Japanese and Irish poetry @ Charlie Byrne’s
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
CHARLIE BYRNE’S Bookshop will host an evening of Japanese poetry with Hisa Kagawa and Mary O’Donoghue, tomorrow at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Irish harp concert and lecture
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
THE GALWAY Early Music Festival returns in May and as a warm-up, leading Irish harpist Siobhán Armstrong will give a concert in Galway this weekend.
Read more ...Charity concert from Shaskeen
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
TRAD IRISH group Shaskeen will play a charity concert tomorrow to raise funds for both the Samaritans and St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.
The concert will be held in St Nicholas’ and doors are at 7.30pm. Special guests on the night will be Rev Gary Hastings (flute), Benny O’Connor (drums), Kevin Rohan (fiddle/vocals), Mike Fahy (vocals), and John Dooley (vocals).
Read more ...Take a trip on the show boat
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
THE COTTON Blossom show boat sails the Mississippi River entertaining passengers with its variety shows, but underneath the laughter and song, the performers and crew must endure racial prejudice, forbidden love, and the constraints of a society where intolerance is in plentiful supply.
Read more ...Gretchen Peters’ ‘quiet heroes’ and matadors
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
KELLY’S BAR on Bridge Street has been putting on some fine gigs of late and there is another excellent one coming up on Friday March 9 when acclaimed US singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters takes to the stage.
Read more ...The Rubberbandits to take on the world
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
THE RUBBERBANDITS are getting set to take on Ireland, the USA, and Canada with a tour which begins in Galway this month.
Read more ...Carthaginians’ ‘sense of hope and release’
Theatre Reviews Thu, Feb 23, 2012
FRANK MCGUINNESS’ powerful play Carthaginians, written as an elegy for the dead of Bloody Sunday, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week in a new production from Derry’s Millennium Forum directed by one of Ireland’s best known actors, Adrian Dunbar.
Carthaginians is set in a Derry graveyard in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday where a mother, mourning the loss of her child, believes the dead might rise again and gathers a group of Derry citizens all dealing with the collective guilt of having survived while those belonging to them have died.
Read more ...Playwright to launch debut novel
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
MICK DONNELLAN, the playwright behind Sunday Morning Coming Down and Shortcut to Halleljuah, is about to launch his debut novel.
Read more ...Musical Mayhem @ The Crane
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
MUSICAL MAYHEM, a night which celebrates and promotes local talent, returns to The Crane Bar on Thursday March 1.
Read more ...New Galway online art gallery
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
DIGITAL GALLERY J, a new Galway-based on-line gallery has just been launched and is accepting submissions from artists for exhibition.
Read more ...Mo' Soul In The Blue
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
Soul in the Blue is back once again to offer up more floor filling soul - frantic funk - scorching jazz - Latin boogaloo and what ever else ends up in the box - Joining Dave Barry this time on the decks is the now legendary Mr Whippy from the Mr Whippy Sound System.
Read more ...Honor Heffernan to play charity gig at Monroe’s
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
HONOR HEFFERNAN, one of Ireland’s best loved jazz singers, will be singing rock and blues at Monroe’s Live tonight at 9pm.
Read more ...Galway’s Carla Merrigan to launch debut album
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Carla Merrigan will launching her debut album In Too Deep with a gig in Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday March 2 at 8pm.
Read more ...Keywest - PLAY IRISH and Monroe’s Live
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
KEYWEST, THE Dublin pop-rock band, have built up quite a relationship with Galway over the last 18 months, a relationship that continues this month both on-stage and on radio.
The band play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9pm to celebrate the launch of their debut album The Message. The 11 track album was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Keywest and Mark Needham, who has worked with Blondie and The Killers.
Read more ...Senakah to play Kelly’s
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
SENEKAH, the Irish indie-rock quartet, will play Kelly’s Bar on Bridge Street this Saturday at 8pm, as part of a tour to promote their new single ‘Human Relations’.
Read more ...AMP Sessions @ Monroe’s
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
THE ACCESS Music Project Sessions returns to Monroe’s Backstage Beer on Thursday March 1 at 8.30pm and will showcase Galway and Irish talent.
Read more ...Máirtín O’Connor Band to play Ballinasloe
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
THE MÁIRTÍN O’Connor Band, featuring the Máirtín on accordion, fiddler and banjo player Cathal Hayden, and singer-songwriter Séamie O’Dowd play Ballinasloe next month.
Read more ...2012 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
THE 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition returns and is open to both poets and fiction writers.
Read more ...Cois Cladaigh to sing American songs
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
SONGS FROM and by American composers will be the order of the day when Cois Cladaigh perform a free concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church this Saturday.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
THE AWARD winning poet Stephen James Smith will perform his poetry at the next North Beach Poetry Nights on Monday in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, at 9pm.
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