All Tvvins and Paddy Hanna for Big Top

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

ALL TVVINS have been announced as support for Two Door Cinema Club, while left-field Irish singer-songwriter Paddy Hanna will open for Burt Bacharach, at those artists respective GIAF 2019 headline concerts.

ABBAesque to play the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

ABBAESQUE ARE on the go longer than the Swedish pop legends to whom they pay homage, but there is good reason for that. The world still loves ABBA, and ABBAesque are arguably the best ABBA tribute act.

What is Irish Contemporary Music?

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

WHAT IS Irish contemporary Mmsic? For a start it is a term which excludes rather than includes. It generally does not include music made by contemporary Irish musicians in the fields of rock, pop, folk, and trad. It usually only refers to classical music.

The Fureys to play Loughrea Hotel & Spa

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

THE FUREYS, one of Ireland's finest folk bands, best known for songs like ‘When You Were Sweet 16’, ‘The Green Fields of France’, ‘Red Rose Café’, and ‘Steal Away’, play the Loughrea Hotel & Spa on Friday March 22.

St Patrick's Day @ DNA

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

JAZZ MUSICIAN and performer Rick Swann, regarded as one of Ireland’s finest trumpet players, is coming to DNA Nightclub, Eyre Square, this St Patrick’s Day, Sunday March 17.

Fire In Cairo - a tribute to The Cure

Wed, Mar 06, 2019

FEW BANDS from the post-punk scene of the late 1970s have proved as enduring, as popular, or as influential as The Cure, whose fusion of Goth, punk, pop, and new wave, was swignificant in the development of indie music.

Anna Mullarkey releases new single 'Sometimes'

Tue, Mar 05, 2019

ANNA MULLARKEY, the Galway singer-composer and My Fellow Sponges member, has released a new solo single, 'Sometimes', a video for which goes live next week.

Maria Somerville - new single, album, and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Feb 28, 2019

MARIA SOMERVILLE, "one of Ireland’s most essential talents," according to The Thin Air, has released the single 'Brighter Days', is about to release of her debut album, and begin her Irish tour in Galway.

GASH Collective take over Electric for International Women's Day

Thu, Feb 28, 2019

GASH COLLECTIVE will be taking over all three floors of Electric on International Women's Day, with an array of DJs playing, and there will be a talk on women in music, and a vinyl and production workshop.

Padraig Stevens and Leo Moran Galway gigs

Thu, Feb 28, 2019

PADRAIG STEVENS and Leo Moran, two of Galway's greatest and most popular singer-songwriters, will play new songs, old favourites, and sing-alongs, as well as tell some stories at their gigs in Galway city and Tuam.

A Slovakian lunchtime with ConTempo

Thu, Feb 28, 2019

MUSIC FROM the unfairly overlooked Slovakian composer Ján Levoslav Bella will be performed by the ConTempo Quartet at the next From Europe With Love lunchtime concert.

Sax and 90s-2000s disco @ DNA

Thu, Feb 28, 2019

A NIGHT of saxophone music and a disco revelling in the hits of the 1990s and 2000s are coming up at DNA nightclub in Eyre Square.

Hayseed Dixie - let there be rockgrass

Tue, Feb 26, 2019

THEY CREATED the musical genre rockgrass - a fusion of classic rock and bluegrass/American folk - have won the respect of legendary rockers, been going for nearly 20 years, and they are coming to Galway this week.

Galway Street Club St Patrick's weekend shows

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

IT IS something of a local institution, and always one of the liveliest music nights of the year, when the Galway Street Club play their annual St Patrick's Weekend shows at the Róisín Dubh.

Album review: Julia Jacklin

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 21, 2019

LOOKS CAN be deceiving. Or can they? The cover of Jacklin's second solo album finds her surrounded by bric-a-brac, almost drowning in it, but with an ecstatic expression on her face.

Chris Haze - new single and EP

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

CHRIS HAZE, the Galway singer-songwriter, will tomorrow [Friday February 22] release his new single, 'Chasing Rivers', which is also the title-track from his forthcoming EP, due for release on April 26.

Experience Dark Side Of The Moon in Galway

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

IF YOU did not manage to make it to either of Roger Waters magnificent Dublin concerts last summer, where he performed pretty much the entirety of Dark Side Of The Moon, then an upcoming recreation of that classic album is not to be missed.

Montauk Hotel to play Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

INSPIRED BY 1980s indie-pop, and creating "streamlined, chorus-drenched jangle-pop” with "earworming charm", according to The Thin Air, Montauk Hotel are fast becoming a rising force in Irish music.

A lunchtime concert of modern music

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

A LUNCHTIME concert from the composer and violist Sebastian Adams, and cellist Yseult Cooper Stockdale, takes place next week in the O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, NUI Galway.

Richard Thompson to play Town Hall Theatre

Wed, Feb 20, 2019

RICHARD THOMPSON, a key former member of Fairport Convention; one of Britain's greatest and most covered songwriters; and who worked with Nick Drake on Bryter Layter, is coming back to Galway in August.

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