Trad music concerts in St Nicholas’
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
ST NICHOLAS’ Collegiate Church will host the next Tunes In The Church gig tomorrow from 8pm to 9.30pm, featuring the Ó Beaglaoich clan.
Read more ...Submissions sought for TULCA visual arts festival
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
ARTISTS ARE invited to make submissions to be included in the 2011 TULCA festival of visual arts.
Read more ...Citóg @ The Cellar
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
CITÓG, THE Cellar Bar’s showcase of original music held every Friday, will tomorrow feature performances from The Salad Circus, Daphne In The Attic, and Niall Murphy.
The Salad Circus are a punk, ska and funk quintet from Galway who will release their new album at the end of the month.
Read more ...Fionn Regan @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
IRELAND IS awash with singer-songwriters so it takes someone special to stand out from the hordes of ‘three chords and the truth’ merchants - Fionn Regan is one such individual.
Read more ...Arts festival gigs @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
MONROE’S LIVE will host two of what are sure to be among the most popular gigs of this year’s Galway Arts Festival - Jack L and The Walls.
Read more ...A night of trad with Damien O’Kane
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
DAMIEN O’KANE has been hailed by The Sunday Express for his “superb vocals” and for being “an outstanding banjo player” while BBC Music has hailed “the richness of his voice”.
Read more ...Emmet Scanlan @ The Crane
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
EMMET SCANLAN & What The Good Thought make a return to their native city of Galway to play The Crane Bar on Sunday at 9pm.
Read more ...Rootical Sound System’s reggae session
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
ROOTICAL SOUND System will launch their new fortnightly reggae session this Saturday.
The new night takes place at 21 Eglinton Street (formerly The Drum Bar) and will feature international and local guests playing roots reggae and dub. This Saturday’s gig will see singer Murray Man (Mellow Vibes studio, Birmingham) and local band Intinn.
Read more ...English madrigals at St Augustine’s
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
MADRIGALIA, THE National Chamber Choir of Ireland’s show celebration of the madrigal style of singing and composing, is coming to Galway.
Read more ...African night of praise at The Clayton
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
GALWAY IS in store for a night of African and Christian music - drawing on gospel, soul, funk, pop, and hip hop - at the Agape Festival 2011 Night Of Praise.
The Agape Festival takes place on Friday July 22 at the Clayton Hotel Galway from 7pm to 10pm. The host artist on the night will be Nigerian born, Galway based, singer-songwriter Shaday (Folashade Shekete), who released her debut album UNLEASHED...this is Me earlier this year.
Read more ...An artistic ‘face off’
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
GALWAY’S ENGAGE Studio Artists and Dublin’s Monster Truck Studios will have an artistic ‘face off’ in Vis-à-vis in The Niland Gallery, Lower Merchants Road.
Read more ...Testify! @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
TESTIFY! GALWAY’S monthly night of music, poetry, and much more is having a party next Monday at 8pm in the Róisín Dubh’s upstairs bar.
Read more ...Ronnie Bourke tribute night
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
A TRIBUTE night for the late Ronnie Bourke will take place in Ward’s Hotel, Salthill, on Tuesday July 26 with jazz music with Gay McIntyre and friends.
Ronnie helped organised many jazz gigs in Galway, played jazz, and raised funds for Cancer Care West.
Read more ...Get talking with Electric Bridget’s Chat Show
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
ELECTRIC BRIDGET have entertained and impressed audiences with their theatre shows like Curl Up & Dye, Waiting For Elvis, and The Grippe Girls, but their new show promises to be something quite different.
Read more ...Creative Writers’ Clinic
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
TODAY MARKS the opening of The Western Writers’ Centre’s weekly Creative Writers’ Clinic, facilitated by poet, novelist, and critic Fred Johnston.
Read more ...Over The Edge open-mic
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
THE 2011 Over The Edge Summer Open-mic, part of the Westside Arts Festival, takes place at the Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road, on Tuesday at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Galway to feature in new film Seven Songs For Amy
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
GALWAY WILL be one of the main locations for shooting the film, Seven Songs For Amy, which will be directed by BAFTA nominee Konrad Begg, and feature Patrick Bergin and Galway’s Aindrias de Staic.
Seven Songs For Amy will be shot in Galway city and county in and also in New York. The Galway connections do not end there as the company behind the film is Kinvara based Sonny and Skye Productions, while County Galway based singer-songwriters Jim McKee and Ultan Conlon will contribute music to the soundtrack.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh Awards 2011
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
THE 2011 Galway Film Fleadh concluded on Sunday with the touching and beautiful film Beginners, starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer, while the Fleadh awards were also announced.
Read more ...Win tickets to new Harry Potter film @ Omniplex
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
HARRY POTTER and the Deathly Hallows: Part II sees the young wizard take on the might of Voldemort in the showdown between good and evil.
Read more ...Feel good by seeing comic Glenn Wool
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
“SEEING GLENN Wool perform should be made compulsory for the melancholy. There’s no way you won’t feel a bit better about the world afterwards.”
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