Gypsy jazz sessions at PJ's

Thu, Jul 14, 2022

Have you been to PJ's beer garden yet? It’s beautiful. Push through the black iron gate on the left and walk into a long pergola covered area. You will feel transported as you are greeted by cherry blossom, tropical greens and hanging lanterns. The staff are welcoming and there are plenty of tables and seats. There are heaters too and if it rains, you won’t feel a drop. It's all covered at PJs.

Galway performers join Harps Alive Festival lineup this weekend

Thu, Jul 14, 2022

Galway harper Kathleen Loughnane, piper Cormac Cannon and poet Emily Cullen will be performing as part of the Harps Alive?An Chruit Bheo?Harps Leevin festival in Belfast this weekend, with Emily also journeying to Dublin for the Edward Bunting Remembered closing performance on July 26 at 3pm.

Pennsylvania Choir to raise funds for Enable Ireland

Thu, Jul 07, 2022

On Wednesday 13 July at 8pm, the Susquehanna Chorale from Hersey, Pennsylvania, will give a concert in aid of Enable Ireland. The performance will take place at St Nicholas Collegiate Church, Lombard Street, Galway City.

Entitled ‘A Celebration in Song,’ – the 35-voice choir will present an uplifting programme of music from both sides of the Atlantic. It will featurean eclectic mix of classical and contemporary music, including works by American and European composers, spirituals, folk songs, and choral classics, among others.

Aisle be back — welcome for return of Galway Cathedral Summer Concerts

Thu, Jun 30, 2022

Galway Cathedral Recitals is delighted to announce its international summer concert season for 2022, the 29th series to take place in Galway Cathedral. As always, the concerts take place on Thursdays at 8:00pm over six weeks in July and early August.

Tickets for Fall Right Into Place at Claregalway Castle go on sale tomorrow

Thu, Jun 16, 2022

Newdad, The Scratch and The Mary Wallopers will headline Fall Right Into Place when it returns to Claregalway Castle this September. Many more acts will be announced over the coming months.

Finale of ambitious series celebrating Europe’s cultural diversity

Thu, Mar 31, 2022

Finale of ambitious series celebrating Europe’s cultural diversity

Loner Deluxe releases new digital single

Wed, Mar 30, 2022

GALWAY UNDERGROUND musician Loner Deluxe will release his new single, 'How the West Wind Blows' on Friday April 1.

Helen Hancock’s charity concert for UNICEF Ireland

Mon, Mar 28, 2022

HELEN HANCOCK, the acclaimed Oranmore based soprano will next week give a concert to raise funds for UNICEF Ireland.

Carpe Diem Rise and Shine fundraising concert

Thu, Mar 24, 2022

SPRING IS here, restrictions are lifted, and musicians are ready to rise and shine, especially in south Galway for the return of the annual Carpe Diem concert.

The brainchild of Coole Music School's director, Katharina Baker, Carpe Diem (Rise and Shine) is the theme for a series of commemorative fundraising concerts in memory of Eimear Noonan and Eli Murray, two young musicians who died tragically in 2017 and 2019 respectively.

EP Review: The Clockworks

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 24, 2022

FEW SONGS capture the flux and white noise of our times quite like ‘Endgame’, the ironically positioned opening track of the debut EP from Galway band The Clockworks.

Niamh Regan - new EP out tomorrow

Tue, Mar 22, 2022

COUNTY GALWAY singer-songwriter, Niamh Regan, releases her new EP, In The Meantime, tomorrow, Wednesday March 23, digitally and as a CD.

Fontaines DC to play Galway in December

Mon, Mar 21, 2022

ARGUABLY THE most exciting band to emerge from Ireland in recent years, Fontaines DC release their new album next month and play Galway in December.

Viola, percussion, and a colourful sound world

Mon, Mar 21, 2022

STREET VENDOR songs, St Brigid, Sicilian folk music, and the melodic percussion instrument, the gamelan, will all come together at the next Music for Galway concert.

Bicurious and Poly-Math to play the Róisín Dubh

Mon, Mar 21, 2022

EXPERIMENTAL INSTRUMENTAL rock duo Bicurious, and Brighton prog/math band Poly-Math, play the Róisín Dubh this week.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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