Kornel Kovacs to DJ at Lowerstate
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
KORNEL KOVACS, the Stockholm based DJ will be spinning the decks at Lowerstate at Deeper in The Cellar Bar, this Saturday.
Read more ...Black Angles to be heard in St Nicholas’
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
BLACK ANGLES, one of the darkest and most challenging pieces of music ever composed for a string quartet, will be performed by ConTempo during the Galway Arts Festival.
The ConTempo Quartet will perform Black Angles in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, on Saturday July 24 at 8pm. On the night they will be joined by the world renowned Israeli percussionist Chen Zimbalista.
Read more ...Westside Arts Festival 2010
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival takes place from Friday July 23 to Sunday July 25 and promises an array of exciting workshops, performances, events, family fun.
Read more ...Classical fire from the Endellion String Quartet
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
THE ENDELLION String Quartet are so good that The Daily Telegraph has described them as being capable of “setting the audience ablaze”.
Read more ...Peter Hall - a life in theatre
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
SIR PETER Hall, the founding director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the director of the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain is coming to Galway.
Read more ...The Laughter Lounge
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
A FEAST of comedy gigs awaits Galway this month as The Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh hosts shows by Keith Farnan, Jarlath Regan, and Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Upstairs in the Róisín tonight, the excellent Keith Farnan will present his new show Sex Traffic, which looks at the unwelcome return of sexism in everyday life.
Read more ...Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
GERRY MALLON’S Laughter Loft in The Ruby Room at The King’s Head, is a daily lunchtime show featuring leading stand ups.
Today’s show is from Wilson Dixie, followed by Jarlath Regan (tomorrow), John Colleary (Saturday), David McSavage (Sunday), Maeve Higgins (Monday July 19), Joe Rooney (Tuesday 20), Reggie Watts (Wednesday 21), Karl Spain (Thursday 22), Patrick McDonnell (Friday 23), Colm O’Regan (Saturday 24).
Read more ...Aprés the World Cup it’s Aprés Match
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
THE APRÉS Match team provided great post match entertainment at this year’s World Cup with their satires on soccer punditry and politics.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh Awards 2010
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
THE GALWAY Film Fleadh came to a close on Sunday night with the festival’s award ceremony in the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Teenage Fanclub - still harmonious after all these years
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THERE IS A certain symmetry at work in the career of Teenage Fanclub. Their debut album A Catholic Education was released independently in 1990 and since then things have come full circle. Twenty years on from that debut comes the band’s 10th album, the wonderful Shadows, also released independently.
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Read more ...Sound Clash in Salthill
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
Calling all Rude Boys and Soulies, sound clash by the sea on Saturday, July 17th. Time to don the Fred Perrys and shine those brogues for a night of the best black music in town. The very best in early reggae and original ska (none of your dancehall jabbering here my friends!) and nitty gritty, fast funky soul all spun by experts on pretty vinyl.
Read more ...Reggie Watts - Über alles in der Welt
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THE CURRENT German international football squad boasts 11 players whose parents or grandparents were born outside the Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Podolski, Klose and Trochowski (Poland), Boateng (Ghana), Cacau (Brazil), Ozil (Turkey) and Khedira (Tunisia).
Brooklyn-based comedian and musician Reggie Watts was born in Stuttgart in 1972 to a French mother and an African-American father. He grew up in Montana and lived in Seattle in his late teens. In 2004 in order to concentrate on his solo comedic performances he moved to the Lower East Side of New York.
Read more ...Adrian Crowley to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
ADRIAN CROWLEY is originally from Bearna and moved to Dublin in the early 1990s. For years he quietly worked away at this music, but now he stands on the cusp of great things.
Read more ...Films by Galway’s DIG Productions to be screened at fleadh
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THE NIGHT Nurse, a new short film from the independent Galway film and TV company, DIG Productions Ltd, will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh this weekend.
Read more ...Enjoyed the play? Hear how they did it
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
SOMETIMES YOU enjoy and admire a play, a dance show, or a painting or sculpture, so much that you become fascinated by the story behind it.
Read more ...Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THE AMERICAN stand-up comedienne, actress, and TV personality Joan Rivers has been an unrivalled force in the entertainment industry for more than five decades.
Read more ...Fairy folk theatre show at Kelly’s
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
GALWAY’S MEPHISTO Theatre Company will stage Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland in Kelly's Bar, Bridge Street.
Read more ...Breakstra - get down with the funk
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
SINCE BREAKSTRA were announced to play the Galway Arts Festival last month, there has been much talk and expectation about the LA collective, so who are they?
Read more ...Yourodny - a bit of Russia, Ireland, and New York
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THE YOURODNY were the nomadic bards of ancient Russia who collected, preserved, and created the folk music of that country.
Read more ...Saw Doctors announce more Kelly’s shows
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THE SAW Doctors will launch their new single ‘Takin’ The Train’ with two more shows upstairs in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Tuesday July 20 and Wednesday July 21.
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