Galway record labels feature in new documentary series
Thu, Apr 18, 2019
INDEPENDENT'S DAY, 10-part radio series looking at the state of independent music and record labels in Ireland, will be broadcast on RTÉ 2XM on Mondays at 1pm, and repeated on Wednesdays at 1pm, for 10 weeks starting April 22.
Read more ...KeyWest play the Black Box next week
Thu, Apr 18, 2019
“NO BAND gets a crowd going quite like KeyWest…they truly are masters of eliciting maximum crowd responses,” so said Hot Press, about a band who are no strangers to Galway.
Read more ...Macy Gray and The Coronas announced for Festival Big Top
Mon, Apr 15, 2019
SOUL SINGER Macy Gray and one of Ireland's favourite bands, The Coronas, have been announced as the final headline acts to play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top this summer.
Read more ...Album review: Fontaines D.C.
Music Reviews Thu, Apr 11, 2019
IMAGINE A song which sounds as though it were written by Shane McGowan, but performed by The Velvet Underground. That song is 'Dublin City Sky', the closing track on Fontaines D.C.'s debut album.
Read more ...Ye Vagabonds - new album, Róisín Dubh gig
Thu, Apr 11, 2019
FOLLOWING THE release of their very fine new album, The Hare's Lament, folk/trad duo Ye Vagabonds - Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid MacGloinn - return to the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Music for Good Friday
Thu, Apr 11, 2019
THE ANNUAL concert of sacred music for Good Friday returns to St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, with a performance of Heinrich Schütz’s setting of the last words of Christ on the cross: Die Sieben Worte Jesu Christi Am Kreuz.
Read more ...New release and gig from Junior Brother and PowPig
Thu, Apr 11, 2019
IT COULD have been called a split EP, but why go for the obvious when you can have "a quadruple A-side single release"? That is just what Junior Brother and PowPig have done.
Read more ...My Fellow Sponges/Rufus and Jess gig
Thu, Apr 11, 2019
MY FELLOW Sponges, the Galway folk-rock/prog-rock band, and the Berlin based, Irish folk-blues duo, Rufus Coates and Jess Smith, will play a gig in Galway city this week.
Read more ...New Galway orchestra's inaugural concert series
Thu, Apr 11, 2019
LUMINOSA MUSIC, Galway's new orchestra, will present its inaugural concert series, Soundings, at Galway Cathedral, with a programme spanning eight centuries of female composers.
Read more ...Bob Skeleton announce Róisín Dubh show
Thu, Apr 11, 2019
FOLLOWING A busy 2018, Bob Skeleton, who describe their music as "midnight-pop" with shades of "West Coast cool and Mancunian mood", will play a headline show in the Róisín Dubh on June 7.
Read more ...ConTempo and Coole Music play Loughrea
Thu, Apr 11, 2019
THE CONTEMPO Quartet and the Coole Music Youth Orchestra are joining forces to perform a concert of works by Arthur Duff, Werner Thomas, Katharina Baker, and Luís De Freitas Branco, in Loughrea.
Read more ...Wild Youth, Daithí and Saint Sister for GIAF Big Top
Wed, Apr 10, 2019
SAINT SISTER, Daithí, and Wild Youth have been announced as support acts for shows at the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top in the Fisheries Field this July.
Read more ...Inni-K - new album, Galway gig
Thu, Apr 04, 2019
INNI-K, "one of ten fierce women defining Irish culture," according to RTÉ, released her second album, The Hare and The Line, in March, while this month sees her play an intimate show in Galway city.
Read more ...We Banjo 3 man at Mick Lally Theatre
Thu, Apr 04, 2019
FERGAL SCAHILL, fiddler and guitarist with the Irish folk/trad success story that is We Banjo 3, will be among the musicians performing at the next 3 Saturdays: 3 Kinds of Music concert.
Read more ...Japanese music at An Taibhdhearc tonight
Thu, Apr 04, 2019
AHEAD OF the 2019 Experience Japan Hanami Festival in Dublin, the event will be stopping off in An Taibhdhearc theatre tonight to present a concert fusing Japanese and Irish music.
Read more ...Cois Cladaigh concert in aid of Galway Hospice
Thu, Apr 04, 2019
THE COIS Cladaigh Choir will perform a charity concert in aid of the Galway Hospice this Saturday at 8pm in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church.
Read more ...Music workshop for young people
Thu, Apr 04, 2019
LIVEFEED: Workshop & Open Mic is a Galway 2020 project for young people interested in music performance, production, promotion, songwriting, sound engineering, and music related photography, social media, and journalism.
Read more ...John Grant to return to Galway this summer
Mon, Apr 01, 2019
FOLLOWING HIS triumphant and powerful concert at Leisureland last Saturday, John Grant has made good on the promise he made to the audience that night when he said he would "see you sooner rather than later".
Read more ...GZA - hip hop's science genius for the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 28, 2019
THEY DON'T call GZA "The Genius" for nothing. He is a member of the mighty Wu Tang Clan; he has the fourth largest vocabulary of any rap artist; he promotes science education in New York City; and has spoken at the prestigious Harvard University.
Read more ...Album review: White Denim
Music Reviews Thu, Mar 28, 2019
IN SOME corner of a foreign field - Austin, Texas, to be precise - it will forever be the 1970s, but what kind of seventies depends on what White Denim album you are listening to.
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