Leading ladies of folk @ The Crane
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
THREE WONDERFUL young folk singers - Noriana Kennedy, Pauline Scanlon and Nicola Joyce - host a very special night of folk song at The Crane Bar next Wednesday at 9pm.
Read more ...Grandmaster Flash @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Grandmaster Flash (pictured), the rapper and DJ who is a pivotal figure in the development of hip hop and the man behind the classic singles ‘The Message’ and ‘The Adventures of Flash on The Wheels Of Steel’, plays the Róisín Dubh on January 28 at 9pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and www.roisindubh.net
Read more ...PLAY IRISH Declan O’Rourke
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Declan O’Rourke is this week’s PLAY IRISH artist. Listen out for his song ‘Be Brave and Believe’, from his Top 10 album Mag Pai Zai on Jon Richard’s Galway Bat FM show this week. He will also play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and www.roisindubh.net
Read more ...Fundraising clubnight for MADRA in Monroe’s
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
A FUNDRAISING night in aid of MADRA, the Connemara based dog rescue and adoption service, takes place on Friday, December 23 at 9pm in Monroe’s Live.
Read more ...Mary Coughlan @ The Crane
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
MARY COUGHLAN, Ireland’s greatest jazz and blues singer plays The Crane Bar this Saturday at 6.30pm as part of the Sea Road venue’s annual Singers and their Songs gigs.
Read more ...Art exhibitions over December
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
OVER THE Christmas period, take some time to explore a fascinating series of exhibitions which have opened, or are about to open, throughout the city.
Read more ...Carols by candlelight in St Augustine’s
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
THE TRIBAL Chamber Choir, directed by Mark Keane, will perform seasonal carols in St Augustin’s Church this Saturday at 8pm in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland.
Read more ...Music, art, and dance - Music For Galway’s Intimate Voices
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
INTIMATE VOICES, Music For Galway’s annual January festival, promises something quite different, and an unusual and exciting way to start 2012.
Read more ...Cois Cladaigh Christmas concert
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
THE COIS Cladaigh choir will perform their final concert of 2011 this Saturday at 8pm in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.
Read more ...See the Irish Kings of Comedy
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
BARRY MURPHY, Kevin McAleer, and Joe Rooney, the Irish Kings of Comedy, are coming to the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Take no prisoners: the return of Whipping Boy
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
IT IS not easy to look towards the future right now. A Budget delivering cuts which will hurt the weakest in society, rather than the most comfortable, came this week. The euro totters on the brink of extinction. The recession will not end any time soon.
Read more ...A tribal book hamper for Christmas
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
THE NUMBER of books produced by Galway publishers or written by Galway authors over the last number of months has been as prolific as it has been varied and allows the Galway reading public the ideal opportunity to support local presses and writers, thus celebrating the scribes of their native city.
Read more ...Anne McCabe booklaunch this evening
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
TV DIRECTOR and documentary maker Anne McCabe will launch her new novel, Under the Avalanche, in the Galway City Library this evening at 6pm.
Read more ...Acclaimed Colin Dunne dance show for Town Hall
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
OUT OF Time, dancer Colin Dunne's internationally acclaimed solo show, returns to Ireland for a limited run and will play the Town Hall Theatre Galway this Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...Stewart Lee and Gift Grub - coming to Galway in 2012
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
GALWAY COMEDY fans have two major shows to look forward to with the great Stewart Lee and Gift Grub Live 2 show both coming our way in the New Year.
Leading Irish satirist Mario Rosenstock brings his Gift Grub Live 2 to the Radisson Blu Hotel on April 22.
Read more ...Taibhdhearc’s Cochaillín Dearg (Little Red Riding Hood)
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
IF YOU go down to the woods today you are sure to get all kinds of surprises, that is if the woods are the ones featured in An Taibhdhearc’s upcoming panto Cochaillín Dearg (Little Red Riding Hood) which is on next week at The Black Box.
Read more ...Celtic Earth returns to Town Hall
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
CELTIC EARTH, a night of contemporary Irish music, led by County Galway native and former musical director of Lord of the Dance, Gerard Fahy, returns to the Town Hall.
Celtic Earth will be staged on Monday at 7.30pm and audiences can expect an exciting fusion of Irish trad with classical and rock. Joining Ger for the show will be former Riverdance singer Morgan Crowley; The Furry Village band, and members of the Fahy family, Terry, Yvonne and Maureen.
Read more ...Charity concert for Peruvian children’s home
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
GALWAY TRAD-fusion band The Rye and singer-songwriter Emmet O’Malley will play the HUAHUA: Music for the Children of Peru charity concert next week.
Read more ...Joe Chester PLAY IRISH and Monroe’s gig
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
JOE CHESTER, the critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, and producer is this week’s PLAY IRISH GALWAY artist of the week.
Read more ...Access Music Project gig
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
THE ACCESS Music Project will debut its current crop of talented musicians in an informal performance in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, next Wednesday at 9pm.
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