The Radioactive Grandma @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE RADIOACTIVE Grandma, the Cavan trio have been described as “Brit pop crossed with guitar driven new wave”, by Music Review Unsigned.

Scottish composer to lead young Galwegians in concert

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE ACCLAIMED Scottish pianist and composer James Ross and students from the Galway Music Education Partnership will be in concert this Saturday from 7pm.

The Deans - new single and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE DEANS, the roots-rock trio, are set to release their award winning song, ‘Lonely Like Me’, as a single with a show in the Róisín Dubh.

Gypsy jazz and bellydance

Thu, May 08, 2014

AN ORCHESTRA playing Eastern European folk and a bellydance group will share the stage at Kelly’s Bar tonight from 9pm.

The Underscore Orkestra, from Portland Oregon, play Balkan folk, Klezmer, Gypsy jazz, and swing on violin, guitar, accordion, horns, clarinet, bass, sousaphone harmonica, piccolo, ukulele, and bambazoo. They have toured Europe and the Americas over the past seven years.

Heathers @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 08, 2014

THEYPLAYED the prestigious South by Southwest Festival in Texas for the first time in March; they also toured Malaysia this year, and now they are coming home.

Renmore girl wins national singing final

Thu, May 08, 2014

CLARE QUINN, a 14-year-old from Renmore, has won the National All Ireland Schools Talent Final, which took place recently in Limerick Concert Hall.

Mozart’s Mass in Galway Cathedral

Thu, May 08, 2014

NEW YORK soprano Marcy Richardson and English soprano Denise Leigh will perform Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor in Galway Cathedral on Thursday May 15 at 8pm.

Southern choir to sing for Simon

Thu, May 08, 2014

A CHOIR from North Carolina is coming to St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church to perform a fundraising concert for Galway Simon.

Music for Celts and Romans to battle to

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE CELTS and the Romans were never bosom buddies. The Celts sacked Rome in 390 AD and Caesar conquered Gaul in the Fifties BC.

Listen to new album by Galway folk singer

Tue, May 06, 2014

GALWAY BASED folk/alternative singer-songwriter Brigid Power-Rice has released her new album I Told You The Truth, which was recorded in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

Take a listen to it here:

Alabama 3 and Songs For Amy concert

Thu, May 01, 2014

ALABAMA 3 will headline a concert in Monroe’s Live tomorrow from 9pm, featuring musicians involved in the award-winning independent Irish film Songs for Amy.

Bank Holiday music @ The Stock Exchange

Thu, May 01, 2014

COVER BANDS, DJs, and party nights are on the cards at The Stock Exchange Bar, Shop Street, throughout the May Bank Holiday weekend.

Michael Franti - music for sunshine souls

Thu, May 01, 2014

MICHAEL FRANTI & Spearhead believe “all the freaky people make the beauty of the world!” and they intend to show Galway why this month.

Kíla @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, May 01, 2014

THE HIGH energy, many-headed, collision of world and Irish music that is Kíla comes to Monroe’s Live this Bank Holiday Sunday at 9pm.

A night of Italian doom metal

Thu, May 01, 2014

ASTRONOMY, MEDIAEVAL European history, and Sardinian myths collide in the music of Italian doom metal band Black Capricorn.

Daft Funk to play Kelly’s

Thu, May 01, 2014

DAFT FUNK, the celebrated Irish tribute act to Daft Punk return to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Bank Holiday Sunday at 11pm.

Serafino Quartet’s Irish début

Thu, May 01, 2014

MUSIC FOR Galway’s 33rd season comes to a close with the Irish début concert by the Serafino Quartet, on Wednesday May 7 at 8pm.

The concert takes place in the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, and the quartet will perform Beethoven’s String Quartet in C major Op 59 no 3, also known as the ‘Razumovsky’, after the then Russian ambassador to Vienna; Schubert’s Quartettsatz in C minor, D703; Frank Bridge’s ‘Three Idylls’; and Grieg’s ‘String Quartet Op 27’, which the composer said “aims at breadth, to soar, and, above all, at vigorous sound for the instruments for which it is written.”

Damon Albarn's Everyday Robots

Music Reviews Thu, May 01, 2014

IS IT surprising Damon Albarn has taken this long to make a solo album? As one of the major figures in British popular music for close to 25 years, Blur, Gorillaz, his collaborations with African musicians and composer Michael Nyman, have given him plenty creative endeavours to be going on with.

We Cut Corners - new album and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 24, 2014

WE CUT Corners release their second album, Think Nothing, on the Delphi label, tomorrow, and play the Róisín Dubh that night at 9pm.

Think Nothing is the duo’s follow-up to their Choice Music Prize nominated debut Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards, and like that album, features mellow, highly melodic and intelligent songs (‘Maybe In The Future’, ‘Every Thief’) backed by sweeping strings - scored by respected contemporary Irish composer John Buckley - revealing the sophistication of We Cut Corners own writing.