Mr Whippy @ Árus na nGael

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

MR WHIPPY Soundsystem’s Galway Yard Party returns to Club Árus na nGael tomorrow evening.

Blues band Strange Brew @ Monroe’s

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

BLUES-ROCK band Strange Brew, whose members hail from Ireland, Poland, Gibraltar, and England, play Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Thursday August 9.

Lead vocalist, Romek was born in Gdansk and toured Poland with various jazz, swing, soul, and blues groups, including the Mietek Blues Band, with whom he recorded several albums. Guitarist Simon is from London and is a former member of r’n’b band Mojo Chill’n.

The Driftwood Manor - the fresh sound of Irish folk

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

DOMINICAN BLACK Abbey, the new six track EP by The Driftwood Manor, is one of the most refreshing and engaging folk releases by an Irish artist in a long time.

Crime Before Bedtime release demo EP

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

GALWAY ALTERNATIVE rockers Crime Before Bedtime have released a four track demo EP, a tasty sample of their sound ahead of their Citóg gig in The Cellar on Thursday August 9.

The quintet, which features vocalist Colin Finnerty, has made the EP available via a free download through Bandcamp. Physical copies are available from Bell, Book & Candle.

Soulboys v Rudeboys @ The Office

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

THIS SATURDAY sees the return of the successful Soulboys v Rudeboys night in the Office Bar backroom in Salthill.

Adventures beyond the ultraworld with The Orb

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

THEY TRIPPED us out in 1991 with ‘Little Fluffy Clouds’ before sending us into the heart of deepest, darkest, space on Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld. This is The Orb.

The Orb, the seminal ambient-electronica legends, will play live for the first time in the west of Ireland, as part of the Glory Box 90s night at Kelly’s on Bridge Street, this Sunday at 9pm.

Classical music for families

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

SUMMER MUSIC in Galway, a festival aimed at children as much as classical buffs takes place in Claregalway Castle from Monday August 6 to Saturday 11.

Creative writing classes with Fred Johnston

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

THE AUTHOR, poet, critic, and songwriter Fred Johnston will hold a creative writing class in NUI Galway in October and bookings are being taken now.

The classes will take place from 7.30pm to 9.30pm in Room MY 124 in the university. The course will deal with poetry and prose, with an emphasis on studying the structures and formations of poetry and on reading material in both prose and poetry.

An Cheathrú Rua art exhibition

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

TOMORROW EVENING at 7pm will see the opening of the group exhibition Teibí, in Tigh ‘n Táilliúra, An Cheathrú Rua.

Songs of love, passion, heartbreak, and joy

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

A CONCERT entitled Love, Passion, Heartache, and Joy might sound like a show for country and western songs, with joyful music tagged on at the end to stop it all getting too depressing.

However John Faulkner’s concert Love, Passion, Heartache and Joy will be a journey through all these emotions as conveyed through traditional and folk songs of Ireland, Britain, and the US. Inbetween the songs, John will explain the story behind each one.

Art exhibition in Clarinbridge

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

WINDS OF The Burren, the new exhibition by artist Frank Sanford, is currently on show at the Providence Kitchens in Clarinbridge.

Advance screening of Grabbers @ The Eye

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

GALWEGIANS WILL be among the first to see the new Irish sci-fi comedy Grabbers, starring Richard Coyle, Russell Tovey, and Ruth Bradley, when it gets an advanced screening at The Eye.

Win tickets to Jedward’s Galway concert

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

JEDWARD WILL headline the Summer Pop concert/event at Victoria Place, New Docks, on Sunday August 26 and the Galway Advertiser has tickets to give away.

Jedward will headline this family fun day event. Also playing will be Britain’s Got Talent finalist Ryan O’Shaughnessy, Galway bands The Amazing Apples and Oddity, and DJ Ahmed. Local children from Stagecoach Theatre Arts School will also be performing.

Bank Holiday gigs @ HALO

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

BLUES, SOUL, and indie-folk will be the order of day at HALO when Solarise, Oddsocks Revival, and The Raglans take to the venue’s upstairs stage.

Achill’s champion, Eva

Thu, Aug 02, 2012

THE IRISH cultural landscape towards the end of the 19th century was in a state of powerful transformation. While the period directly following the Act of Union in 1800 may have represented the best era of civil government in British/Irish history, it also saw Ireland being stripped of its political capital leaving it open to the economic failure that resulted in the Great Famine.

Stunned and demoralised after what has been called the greatest human disaster of the 19th century, The Great Famine, it took a decade or two for the country to find its cultural feet but as Dublin had little or no leadership to offer, there was a small but significant move away from the Anglo-Irish culture that had dominated the social landscape of the landed classes, and a growing interest emerged slowly at first but soon gathering momentum in the indigenous Irish culture, culminating in the foundation of the Irish Republican Irish Brotherhood, the Gaelic Athletic Association, and the Gaelic League.

Oliver! at the Town Hall

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

MORE THAN 50 years after it premiered on London’s West End, Lionel Bart’s classic musical Oliver! remains as much-loved as ever. Now Galway audiences can look forward to a new staging of the show from Brian and Sean Powers’ Twins Production Company which takes to the Town Hall Theatre stage next week.

The dark power of the supernatural

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

ONE OF the most sensational murder trials in late 19th century Ireland was that of Bridget Cleary in 1895, who was burned alive by her husband and cousins, who sincerely believed she was a ‘changeling’.

British singer-songwriters to play Portumna

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

BRITISH SINGER-songwriters Jake Morley and Liz Lawrence will play Portumna on Saturday August 4 at 8.30pm in the town’s Church of Ireland church.

Theatre reviews: Galway Arts Festival

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

EDWARD HALL’S all-male Propeller theatre company have become firm Galway Arts Festival favourites in recent years and they deliver the goods yet again with Henry V at the Black Box in a staging that is brimful of verve and brio.

Two chances to see Tumbling Bones

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

AMERICAN BLUEGRASS, folk, and blues band Tumbling Bones play Foyles Hotel, Clifden, tonight and Kelly’s in Galway city on Wednesday August 1.

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