Mary Motorhead for Town Hall studio
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
AFTER ITS sold-out and critically acclaimed run at Bewleys Café Theatre in Dublin, Galway’s Truewest theatre company bring Mary Motorhead by award-winning writer Mark O’Halloran (Garage, Adam and Paul) to the Town Hall studio.
Read more ...New Jinx Lennon show for Galway Theatre Festival
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
THAT DOUGHTY scion of Dundalk, the inimitable Jinx Lennon, takes to the stage at the upcoming Galway Theatre Festival with an electrifying new audio-visual performance - Man v Energy Vampire Behold - This S-S-Self Indulgence Gene.
Read more ...Win The Kanyu Tree’s debut album
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
SALTHILL TRIO The Kanyu Tree will perform live and sign copies of their debut album People Street in HMV Galway today at 5pm.
Read more ...Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, Oct 06, 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 10pm.
Read more ...Bluegrass weekend in Kilcolgan
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
A BLUEGRASS weekend will take place in Kilcolgan tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday and all are welcome to go along and enjoy the music.
Read more ...The Nitty Gritty - vintage music for today’s people
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
THE NITTY Gritty, the DJ night of northern soul, funk, 50s rock’n’roll, rockabilly, swing, ska and R&B, and jump blues, has returned and hits Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday October 14 at 11pm.
Read more ...21 Outs to kick off The Underground Sound
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
GALWAY GRUNGE/classic rock trio 21 Outs will headline the first The Underground Sound at The Cellar, a new music night at the Eglinton Street venue, each Wednesday.
Read more ...John Spillane - ‘no Cork mad stuff’ on new album and live shows
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
JOHN SPILLANE has a new album out, A Rock To Cling To on EMI, and he is coming to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh on Sunday October 9 at 8.30pm.
The Cork singer-songwriter has described the album as “a new collection of beautiful songs that I have made up myself, out of my imagination, fair play to me... This is a collection of newly composed Irish melodies, songs of love and family, songs that have come floating down to me through the air.”
Read more ...French chanteuse to sing @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
FRENCH CHANTEUSE Caroline Moreau and Lunfardia, led by Argentinean guitarist Ariel Hernández, play Monroe’s Live, tomorrow at 9pm.
On the night Caroline, who performed a solo show in the Town Hall in June, will perform songs by Brel, Gainsbourge, Piaf, and Piazzola.
Read more ...Art exhibitions in the city
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
EXHIBITIONS, RANGING from traditional landscapes to experimental installations, can be seen in galleries throughout Galway city this month.
Read more ...Music For Galway concerts return
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
THE RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet and ConTempo’s Andreea Banciu and Adrian Mantu join forces for a concert in the Aula Maxima, NUI, Galway on Tuesday at 8pm.
Read more ...New poetry collection from Amit Mediratta
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
POET AND VISUAL artist Amit Mediratta will launch his new collection of poetry, Ecstatic Flights/Manhattan Nights in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow at 6pm.
Read more ...The Kanyu Tree - brothers in harmony
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
IT HAS been a long time since a Galway band has made a major impression outside of its hometown - close to 20 years in fact, back in the heady days of the early 1990s.
Read more ...B for Baby at Town Hall
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
MRS C wants a baby, not a Christmas tree. B wants a real hairdresser’s scissors and a wife. D wants a snow globe and “a big head of dirty auld curls”. All of them want their own place in the world, and if they can’t find it, they will create one of their own.
Read more ...Peggy Seeger @ The Crane
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
THE LEGENDARY folk singer Peggy Seeger plays The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Friday October 14 at 9pm.
Peggy is considered one of America’s finest singers of traditional songs and she is best known for her musical collaborations with her late partner Ewan MacColl.
Read more ...Fawlty Towers - now opening in Galway
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
FAWLTY TOWERS is not your average hotel. It is known that one guest had cream poured over his head simply for being mistaken for a hotel inspector while the dead body or another resident was dumped in a laundry basket.
Read more ...Globe’s heart-pumping fusion of music, dance, and percussion
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
AMONG THE highlights of the upcoming Baboró children’s festival is the pulsating music and dance production Globe which has been put together by bodhrán-virtuoso Robbie Harris and Dave McFarlane.
Read more ...Competition winners
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
THE WINNERS of copies of John le Carré’s classic novel Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy are: Anne Marie Loughnane, Athenry; Catherine Mohan, Caherlistrane; Dennis Connolly, Rahoon; Will O’Connor, Knocknacarra; and Francis J Dempsey, Tuam.
The winners of signed copies of Bressie’s debut album Colourblind Stereo are: Zoe Ward, Salthill; Alan Quinn, Westside; Hannah Ruane, Carnmore; Aoife O’Halloran, Oughterard; and David Grennan, Galway.
Read more ...Citóg @ The Cellar
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
THREE INDIETRONIC bands - Milan Jay, Toy Soldier, and The Great Balloon Race - play Citóg at The Cellar on Eglinton Street tomorrow at 10pm.
Read more ...Roisín Dubh Comedy
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
TANYALEE DAVIS may only be three feet, six inches high, but she will show Galway why she is known as “the little lady with a lot of BIG laughs” next week.
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