Lunchtime @ the Library showcases new music programme with ConTempo
Thu, Aug 28, 2014
THE GALWAY Ensemble in Residence, ConTempo Quartet, open their new series of concerts at the Galway City Library on Tuesday September 2 at 1.10pm, with a programme featuring classical and contemporary music.
Read more ...Fundraiser for the Irish Cancer Society at Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 28, 2014
On Friday September 5, Monroe’s Live will host a charity fundraiser in aid of the Irish Cancer Society featuring music from Sweet Attrition and Franklin Tree.
Read more ...Irish bands to make their mark at the AMA Emerging Talent Tour
Thu, Aug 28, 2014
Emerging talent selected by the Audionetworks Music Agency (AMA) will see 12 bands take to the stage at Monroe’s Live over four nights in September, bringing to Galway some of the best emerging talent that Ireland has to offer, with no cover charge.
Read more ...Remembering Phil Lynott for his 65th birthday
Thu, Aug 28, 2014
Phil Lynott would have turned 65 this week, and in his honour the Thin Lizzy tribute act, Remembering Lizzy, will play a special show at Monroe’s Live tomorrow night.
Read more ...Spirit Of Smokie visits Galway next month
Thu, Aug 28, 2014
Dean Barton, son of late Smokie frontman Alan Barton, and the band Spirit Of Smokie will perform the greatest hits of Smokie and tracks from Room with a View, the posthumous album from Alan Barton, this month at Monroe's Live.
Read more ...New album from Irish country music star Derek Ryan
Thu, Aug 28, 2014
TALENT IS admirable and creativity is empowering, qualities which are evident on Derek Ryan’s new album The Simple Things.
Read more ...Red Checks to play Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 28, 2014
Red Checks is an original blend of finely matured French traditional music mixed with hints of Irish trad, baroque and jazz.
Read more ...Taking applications now for Coyote Factor 7
Thu, Aug 28, 2014
Coyote Factor is returning for its seventh year running this October.
This year, the lucky winner of Coyote Factor will receive a €10,000 prize fund, an EP recording package, a digital album release, photo design shoot, and music video.
Read more ...Set sail for a new pub experience at An Púcán
Thu, Aug 28, 2014
Galwegians are welcoming the return of the newly refurbished An Púcán bar at 11 Forster Street - just off Eyre Square.
Read more ...Mysterious Galway producer making waves from the shadows
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
Revin Goff is the moniker of a Galway-born 23-year-old producer, soundtrack composer, and songwriter, whose real identity is as of yet unknown.
Read more ...The Cosby Show @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
PHIL COSBY is a man who is not afraid of the brutal. He takes his audience on a journey through luscious folk ballads, to out and out rock and roll, to driving dance grooves, and transient soundscapes.
Read more ...A happy-go-lucky hootenanny
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
SESSIONS AMERICANA are a Boston-based rock band, or possibly a folk band, it's hard to put these guys into any kind of box.
Read more ...Race the Flux @ Roisin Dubh
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
AFTER THE success of their debut performance of Songs for the Deaf in The Cellar back in April this year, Galway four-piece Race the Flux will perform songs from the celebrated Queens of the Stone Age album at the Roisin Dubh tomorrow night.
Read more ...Aussie group Strings for Ammo play Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
STRINGS FOR Ammo were formed in Brisbane, Australia, in 2012 by Steven Fothergill and Joe Murray.
Read more ...Electric Picnic warm-up party at Arus na nGael
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
Jahbuzzz (AKA Dave Barry - Shuffle!) and Slick Normal (Ghetto Disco), who will both be manning the new Treasure Beach stage at Electric Picnic along with Will Softly and friends, will be hosting a warm up party at Arus naGael tomorrow night, August 22, from 9pm.
Read more ...German alt-rock band Suddenly Human to play Monroe’s
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
SUDDENLY HUMAN are an alternative rock group from Halle in Germany.
Read more ...Celebrated clubnight Somewhere comes to Electric Garden
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
VOTED IRELAND’S best clubnight of 2013 by the music savvy subscribers to Nialler9.com, Somewhere at The Workman's Club, Dublin, is coming to celebrate four years of excellent Wednesday nights, packed week in, week out, with real music lovers.
Read more ...Taking applications for Coyote Factor 7
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
COYOTE FACTOR will return to Coyotes Late Bar, 34 Shop Street, this October for its seventh year running.
Read more ...Kinetica @ The Cellar
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
For their next instalment, Kinetika have decided to give back to their regulars.
Their resident DJs Gav C and Jasper will be providing full on techno all night in what is shaping up to be a blinder of a back to back set.
Read more ...Popular live music cinema night returns for one night only
Fri, Aug 15, 2014
The Harp, The Accordion and The Ugly - Live Music Cinema is back this Sunday August 17 by popular demand in Arus na nGael from 9pm.
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