Jeffrey Lewis - new album and Kelly’s show
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
JEFFREY LEWIS - singer, songwriter, comic book illustrator, and spoken word artist - in short, indie rock’s renaissance man, returns to Galway to play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Sunday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Jamie Lawson plays Monroe’s
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
IRELAND HAS a track record of taking British and American singer-songwriters to its heart long before the singer’s native soil does.
Josh Ritter and David Gray are the most famous examples, and it seems now that Devon songwriter Jamie Lawson is the latest to experience this phenomenon.
Read more ...Lúnasa to play Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
IRISH TRAD supergroup Lúnasa make a welcome return to Galway to play Monroe’s Live this Monday at 9pm.
Lúnasa has become one of the most sought-after bands on the international Irish music scene. The band’s inventive arrangements and bass-driven grooves are steering Irish acoustic music into surprising new territory.
Read more ...Galway Jazz Festival takes place this weekend
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
“RICK MARGITZA is simply a great tenor player.” This verdict, on the saxophonist who plays Galway this weekend, was passed by no less a person than Miles Davis.
Read more ...A jazz odyssey
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
SCHIPHOL AIRPORT, one of the busiest airport hubs in Europe has witnessed many a bizarre journey but perhaps fewer stranger than the personal odyssey that began during a lay-over in 2002.
Wandering through the airport shops, which were of a higher quality than usual, three jazz CDs caught my eye - Lionel Hampton’s Mai 1956, Eddy Louis’s Bohemia After Dark, and Art Blakey’s 1958 Paris Olympia. All three were part of a series called Jazz in Paris, a distinctive feature of which was the cover image - a black and white photograph of a contemporary Parisian scene.
Read more ...Breaking Bad and X-Files writer is coming to Galway
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
VINCE GILLIGAN, the writer/producer on The X-Files, and creator and writer of cult hit TV series, Breaking Bad, is coming to Galway next month.
Read more ...New season of world cinema for Seanscoil Sailearna
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
MY AFTERNOONS With Marguerite, starring Gérard Depardieu, will be the opening film for the autumn season of World Cinema in Club Scannan Sailearna, Indreabhán.
Read more ...Galway Omniplex Facebook competition
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
THE GALWAY Omniplex has set up its own Facebook page, www.facebook.com/galwayomniplex. Liking the page will give you access to movie news, trailers, competitions, and information on upcoming releases.
Read more ...Oceans of frequency set Jape on new voyages
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
WHEN YOU have created two of the best and most memorable Irish albums of recent years, won awards, had Brendan Benson play your songs at his DJ sets, and had people singing your words back at you in concert, the question must arise: How do I follow that?
Read more ...Fight Night - ‘exhilarating and cathartic’
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
AONGHUS ÓG McAnally brings his award-winning one-man show Fight Night to the Town Hall Theatre next Wednesday at 8pm as part of a nationwide tour.
Written by Gavin Kostick and winner of both Best Actor and the Bewley's Little Gem Award at last year’s Dublin Absolut Fringe Festival, Fight Night is a gripping journey charting the comeback of Dan Coyle jr, a failed amateur boxer from a long line of accomplished fighters.
Read more ...Sam Amidon - a journey into rural America and the head
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
THERE WILL be songs - some sacred, some secular; there will be storytelling, and field recordings, and cartoon videos to watch while you listen.
Read more ...Get your head in the clouds at Baboró
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
AWARD-WINNING Spanish dance company Aracaladanza are among the star attractions at next month’s Baboró festival with their latest production, Nubes (Clouds), inspired by the work of surrealist painter René Magritte.
Read more ...Frank McGuinness’ Baglady at Town Hall
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
BAGLADY IS a rarely performed play from one of Ireland’s leading playwrights, Frank McGuinness. It has not been seen on an Irish stage for 25 years but its story is as relevant now as when it was first written.
Read more ...Galway Musical Society open night
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
THE GALWAY Musical Society will hold an open night tomorrow at 8pm in Massimo when details of its upcoming production will be announced.
Read more ...Creative writing course
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre is offering a creative writing course in The Galway People’s Resource Centre Training Room, Hynes Building, St Clare’s Walk, Merchants Road.
The course runs from 1.05pm to 1.50pm on Tuesdays, starting October 4 and running for eight weeks. The course will be tutored by writer and critic Fred Johnston.
Read more ...IMRO Showcase Tour @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
GALWAY AND Derry talent will play the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm as part of the 20th IMRO Showcase Tour.
Read more ...Rory Gallagher tribute @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
RORY GALLAGHER fans are in for a treat when England’s Shinkicker bring their salute to the great Irish blues-rock guitarist to Monroe’s Live this Sunday.
Read more ...Mexican musicians @ The Crane
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
MEXICAN FOLK band Tacumba, who worked with The Chieftains on their San Patricios album, play The Crane on Tuesday at 8pm.
Read more ...Irish-Malaysian dub duo to launch new album in Galway
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
MADU, THE Dublin-based band, fronted by Irish-Malaysian siblings Salim and Aminah Dastan, will launch their new album in Galway this weekend.
Read more ...A weekend of Javanese music and dance
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
GALWAY WILL be treated to a night of song and dance from the Island of Java at a concert in the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday October 1 at 8pm.
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