Duo Vocis - Frank Naughton and Sean Costello

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

GALWAY TENORS Frank Naughton and Sean Costello will present their show, From Broadway to La Scala, in the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 at 8pm.

Don Wycherley to launch Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

IRISH ACTOR Don Wycherley will launch the fourth annual Galway Theatre Festival in Massimo, Sea Road, this evening at 8pm.

The funk is coming to Monroe’s

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

THE BACKSTAGE Bar at Monroe’s will be getting funky when The Getaway Gondola funk band and DJ Will Softly take to the stage this evening from 9pm for Tougue.

The Getaway Gondola is an energetic eight-piece funk band who play both funk classics and original songs. The line-up is Barbara Vulso (vocals), Declan O’Donoghue (drums) and Alan Preims (percussion), Charles Carr (bass), Peter Akerstrom (guitar), Marcin Plaza (piano/keyboard), Stefano Muscovi (trumpet) and Duncan Moore (trombone).

The Followers Of Otis to launch new EP

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

GALWAY BAND The Followers Of Otis will launch their new EP The Claddagh Sessions with a gig in Muddy Maher’s, Woodquay, this Saturday at 9.30pm.

The High Kings play Seapoint on Saturday

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

THE HIGH Kings, the Irish folk/trad/balladeer group who have taken the US by storm, return to Galway for a show in Seapoint this Saturday at 7.30pm.

September Silent Discos @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

SEPTEMBER IS Silent Disco month at the Róisín Dubh with the Dominick Street venue running four such events over the next few weeks.

The dates for the Silent Discos are Tuesday September 13 at 10pm; Saturday 17 at 11pm; Tuesday 20 at 10pm; and Tuesday 27 at 10pm.

Country singer Georgette Jones is coming

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

AS HER father is George Jones and her mother was Tammy Wynette there was always a strong chance that their only daughter Georgette Jones would become a musician.

Gerry Hanberry booklaunch

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

GERRY HANBERRY’s new book More Lives Than One will be launched this Saturday in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop at 6pm.

Mr Hanberry’s new book, published by Collins Press, details the fascinating but often tragic story of Oscar Wilde’s parents Sir William Wilde and the flamboyant Lady Jane Wilde, and their children. The guest speaker will be Dr Adrian Frazier.

Julian Gough unveils Jude’s next adventure

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

JULIAN GOUGH may have been born in London, raised in Tipperary, and be resident in Berlin, but Galway will always claim him as ‘one of our own’.

His time in the city was an important and formative period for the man and saw him come to national attention as the charismatic front man and witty, inspired, lyricist of Galway indie-rockers Toasted Heretic.

A feast of music in Clifden

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

CLIFDEN, THE capital of Connemara, will resound to the sound of classical music, folk, rock, Irish trad during the 34th Clifden Arts Week Festival from Thursday September 15 to Sunday 25.

Rugby fever @ Kenny’s

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

THE RUGBY World Cup starts this weekend and fingers are crossed that Ireland’s display will be vastly improved from the 2007 tournament.

Rising rap star to play Central Park

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

AMERICAN rapper Mann, whose hit singles ‘Buzzin’ and ‘The Mack’ have made him the exciting new face of hip-hop, plays Galway’s Central Park this Saturday at 11pm.

GTI creative writing classes

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

CREATIVE WRITING classes will be held in GTI, starting this month, and bookings are now being taken.

Cinema Review - Fright Night

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

WITH THE original 1985 film being so iconic and attracting a huge cult following it was a big task to produce a film that would live up to the name of Fright Night, and although there have been mixed reactions, the directing and of course the casting of yummy Colin Farrell helped to make a remake which is a great watch and I will certainly be getting the DVD when it is released.

Garvey’s comedy open mic night

Thu, Sep 08, 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.

Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. All comedians are welcome. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set.

Late Night Gimp Fight @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

LATE NIGHT Gimp Fight will bring their unapologetically English style of saucy humour, outrageous silliness, and hilarious sketches and routines to the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday at 8.30pm.

The book auction

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

FOR SOME unknown reason, I have only ever attended two book auctions and did not bid at either, so when an important customer asked me over a fortnight ago to attend one in Kells and to bid on his behalf I felt as though I was going out on my first date. The prospect was as fascinating as it was terrifying.

Blues, wit and haiku

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

THERE ARE those who say there are too many women poets nowadays. For these reactionary critics all was well in the garden of poetry until it was ruined by feminism and the advent of poetry workshops, which have conspired together to encourage many more women to write poetry. And most of it, shock horror, does not even rhyme.

The Wilde family saga

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

THE STORY of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family is a remarkable one. Oscar’s sensational triumphs and terrible downfall are incredibly moving but his parents, the brilliant Sir William Wilde and the flamboyant Lady Jane Wilde, also led amazing lives and experienced triumph and tragedy.

Keegan Theatre and Town Hall combine for The Crucible

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

ARTHUR MILLER’S classic parable of mass hysteria, The Crucible, will be presented by the Keegan Theatre Company from Washington DC at the Town Hall Theatre this month.

The play draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch hunt of 1692 – “one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history” – and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s, when the play was written.

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