The Guts to launch debut album in Kelly’s
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
GALWAY BAND The Guts will launch their debut album RAT with a concert upstairs in Kelly’s next Wednesday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Funk v rock @ the Silent Disco
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE SILENT Disco in the Róisín Dubh takes a new twist with a themed night this Saturday of ‘Funk’n’Soul v Rock’n’Roll’.
The fun starts at 11.30pm with DJs Gugai and Graham Dolan going head to head. Pick up your headphones on the way in and switch between the two DJs to see who is playing the songs you most want to dance to. If you need a break, take the headphones off and marvel at the bizarre spectacle of a room full of people dancing and singing different songs, even though no music is to be heard.
Read more ...Lucia Evans’ vocal studio concert
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
VOCAL STUDENTS of Galway soul singer Lucia Evans will perform in the Salthill Hotel this Sunday at 6.30pm.
The 22 students will perform live on stage, backed by live seven piece band. The concert will also be an opportunity for anyone who is interested in taking voice lessons at the studio to speak to Lucia and find out more about the studio.
Read more ...Leading young Chinese pianist to play NUIG
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE ONLY piano recital in this year’s Music For Galway season takes place on Tuesday at 8pm in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, with the great Chinese pianist Jue Wang.
Read more ...Art Essence gallery holds fine art sale
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
FINE ART is normally an expensive purchase, and a painting could set you back enough to lead you to enduring beans on toast for your Christmas dinner.
Read more ...We can all own a piece of the song
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
IN THIS era of downloading and Youtube, the means of production have transferred from the record companies to ordinary people, raising questions over the relevance of copyright.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being at the epicentre of the most intense drinking session or walking by the sea hand in hand with the one I love.
Tribal Chamber Choir launch debut album
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE TRIBAL Chamber Choir, directed by Mark Keane, will launch their debut album Carols From Galway with a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church next week.
Read more ...New books to be launched in NUIG
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
TWO NEW books by Prof Brian Arkins of the Classics Department in NUI, Galway will be launched tomorrow.
Read more ...Rising comedy star Roisin Conaty to play Laughter Lounge
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
ROISIN CONATY, the pulchritudinous Co Kerry born, London based comic, described by Time Out as “a seriously talented young lady” is coming to Galway.
Read more ...New documentary on Rossport/Shell struggle to be screened at The Eye
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE PIPE, the award-winning Irish documentary on Rossport’s struggle against the economic might of Shell, will be screened in The Eye cinema in Wellpark on Saturday December 4.
Read more ...Little Cinema Short Film Club
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE NEXT screening by the Little Cinema Short Film Club takes place on Tuesday, upstairs in Kelly’s Bar.
Read more ...The Coronas - foreign adventures and hanging with Macca
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
DECEMBER IS going to be a amazing month for music fans in the city as three of Ireland’s leading bands - Two Door Cinema Club, Villagers, and The Coronas - come to Galway for a series of major ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concerts.
Read more ...Flann O’Brien’s Slattery’s Sago Saga comes to Town Hall
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
ONE OF the highlights of the Town Hall Theatre’s current season takes place next week with Performance Corporation’s uproarious staging of Flann O’Brien’s unfinished comic novel Slattery’s Sago Saga, adapted by Arthur Riordain.
Read more ...Saturday night jazz with the great Chris Potter
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
“ONE OF the best saxophonists on the planet,” is how The Guardian has described American jazz musician Chris Potter who plays Galway this weekend.
Read more ...Huston and O’Toole to collaborate on new film
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
THE ACTOR Peter O’Toole and director John Huston have been associated with County Galway for more than six decades.
Read more ...John O’Conor to play Town Hall
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
JOHN O’CONOR, the internationally acclaimed Irish pianist, returns to the Town Hall Theatre next week to play the music of Beethoven, Chopin, and Field.
Read more ...Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere comes to the stage
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
GALWAY’S CROI8 Productions will perform the Irish stage premiere of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere at the Town Hall Theatre studio from December 8 to 11.
Read more ...Make a choice with ALâ at Kelly’s
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
SCHOOL BULLYING and a troubled child in the home are the themes of two plays which will be staged under the title Choices by ALâ Community Theatre, in Kelly’s, Bridge Street.
Read more ...Blue Teapot Theatre Co table quiz
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
THE BLUE Teapot Theatre Company will hold a fund raising table quiz at Lohan’s Bar, Salthill, on Tuesday at 8.30pm.
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