Garvey’s comedy open mic night

Thu, Aug 11, 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.

Win tickets to Rise of the Planet of the Apes @ Omniplex

Thu, Aug 11, 2011

A SINGLE act of both compassion and arrogance leads to a war unlike any other and a dramatic reversal of the progress of evolution.

Theatre events and fun @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Aug 11, 2011

GALWAY THEATRE companies - Waterdonkey and Side-Show Productions have been selected to perform in the ABSOLUT Fringe in Dublin in September.

Festival seeks short plays on eco themes

Thu, Aug 11, 2011

THE BO Leictreach: The Greenplay Festival is seeking playwrights, both established and aspiring, to write and submit 10 minute plays relating to the theme of the environment.

The best of Irish @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 11, 2011

THE BO Leictreach: The Greenplay Festival is seeking playwrights, both established and aspiring, to write and submit 10 minute plays relating to the theme of the environment.

Get a touch of Spain in Tuam

Thu, Aug 11, 2011

SPAIN’S RICH culture, diverse history, and extraordinary range of native music - a fusion of European, Islamic, Jewish, and Gypsy styles - has never failed to seduce and inspire.

Trad music concerts in St Nicholas’

Thu, Aug 11, 2011

ST NICHOLAS’ Collegiate Church will host the next Tunes In The Church gig tomorrow from 8pm to 9.30pm.

Belgian soprano in concert

Thu, Aug 11, 2011

BELGIAN SOPRANO Cristel de Meulder and organist Jan Van Mol will give the closing concert at this year’s Galway Cathedral Recitals.

Ian McLagen - rocking all over the world

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

IAN MCLAGEN boasts one of English rock’s most impressive CVs, having been a member of The Small Faces, The Faces, and Billy Bragg’s band The Blokes, not to mention session work for the Rolling Stones (that’s him playing keyboards on ‘Miss You’), Rod Stewart (Mac is on ‘Maggie May’ and ‘You Wear It Well’), and Bob Dylan, as well as maintaining a solo career since the late 1970s.

Kathleen Furey on Artspace’s silver anniversary

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

GALWAY’S ARTSPACE Studios artists’ collective is currently celebrating its 25th year of operation and, to mark the occasion, an exhibition of the group’s work is running at Galway Arts Centre in 47 Dominick Street.

Mairtín O’Connor takes The Road West

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

MAIRTÍN O’CONNOR will lead a stellar line-up of traditional and folk performers for a series of concerts in the Town Hall Theatre from Monday August 15 to Wednesday 17 at 8pm.

The long and winding road of The Honey Spike

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

NEXT WEEK sees Galway’s Mephisto Theatre Company grace the Town Hall main stage with its welcome revival of Bryan McMahon’s powerful, though seldom seen, play The Honey Spike.

New theatre show to raise laughs and funds for charity

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

IN A rural pub by the name of Dwyer’s, the clientele includes self employed builder Paddy, ex-Army man John, gullible farm labourer Mick, local curate Fr Lavery, and religious devotee Mrs Hanlon.

The pub is owned by widower Jim who has a son called Joe in his twenties. The time is the 1980s. This is Dwyer’s by Kieran Tyrrell which will be staged by Agus Anocht... Theatre Company in the Nuns Island Theatre Galway on August 12 and 13 at 7.30pm. These are charity performances and all proceeds will go to Ability West.

Labana to bring the Latin rock and r’n’b to Galway

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

AN ORGY of Latin rock, jazz, hip-hop and funk is on the menu when Labana, led by Cuban guitarist and composer, Dany Martinez, hit the stage of The Black Box next week.

Club Árus na nGael to hold birthday bash next month

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

CLUB ÁRUS Na nGael is celebrating 25 years of providing a home to musicians, singers, artists, actors, writers, the Irish language media, and Gaeilge this year, and it plans to mark this special birthday in style.

Partners to duet on Cathedral organ

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

MUNICH HUSBAND and wife team Organ Duet Four Feet will play the next Galway Cathedral Recitals concert this evening at 8pm.

Ed Sheeran to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

ED SHEERAN, the English singer whose single ‘The A Team’ reached the Top 10 in Ireland and Britain, will play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday November 3.

Ed grew up in Suffolk where he learnt to play an old guitar given to him by an uncle. Spurred on by a chance meeting with Damien Rice when he was 11, Ed started writing songs and at 16, moved to London with the intention of playing as many gigs as possible.

Fairy Hill Music Festival 2011

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

ELECTRONIC MUSIC, indie, reggae, DJ sets, Irish trad, and straight ahead rock’n’roll will be in plentiful supply next weekend in Salthill at the Fairy Hill Music Festival 2011.

The Beat Room DJ night @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

FOR THE LAST year and a half, great music from the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, have been keeping audiences dancing like crazy upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Friday nights.

Finally the night has a name, it’s The Beat Room, and tomorrow it will see the return of DJ Kit Kola alongside DJ Byron Yeates for another night of the best classic mid-20th century music.

The Three Tenors to play Clifden

Thu, Aug 04, 2011

THE THREE Tenors in concert have been described by The New York Times as “the most delicious box of chocolates your ears could ever have. Knockout vocal performance”.

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