Singing and songwriting legend Christy Moore is returning to Westport to play in the Castlecourt Hotel on Thursday, July 17.

Tickets for the performance are  on sale

Priced at €40, the tickets are on sale at the hotel reception, Downtown Records, in Castlebar and Westport and on www.ticketmaster.ie

A veritable national treasure, Christy Moore was named Ireland’s Greatest Living Musician in RTÉ’s People of the Year Awards 2007. His career has spanned over 45 years, and he has released over 40 acclaimed live and studio albums as a solo artist, and as part of trad bands Planxty and Moving Hearts.

In 2009, his platinum-selling album ‘Listen’ – his first in four years – debuted at No 1 in the Irish album charts, where it stayed for four weeks. His most recent work, ‘Folk Tale’, was produced by Sinnott and features fellow trad greats, Gerry O’Connor, Tim Edey, and Neil Martin with The West Ocean String Quartet.

Moore was born in Newbridge, Co Kildare. He originally worked in a bank, but he always had a huge interest in traditional music. During a bank strike in 1966, which lasted 12 weeks, he went to England, but didn’t return when the strike was over. “I had a wild and wonderful time in England, with no bank manager looking over my shoulder,” he said.

Doing general labouring work, he frequented the folk clubs and the Irish music pubs where he met Seamus Ennis, Margaret Barry, Luke Kelly, Mairtin Byrnes and many other traditional musicians – and his life’s path was hewn.