O Emperor @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
O EMPEROR have created much excitement since their emergence onto the live scene over the past 12 months, and this month should see them step up to the next level.
Read more ...Mick Flannery @ Kelly’s
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
MICK FLANNERY will play Kelly’s on Thursday October 14 and the show will be broadcast live on Raidió na Gaeltachta’s An Caifé Ceoil.
Read more ...The return of Beverly Martyn
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
SHE WAS a friend of Nick Drake, made two albums with her former husband, the late John Martyn, and has worked with Paul Simon - she is Beverly Martyn.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
ELAINE FEENEY, one of the most promising new voices in Irish poetry will read at the North Beach Poetry Nights on Monday at 9pm in The Crane Bar.
Read more ...New Philip Lindey exhibition in Norman Villa
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THE INIMITABLE Philip Lindey unveils an exhibition of new paintings at Salthill’s Norman Villa gallery tomorrow evening.
Read more ...Latvian State Choir to celebrate Arvo Pärt in Galway
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
GALWAY CITY will celebrate the 75th birthday of the renowned Estonian classical composer Arvo Pärt with a major concert next week.
Arvo Pärt – 75th Birthday Retrospective takes place next Wednesday at 8pm in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church and will feature The State Choir Latvija, conducted by Fergus Sheil, performing Pärt’s finest choral music.
Read more ...BULK - a voyage into industry and capitalism
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
DURING APRIL and May, artist Niamh Heery embarked on a 24-day transatlantic voyage on a freighter ship from Buenos Aires to London.
Stopping at six different commercial ports in Latin America, Africa, and Europe, she observed with great detail the routine processes and bulk operations that define modern industry and commodity culture today.
Read more ...The Other Guys
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THE OTHER Guys takes the cringy moments from cop movies, and there have been plenty, to produce a laugh-a-minute look at one section of the New York City police where the heroes are worshipped like gods by their bootlicking colleagues and where there is always one idiot, cue Will Ferrell.
Read more ...The Metropolitan Opera season live at The Eye
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THE 2010/2011 season of performances from The Metropolitan Opera will be transmitted live via satellite from New York to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark.
Read more ...Earth Star returns to Monroe’s Live
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
EARTH STAR returns to Monroe’s Live on Thursday October 14 from 9pm for a night of trad and ambient from live bands and DJs.
Read more ...Zion Train rolls into town
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
ZION TRAIN, the dub/dance pioneers and undisputed leaders in the genre for more than 15 years, play Cuba*Live this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Rusted Rail night @ Cítog
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THREE ACTS on the independent Galway label Rusted Rail will play Cítog at The Cellar, Eglinton Street, tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...Johnny Duhan @ Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
JOHNNY DUHAN will perform his latest album, the critically acclaimed The Burning Word, in the Galway Arts Centre on Friday October 15 at 8pm.
Duhan is the writer of such classic songs as ‘The Voyage’ and ‘Don’t Give Up ‘Til It’s Over’. The Burning Word was described by John Waters as “a beautiful piece of work. It achieves an engagement with faith and God that will not ‘lose’ the doubter or the sceptic”. The Irish Examiner called it his “most accomplished album yet” .
Read more ...Back In The Day
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
After the phenomenal response to their first house classics party earlier this year, Disconauts Padraic & Keith are going back to their roots again this Saturday 9 October in Deeper with a selection of house, disco, proto-house (and perhaps even pop) anthems from the vaults that have helped form the Disconauts' sound and indeed the sound of today's house music.
Read more ...The bird is the word @ The Laughter Lounge
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
RADIO BIRDMAN might have sung about ‘More Fun’ but Markus Birdman can promise plenty of it when he comes to Galway next week.
Read more ...Poetry with a Galway accent
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
TAKING US from the harsh realities of Baile Crua to the cautious serenity of the Spiddal bogs, Rita Ann Higgins’ new book Hurting God - part essay, part rhyme (Salmon) is a short but intense spiritual autobiography.
Read more ...Hawaii Five-O and streams of consciousness
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
DRIFTING UNDER The Moon, published by Dedalus Press, is the second book by Westport’s Ger Reidy. Unlike most poets, Reidy has a proper job – he is a civil engineer with the Mayo County Council.
This perhaps accounts for the long gap between the publication of his debut in 1998 and this book’s appearance. Reidy’s territory is the smalltown nearly rural landscape that was most of Ireland until the 1970s.
Read more ...MET Opera star to join Music for Galway for its anniversary gala and concert
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
MUSIC FOR Galway is proud to announce that Metropolitan Opera star Rodion Pogossov has agreed to come to Galway to celebrate MFG’s 30th Anniversary Season on Saturday October 16, at the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Get sprung out with The Rubberbandits
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
LIMERICK COMEDY/hip-hop duo The Rubberbandits first came to prominence when their prank phone calls were featured on Irish and international radio.
Read more ...The Very Hungry Caterpillar at Baboró
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
ERIC CARLE’S The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of the world’s best-loved children’s stories, having sold some 30 million copies internationally since it was first published in 1969.
Now Nova Scotia’s Mermaid Theatre Company have brought Carle’s classic story to the stage in a stunningly beautiful blacklight puppet production which is sure to be one of the highlights of this year’s Baboró festival.
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