Get Boogie!

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

GET BOOGIE! is back tomorrow night in Factory, Abbeygate Street, for a collaborative gig weekend with east coast crew Drank.

Guinness Amplify Live Stages - in Galway

Mon, Feb 09, 2015

THE GUINNESS AMPLIFY Live Stages gigs come to Galway on Thursday February 26 with the Róisín Dubh and Monroe’s Live announced as the venues where the shows will take place. Each venue will host three bands on the night.

Amelia Curran at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

AMELIA CURRAN, the Juno Award winning singer-songwriter has been described as “a bit like Leonard Cohen being channelled in a dusty saloon by Patsy Cline.”

Album review: Natalie Prass

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015

IN JANUARY 2013 Big Inner, an album of blue eyed soul, Memphis horns, funk, and Christianity by singer-songwriter Matthew E White caused a considerable stir. Now he returns to give his schoolfriend Natalie Prass her start, with this, her debut album.

Máirtín O’Connor to headline fleadh fundraising concert

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE GREAT Máirtín O’Connor headlines a major concert in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway, on Friday February 13 to raise funds for the Galway County Fleadh.

Dylan Murphy to launch debut EP

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

DYLAN MURPHY, the guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of Steven Sharpe’s band The Broke Straight Boys, is to launch his debut solo EP.

Mitch Presents at Kelly’s

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

AN ALTERNATIVE Valentine’s Night takes place at Kelly’s on Saturday February 14 with leading Irish DJs, Jack Dunne, Ninha Tips, Beefy, and Mitch, hitting the Decks.

Iron Mountain and Spats Colombo @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

KRAUTROCK, FOLK, jazz, metal, psychedelia, and post-rock fuse in the music of Limerick based multi-instrumentalists Iron Mountain.

Corrib Rocks charity concert for COPE

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE iROCKS winners Rofi James and Clare based alt ska/indie band The Connectors play the Corrib Live charity night on Friday February 13 in the Commercial Boat Club, Woodquay.

Basement Project at The Cellar

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

BASEMENT PROJECT, a new underground house music night, has its debut night in Galway on Saturday February 14 at 9pm in The Cellar Bar.

Plutonic House - techno at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

PLUTONIC HOUSE will deliver heart-hitting synth melodies, punk-funk bass lines, lo-fi analogue disco beats, and sensual vocals, when they play Monroe’s Live.

Shuffle DJ @ Massimo tomorrow night

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

DJ Dave Barry (Shuffle! ) will take people from Studio 1 to Studio 54, the barrios of New York to the the soul clubs of Detroit with a packed box of 7” vinyl and Lps.

Acclaimed American songwriter Greg Brown to play Galway

Tue, Feb 03, 2015

HE HAS been called “a wickedly sharp observer of the human condition” by Rolling Stone, with a voice that “qualifies as one of the wonders of the folk world” according to Acoustic Guitar. This is American singer-songwriter Greg Brown.

A Scot, a Canadian, and a Róisín Dubh double-bill

Mon, Feb 02, 2015

SCOTTISH HIGHLAND folk noir balladeer Rachel Sermanni and the award winning Canadian singer-songwriter Tom Terrell play the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8pm.

Disconauts - back with a bang for 2015

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE DISCONAUTS and the phenomenal Atlantic Horns - two DJs and a three piece horn section - take to the Róisín Dubh stage for the first time in a year this Saturday at 11pm.

When the cellist met the DJ

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE CELLIST Matthew Barley is passionate about improvisation, multi-arts projects, and new music, which explains his joining forces with leading Galway DJ Cyril Briscoe.

Jarrod Dickenson to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

HIS VOICE has been compared to “a young Tom Waits” and he is said to have “melodies many of his peers would give their left arm for”. He is Texan singer-songwriter Jarrod Dickenson.

The Certain Three Tour @ Kelly’s

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

TWO AMERICAN musicians and a Cork singer-songwriter play Kelly’s Bar on February 26 as part of The Certain Three tour, which supports emerging artists.

Something To Sing About choir in concert

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE SOMETHING To Sing About choir, whose members are all cancer survivors, will perform a charity concert at the g Hotel on Friday February 6 at 8pm.

The Tales Of Hoffmann @ The Eye

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE TALES Of Hoffmann is to receive a spectacular production by The Metropolitan Opera in New York, and be screened live via satellite to The Eye Cinema.

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