Coirmcheoil Phádraig, the traditional St Patrick’s Day concert of music and song of the nation produced by An Taibhdhearc in association with Tom Cullivan, will be held in St Patrick's Band Hall, Fairgreen, next Sunday 14 March at 8pm. Singers Hildegarde Naughton, Sandra Schalks and Seosamh O Flaithearta, violinist Éamonn Rabbitte and pianists Elena Gekker and Tom Cullivan will give the concert.

The Head of Red O'Brien was the first play scripted by Garage and Adam and Paul writer Mark O'Halloran, and local theatre group TrueWest gives the play its debut outside of Dublin when they take it to the stage of the Nuns Island Theatre from Tuesday 9 to Sunday 14 March. This tragic comedy sees Red O'Brien reflect on the disintegration of his relationship with his wife.

Grouchy, deadpan, comic genius Rich Hall plays two shows in the Laughter Lounge in Roisin Dubh next week on Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 March. Edinburgh Fringe favourite and Perrier Award winner Hall left his job as a hurricane namer for the United States Meteorological Service two decades ago and hasn't looked back.

The fourth annual Tedfest is well underway and tonight, Wednesday 3 March, at the Laughter Lounge sees a special Fr Ted standup show followed, in true Father Ted style, by a Lovely Girls Competition. There's a welcome Galway return for two of Father Ted's favourite characters in standup mode when Patrick McDonnell (sickly sweet television presenter and pop singer Eoin McLove) and Joe Rooney (Fr Damo) take to the stage.

Local purveyors of punk and rock UsVsThem are bringing Belfast punk'n'roll three-piece The Dangerfields back to Galway to mark the ten-year anniversary of their first performance in the city. The band will perform at Sally Longs tonight, Wednesday 3 March.

Wednesday 3 March
Where: Fibber Magees
What: Resident DJ
Time: 9.30pm

Their last Galway show a year ago was a sell-out and Smokie, one of the most travelled bands in the world, make their long-awaited return to Galway for one night only when they appear in the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday 16 March.

Loughrea man Ultan Conlon released his highly anticipated debut album Bless Your Heart to much acclaim at the end of 2009 and the genial Galwegian plays Roisin Dubh this Friday 5 March, where he'll be joined by James Vincent McMorrow. Conlon put in years of hard graft honing his craft and touring the country with the likes of John Martyn, Lisa Hannigan, Mark Geary, Roesy and David Kitt and all the hard work has obviously paid off.

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.