogue are at risk because of outdated laws affecting copyright of sound recordings, according to campaigners.

Acts as diverse as Kylie Minogue, Van Morrison and Goldie Lookin’ Chain are set to perform at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, according to the line-up revealed today.

Rockers REM paid an emotional tribute to late British DJ John Peel last Friday by playing a cover of his favourite track Teenage Kicks at their first concert in Belfast.

Tributes have continued to pour in for legendary DJ John Peel, who died of a heart attack at the age of 65.

THE music world last night paid tribute to legendary DJ John Peel after his sudden death at the age of 65.

CONTORTIONISM, acrobatics, mysterious transformations, music and dance with Macnas providing the backing track. It must be Galway Arts Festival time again.