Danny Dowling’s Mad Hatters Tea Party
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
DANNY DOWLING, the New Zealand born, Galway based, comic will bring his Mad Hatters Tea Party show to the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday June 22 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, Jun 16, 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.
Read more ...Super 8 Shots festival programme launch
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
THE SECOND annual Super 8 Shots Film and Music Festival returns bnext month to Galway city and on Inis Óirr from June 24 to July 10.
Read more ...Jape to celebrate Róisín Dubh’s seventh birthday
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
IT HAS been seven years since Gugai, Kevin Healy, et al, took over the Róisín Dubh and in that time it has become one of the finest music and comedy venues in the country.
Read more ...Lay Me Down Softly
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
ROLL UP, roll up and enter the shady world of Delaney’s Travelling Roadshow. Step inside the boxing ring - smell it, sense it, feel it and somewhere between the fights and the fortune tellers, the bookies, and the bloodshed, rub shoulders with its wayward wards.
When young runaway Emer arrives in search of her long lost father and a challenge from a professional boxer is thrown in to the ring, everything in this rundown sideshow is about to change forever.
Read more ...The Gaels are coming - The Galway Sessions 2011
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
THE MUSIC of Ireland, Scotland, and Canada will resound throughout Galway from Sunday June 12 to Sunday 19 during The Galway Sessions, the city’s annual celebration of traditional music.
Read more ...Family fun and evening singalongs - The Wizard of Oz @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
THE MUSICAL version of The Wizard of Oz has given the world two of its most loved songs - ‘Follow The Yellowbrick Road’ and the magnificent ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’.
This weekend Sing Along Cinema is showing the classic 1939 film The Wizard Of Oz, starring Judy Garland, at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Breathing Water with Fregoli
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
LOCAL ENSEMBLE Fregoli Theatre Company are in the Town Hall Studio next week with Raymond Scannell’s award-winning play Breathing Water.
Read more ...Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters @ De Burgos
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
FOX JAW Bounty Hunters, the acclaimed young Limerick quartet, will play Citóg at Club De Burgos tomorrow night.
Read more ...Auditions for pilot TV series
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
LOCAL ACTORS are sought to take part in a pilot programme for a prospective TV series, entitled Issues.
Read more ...Northern Soul 60s R&B and Original Ska at the Blue Note
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
Get down to the Blue Note, Galway on Saturday 18th to hear rare and not so rare Northern Soul 60s R&B and Original Ska all played on original vinyl, the way God intended. DJs Dave Barry with very special guest Bill Kealy.
Read more ...Seanie Vaughan @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
SEANIE VAUGHAN, the Connemara born, Dublin based, folk/rock singer-songwriter, and his band, will play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...Elaine Mai and Daithi O Dronaí @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
TWO OF the most talented and promising young solo musicians to emerge from the west of Ireland in the last couple of years, play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...Wonderland to appear at HMV
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
NEW IRISH girlband Wonderland are coming to Galway where they will do an in-store appearance in HMV, Edward Square, on Wednesday at 1pm.
Read more ...The Paul King Band @ Monroe’s
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
FUNK’N’SOUL group The Paul King Band play The Backstage Bar at Monroe’s this Sunday at 11.30pm.
Read more ...New music from Jimmy Monaghan
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
JIMMY MONAGHAN has impressed many Galway audiences these last couple of years with his sparse and lyrical songs which straddle both folk and alternative rock.
Jimmy is lead singer and songwriter with the duo Music For Dead Birds, which has released two EPs - And Then It Rained For Seven Days and Black Tides Falling. The band are currently working on a new album, which is planned for an August release.
Read more ...Hammer and Feather at The Niland Gallery
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
FORTY YEARS ago this summer, Commander David Scott conducted an experiment on the moon.
Read more ...Enjoy some jazz on the prom
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
THE SALTHILL Hotel will be jazzing up June as jazz quintet Wall Street will play the hotel’s Blackrock Café, every Sunday throughout the month from 12.30pm to 2.30pm.
Read more ...Los Angeles choir to sing in Kinvara
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
THE SAINT Cecelia Chorale from Los Angeles will be in concert with Anette Jorgensen’s Quay Singers in St Colman’s Church, Kinvara, this Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...Classical concert to raise funds for Japanese disaster victims
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
THE CONTEMPO Quartet will headline a charity concert for victims of the recent earthquake, tsunami, and radiation tragedies in Japan.
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