NYC's John Morales to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

NEW YORK DJ John Morales, who played at the Big Apple's legendary and notorious Studio 54 nightclub, will be spinning the decks at Electric this Bank Holiday Weekend, at Get Down Edits clubnight birthday bash.

Icelandic choir to sing in St Nicholas'

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

ICELANDIC CHORAL music will be heard within St Nicholas' Collegiate Church when the Selkórinn choir perform a tea-time concert in the city centre church next week.

Dessie O'Halloran and a trad concert in Salthill

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

SOME OF the finest traditional musicians and singers from the west of Ireland, including the great Inishbofin singer Dessie O'Halloran, join forces for the upcoming Bofin to Burren concert.

June Bank Holiday Weekend@ HALO

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

MIKE SKINNER, Cafolla and Engel, and a host of leading Galway DJs - it's going to be one hell of a weekend for some seriously good music and many hours of dancing at HALO this Bank Holiday Weekend.

Worries Outernational bring the reggae this weekend

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

WORRIES OUTERNATIONAL, one of the leading soundsystems pushing reggae and dancehall music in Ireland, hit Galway this weekend when they take over the Commercial Boatclub in Woodquay.

Saint Sister - new single and GIAF 17 show

Tue, May 30, 2017

SAINT SISTER, the Irish electro-folk duo of Morgan Macintyre and Gemma Doherty have released a new single - ‘Causing Trouble’ - ahead of their Irish and European tour, which includes a show at the Galway International Arts Festival.

Mike Skinner to DJ @ HALO

Thu, May 25, 2017

FOR 10 years Mike Skinner was the man behind the musical phenomenon The Streets. In that time he won an Ivor Novello, a Brit, and made a significant impact on British urban music.

Album review: Sea Pinks

Music Reviews Thu, May 25, 2017

SEA PINKS' last album, Soft Days, was solid, but lacked a true stand-out song. Watercourse has no such trouble though, as this new album from the Belfast trio boasts several great moments.

Metal, heft, sludge - and two FEAST debuts

Thu, May 25, 2017

IT IS their first Galway gig in four years, and their debut gig at FEAST. Either way if you have not seen Belfast band Hornets before, this weekend provides you with the excuse to rectify that omission.

American orchestral music at the Town Hall

Thu, May 25, 2017

ICONIC AMERICAN music, such as Bernstein's scores for West Side Story, will be performed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra on their America Tour, which comes to Galway next month.

Mad Dog McRea - rowdy and room shaking

Thu, May 25, 2017

FOLK, ROCK, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and "shake your ass" music is what Galway can expect when Mad Dog McRea take to the stage of Monroe’s BackStage Bar next month.

US choir to sing at Galway Cathedral

Thu, May 25, 2017

THE SONORAN Desert Chorale from Arizona will give a concert at the Galway Cathedral featuring Renaissance and contemporary Irish compositions and arrangements of traditional Irish songs.

Go back to the eighties with Delorean

Thu, May 25, 2017

GOING BACK to the 1980s need not involve one of 'Doc' Brown's time machine Delorean car - it just needs 1980s covers band Delorean, who play HALO this weekend.

Album review: The Charlatans

Music Reviews Thu, May 18, 2017

IT SAYS much for The Charlatans that, while other Manchester bands of their vintage who may have been bigger went and imploded long ago, Tim Burgess and friends have quietly been able to keep going.

Bruce Springsteen's right-hand man to play Galway

Thu, May 18, 2017

GARRY TALLENT, a long serving member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, is taking time out from those duties to go on a solo tour which will see him head to Ireland, and Galway, next month.

A FEAST of polyrhythmic heaviness

Thu, May 18, 2017

HIBAGON, THE heavy, polyrhythmic, duo from Bergamo, northern Italy, headline the next FEAST night this Saturday at 8.30pm in the Róísín Dubh's upstairs bar.

The saxophone and a mediaeval lover's journey

Thu, May 18, 2017

THE SAXOPHONE is an instrument indelibly associated with jazz, a musical form created by African-Americans in the early 20th century, so what is a saxophone doing at a concert at the Galway Early Music Festival?

Chasing Abbey to play Monroe's Live

Thu, May 18, 2017

"YOU KNOW where you should be going for your hip-hop? Tullamore, County Offaly. This is Ro, Bee, and TeddyC, they're called Chasing Abbey," so said Today FM's Dermot & Dave.

Spiccato Junction revisited

Thu, May 18, 2017

IN THE mid-Noughties, the enthusiastic, energetic fusion of Irish trad and classical by the combined forces of the Máirtín O’Connor Band and the ConTempo Quartet, was a thrilling sight in concert.

Make Haste To The Wedding

Thu, May 18, 2017

YOUNG MUSICIANS and singers from the Athenry Music School Horizon Orchestra, the St Nicholas Choristers, Maoincheoil na Gaillimhe’s Adult String Orchestra, and Galway Early Music’s Red Earl’s Musicke join forces for the Galway Early Music Festival.

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