Judith Bernhardt’s debut solo exhibition

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

JUDITH BERNHARDT, the German born, Galway based, artist will hold her first solo exhibition in Mocca Beans café, Dominick Street.

Anne Brennan to launch debut album

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

ANNE BRENNAN of Connemara’s The Brennan Sisters will launch her debut solo album with a gig in The Forge, Moycullen, tomorrow at 8pm.

GMIT art students, exhibition

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

STUDENTS COMPLETING their Level 7 degree in art and design at GMIT Cluain Mhuire will tonight open an exhibition entitled Show and Tell.

Show and Tell opens at 6pm in the former Galway Business School, above Bake House in Market Street. It will feature drawing, painting, video, photography, and installation. Most works will be for sale.

Arts Festival hit The Quare Land returns to Town Hall

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

ONE OF the hit shows of last year’s Galway Arts Festival, John McManus’ comedy The Quare Land, returns to the Town Hall next week for two nights only prior to embarking on a national tour.

A feast of Baroque music for Galway

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

CATALAN SOPRANO Nuria Rial, English conductor Matthew Halls, and The Irish Chamber Orchestra are bringing the music of Bach, Handel, and Telemann to Galway.

The concert, entitled Baroque Masterworks, takes place in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI, Galway on Friday March 25 at 8pm.

By Kernan Andrews

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

MAIRTÍN O’CONNOR is one of the greats of the accordion and of Irish trad and he is about to launch a new book of transcriptions of his music.

Lost Chord release new EP

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

THE LATEST instalment of the Lost Chord adventure comes in the form of a new three track EP entitled Canada which is available as a free download.

Cúirt - literary festival gets a new look

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

READINGS IN kitchens, books left in cafés waiting to be browsed, musicians performing poems and prose, and street performers at a literary festival - this is, as Spock might say, “Cúirt Jim, but not as we know it.”

The Cúirt International Festival of Literature has undergone some exciting changes and will see a host of new events and initiatives designed to bring the festival to the people by going out on the streets, into the county, and (literally) into people’s kitchens.

Eleven intimations of genius

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

IT IS extraordinarily difficult nowadays to understand the bombshell caused by the publication of Edna O’Brien’s first novel The Country Girls in 1960.

By today’s standards the book is totally harmless but in the stifling atmosphere of 1950s and early 1960s Ireland, it was tantamount to a moral Armageddon.

Fíbín returns with An Triail

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

FÍBÍN IS bringing its acclaimed stage adaptation of An Triail to the Black Box Theatre on Monday and Tuesday at 10.30am and 1.30pm.

Seoda Phádraig at Galway City Museum

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

SEODA PHÁDRAIG, the Annual St Patrick’s Festival Concert of ‘Music and Song of the Nation’ takes place in the Galway City Museum on Sunday at 8pm.

GMIT creative writing classes

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will host creative writing classes for beginners at the GMIT.

The sound garden

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

ANYONE WHO caught the band’s mesmerising winter acoustic tour would be already familiar with some of the new material featured on Bloodless Coup.

Steve Mason to play Róisín Dubh

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

HE WAS an essential part of King Biscuit Time and before that The Beta Band, but he is now a solo artist about to release a new single and undertake a headline British-Irish tour.

Edinburgh’s Steve Mason plays the Róisín Dubh on Sunday April 17 at 9pm and his new single, ‘All Come Down’ will be released through Double Six on Monday April 25.

Fight Like Apes return to Strange Brew

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

FIGHT LIKE Apes are back on the road and as part of their upcoming Irish tour, they play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday April 14 at 9pm.

Emmet Scanlan’s charity concert for Haiti

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

EMMET SCANLAN & What the Good Thought will play a charity gig in the Druid Theatre this Sunday at 7pm with the proceeds going to the Haven Partnership, which is building homes in Haiti.

The band have just returned home from a British tour and are due to release a single for the Haven Partnership later this month. The band have been busy working on new material and are eager to give Galway the first taste of what the next album has in store.

The Crane to celebrate tenth birthday

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

MICK CREHAN has been at the helm of The Crane Bar on Sea Road for a decade and to celebrate this milestone, the venue will host a party running from Thursday to Sunday.

In those 10 years The Crane has become one of the city’s leading live music venues and an essential port of call for all those (both performers and the public) who love Irish trad, folk, roots, singer-songwriter, or Americana.