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A West Cork town is set to be invaded by guitar lovers when it hosts a star-studded festival featuring some of the greatest foot-stompin’, fingerpicking, head-banging, eye-catching exponents of the art.

THERE are glimpses of the sea and beaches out at Inchydoney island from this modern-build,called Island View, tucked away out of storms’ way at a back road beyond one of the island’s causeway approaches, at Garranagoleen.

Ted Hughes’s life was marked by tragedy, but a new play recollects happier days spent in Co Galway with Assia Wevill and their children, writes Richard Fizpatrick

Photographs of rock musician Noel Redding — never before released — opening for Jimi Hendrix in a US concert in the 1960s have been donated to a West Cork pub.

Overseas buyers are confidently once again snapping up country homes.

From traditional music to West End stars and a tribute to a legendary guitarist — there’s an eclectic mix of music events and festivals for all tastes this weekend — with a French food festival thrown in for good measure.

Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Noel Redding, the Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist who came to call West Cork his home, writes Noel Baker

FANCY getting your hands on the local garda, a GAA star, a top chef or a musician to sing sweet nothings in your ear?

Dunowen House has a long history, rock legend links to Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Noel Redding, a recent funky makeover, and is open to guests, writes Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker says Cork houses have broken the million mark by the dozen in 2005.

Tommy Barker says the use of Italian craftsmen reflects the care with which this West Cork farmhouse has been renovated.

CLONAKILTY’S Glebe House, on the town’s landmark Emmet Square, has had its Easter Rising.

Tommy Barker says historic Dunowen House, will be well worth the money for any potential buyer.

Legal action may lead to music academy in home of the late Noel Redding, reports Seán O’Riordan.

THE funeral took place in Clonakilty, Co Cork, yesterday of Noel Redding, the man who played bass with one of rock’s most famous outfits, the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Noel Redding, who was a bass player with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, has died at his home in West Cork.

MARIA Harrington of Key Properties has two distinctive properties on her books at the moment, both with excellent, coastal locations in West Cork. Pier House is a two-minute walk from the Causeway, Rosscarbery and a mile from Ownahincha Beach.

THE estate of the late Jimi Hendrix is worth an estimated $300,000 million and growing, while the bass player with the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience band is selling up his Irish home for the last 29 years to trade down to a cheaper place.