Spirit of Voice festival starts next week

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

OPERA, REGGAE, sean nós, Barbershop, jazz, folk, trad, and hip hop will be performed and celebrated at the 2011 Spirit of Voice festival from Friday November 11 to Sunday 13.

Lunctime concert from Berlin soprano

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

THE BERLIN based soprano Doerthe Maria Sandmann will be in NUI, Galway’s CUBE theatre for a lunchtime concert today from 1pm to 2pm.

Workshops @ Tulca Festival of Visual Arts

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

THE TULCA festival, which begins today, will feature a range of workshops looking at issues like artist collectives, planning and local government, and a public art clinic.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Great health, great company, great weather, great food, great wine, great music, and great stories combined, by the sea.

An alternative ceramics exhibition

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

3X2, an exhibition of contemporary clay artworks and ceramics, is currently on show at The Shed, Middle Pier, in the Galway City Harbour.

Earthship To Launch debut EP in Bierhaus

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

EARTHSHIP WILL bring their brand of accessible, groovy, funky, and above all, danceable jazz to the Bierhaus on Thursday November 10 at 9.30pm.

Cinema Reviews: Contagion

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

THE BLACK Death of 1347 killed 25 million in Europe; smallpox in the 18th century claimed even more lives with 60 million.

The Three Amigos take on the world

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

JIMMY BUCKLEY, Robert Mizzell, and Patrick Feeney are the Three Amigos, who have an interest in country music and enjoy a positive reaction wherever they go.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

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 Shadow of Pádraic Ó Conaire

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

FAMILY FOLKLORE has it that when Pádraic Ó Conaire was broke, a fairly frequent occurrence by all accounts, he would approach the grandfather Tom ‘Cork’ Kenny, co-founder and editor of the Connaught Tribune, hoping he would publish a story in the paper and pay him.

The poetry of everyday particulars

Thu, Nov 03, 2011

TOM DUDDY’S poetry, as expressed in his collection The Hiding Place, published by Arlen House, is greatly concerned with the way humans interact with each other.

In ‘Table For One’ the narrator talks about how his order for Caesar salad and sea-bass is “taken down/and acted upon like no other words/you’ve spoken all week.” In ‘The Good Host’ he tells us about a host of the old fashioned variety “in whose humbling/and slow-darkening house/you cannot help but rest”.

“I find theatre very exciting” Keith Duffy on Boyzone, Corrie and Druid

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

Rehearsals are currently under way for Druid’s upcoming production of John B Keane’s Big Maggie and among the cast is Keith Duffy who plays the part of travelling salesman Teddy Heelin. At the end of Monday’s rehearsals, Duffy sat down to talk about the play and reflect on some of the highlights of his years in music, television, and performing. “I’m very lucky to have had the career that I have,” he states candidly. “As a teenager I wasn’t very ambitious, I was quite insecure and didn’t have much confidence in myself. Getting into Boyzone was the first bit of luck I’d had in life. And we didn’t really know what it was we were trying to create, whether it was a hit single or to sell out a big venue, we were all new to the business. Everything just seemed to happen naturally, it’s only looking back you realise how lucky we were.

A brilliant return to Galway for My Brilliant Divorce

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

There will be a homecoming in more ways than one when Jasango Theatre present a new version of Geraldine Aron’s My Brilliant Divorce on Tuesday November 1 at The Town Hall. Jasango Theatre was founded in Galway in 2009 by Jasmin Finn and Angela Ryan; they have since gone on to make a name for themselves on the national touring circuit. Following great success with Bombshells - including a two-year tour of Ireland, a summer residency at Fota House, and an American tour culminating in awards for Best Play and Best Ensemble in the 2010 Bethlehem Press Awards - Jasango are on track for another hit with this wittily observant and achingly funny play.

Big Maggie rehearsals under way at Druid

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

THE FIRST day of rehearsals in Galway kicked off on Monday morning at Druid Lane Theatre for the 11 cast members of Druid’s production of Big Maggie by John B Keane, directed by Garry Hynes.

Aisling O’Sullivan (Raw, The Clinic), who plays the title role, John Olohan (The Tudors and Druid’s The Silver Tassie) and Keith Duffy (Coronation Street, Boyzone) lead a cast of 11 of Ireland’s finest actors in this much loved play by John B. Keane. Paul Connaughton, Nancy E. Carroll, Joan Sheehy, Sarah Greene, Amy Molloy, Charlie Murphy, Des Nealon, and Stephen Mullan complete the cast.

Galway Comedy Festival day by day

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

THE GALWAY Comedy Festival is in full swing and from today until Monday you have plenty of good reasons to get out and have a laugh with all the great shows that are on. If you are still deciding check out this day by day listing.

Galway theatre festival continues to throw up gems

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

The Galway Theatre Festival continues until Monday and there are a number of shows sure to attract sizeable attention over the weekend.With offerings from Cork, Dublin, Cavan, and Britain, as well as from nine Galway-based theatre companies, theatre fans have a multitude of options at their disposal. Across the card there is an eclectic mix with everyone sure to find something relative to their interests.

One of the highlights is Before the Devil knows you’re dead by Pat Collins and John O’Dowd at Aras Na Gael, Dominic Street on Sunday at 8pm and Monday at 1pm. In this 70 minute production, Conor McDonagh is a reporter desperate for the story that can make his name. One day at the end of October, Conor feels that his professional ambitions are answered when the ‘Sheridan Case’ lands on his desk.

John Feeley to perform free lunchtime concert

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

THE GALWAY Music Residency will present Irish guitarist John Feeley at its next lunchtime concert on Tuesday in the Town Hall Theatre. Feeley will be performing a selection of works by J S Bach; Adagio and Fugue from Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor (BWV 1001), Cello Suite No 1 in G major (BWV 1007), and Chaconne in D minor from Partita no 2, (BWV 1004). He will preface the performance with a short talk about the music.

Fearing and White at the Crane

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

ANDY WHITE and Stephen Fearing will play the Crane Bar on Friday next, November 4. The duo, who boast 19 solo albums between them, have recently released a collaboration entitled Fearing & White.

Cois Cladaigh to celebrate thirtieth anniversary

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

ON TUESDAY Cois Cladaigh Choir Galway will embark on a tour of southern Spain performing in Cordoba and Seville. The choir will be celebrating 30 years in existence next year and will perform their usual eclectic mix of Renaissance and contemporary music with a particular emphasis on music of Spanish composers including Albert Alcaraz, Juan del Ancina and Fransisco Guererro.

The choir have been awarded a substantial Arts Council Grant to enable them to celebrate their 30th anniversary with a number of exciting projects, among them the commissioning of new works by a number of composers including Estonian Urmat Sisask and Irish composers Benedict Schlepper Connolly, Eamonn Murray and Emily Magner.

Richmond Fontaine - tales of The High Country

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

RICHMOND FONTAINE have a new album, but it is like nothing they have created before. It is a mix of story, monologue, radio play, novel, and concept album. It is The High Country.

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