New release and gig from Junior Brother and PowPig

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

IT COULD have been called a split EP, but why go for the obvious when you can have "a quadruple A-side single release"? That is just what Junior Brother and PowPig have done.

My Fellow Sponges/Rufus and Jess gig

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

MY FELLOW Sponges, the Galway folk-rock/prog-rock band, and the Berlin based, Irish folk-blues duo, Rufus Coates and Jess Smith, will play a gig in Galway city this week.

New Galway orchestra's inaugural concert series

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

LUMINOSA MUSIC, Galway's new orchestra, will present its inaugural concert series, Soundings, at Galway Cathedral, with a programme spanning eight centuries of female composers.

Bob Skeleton announce Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

FOLLOWING A busy 2018, Bob Skeleton, who describe their music as "midnight-pop" with shades of "West Coast cool and Mancunian mood", will play a headline show in the Róisín Dubh on June 7.

ConTempo and Coole Music play Loughrea

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

THE CONTEMPO Quartet and the Coole Music Youth Orchestra are joining forces to perform a concert of works by Arthur Duff, Werner Thomas, Katharina Baker, and Luís De Freitas Branco, in Loughrea.

Wild Youth, Daithí and Saint Sister for GIAF Big Top

Wed, Apr 10, 2019

SAINT SISTER, Daithí, and Wild Youth have been announced as support acts for shows at the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top in the Fisheries Field this July.

Inni-K - new album, Galway gig

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

INNI-K, "one of ten fierce women defining Irish culture," according to RTÉ, released her second album, The Hare and The Line, in March, while this month sees her play an intimate show in Galway city.

We Banjo 3 man at Mick Lally Theatre

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

FERGAL SCAHILL, fiddler and guitarist with the Irish folk/trad success story that is We Banjo 3, will be among the musicians performing at the next 3 Saturdays: 3 Kinds of Music concert.

Japanese music at An Taibhdhearc tonight

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

AHEAD OF the 2019 Experience Japan Hanami Festival in Dublin, the event will be stopping off in An Taibhdhearc theatre tonight to present a concert fusing Japanese and Irish music.

Cois Cladaigh concert in aid of Galway Hospice

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

THE COIS Cladaigh Choir will perform a charity concert in aid of the Galway Hospice this Saturday at 8pm in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church.

Music workshop for young people

Thu, Apr 04, 2019

LIVEFEED: Workshop & Open Mic is a Galway 2020 project for young people interested in music performance, production, promotion, songwriting, sound engineering, and music related photography, social media, and journalism.

John Grant to return to Galway this summer

Mon, Apr 01, 2019

FOLLOWING HIS triumphant and powerful concert at Leisureland last Saturday, John Grant has made good on the promise he made to the audience that night when he said he would "see you sooner rather than later".

GZA - hip hop's science genius for the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 28, 2019

THEY DON'T call GZA "The Genius" for nothing. He is a member of the mighty Wu Tang Clan; he has the fourth largest vocabulary of any rap artist; he promotes science education in New York City; and has spoken at the prestigious Harvard University.

Album review: White Denim

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 28, 2019

IN SOME corner of a foreign field - Austin, Texas, to be precise - it will forever be the 1970s, but what kind of seventies depends on what White Denim album you are listening to.

Chris Haze releases new single 'So Long'

Thu, Mar 28, 2019

'SO LONG', the new single from Galway singer-songwriter Chris Haze, taken from his forthcoming EP Chasing Rivers, will be released tomorrow.

The Curly Organ's weekly HELPdesk

Thu, Mar 28, 2019

THE CURLY Organ, the solo project of My Fellow Sponges' Donal McConnon, returns for another of his regular residencies at the Róisín Dubh, this time with a new show entitled HELPdesk.

Jazz, trad, and classical on a Saturday

Thu, Mar 28, 2019

A JAZZ commentary on Brexit, TG4’s young Musician Of The Year for 2019, and the ConTempo Quartet will be in The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, for the upcoming 3 Saturdays: 3 Kinds of Music concert.

Croi8 take The Musical Steps in An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Mar 28, 2019

CROI8, THE Galway folk-rock/prog-rock band, along with singer-songwriter Michael O'Connor, will give a performance, entitled The Musical Steps, in An Taibhdhearc on Saturday April 6 at 8.30pm.

Tracy Bruen and Ted Cronin @ Pálás

Thu, Mar 28, 2019

TRACY BRUEN, one of Galway's very finest singer-songwriters, and Ted Cronin of the much loved Converse All-Stars, will join forces again for the next instalment of Applause at Pálás.

Hollaback to the noughties @ DNA Live

Thu, Mar 28, 2019

HOLLABACK, THE ultimate noughties covers band, are coming to Galway to play the best loved hits of the 2000s in the DNA nightclub, on Saturday April 13.

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