Following their storming end-of-night set at the Haiti fundraiser in Monroes Live a few weeks ago, The Timbertramps return to the new Dominick Street venue for another night of revelry on their monthly residency this Friday 5 March. Doors 11pm and tickets €10.

The wonderful Richmond Fontaine return to Galway for an acoustic show upstairs in the Roisin Dubh on Wednesday 10 March. The band released their eighth album We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded like a River last year and the new album delivers Willy Vlautin's classic storytelling, backed by Fontaine's most interesting and accomplished musical performance to date.

Widely regarded among his peers as one of Ireland's most promising young songwriters, Niall Connolly makes a welcome return to Galway this week when he plays a show upstairs in The Crane Bar on Friday 5 March. Based in New York and with three highly regarded albums under his belt, Connolly released his fourth album Be There I Have To Swim

Brian Rooney, one of the most well known faces on the traditional music circuit in London, plays a rare gig in the Crane Bar on Sunday 7 March, where he'll be joined by John Carty and Brian McGrath. Having lived in London for the past 40 years, Rooney astounded the wider traditional community in 1999 with the release of his debut album The Godfather and he was finally recognised as one of the master fiddlers of his generation.

Northern Irish three-piece Two Door Cinema Club are one of the most talked-about acts at the moment and the Bangor electro pop band play Strange Brew at Roisin Dubh tomorrow, Thursday 4 March. Their music has been loosely compared to the likes of Death Cab for Cutie and Broken Social Scene and the trio's melodic vocals, pulsing rhythms and soaring guitars have been causing major waves of late.

One of Ireland's finest live performers, the inimitable Jinx Lennon, brings his incendiary brand of punk-folk to the Róisín Dubh this Friday 5 March. Jinx Lennon is a punk/poet/performance artist, whose repertoire contains elements of spoken word, electro, and noise. It is storytelling delivered with a rage and rawness that is beautifully complimented by Jinx's stage partner Miss Paula Flynn's tender vocals.

MUSIC: Strange Boys - Be Strange - (Rough Trade)
Taking off from where last year's excellent debut Strange Boys And Girls Club left off, the Strange Boys have crafted a sophomore album that is an altogether boozier, bluesier affair and is all the better for it. Estranged yet soulful garage pop rock that smacks of the 60s but sounds just right for the here and now.

Featuring internationally renowned performers and some of the finest talent this country has to offer, Arts in Action and NUI Galway presents a night of traditional arts in the new Bailey Allen Hall on Thursday 25 March. The audience can expect performances from artists based in the West of Ireland including Frankie Gavin, Mairtin O'Connor, Roisin Elsafty, Lillis O'Laoire, Louis de Paor, Ronan Browne, Seosamh O Neachtain, Garry O'Briain and Mary McPartlan, who will treat the audience to an evening of music, sean nos dancing and Irish language poetry.

The Regina Rogers School of Ballet presents a Gala Concert Programme in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday 21 March. This colourful and entertaining programme will feature both junior and senior dancers, three of whom are members of the Irish Youth Russian Ballet Company.

Two Galway bands Go Panda Go and The Coonics are among the four bands (along with Sanskrit and Tupelo) announced for the Galway leg of The JD Set, Ireland's longest running unsigned band competition, which takes place in the Róisín Dubh on Friday 26 March The winning band will go on to compete in The JD Set final in The Village on Thursday 29 April.