Electric @ Body & Soul festival

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

ELECTRIC WILL be prominently involved in this year's Body & Soul festival, which runs from June 19 to 21 in County Westmeath, and to celebrate, the Abbeygate Street venue is hosting a party for those heading up to it.

Tee Cardaci to DJ in Galway

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

AMERICAN DJ Tee Cardaci, whose musical philosophy is "funk is a universal language", will be spinning the decks in Arus na nGael, Dominick Street tomorrow from 9pm.

Eddie Moloney Memorial Concert

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

EDDIE MOLONEY a traditional Irish musician extraordinaire, considered to be the best traditional flute player of his time and a formidable violinist, will be celebrated at this year's Galway Sessions Festival.

House music night @ The Loft

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

A NIGHT of nothing but the best original and influential house music from across the decades will be heard at Back To Basics with DJs Baker and Grifter in The Loft @ Seven, tomorrow from 11pm.

We Banjo 3 - new album and Galway concert

Wed, Jun 10, 2015

WE BANJO 3, the Galway roots/trad/bluegrass phenomenon have just released their new album Live In Galway and later this month they play a show at the Town Hall Theatre.

Venus Sleeps - psychedelic doom metal @ The Cellar

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

VENUS SLEEPS, the Dublin psychedelic doom metal band will launch their new album Dead Sun Worship with a show in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, this Saturday from 8.30pm.

SOAK - Derry songwriter to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

SOAK, THE Derry singer-songwriter whose music has been called "a vivid portrait of teenage deep-thinking," by The Guardian, and as having "snippets of Cat Power and the delicacy of Lykke Li" by the Noisey blog, is coming to Galway.

A feast of classical music at the arts festival

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ ConTempo Quartet will join forces at the 2015 Galway International Arts Festival for what promises to be a first class series of classical music concerts.

Mary Coughlan in concert at the Town Hall

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

MARY COUGHLAN, one of Ireland's greatest jazz vocalists has just released her new album, Scars On The Calendar, with guitarist Erik Visser, and will be in concert at the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday June 13 at 8pm.

Two chances to see John Statz

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

JOHN STATZ, the Americana singer-songwriter is coming to Galway to play two shows - Monroe’s Live on Thursday June 18 at 11pm and the Róisín Dubh's upstairs baron Friday 19 at 8pm.

The Yeti Suite - singer/songwriter night @ The Loft

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THREE SINGER-songwriters - Felix Sonnyboy, Shaunna McEvilly, and Eoin Dolan - take to the stage of The Loft @ Seven tonight at 9pm for The Yeti Suite.

Seanie Vaughan @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

SEANIE VAUGHAN, the Connemara folk-rock/indie singer-songwriter has seen his second album Redemption reach No 11 in the Irish indie charts, and he will play songs from that record in Monroe's Live on Saturday June 20 at 9pm.

Cantar! - The Marine Institute Singers in concert

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE MARINE Institute Singers, winners of the inaugural 2013 ChoirFactor competition will host Cantar!, a night of choral music on Saturday June 13 at 8pm in St Nicholas's Collegiate Church.

Charity concert for Jigsaw this evening

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THIS EVENING at 8pm in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, a visiting choir of 42 singers from Evansville, Indiana, will perform a charity concert in aid of Jigsaw.

Jazz, folk, and maybe metal - The Underscore Orkestra

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

HE SOUND of New Orleans, Eastern European folk, jazz, and Jewish music will collide in a rambunctious and exciting fashion when Portland, Oregon's The Underscore Orkestra plays the Róisín Dubh on Sunday June 7 at 9pm.

Tír na nÓg to play Gort

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

TÍR NA nÓg, the legendary folk-rock duo of Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell have reunited in recent years to great acclaim and they play The Gallery Cafe, Gort, on Sunday June 14 at 8.30pm.

Americana band Midnight Union @ Monroe's

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE MIDNIGHT Union Band will bring their Americana/folk sound to Monroe's Backstage Bar on Friday June 19 at 10pm for a free show as part of their tour to promote their new album, Of Life And Lesser Evils.

Citóg gigs for June

Wed, Jun 03, 2015

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED Irish indie bands will be taking to the stage of the Róisín Dubh over the coming Wednesday nights for the monthly Citóg gigs, with folk-blues, rock, electro, and acoustic genres well to the fore. Admission to all three shows are free. Doors are at 9pm.

Slow Magic to play Strange Brew

Thu, May 28, 2015

A MAN in a tribal like fox mask, bathed in fantastic light, with electronic triggers and a drum, playing a future-primitive combination of electronic compositions - this is Slow Magic.

Tom Baxter to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 28, 2015

TOM BAXTER'S "commitment to songwriting could inspire the lovelorn and unjade the jaded’……it’s our good fortune that Baxter abides by his own rules and that’s what helps to make his records a genuine event."

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