Tony McLoughlin @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

“TONY MCLOUGHLIN has created a catalogue of literate songs that shine a spotlight in the dark corners of our lives...blending elements of country, folk, Americana, and rock.”

So said Hot Press’s Jackie Hayden of the Irish singer-songwriter, going on to praise “his lived-in voice and captivating melodies” which “can take you places you've never been before”.

Syd Arthur for Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

CANTERBURY WAS at the centre of English psychedelia in the late 1960s and early 1970s, being home to the melodic Caravan and the “out bloody rageous” Soft Machine.

A Valentine’s night concert

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

MAKE A date with Music for Galway for a Valentine’s night concert, featuring a leading Italian pianist seeking to capture the music, art, and romance of Paris in the early 1900s.

A trio of events from artist Áine Phillips

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

THE ARTIST Áine Phillips will host a trio of events this weekend, featuring exhibitions, a performance, and a panel discussion.

The events begin this evening at 7pm with a performance of Spectral in The Cube, Áras na MacLeinn, NUI Galway, where Phillips will use biographically sourced images and actions to explore the limits of sanity and human freedom.

Stephanie McLaughlin exhibition

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

STREETS AND Sea, an exhibition of 20 paintings by Galway artist Stephanie McLaughlin, is currently running at the Renzo Café on Eyre Street.

Oxford choirs to sing in Galway

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

THE AWARD winning choirs from the Oxford High School in Michigan will perform in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Friday February 15 at 8pm.

Show Me The Funny

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

THE FIFTH and final heat of Show Me The Funny takes place this Monday at The King’s Head, with a headline slot from David McSavage.

Galway Actors Workshop courses

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

THE GALWAY Actors Workshop returns for its spring season of courses, including the new workshop, Write Your Own Play.

Write Your Own Play starts on February 12, and will be held each Tuesday from 6.30pm to 8.30pm for 12 weeks. It will look at the idea stage; structuring the work; characterisation and dialogue; and how it can be performed in a theatre. The cost is €200/€170.

Have you a vision?

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

ABOUT 25 years or so ago, I was designated to attend on behalf of Kenny’s Bookshop a day long workshop on motivation organised by the Chamber of Commerce, Digital, and NUI Galway during which an American professional motivator was to bring the audience through their paces in terms of business organisation and goals.

For the Charlestown girls and people who drank in Mick Taylor’s

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

MARTIN DYAR won the Strokestown Poetry competition when George W Bush was still in his first term and all was well with the world.

That it has taken Dyar most of the past turbulent decade to work towards his debut collection, Maiden Names, published by Arlen House, shows he is someone who takes the craft of making poems seriously. Indeed the line breaks are all where they should be.

Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Thu, Feb 07, 2013

THE 2013 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase takes place at The Kitchen in The Galway City Museum, on Friday February 15 at 8pm.

In this annual retrospective of the year just past, Galway-based poets who published a new collection of poems during 2012 are invited to read three poems from the collection in question.

David O’Doherty - happiness is... and the perfection of the bicycle

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

ALBERT EINSTEIN once said that “life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”, while HG Wells opined that “Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race”.

Fregoli to premiere Let Me Be

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

GALWAY’S FREGOLI Theatre Company makes its first appearance of the new year at the Town Hall Theatre Studio next week with the world premiere of Maria Tivnan’s one-act play, Let Me Be.

The return of Reginald D Hunter

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

“REGINALD D Hunter joins the top rank of stand-up comedians working today...flying in the face of received opinion in a way that is simply exhilarating, this is a comedy of a rare scope.”

Joyced! – a new odyssey through Ulysses

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

FEBRUARY sees the 131st anniversary of James Joyce’s birth and fittingly enough it also sees the Town Hall Theatre hosting the award-winning stage show, Joyced!

Written by Donal O’Kelly and performed by his daughter Katie, the production was greeted with rapturous reviews at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It comes to the Town Hall on Tuesday February 12 at 8pm.

The Wonderful World of Dissocia

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

LISA JONES lost an hour when her flight to London crossed the Greenwich meridian at the exact moment daylight savings time ended.

John B Keane’s The Field

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

JOHN B Keane’s The Field will be staged by Galway’s Hourglass Theatre Company in Kilcornan, Clarinbridge, on Friday February 8 and Saturday 9.

Children’s theatre at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

SPRAOI, A family show about two people trying to communicate, will be performed in An Taibhdhearc this Saturday at 11am and 1pm.

Moon Boots @ ALICE

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

THE ALICE clubnight returns to Factory this Saturday for its second party of the year with guest DJ and producer Moon Boots.

This will be Moon Boots’ debut Irish show. The American DJ is signed to the label French Express alongside Chris Malinchak and Perseus and he has performed support slots to The Magician.

Kit Kola back at the Beatroom

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

This Friday night sees the welcome return of the gorgeous Kit Kola to the Beatroom upstairs in the Roisin Dubh. Kit has been rocking dancefloors for years with her eclectic mix of Rockabilly, Jump Blues, Soul and funk to name just a few genres. The Beatroom was the brainchild of both Byron and Kit and has been a a storming success packing the dancefloor every Friday night. Sadly due to other commitments they have decided to call time and put the Beatroom to bed. It will be missed. Don’t miss this last party. 11pm upstairs in the Roisin Dubh. Adm Free.

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