Éirí - a musical odyssey with Luminosa Strings Orchestra
Wed, Mar 16, 2022
TWO CONCERTS will take place in Galway this year - one is themed around journeys, the other around transformation, and both come under the overall theme of Éirí - arise.
Read more ...Night of classic hits in Monroe’s for Ukraine
Wed, Mar 16, 2022
ONE OF Ireland’s favourite DJ’s, Gareth O’Callaghan is hosting an eighties and nineties night in Monroe’s Live on Thursday March 24, with all proceeds going to Red Cross and its work in Ukraine.
Read more ...Trad titans to play Galway’s new music venue, Stiúideo Cuan
Mon, Mar 14, 2022
IARLA Ó LIONÁIRD, Steve Cooney, Máirtín O’Connor, and Matt Molloy - titans of Irish traditional music - will give concerts at Stiúideo Cuan, County Galway’s new flagship creative centre.
Read more ...Clannad bring farewell tour to Leisureland
Mon, Mar 14, 2022
CLANNAD WILL mark its 50th anniversary as a band, and bring the curtain down on an extraordinary career with a farewell world tour.
Read more ...Galway band's new single to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees
Thu, Mar 10, 2022
GALWAY BAND Baba Yarga, made up of members from eastern Europe, have released a new song, ‘Zozulya’, based on a Ukrainian folk song, and with proceeds going to the UNHCR’s work with Ukrainian refugees.
Read more ...Éirí for a musical odyssey
Thu, Mar 10, 2022
TWO CONCERTS will take place in Galway this year - one is themed around journeys, the other around transformation, and both come under the overall theme of Éirí - arise.
Read more ...The Opacas new single, ‘Bye Bye’, out today
Thu, Mar 10, 2022
TODAY, THURSDAY March 10, sees the release of the new single and video by the Galway/Leeds pop-rock band, The Opacas.
Read more ...Matt Keane to play The Claregalway Hotel
Thu, Mar 10, 2022
AFTER AN absence of two years, the Matt Keane & family concert returns to the Claregalway Hotel on Friday March 25.
Read more ...Galway Street Club - Róisín Dubh shows and new single
Wed, Mar 09, 2022
GALWAY STREET Club make their long awaited return to the stage with two headline shows at the Róisín Dubh for St Patrick’s Day.
Read more ...World premiere of Olympic award winning work
Tue, Mar 08, 2022
THE 1948 Olympics in London still saw artists, musicians, painters, and architects compete for medals, alongside sportspeople, and one of the works for that olympiad has never been given a public performance.
Read more ...Inni-K - live in Galway on Thursday
Tue, Mar 08, 2022
INNI-K, “one of the most acclaimed voices in the extraordinary revival of traditional and folk music we have witnessed in recent years,” according to RTÉ’s Arena, plays Galway this Thursday, March 10.
Read more ...EP Review: NOBRO
Music Reviews Thu, Mar 03, 2022
IT BEGINS with a gospel choir, all harmonies, hand claps, and finger clicks, and an immaculate delivery of the lines, “I spent my whole life running away…”
Read more ...EVØKE release new single 'Somehow'
Tue, Mar 01, 2022
TODAY SEES the release of 'Somehow', the new single by Loughrea indie-folk quartet EVØKE, via the Limerick based music collective, BitDepth.
Read more ...Ceara Conway - new single, new album
Tue, Mar 01, 2022
CEARA CONWAY, known for unique use of traditional song and lament in contemporary art, has released the single ‘An Caoineadh’, a taster for her debut album, Caoin.
Read more ...Gig Economy #1
Mon, Feb 28, 2022
GIG ECONOMY #1 is a new, micro-music festival, taking place this Saturday, March 5, at the Caravan Club, the beer garden of Carroll’s Bar, Dominick Street.
Read more ...Rachel Connelly releases debut single
Thu, Feb 24, 2022
LOUGHREA HAS one of the most vibrant music scenes in County Galway, having already produced Ultan Conlon and The Clockworks. To that list we can now add Rachel Connelly.
Read more ...‘A Songbook of the Spirit’ at St Nicholas’
Thu, Feb 24, 2022
‘A SONGBOOK of the Spirit’, a concert of settings of the Psalms by two monumental composers of the 17th century, Claudio Monteverdi and Heinrich Schütz, takes place this weekend.
Read more ...Sitkovetsky Trio to play NUI Galway
Tue, Feb 22, 2022
THE SITKOVETSKY Trio have a reputation for delivering sensational performances in concert halls around the world, and Galway will see why when they perform in the city in March.
Read more ...Album Review: Metronomy
Music Reviews Tue, Feb 22, 2022
NO SONG, for me, captures this post-Covid, end of almost all restrictions, return to ‘normal’ quite like Metronomy’s ‘It’s Good To Be Back’.
Read more ...Christy Moore to play Leisureland
Mon, Feb 21, 2022
THE GREAT Christy Moore delivered a magnificent and memorable concert in Pearse Stadium last summer, and this summer sees him return to Salthill.
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