New music from The Commander
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
THE COMMANDER releases new music under the Fake moniker on June 25 and to celebrate he will hold a pre-release party in Monroe’s side room this Saturday.
Released on Percussion Records, the two new tracks, ‘Acid Trap’ and ‘The Bounce’ are melodic, funky summer house and will be available for download from I-Tunes, Beatport, Juno Records, and other major online music outlets.
Read more ...Northern Soul and Ska @ The Bluenote
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
DO YOU love Northern Soul, Ska, 1960s R’n’B, or Latin Boogaloo? If so, do not miss Soul In The Blue at The Blue Note this Saturday from 9pm.
Read more ...Funk-soul diva Janelle Monae to play Galway
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
JANELLE MONAE has been called “a different kind of diva” by Vogue, “a true visionary” by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, while Andre ‘3000’ Benjamin says she has “one of the most enchanting voices of our generation”.
Read more ...Sharon Shannon @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
SHARON SHANNON, along with a host of the finest Galway trad, folk, and singer-songwriter talent, will play Monroe’s Live on Wednesday at 8pm.
On the night Sharon will be joined by Eleanor Shanley, Dessie O’Halloran, Noriana Kennedy, Monica Brennan, Pauline Scanlon, Kelvin Busher, Niall Teague, Paraic Joyce, Szymon Misniak, Mary Shannon, Donagh Hennessey, Gerry Paul, and Sean Regan.
Read more ...Beóga to play The Crane
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
BEÓGA HAVE been called “the best traditional band to emerge from Ireland this century” by the Wall Street Journal, while Irish Philadelphia called them “simply thrilling”.
Read more ...The life and times of Galway’s first Labour TD
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
FOR A few months during 1927, Galway city and county – it was all one constituency then – was represented in the Dáil by Gilbert Lynch. He won the seat in June and lost it in September.
Read more ...Texas’ finest to sing at St Nicholas
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
One of Texas’ finest church choirs will be performing in Galway at a free concert in St. Nicholas Church on Saturday June 25 at 8pm.
Read more ...Sarah Nevin launches poetry book
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
GALWAY POET Sarah Nevin will launch her debut collection of poetry, Three Seats Free in Bar 8 this Sunday at 4pm.
Three Seats Free is published by Lapwing Press and at the launch Sarah will read from her poems. There will also be music by Brian Nally.
Read more ...Galway writer in running for Frank O’Connor Award
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
GALWAY WRITER Moya Roddy has made the long list for the prestigious Frank O’Connor Award for her collection of short stories Other People.
Read more ...126 exhibition asks ‘Who holds the power?’
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
RUTI SELA and Maayan Amir, winners of the 2009 UNESCO young artist award, are currently showing the Beyond Guilt Trilogy in the 126 gallery on Queen Street.
Read more ...Do you know your Simpsons?
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
JUST HOW well do you know Springfield’s most famous family, The Simpsons? Well this month you will have a chance to prove your knowledge.
Read more ...Speech level singing workshop
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
CANADIAN SPEECH level singing instructor Spencer Welch is coming to Galway to give a workshop in the technique this weekend.
Read more ...Colours Fringe Festival programme launch
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
THE 2011 Colours Fringe Festival programme launch takes place in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, tomorrow at 8pm.
Read more ...Cinema Review - X-Men: First Class
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
As one of the most anticipated movies of the year, especially for Marvel fans who have been practically salivating, it is safe to say that X-Men: First Class has lived up to the hype, providing an experience which is action-packed and engaging while adding something a little different.
Read more ...Win tickets to Green Lantern @ Omniplex
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
THE GREEN Lantern Corps, a small but powerful brotherhood, has kept order throughout the galaxies for centuries, but in Parallax they face a powerful enemy.
Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the universe and the fate of the Green Lantern Corps, and of Earth, lie in the hands of their newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds).
Read more ...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.
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.
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