Alejandro Escovedo to play Kelly’s

Thu, May 24, 2012

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO & the Sensitive Boys will play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday June 29 at 8pm as part of a tour to promote his new album.

Late Night Gimp Fight @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 24, 2012

SAUCY HUMOUR, off-the-wall sketches, hilarious songs, and a lot of ‘naughty but nice’ humour is on the cards from Late Night Gimp Fight.

Proust Questionnaire: Rob Wade, singer-songwriter

Thu, May 24, 2012

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being able to stay positive no matter what life throws at you.

The music of Hayden at St Augustine’s

Thu, May 24, 2012

THE MUSIC OF the great Austrian composer Joseph Hayden will be performed at a special concert in the Augustinian Church on Thursday May 31 at 8pm.

GMIT printmakers exhibition

Thu, May 24, 2012

IMPRESSIONS IS the title of an exhibition by GMIT printmaking students which opens at the Quadrangle Gallery, NUI Galway, this Saturday at 7pm.

May Over The Edge reading

Thu, May 24, 2012

The May Over The Edge: Open Reading, the final such event before the summer break, takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday May 31 at 6.30pm.

The featured readers are Adam White, Bernie Ashe, and 2011 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition winner Eimear Ryan.

Julian Gough makes book award shortlist

Thu, May 24, 2012

GALWAY’S JULIAN Gough has seen his most recent novel Jude In London shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.

Get ignited by GMIT exhibition

Thu, May 24, 2012

IGNITE, AN exhibition by third year students of ceramics in the GMIT’s Department of Art and Design, opens this evening.

Stephen James to launch EP at Monroe’s Live

Thu, May 24, 2012

STEPHEN JAMES, the Sligo born, Galway based, singer-songwriter will launch his debut EP with a show in Monroe’s Live tonight at 9pm.

Underground Sound mini-festival @ Monroe’s

Thu, May 24, 2012

THE UNDERGROUND Sound, the night for up and coming, alternative, and unsigned bands in Monroe’s, will hold a mini-festival next week.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, May 24, 2012

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.

The show is open to the public and comedians, and admission is free. Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set.

Vicky Langan - ‘If I’m completely honest and raw it can’t go wrong’

Thu, May 17, 2012

“THERE ARE some musicians who entertain us, fine; some who stimulate us, better; and then some who immerse us in something so powerful that primal emotions surface instantly; making us ultra-defensive, or, finally open to illumination. One of the latter is Vicky Langan.”

Joan O’Clery; dressing DruidMurphy

Thu, May 17, 2012

ONLY A couple of weeks remain until the curtain rises on the epic DruidMurphy cycle and the company is in the thick of technical rehearsals at the Town Hall, preparing for what is sure to be a highlight of the theatrical year.

While much attention may focus on the input of playwright, director and actors, the contribution of the design team should not be underestimated. A key member of the DruidMurphy design team is costume designer Joan O’Clery, twice winner of Costume Designer of the Year in The Irish Times Theatre Awards.

The Wedding Present return

Thu, May 17, 2012

THE WEDDING Present return to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday November 3 to play their acclaimed 1991 album Seamonsters.

Galway African Film Festival

Thu, May 17, 2012

AWARD-WINNING movies from Morocco, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, South Africa, and Rwanda will be shown in the Nuns Island Arts Theatre for the fifth Galway African Film Festival.

Enjoy a film at lunchtime

Thu, May 17, 2012

JACK NICHOLSON, Peter O’Toole, Sissy Spacek, and Phillip Seymore-Hoffman will all star in a series of movies to be screened in NUI Galway as part of the Bealtaine Festival.

Galway to hold its own fringe festival

Thu, May 17, 2012

Galway city is to get its own fringe festival this summer and the organisers are calling on local arts organisations and individuals to become involved.

Core Theatre College auditions

Thu, May 17, 2012

CORE THEATRE College will be holding auditions for its autumn theatre training course which runs from September 18 to December 2.

Scottish music in Aughnanure Castle

Thu, May 17, 2012

AUGHNANURE CASTLE in Oughterard will be filled with the sound of Scottish traditional music and song this weekend as part of the Galway Early Music Festival.

A journey into Spanish sounds

Thu, May 17, 2012

ANDREW LAWRENCE-King, one of the world’s leading historical harpists, will lead a concert of Spanish music in Galway this weekend.

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