The community organisation MusicConnects is battening down the hatches for November as part of its 2025 Nature & Ecology theme.

Members of Galway’s ensemble-in-residence, the ConTempo Quartet, performing as a string trio, will explore music that embraces the atmosphere and the storms that have already started to arrive.  This will include excerpts from Beethoven’s String Trio No. 5 in C minor and Max Reger’s String Trio in A minor.

Their concert programme will also feature Pulled Down out of the Youth Breath-Giving Air by Greg Caffrey and Waiting for Ithaka by Sinéad Finnegan.

The group will perform these works on Tuesday, November 4, at 1.10pm in the city’s St Nicholas Collegiate Church as part of Lunchtimes with ConTempo. Elements of the programme will be repeated in Kinvara Community Hall on Saturday, November 29, as part of a larger event in collaboration with Kinvara Community Orchestra, directed by Garry Ó Briain. It starts at 8pm.

And, this Sunday, November 2, at 11am in The Space at the University of Galway, Lines of Listening will take place.

Facilitated by visual artist Maeve Curtis and author Mike McCormick, this is part of an outreach initiative, Lochránn, in partnership with the University of Galway’s Arts in Action.

It’s designed to create space for deep listening and responding.

Entry to the Lunchtimes with Contempo and Lines of Listening is free and all are welcome. Booking for Lines of Listening is through Eventbrite.

Tickets to the Kinvara concert are €15/€5 on the door and support the work of Kinvara Community Orchestra.

Limited, free Social Inclusion tickets are available, and can be booked through info@musicconnecnts.ie.

Pictured: The ConTempo Music Quartet, MusicConnects ensemble in residence.