I Give It A Year winners

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

THE WINNERS to the advance screening of the new comedy film I Give It A Year in The Eye Cinema this week were:

Galway to feature strongly at Westport Festival

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

WHILE THE headliners include Elvis Costello and Imelda May, Galway bands and a stage hosted by the Róisín Dubh, will feature strongly at this year’s Westport Festival.

Elevens @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

SOUND AND VISION will combine to dramatic effect when Dublin trio Elevens take to the stage of Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9.30pm.

Mikey & The Scallywags’ Adventure In Music

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

THE FOLK, country, blue grass, and gypsy fusion of Mikey & The Scallywags will provide high entertainment for families at the next Adventures in Music concert.

Dario Fo play at Múscailt

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

FRANCIS THE Holy Jester, by Nobel Prize winning Italian satirist, playwright, and actor Dario Fo, will be performed in Galway next week.

MOVE - a fusion of visual art and dance

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

MOVE, A show incorporating art and dance, will be performed during NUI Galway’s Múscailt Arts Festival next week.

Galway Arts Centre February Poetry Slam

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

THE GALWAY Arts Centre’s first poetry slam of 2013 takes place on Tuesday February 12 at 7pm in the centre at 47 Dominick Street.

Participants are required to bring one poem/piece that will take a maximum of three minutes to perform. The winner will be selected on the night and will be invited to perform as a guest speaker at the March poetry slam on March 19, in addition to qualifying for the Grand Slam Final, which will take place during the Cúirt Festival in April.

‘O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!’

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

POWER CORRUPTS and the repression of sexuality produces not virtue but demons that lead to the warping of human relationships. In a sexually and politically repressive society the stage is set for the perversion of both human behaviour and of justice.

Decadent gets its dues

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jan 24, 2013

FOR DIRECTOR Andrew Flynn and Decadent Theatre Company, the early weeks of 2013 have brought a very happy New Year in the shape of three nominations in the coveted Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards.

Merriment and What Not

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

MERRIMENT AND What Not’ will be the jolly and joyous theme of this year’s Múscailt, NUI Galway’s on campus arts festival, for both students and the Galway public.

The festival, now in its 13th year, runs from Monday February 4 to Friday 8 with a programme of art, music, performance, dance, literature, and film.

West End’s phantom to teach vocal classes

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

RICHARD HALTON, who performed the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of The Opera in London’s West End for six years, is coming to Galway.

Americana and bluegrass @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

EXPECT HIGH energy bluegrass, Americana, and harmony vocals when Rackhouse Pilfer play Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 11pm.

Basswax @ The Cellar

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

A NIGHT OF knee-lifting, fist-pumping, neck-stretching jungle and electronic music madness can be expected when the Basswax collective play The Cellar Bar this Saturday.

Martha Wainwright to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, the Canadian-American singer-songwriter, daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, and sister of Rufus, is coming to Galway.

Princeton ‘Tigressions’ @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

IT IS extraordinary to think that Princeton, one of the world’s most prestigious university’s, only admitted women onto its campus in 1969.

Cult sci-fi film to be shown in Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

SCIENCE-FICTION film Born In Flames, made in 1983 by the American director Lizzie Borden, will be screened in the Galway Arts Centre this Saturday at 2pm.

Win an original artwork

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

THE COLLECTION is the title of the current exhibition by Galway artist PIXI which is currently running in Anton’s Café on Fr Griffin Road.

The Collection shows work in a figurative and semi abstract mode, varying from PIXI’s (aka Mary Cahalan Lee) vivid and colourful dancers to romantic themes conveying energy and movement to colourful boats. The exhibition runs until early February.

Sara Watkins - striking out on her own

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

MUSICALLY, SOUTHERN California is associated with hip hop, punk, hippy singer-songwriters, and sleaze rockers, not bluegrass, country, and folk, but Sara Watkins and her family prove an exception.

Beethoven

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

THESE JANUARY days may be cold and wet, grim and grey, but Music for Galway’s aptly named Midwinter Festival can be relied upon to spread cheer and warmth on the weekend of January 25 to 27.

Vivaldi’s Gloria in St Nicholas’

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

VIVALDI’S ‘GLORIA’ will be performed in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church by the Galway Choral Association on Saturday January 26 at 8pm.

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