EP Review: NOBRO
Music Reviews Thu, Mar 03, 2022
IT BEGINS with a gospel choir, all harmonies, hand claps, and finger clicks, and an immaculate delivery of the lines, “I spent my whole life running away…”
Read more ...EVØKE release new single 'Somehow'
Tue, Mar 01, 2022
TODAY SEES the release of 'Somehow', the new single by Loughrea indie-folk quartet EVØKE, via the Limerick based music collective, BitDepth.
Read more ...Ceara Conway - new single, new album
Tue, Mar 01, 2022
CEARA CONWAY, known for unique use of traditional song and lament in contemporary art, has released the single ‘An Caoineadh’, a taster for her debut album, Caoin.
Read more ...Gig Economy #1
Mon, Feb 28, 2022
GIG ECONOMY #1 is a new, micro-music festival, taking place this Saturday, March 5, at the Caravan Club, the beer garden of Carroll’s Bar, Dominick Street.
Read more ...Rachel Connelly releases debut single
Thu, Feb 24, 2022
LOUGHREA HAS one of the most vibrant music scenes in County Galway, having already produced Ultan Conlon and The Clockworks. To that list we can now add Rachel Connelly.
Read more ...‘A Songbook of the Spirit’ at St Nicholas’
Thu, Feb 24, 2022
‘A SONGBOOK of the Spirit’, a concert of settings of the Psalms by two monumental composers of the 17th century, Claudio Monteverdi and Heinrich Schütz, takes place this weekend.
Read more ...Sitkovetsky Trio to play NUI Galway
Tue, Feb 22, 2022
THE SITKOVETSKY Trio have a reputation for delivering sensational performances in concert halls around the world, and Galway will see why when they perform in the city in March.
Read more ...Album Review: Metronomy
Music Reviews Tue, Feb 22, 2022
NO SONG, for me, captures this post-Covid, end of almost all restrictions, return to ‘normal’ quite like Metronomy’s ‘It’s Good To Be Back’.
Read more ...Christy Moore to play Leisureland
Mon, Feb 21, 2022
THE GREAT Christy Moore delivered a magnificent and memorable concert in Pearse Stadium last summer, and this summer sees him return to Salthill.
Read more ...Galway synthpop artist Host releases new single
Thu, Feb 17, 2022
GALWAY SYNTHPOP vocalist and songwriter Host releases her first new music of 2022 on Friday, with the single 'Not Alright'.
Read more ...Huun-Huur-Tu - return of the Tuvan throat singers
Mon, Feb 14, 2022
AFTER TWO years of no live music, every gig now taking place will feel special and important, yet Huun-Huur-Tu’s upcoming Galway show will likely prove to be the most exciting, and utterly different, musical event of the year.
Read more ...Live Again - a Galway night with a selection of Galway's finest musicians and performers
Mon, Feb 14, 2022
TWO GALWAY music legends; the inaugural winner of the Choice Music Award; a rising star among Irish singer-songwriters; and a Galway trad music and dance phenomenons.
Read more ...Joep Beving - Paris, philosophy, and the piano
Thu, Feb 10, 2022
JOEP BEVING, a sensation in contemporary classical music, will, in April release his latest album and play the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...‘It is time to sing together again’
Thu, Feb 10, 2022
“IT IS time to sing together again” is the phrase inspiring the Galway Choral Association as it plans to re-commence in-person rehearsals, this Sunday, February 13.
Read more ...Album review: Alt-J
Music Reviews Thu, Feb 10, 2022
IT WAS once said of the Rolling Stones: “They wanted to be American. How British is that?” Something of the same could be said of Alt-J - at least in regards to their new album.
Read more ...Eddi Reader to play Town Hall in 2022
Thu, Feb 10, 2022
FROM BACKING vocals with Gang of Four, to lead vocals with Fairground Attraction, to acclaimed solo artist, Eddi Reader has every reason to celebrate her 40 years in the music business.
Read more ...Rhiannon Giddens headlines new music series on TG4 player
Wed, Feb 09, 2022
GRAMMY-AWARD winning American musician, Rhiannon Giddens, will be among the performers in a new music series, which launches on Friday February 11, on the TG4 Player.
Read more ...An evening of musical fantasies with Mishka Rushdie Momen
Wed, Feb 09, 2022
MISHKA RUSHDIE Momen, The Times Arts Critics’ Nominee for 2021 in the field of classical music, will perform a concert in NUI Galway next week.
Read more ...Niamh Regan to release new EP
Mon, Feb 07, 2022
IT IS onwards and upwards for County Galway singer-songwriter Niamh Regan, who is set to release her new EP, In The Meantime, with launch shows in Dublin and London.
Read more ...Aimée to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 03, 2022
AIMÉE, THE Irish singer obsessed with Scandinavian pop from the 1990s and 2000s, will play the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday February 9 at 8pm.
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