Grammy winning Pacific Boychoir Academy's debut Galway show

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THREE-TIME Grammy winning US choir, the Pacific Boychoir Academy, are making their debut tour to Ireland, and on the itinerary is a concert in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church this Saturday, July 6.

see night - melodic, dreamy, and like the Pixies

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

"CAPTIVATING, SUBTLY gripping, delicately engrossing...Listen closely and you can pick out some shoegaze, a dash of psychedelia, traces of Sonic Youth angst...and melodic sensibilities worthy of the Pixies."

Peter Regan - Fantastique!

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

HE HAS played New York's Carnegie Hall, Toronto's The Four Seasons Performing Arts Centre; as well as venues in Madrid, Salzburg, and Dublin, but he has never played Galway - until now.

No Stairway to perform Led Zeppelin I and II

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

AN E chord on a Fender Telecaster; an E chord on a Gibson Les Paul; both played at the 7th fret by a young Englishman; both the first track of his band's first two albums. Music was never the same again.

Maija Sofia and A Lilac Decline in concert

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

MAIJA SOFIA, and A Lilac Decline, two Galway indie singer-songwriters, play the next Eclectics night at The Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street, on Wednesday July 3 at 9pm.

Aimee Banks to open Galway Cathedral Summer Recitals 2019

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

ACCLAIMED GALWAY soprano Aimee Banks makes her Galway Cathedral Summer Recitals debut on Thursday July 4, the opening date of this latest series of summer concerts, now in it's 26th year.

Marcus Fields to launch debut EP in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Marcus Fields will launch his new EP, Death and Magic, with a gig in the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 5 at 9pm.

Bagatelle to play Lough Rea Hotel

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

BAGATELLE, THE Irish band who created one of the most famous songs in the nation's rock catalogue, 'Summer In Dublin', play the Lough Rea Hotel and Spa on Thursday July 4.

Two Door Cinema Club - new album, GIAF 19 show

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THEY'RE BACK Jim, but perhaps not quite as you have heard them before? Ahead of the European tour that takes them to the Galway Arts Festival Big Top, Two Door Cinema Club have released their new album.

Acclaimed folk singer Daoirí Farrell to play the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THERE ARE few folk/trad musicians in Ireland today as acclaimed and admired as Daoirí Farrell. Indeed, Dónal Lunny has called him "one of the most important traditional singers to emerge in the last decade".

The 'mesmerising' Her Crooked Heart

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

IN 2013, after two and a half years of marriage, Rachel Ries found herself touring a record around the world, accompanied by a stack of divorce papers in a pocket of her suitcase. She had taken a leap into the unknown.

Ye Vagabonds to play Traidphicnic

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THE EIGHTH Féile Traidphicnic, the community-based festival of "music, art, and inclusion" takes place in and around the An Ceardlann Craft Village and Café, in An Spidéal, from July 5 to 7.

Ceara Conway's debut album Kickstarter campaign

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

CEARA CONWAY, the singer and visual artist from Connemara, is launching a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to help her record and release her debut album, which will be entitled Caoin.

Jeffrey Lewis - the indie-rock bohemian

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

HE GREW up in a counterculture atmosphere on New York’s Lower East Side, surrounded by music, comic books, and alternative ways of looking at the world. He is Jeffrey Lewis - singer, songwriter, lyricist, artist, storyteller, and comic book creator.

Album review: Morrissey

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 13, 2019

SUPPORTING BREXIT and UKIP, and making sympathetic comments about far-right figures have left Morrissey fans disgusted, in despair, and in denial - often, with long term fans like myself, feeling all three at once.

Aslan to play The Galmont in August

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

LONG RUNNING Irish rock legends Aslan will play The Galmont Hotel & Spa as part of the hotel's programme of activity this Galway Racing festival. The show is on Saturday August 3.

The Curly Organ @ Nuns Island Theatre

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

THE ECCENTRICALLY brilliant The Curly Organ - the solo musical project of Donal McConnon, of Galway prog-folk band My Fellow Sponges - plays the next Sos. music night.

Luminosa to give Galway premiere of Bill Whelan's Inishlacken

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

GALWAY CATHEDRAL will be the venue for the very first performance in this city of Inishlacken, a work by Riverdance composer Bill Whelan. It will be performed by Galway's new orchestra, Luminosa.

Galway Baroque Singers summer concert

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers will perform music by Victoria, Byrd, Bardos, Mawby, Mozart, and Galway musician and composer Eamonn Murray, at the Dominican Church, The Claddagh, this Saturday at 8.30pm.

Mongoose's musical and vocal 'melty-pot'

Thu, May 23, 2019

MONGOOSE CALL themselves "a musical melty-pot combining the vocals, instrument-playing and songwriting of four women", and they are coming to the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

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