Kris Drever and Julie Fowlis to play Clifden

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

TWO GIANTS of modern folk music, Kris Driver, called "a serious talent" by MOJO, and award winning Scots-Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, play Clifden to kick-starting a programme of events to mark 40 years of the Clifden Arts Festival.

Jazz, avant garde, and improvisation

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

THE PIANIST Izumi Kimura will be joined by the percussionist Gerry Hemingway for a concert of jazz, avant garde, and improvisational music entitled 'Thought Bubbles'.

Catch Baile an Salsa ahead of their US tour

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

BAILE AN Salsa, the Irish based international band who fuse Irish trad with the musics of Latin America, are about to embark on a tour of the USA which means their upcoming Galway show is the last chance to catch them for a while.

Sing with the St Nicholas Singers for Candlemas

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

DESPITE WHAT many think, January 6 is not the end of the Christmas season, its official close is February 2 and the often overlooked event of Candlemas - the Feast of the Purification, or Feast of the Presentation.

Something to Sing About Choir concert

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

GALWAY'S SOMETHING To Sing About Choir will host a concert this Saturday in the Salthill Hotel, with special guests Marc Roberts, Emma Langford, Richie Byrne, and Maria and Kenny Fahy.

Weekend gigs @ The Quays

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

THE QUAYS is hosting gigs by some of Galway and Ireland's most popular covers bands this weekend, and the venue is also running an offer of free entry to gigs on Fridays and Sundays.

Therapy? - Live and...mellowed out?

Tue, Jan 17, 2017

THERAPY? THE Antrim trio who blazed a trail across the Irish and British music scenes with their loud, lively, and frantic punk/metal, often with a tasty dollop of melody, tour Ireland this year - but fans are going to see and hear the band in a very different context.

Album review: The Flaming Lips

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 12, 2017

NEVER DID I think I would see the day that the show stealing track on a Flaming Lips album would be the one chiefly sung by Miley Cirus, but then Miley long stopped being predictable.

Otherkin - 'Straight in, no kissing'

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

"WE WANT our records to be punchy, lean, and blazing. Straight in, no kissing." So declare Dublin grunge-pop/garage rock band Otherkin who The Independent call "a big mass of energy...who write hugely infectious tracks".

Galway Music Centre - new education and support project launched

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

THE GALWAY Music Centre, a collaborative project to enhance music education and performance facilities and services, and to develop "coordinated and community-based supports" for music, was launched this week.

Wallis Bird to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

WALLIS BIRD, the Wexford singer-songwriter, returns to the Róisín Dubh this month as part of her new tour, promoting her latest album, Home, which also takes in the continent, Japan, and Australia.

Irish-language-song club seeks new members

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

GALWEGIANS WHO like the idea of singing songs as Gaeilge - even if their Irish is far from perfect - around the fireside with others who enjoy doing the same, are sought to join Club Amhránaíochta na Gaillimhe.

Weekend gigs @ The Quays

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

THE QUAYS is hosting gigs by some of Galway and Ireland's most popular covers bands this weekend, and the venue is also running an offer of free entry to gigs on Fridays and Sundays.

The High Kings - Galway bound

Thu, Jan 05, 2017

THE HIGH KINGS – Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey and Darren Holden – will get Galway's 2017 off to a rousing folk and trad start when they play the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, on Saturday January 14 at 8pm.

James McMurtry - 'a true Americana poet'

Thu, Jan 05, 2017

FOR THE novelist Stephen King, Texan James McMurtry is "the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation"; for the BBC's Bob Harris he is "the most vital lyricist in America today"; while The Monkee's Mike Nesmith calls him, "a true Americana poet".

Take up singing with the Ad Hoc choir

Thu, Jan 05, 2017

MANY PEOPLE would love to sing, but maybe do not have the confidence. Others would love to sing as part of a choir, but have no experience or do not know where to start.

New Pope - new album

Essential Playlist Wed, Jan 04, 2017

DAVID BOLAND is one of the main figures in the indie-rock and alternative music scene in Galway city and a prime figures behind the Citóg nights in the Róisín Dubh. As a musician in his own right, he goes under the name of New Pope, and his new album is out now.

Cass McCombs - acclaimed songwriter for Róisín Dubh

Tue, Jan 03, 2017

CASS MCCOMBS, “one of the most compelling singer-songwriters of the past decade", according to Uncut, and “arguably the greatest American singer-songwriter of this generation”, say Vice, is coming to Galway.

Remember Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy this weekend

Tue, Jan 03, 2017

PHIL LYNOTT - rock icon, Black-Irishman, singer, songwriter, icon, inspiration, and the personification of Thin Lizzy, died 31 years ago this year, and Galway will mark his passing and celebrate his music, this week.

Prodigy - a classical start for 2017

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

ALMA DEUTSCHER is no ordinary 11-year-old. She is acclaimed as one of today’s most exciting young composers and pianists, and she joins a long line of classical musicians who have genuine claim to be considered a prodigy.

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