Capriccio live from New York @ The Eye
Thu, Apr 21, 2011
RICHARD STRAUSS’ Capriccio, starring American soprano Renée Fleming, will be broadcast live from The Metropolitan Opera, New York, to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark.
Read more ...Hip hop comedy from Abandoman
Thu, Apr 21, 2011
HIP HOP comedy duo Abandoman do not turn up to a show with prepared songs. They create songs based solely on audience suggestions.
Read more ...Thirty Minute Film Festival
Thu, Apr 21, 2011
THE THIRTY Minute Film Festival, involving 30 short films, each one minute in length, is a new strand which will form part of this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.
This new festival, a collaboration between the Galway Film Centre and Input Media, is seeking films to screen. Two winners will be chosen from the selected entries.
Read more ...Stephen Murray - from battered wives’ home to a House of Bees
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
THIS SUNDAY at the Druid Lane Theatre, Salmon Publishing will launch House of Bees, the striking debut collection of poetry by Galway based writer Stephen Murray.
Read more ...Laura Sheeran - witches, harps, and Gothic lullabies
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
LAURA SHEERAN has two reasons to celebrate this month. On April 19 she celebrate sher birthday and two days earlier, on Sunday April 17, she will launch of her debut album - The Fresh Blood/Lust Of Pig.
Read more ...Jape and O’Death to rock Galway for Coors Light Live
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
GALWAY WILL be rocking out to the music of leading Irish and American indie acts when the Coors Light Live event comes to Galway next month.
Read more ...Dear Frankie returns to Town Hall
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
FOR MORE than 20 years, agony aunt Frankie Byrne ruled supreme on Irish airwaves with her iconic radio show, The Women’s Page.
Read more ...Micheal O’Loughlin to launch new book
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
THE POET Micheal O’Loughlin will launch his new collection In This Life in this Town Hall Theatre bar this Saturday at 5pm.
The launch is part of the Cúirt international Festival of Literature and the guest speaker will be City Arts Officer James C Harrold.
Read more ...A Moment to change everything
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
MOMENT, THE explosive new drama by Deirdre Kinahan and Tall Tales Theatre Company, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre, from Tuesday April 26 to Saturday 30.
Read more ...Return of The Asylum
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
DUE TO phenomenal demand Keith Barry’s hugely popular show, The Asylum, returns for its final run in May.
Read more ...Chekhov/Lecoq workshop
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
A WORKSHOP exploring the Chekhov and Lecoq acting techniques will take place from Monday April 25 to Friday 29 from 10am to 5pm.
Read more ...Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
THE WEEKLY Stand Up Open Mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre poetry workshops
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
THE GALWAY Arts Centre will host poetry workshops in May, facilitated by the acclaimed Galway poet Kevin Higgins.
Each workshop will run for eight weeks and will take place on Tuesdays from 7pm to 8.30pm (first class May 3); on Thursdays from 2pm to 4pm (from May 5), and on Fridays from 2pm to 3.30pm (starting May 6).
Read more ...Janelle Monae plays Galway this summer
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
JANELLE MONAE, the American soul/funk/r’n’b singer, whose set at last year’s Electric Picnic, was considered one of the festival’s highlights, is coming to Galway.
Read more ...The Kanyu Tree release new single tomorrow
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
GALWAY BAND The Kanyu Tree will release their new single ‘Radio’ tomorrow. ‘Radio’ is the trio’s third single and their first for Sony Music Ireland.
Read more ...Steve Mason to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
SCOTLAND’S STEVE Mason was an essential part of The Beta Band and King Biscuit Time. These days he is a solo artist on tour and with a new single.
Read more ...Ger Wolfe to play Kinvara and Galway
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
CORK SINGER-songwriter Ger Wolfe has been described by his fellow Corkonian John Spillane as “the poetic soul of Ireland” while Christy Moore said his songs “always raise my spirits”.
Read more ...Elly O’Keefe @ Monroe’s
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
ELLY O’KEEFFE, the Cork based singer-songwriter plays Monroe’s The Backstage Bar this Sunday at 9.30pm.
Elly’s music mixes folk, pop, jazz and blues and showcases her raw and powerful vocals.
Read more ...The poetry book to bring everywhere with you
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
TIME WAS that British poetry was the preserve dusty old English professors and eccentric maiden aunts, with the occasional hippy chick in floral dress or angry young man in black French polo neck thrown in.
Neil Astley set about trying to change that when he began publishing poetry books in the northeast of England in 1978. His success has been spectacular. By presenting poetry in an imaginative way Bloodaxe has helped rescue it from the fringe elements who thought they owned it.
Read more ...Eat The Swans tomorrow evening
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
EAT THE Swans, the new collection of short stories by the Galway writers group, The Atlantis Collective, will be launched tomorrow.
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