Galway Advertiser 2009/GA_2009_05_21/GA_2105_E1_018.pdf 

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May 21 2009

A bit of Gospel for sailing fans
BY RICHIE MCCARTHY Galway Gospel Choir will perform on the Topaz Main Stage of the Galway Volvo Ocean Race Festival on Wednesday May 27 at 8pm. The choir, directed by AnneMichel Durham, will perform songs of American gospel origin as well as contemporary music. The choir has performed with choirs from France, Sweden, the US, the UK and Estonia, and recently visited and performed with the French choir Contre Ut et Maree, in La Rochelle. The group also competed successfully at the Cork Choral Festival in May. The 50 members of the choir, are well known locally, having performed at various events in the city and county, including concerts at the Franciscan Abbey, the Galway Arts Festival and performances with the Harlem Gospel Choir at the Town Hall. Mayo School of Music Youth Choir, recent winners at the Navan Choral Festival, will perform before Galway Gospel choir on the main stage at 7.30pm. The choirs are followed by Strictly Come Tango and Caminos de Tango so it promises to be a great night's entertainment.

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Denise Hogan, one of the artists participating in the Creative West? Galway Art Trail. The Trail is sponsored by the WDC and takes place in Galway during the Volvo Ocean Race Festival from May 23 to June 6. The WDC sponsorship is part of its work to highlight the 'Creative West' as Ireland's hub for the creative industries. Photo: Andrew Downes

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The making of Galway Bay

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BY RICHIE MCCARTHY To celebrate the arrival of the Volvo Ocean Race in Galway a free public talk entitled "The Making of Galway Bay" will be held on Monday May 25 at 6pm in the Cairnes Lecture Theatre, NUI Galway. Delivering the lecture will be Professor Mike Williams, head of Earth and Ocean Sciences at NUI Galway, who has spent many years researching the natural history of Galway Bay and the Aran Islands. According to Professor Williams, "The talk will be a tale of earthquakes, tsunami, great storms and climate change that have, over thousands of years, shaped Galway Bay into what it is today. In 1755, the Lisbon earthquake triggered a tsunami which swept up the Bay, damaging the Spanish Arch and drowning many citizens. Our brave city, perched on the Atlantic coast, also took the brunt of one of the biggest storms Europe has ever known in 1839.

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