Lúnasa play Monroe's Live in June
Thu, May 28, 2015
THEY HAVE performed more than 1,500 shows across 36 countries since forming in 1997, and their line-up features some of the most respected names in contemporary Irish trad. They are Lúnasa.
Read more ...Haydn, Nyman, and ConTempo
Thu, May 28, 2015
THE CONTEMPO Quartet will play music by Joseph Haydn and Michael Nyman at a concert in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Tuesday June 2 at 1.10pm.
Read more ...Harris and McIvor @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 28, 2015
BRITISH SINGER-songwriter Harry Harris and Derry vocalist Anna McIvor will bring their close harmonies, captivating songs, and warm stage presence to Monroe's Live on Sunday June 14 at 9pm.
Read more ...Galway Choral Association Summer Choral Concert
Thu, May 28, 2015
AFRICAN-AMERICAN spirituals, sacred music, and opera will all be performed in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Saturday June 6 at 8pm for the Galway Choral Association Summer Choral Concert.
Read more ...Gypsy Folk @ Monroe's Live
Thu, May 28, 2015
GYPSY FOLK band The Eskies play Monroe’s Live on Saturday June 6 as part of their nationwide tour to promote their debut album, After the Sherry Went Down.
Read more ...The Silent Disco Street Party
Thu, May 28, 2015
BEAT ON the street! Bop ‘till you drop! Sing ‘til you’re hoarse to the ripest musical fromage imaginable! It can only be the Silent Disco Street Party this Sunday from 8pm.
Read more ...Improvise with Community @ The Loft
Thu, May 28, 2015
COMMUNITY IS the improv alter-ego of Galway band My Fellow Sponges, whose drive is to see the audience create music along with the band.
Read more ...Galway Guitar Night returns to The Cellar
Thu, May 28, 2015
THE GUITAR, whether used to play rock, jazz, or classical, will be the centre of attention on Tuesday June 2 at The Galway Guitar Night, in The Cellar Bar.
Read more ...Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross to play Róisín Dubh
Mon, May 25, 2015
IN THE late eighties and early nineties, it was impossible to escape Scotland's Deacon Blue and songs like 'Real Gone Kid', 'Dignity', and 'Fergus Sings the Blues', and later this year, the man who wrote those songs - Ricky Ross - will be in Galway.
Read more ...Album review: My Morning Jacket
Music Reviews Thu, May 21, 2015
I CAN never listen to My Morning Jacket without thinking of the American Dad episode where Stan becomes fanatically, hopelessly, obsessed with Jim James, in what has to be the programme's funniest 25 minutes to date.
Read more ...Young Wonder - new album and Róisín Dubh show
Thu, May 21, 2015
YOUNG WONDER, the electro/indie-pop duo of producer Ian Ring and vocalist Rachel Koeman released their debut album Birth this month and they play the Róisín Dubh on Friday May 29 at 9pm.
Read more ...The Dub Doctor album launch @ The Loft
Thu, May 21, 2015
GALWAY BASS and dub DJ, producer, and mixer The Dub Doctor will launch his new album URBANOMIX, with a show in The Loft @ Seven, Bridge Street this Saturday at 10pm.
Read more ...Beagán Grá - a concert for Palestine
Thu, May 21, 2015
GALWAY SKA band Big Jelly and Tuam's brilliant pop-punk trio Oh Boland! will play a concert this weekend to raise funds for the charity Music Harvest which works with children in the Palestinian West Bank.
Read more ...Torche to play FEAST
Thu, May 21, 2015
FLORIDA SLUDGE-pop titans Torche, will bring their heavy riffs and sweet melodies to FEAST at the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh this Sunday [May 24] from 9pm.
Read more ...Sugarbeat festival to take place over two days
Thu, May 21, 2015
THE SECOND SugarBeat Music Festival has been expanded into a two-day event in response to the success of last year's festival, and will take place in Tuam Stadium on Saturday August 22 and Sunday 23.
Read more ...Mundy to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 21, 2015
HE HAS a new album, a new single, a new Irish tour, and he will be in Galway tomorrow. He is singer-songwriter Mundy who plays the Róisín Dubh at 9pm.
Read more ...Relive the Grunge era @ Monroe's Live
Thu, May 21, 2015
GRUNGE BEGAN in Washington State in the 1980s, with bands like Green River - containing future members of Pearl Jam and Mudhoney - before going overground with Nirvana's Nevermind, and coming to an untimely end with Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994.
Read more ...Birdsong - a concert of songs about birds
Thu, May 21, 2015
THE BIRDSONG Project, a concert of trad songs about our feathered friends takes place in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church this Saturday at 8pm, and is the Bealtaine Festival's flagship performance.
Read more ...Natty Wailer to bring the reggae to Monroe's Live
Thu, May 21, 2015
NATTY WAILER, the Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter who worked with Bob Marley, returns to Monroe's Live on Thursday May 28 at 10pm.
Read more ...Basement Project @ The Cellar
Thu, May 21, 2015
FRESH FROM his headline set at Phase One, former Disco Nouveau crew member Murch will headline the next Basement Project in The Cellar this Saturday from 9pm.
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