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Here’s our top pick of things to do in Sligo this weekend. As ever, there is something for everyone with music, theatre and a 5km run among our selection.

Stargazers Theatre will host "Irish Christmas in America" this Friday, a special holiday performance that features traditional Irish music, dance and stories.

The hottest acoustic Irish band on the planet, according to the Irish Echo, will perform 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10.

A sampling of this month’s Irish/Celtic music-related events in, or slightly beyond, Greater Boston. Not surprisingly, most performances in and around town this month are holiday-oriented, but there’s at least one that isn’t, strictly speaking: Boston College’s Gaelic Roots series will feature concertina virtuoso Brenda Castles and locally based guitarist Alan G. Murray on

CAMDEN — For the third time in the past four years, Lúnasa will bring its Irish Christmas tour to the Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St. The hottest acoustic Irish band on the planet, according to the Irish Echo, will perform Saturday, Dec. 10, at 7:30...

By now, most music fans have probably heard about the passing of seminal guitarist Dennis Cahill. Cahill, who is best known for his game-changing w...

Yes, it’s a cliché, but one that Kevin Crawford is quite happy to proclaim: “We’re getting the band back together!”The band in question is Lúnasa, one of the more venerated and accomplished Irish groups of the past quarter-century, noted for its layered, harmonically sophisticated, exquisitely arranged sound. Crawford and his fellow Lúnasans will be fully reunited for a brief