N.O.A.H release new single with Booka Brass Band

Tue, Feb 23, 2021

'DARKEST HOUR' the new single from the exciting Irish rock band N.O.A.H, and featuring the acclaimed Booka Brass Band, is out now.

Two exceptional pianists - live in your home

Thu, Feb 18, 2021

TWO EXCEPTIONAL pianists, on the cusp of major international careers - Sae Yoon Chon and Dmytro Choni - will perform works by Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninov, and others, at a Music for Galway online concert.

'Work' - Steven Sharpe goes electro on new single

Tue, Feb 16, 2021

'WORK', STEVEN Sharpe's signature song has already been a high energy acoustic number, a full on hard-rock belter, and now it comes in it's third, and latest shape - Gay-Irish-electro-funk.

Album review: Django Django

Music Reviews Tue, Feb 16, 2021

IT BEGINS in a swirl, as sounds musical and abstract weave into the sonic equivalent of the build-up to a rocket taking off, the moment of launch signalled by post-punk bass riff whose minimalism only enhances its forward momentum.

John Of The Apocalypse release second single

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

JOHN OF The Apocalypse - the west of Ireland alt-folk duo of Patrick Hallinan and Steve Dwane - release their second single 'Newborn' on Friday February 12.

Album review: The Fall

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 11, 2021

THE FALL’S recorded output is of such vastness that it is possible, like me, to be someone who has numerous Fall albums in your collection, and yet still have only a tiny fraction of their discography.

Lackagh Comhaltas launches online trad music Feis

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

LACKAGH COMHALTAS is launching an online All-Ireland Traditional Music Feis for 2021 and are looking for musicians to sign up and take part.

Mary Coughlan releases new single

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

MARY COUGHLAN, arguably Ireland's greatest jazz singer, will release her latest single, ‘Forward Bound’, tom arrow, Friday February 5.

Album review: The Staves

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 04, 2021

"THE HUMAN voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, the most moving...even the greatest virtuoso will never be able to give you even a fraction of the emotion a beautiful voice can...That is our share of the divine.”

Ceol ó Kylemore: Ceiliúradh na mBan

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

ON THE eve of Saint Brigid's Day/Lá 'le Bríde, TG4 will broadcast Ceol ó Kylemore: Ceiliúradh na mBan, a feast of traditional Irish much from some of the leading women in the field.

Album review: Ashnikko

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 28, 2021

SHE LOOKS like a blue haired version of She-Ra's Entrapta, armed with an equally colourful array of hip hop, garage, and pop beats - even a touch of emo - and an attitude that screams 'women power'.

Fia Rua - new single, new album

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

FIA RUA - the Galway based singer-songwriter and actor Eoghan Burke - has released a new single, 'The Ballad Of Tony Dunne', a murder balled set in a pub in the midlands.

Baba Yarga - a Slavic/Irish fusion from Galway

Thu, Jan 21, 2021

AN OLD Russian song from Siberian Cossacks, given an atmospheric, electro-pop reimagining by a Czech woman and two Poles, and recorded in Galway - this is 'Zoriushka' by Baba Yarga.

Could Niamh Regan become Galway's next Choice Music Prize winner?

Thu, Jan 14, 2021

SINGER-SONGWRITER Niamh Regan could become the third Galwegian to win the Choice Music Prize when the winners are announced on March 4.

Album review: Midnight Sister

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 14, 2021

IN THE mind of Midnight Sister (aka artist, film-maker, and musician Juliana Giraffe, and composer Ari Balouzian), it is always the 1970s, or rather, it is in the current guise their imagination has adopted.

KATS and Athenry actors to again star in new Opacas video

Thu, Jan 14, 2021

GALWAY VIRTUAL band, The Opacas have again joined forces with actors from the Knocknacarra Amateur Theatre Society and Athenry Drama Group, for a new video - which is released today on YouTube.

Chris Haze releases new single 'The Business'

Thu, Jan 07, 2021

CHRIS HAZE, one of Galway's leading singer-songwriters, will release his debut album in 2021, and ahead of that, comes the new single, 'The Business'.

Yawning Chasm - songs for tenor guitar

Thu, Jan 07, 2021

YAWNING CHASM - the moniker of indie-folk singer-songwriter Aaron Coyne - may be one of the quieter presences on the Galway music scene, but his songs are not those which should pass you by.

Aimee Banks among Eimear Noonan Music Bursary Awards recipients

Tue, Dec 22, 2020

GALWAY SOPRANO Aimee Banks, has become the youngest Eimear Noonan Music Bursary Awards recipient for 2020-21, at eighteen years of age.

Galway Advertiser's Best Albums of 2020

Music Reviews Mon, Dec 21, 2020

THIS HAS been a year without gigs, concerts, or festivals, and yet, it has still been a year which has given us some outstanding music. Here is my selection of the best albums of 2020.

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