Less than an hour’s drive from Melbourne, the Tesselaar Tulip Festival is set on a working farm that produces over a million spring flowering bulbs, including more than half a million tulips.
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Daniel O’Donnell lands in Victoria to play at the Palais Theatre.
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Bantry singer/songwriter John Spillane takes to the stage at the Clifton Hill Hotel in Melbourne.
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Irish five-piece band Beoga, who describe their sound as ‘trad on steroids’, play their only Melbourne show at the Thornbury Theatre.
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This year’s annual celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses in Melbourne consists of three events: the burlesque Carnivale of Night-town (performed at 1pm and 7.30pm at Trades Hall); a seminar with papers by Prof Joy Damousi and Dr Frances Devlin-Glass; and a dinner with saucy readings at La Notte in Lygon Street.
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Folk and rebel singer Gary Óg continues his Australian tour at the Clifton Hill Hotel in Melbourne.
For more details or for ticket bookings call (03) 9489 8705.

Up-and-coming Irish band The Coronas broke through into the mainstream big style last year, seeing off U2 and Snow Patrol to win the Best Irish Album award at the Meteors in February.
They play The Prince of Wales Hotel in Melbourne on May 28.
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Former Planxty star Andy Irvine lands in Melbourne to play the Clare Castle Hotel in Carlton. For ticket information call 0417 589 373.

Oscar-winning duo Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova bring their hugely successful Swell Season show back to Australia in March.
The couple have put together a mesmerizing live show based on songs from the Academy Award-winning movie Once, and they return to Australia from March 25, fresh off the back of a tremendously successful tour here last [...]

Five Irish acts will take the stage as part of the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival which kicks off on March 24.
Jason Byrne returns for the fifth year in a row to play the Athenaeum Theatre from March 23 – April 18, while Des Bishop, David O’Doherty and music comedy group Dead Cat Bounce will [...]