Renmore girl wins national singing final

Thu, May 08, 2014

CLARE QUINN, a 14-year-old from Renmore, has won the National All Ireland Schools Talent Final, which took place recently in Limerick Concert Hall.

Mozart’s Mass in Galway Cathedral

Thu, May 08, 2014

NEW YORK soprano Marcy Richardson and English soprano Denise Leigh will perform Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor in Galway Cathedral on Thursday May 15 at 8pm.

Southern choir to sing for Simon

Thu, May 08, 2014

A CHOIR from North Carolina is coming to St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church to perform a fundraising concert for Galway Simon.

Music for Celts and Romans to battle to

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE CELTS and the Romans were never bosom buddies. The Celts sacked Rome in 390 AD and Caesar conquered Gaul in the Fifties BC.

Listen to new album by Galway folk singer

Tue, May 06, 2014

GALWAY BASED folk/alternative singer-songwriter Brigid Power-Rice has released her new album I Told You The Truth, which was recorded in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

Alabama 3 and Songs For Amy concert

Thu, May 01, 2014

ALABAMA 3 will headline a concert in Monroe’s Live tomorrow from 9pm, featuring musicians involved in the award-winning independent Irish film Songs for Amy.

Bank Holiday music @ The Stock Exchange

Thu, May 01, 2014

COVER BANDS, DJs, and party nights are on the cards at The Stock Exchange Bar, Shop Street, throughout the May Bank Holiday weekend.

Michael Franti - music for sunshine souls

Thu, May 01, 2014

MICHAEL FRANTI & Spearhead believe “all the freaky people make the beauty of the world!” and they intend to show Galway why this month.

Kíla @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, May 01, 2014

THE HIGH energy, many-headed, collision of world and Irish music that is Kíla comes to Monroe’s Live this Bank Holiday Sunday at 9pm.

A night of Italian doom metal

Thu, May 01, 2014

ASTRONOMY, MEDIAEVAL European history, and Sardinian myths collide in the music of Italian doom metal band Black Capricorn.

Daft Funk to play Kelly’s

Thu, May 01, 2014

DAFT FUNK, the celebrated Irish tribute act to Daft Punk return to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Bank Holiday Sunday at 11pm.

Serafino Quartet’s Irish début

Thu, May 01, 2014

MUSIC FOR Galway’s 33rd season comes to a close with the Irish début concert by the Serafino Quartet, on Wednesday May 7 at 8pm.

Damon Albarn's Everyday Robots

Music Reviews Thu, May 01, 2014

IS IT surprising Damon Albarn has taken this long to make a solo album? As one of the major figures in British popular music for close to 25 years, Blur, Gorillaz, his collaborations with African musicians and composer Michael Nyman, have given him plenty creative endeavours to be going on with.

We Cut Corners - new album and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 24, 2014

WE CUT Corners release their second album, Think Nothing, on the Delphi label, tomorrow, and play the Róisín Dubh that night at 9pm.

Think Nothing is the duo’s follow-up to their Choice Music Prize nominated debut Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards, and like that album, features mellow, highly melodic and intelligent songs (‘Maybe In The Future’, ‘Every Thief’) backed by sweeping strings - scored by respected contemporary Irish composer John Buckley - revealing the sophistication of We Cut Corners own writing.

Dolores Keane and Mary Black in concert

Thu, Apr 24, 2014

MARY BLACK and Dolores Keane, and an outstanding cast of trad/folk musicians, will be in concert at The Salthill Hotel on Sunday May 11 at 8pm.

Yuck to play Strange Brew

Thu, Apr 24, 2014

THE DEPARTURE of a band’s co-founder/lead singer could be a devastating blow, but London Indie-rockers Yuck survived, regrouped, and delivered a second album.

An Taobh Tuathail at fifteen

Thu, Apr 24, 2014

ON THURSDAY May 1, An Taobh Tuathail, Raidió na Gaeltachta’s alternative music show, celebrates 15 years since its first broadcast in 1999.

Reggae and Soul In Galway this weekend

Thu, Apr 24, 2014

A TREAT is in store for lovers of reggae and soul both tomorrow and Saturday.

The return of Wallis Bird

Thu, Apr 24, 2014

WALLIS BIRD is back, with a new album, Architect, and a tour which takes in Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

La’s/Cast man to play Galway

Thu, Apr 24, 2014

HE WAS a member of The La’s, whose enduring song ‘There She Goes’ has rarely left the airwaves these last 20 years, and he was the founder/leader of Cast.

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