Improvise with Community @ The Loft

Thu, May 28, 2015

COMMUNITY IS the improv alter-ego of Galway band My Fellow Sponges, whose drive is to see the audience create music along with the band.

Galway Guitar Night returns to The Cellar

Thu, May 28, 2015

THE GUITAR, whether used to play rock, jazz, or classical, will be the centre of attention on Tuesday June 2 at The Galway Guitar Night, in The Cellar Bar.

Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross to play Róisín Dubh

Mon, May 25, 2015

IN THE late eighties and early nineties, it was impossible to escape Scotland's Deacon Blue and songs like 'Real Gone Kid', 'Dignity', and 'Fergus Sings the Blues', and later this year, the man who wrote those songs - Ricky Ross - will be in Galway.

Album review: My Morning Jacket

Music Reviews Thu, May 21, 2015

I CAN never listen to My Morning Jacket without thinking of the American Dad episode where Stan becomes fanatically, hopelessly, obsessed with Jim James, in what has to be the programme's funniest 25 minutes to date.

Young Wonder - new album and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, May 21, 2015

YOUNG WONDER, the electro/indie-pop duo of producer Ian Ring and vocalist Rachel Koeman released their debut album Birth this month and they play the Róisín Dubh on Friday May 29 at 9pm.

The Dub Doctor album launch @ The Loft

Thu, May 21, 2015

GALWAY BASS and dub DJ, producer, and mixer The Dub Doctor will launch his new album URBANOMIX, with a show in The Loft @ Seven, Bridge Street this Saturday at 10pm.

Beagán Grá - a concert for Palestine

Thu, May 21, 2015

GALWAY SKA band Big Jelly and Tuam's brilliant pop-punk trio Oh Boland! will play a concert this weekend to raise funds for the charity Music Harvest which works with children in the Palestinian West Bank.

Torche to play FEAST

Thu, May 21, 2015

FLORIDA SLUDGE-pop titans Torche, will bring their heavy riffs and sweet melodies to FEAST at the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh this Sunday [May 24] from 9pm.

Sugarbeat festival to take place over two days

Thu, May 21, 2015

THE SECOND SugarBeat Music Festival has been expanded into a two-day event in response to the success of last year's festival, and will take place in Tuam Stadium on Saturday August 22 and Sunday 23.

Mundy to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 21, 2015

HE HAS a new album, a new single, a new Irish tour, and he will be in Galway tomorrow. He is singer-songwriter Mundy who plays the Róisín Dubh at 9pm.

Relive the Grunge era @ Monroe's Live

Thu, May 21, 2015

GRUNGE BEGAN in Washington State in the 1980s, with bands like Green River - containing future members of Pearl Jam and Mudhoney - before going overground with Nirvana's Nevermind, and coming to an untimely end with Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994.

Birdsong - a concert of songs about birds

Thu, May 21, 2015

THE BIRDSONG Project, a concert of trad songs about our feathered friends takes place in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church this Saturday at 8pm, and is the Bealtaine Festival's flagship performance.

Natty Wailer to bring the reggae to Monroe's Live

Thu, May 21, 2015

NATTY WAILER, the Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter who worked with Bob Marley, returns to Monroe's Live on Thursday May 28 at 10pm.

Basement Project @ The Cellar

Thu, May 21, 2015

FRESH FROM his headline set at Phase One, former Disco Nouveau crew member Murch will headline the next Basement Project in The Cellar this Saturday from 9pm.

Alt.Folk, Americana, and Mná Mná

Wed, May 20, 2015

LEFT-FIELD folk, Bluegrass, and Americana, will all be heard in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh when Laura Mulcahy, Wilde Ida, and Rivers & Crows play the next Mná Mná Music night this Thursday [May 21] at 8.30pm.

Captain A & The Commercial Monsters to launch debut album

Tue, May 19, 2015

CAPTAIN A & The Commercial Monsters, the Galway band whose sound mixes the diverse influences of prog, Bill Withers, and Big Tom, will launch their debut album Dreams at the Citóg night in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow [May 20] at 9pm.

Don McLean - Galway concert in September

Thu, May 14, 2015

DON MCLEAN, the singer-songwriter whose 'American Pie', 'Vincent', and 'And I Love You So' are standards in the great songbook, not just of America, but of the world, comes to Galway in the Autumn.

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis for Strange Brew

Thu, May 14, 2015

KITTY, DAISY, & Lewis have always done things their own way. Long before the rock'n'roll/rockabilly revival became hip, the then teenagers were recording on old analogue equipment to give their rock and blues an authentic 1950s vibe.

King Creosote to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 14, 2015

HE IS Scotland's most acclaimed, and most prolific, contemporary singer-songwriter, a man who, the Mail On Sunday, said uses folk music "for its finest purpose: connecting the past to the present, and making both come alive in the moment of hearing".

Where the cello will go Baroque

Thu, May 14, 2015

MUSIC FOR Galway's successful cello season Cellissimo closes this weekend when MFG joins forces with the Galway Early Music Festival for a concert of Baroque music in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church.

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