North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
THE NORTH Beach Poetry Nights’ Slam returns on Monday at 9pm in The Crane Bar, Sea Road.
Read more ...Core Theatre College workshops
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
CORE THEATRE College is launching its workshop programme for this year. Workshops will run from March to May before auditions start for the main course in September.
Read more ...James Brown night @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
LEADING JAMES Brown impersonator Buck Taylor returns to Monroe’s Live on Friday February 25 from 11pm for another night of powerhouse funk and soul.
Read more ...Gold Panda to usher in the summer
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
IT’S HARD to think about the summer at this stage. We’re barely into spring and the summer seems so far away.
Read more ...Irish fiddle greats for The Crane
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
GALWAY WILL have a rare opportunity to see two of Ireland’s finest fiddlers - Brian Rooney and John Carty - performing together in concert.
Read more ...Paul King to bring the soul to Bar 8
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
DONEGAL BORN, Galway based, singer-songwriter Paul King and his band will play Bar 8 this Monday and Tigh Neachtains on Tuesday March 1.
Read more ...Disconauts get loved up
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
THE DISCONAUTS will throw their first party of 2011 in the downstairs function room in Monroe’s Tavern this Saturday February 19 from 11pm.
Read more ...Shaday to launch debut album with major Radisson Hotel concert
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
THE NIGERIAN born, Galway based, singer-songwriter Shaday, will launch her new album UNLEASHED...this is Mee with a concert in the Radisson Blu Hotel’s live lounge.
Read more ...A smörgåsbord of delights from the Danish String Quartet
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
IT WAS the Scandinavians who gave us the concept of the smörgåsbord, a meal where guests can help themselves from a range of dishes.
Read more ...Visit Michael F Downs’ Wild Garden
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
WILD GARDEN And Other Paintings is the new exhibition by the Cork artist Michael F Downs which opens at The Kenny Gallery, Liosbán Retail Park, Tuam Road, this Saturday, at 2pm.
After graduating from University College Cork, Michael went to work in the commercial world but painting was always his first love, and eventually he gave up his business career and dedicated himself to art full time.
Read more ...Three women writers to go Over The Edge
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
THE AWARD winning Irish novelist Claire Kilroy will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday February 24 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Creative writing classes at GTI
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
GALWAY WRITERS Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will host creative writing classes in the GTI, Fr Griffin Road, in March. Bookings are now being taken.
Read more ...David McSavage to play NUIG
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
DAVID MCSAVAGE, “the most divisive comedian in the country,” according to the Evening Herald, will play NUI, Galway as part of Students’ Union College Week.
David, stand up comedian and star of RTÉ’s The Savage Eye will play the Kirwan Lecture Theatre on Monday February 28 at 8pm.
Read more ...Róisín Dubh to host Tedfest Toilet Duck Awards
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
THE TEDFEST Toilet Duck Awards will take place in the Róisín Dubh with 16 of Ireland’s best up and coming comedians engaging in a comedic war of wits until only one is left standing.
Read more ...Giselle; ‘The Hamlet of ballet’
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
IN A real treat for Galway ballet lovers, Ireland’s prima ballerina Monica Loughman brings her Irish Youth Russian Ballet Company to the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday February 20, with its production of the classic French ballet, Giselle.
Read more ...Shooting the Breeze with... Andrea Pope - West End performer and singer
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
When we think of the Caribbean, the predominant image is of a mixed race people, descended from mostly African slaves, Spanish settlers, and French and English adventures. However the Irish are also a significant, but mostly overlooked, part of that rich ethnic mix.
Read more ...The Sumbrellas - a little drop of world trad
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
YOU DO not have to be a native of a particular country to enjoy its traditional music. Many who have never set foot in Cuba love the island’s sounds, numerous white indie bands are in thrall to Afro-beat, and Irish trad wins converts wherever it is heard.
Read more ...Cian Ó Cíobháin to launch An Taobh Tuathail Vol IV
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
CIAN Ó CÍOBHÁIN, the DJ, broadcaster, Gaeilgor, and tireless champion of left field, underground, world, and cutting edge new music, is about to launch An Taobh Tuathail Vol IV.
Read more ...Tom and Laura and Tennessee’s Menagerie
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
ONE OF the high-points of the current Town Hall Theatre season hits the stage next week with Tennessee Williams’s autobiographical memory play, The Glass Menagerie.
Read more ...Coole Music pupils to sing on national stage
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
THE COOLE Music School in Gort, will reach a new milestone this Saturday when its youth orchestra makes its debut at the National Concert Hall in Dublin.
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