Exhibition to open in Claddaghduff
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
CAROLINE CANNING and Cathal O’Malley will exhibit their new paintings as part of this year’s Festival of the Sea in Cleggan-Claddaghduff.
Read more ...Westside Arts Festival starts tomorrow
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival is hosting an array of workshops, performances, events, and family fun, tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday.
Read more ...French poet to read in Gort
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
EVE LERNER, the French born poet and translator, will be reading from her work in the Gort Library this Saturday at 3pm.
Read more ...The Inishbofin Concerts
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
MUSICIANS FROM across Ireland will be heading to the Co Galway island of Inishbofin for The Inishbofin Concerts season.
Read more ...Funding sought for Galway film
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
THE COMPANY Productions/Trench Entertainment is seeking funds for a film, based on it’s play DUÆL which was performed in the Town Hall in June.
Read more ...Phill Jupitus v Gugai @ Silent Disco
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
TOMORROW NIGHT will witness Round Three of the Gugai v Phill Jupitus DJ battle. Gugai is widely judged to have won the first two, but can Phill stop him getting a hat trick?
Read more ...The eclectic life of Alan Kelly and his quartet
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
ACCORDION MUSIC is not the most popular among traditional music purists, but one of the great Irish exponents of the instrument, Alan Kelly, is well aware of “the pitfalls of traditional music”.
Read more ...The evolution of The Deans
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
WHEN THE Deans released their debut album in 2008, they were a hard rocking, fretboard burning, blues band, but the last year has seen them evolve into an altogether different kind of rock’n’roll animal.
Read more ...Fuaim Chonamara @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
THE EXCITING sean nós dance show, Fuaim Chonamara, continues its summer run at Monroe’s Live on Thursdays at 8pm.
Read more ...Festival theatre reviews
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
Penelope
From James Joyce to Derek Walcott and the Coen Brothers, Homer’s Odyssey has proved a rich source of inspiration to artists down the ages.
From James Joyce to Derek Walcott and the Coen Brothers, Homer’s Odyssey has proved a rich source of inspiration to artists down the ages.
Read more ...Little John Nee’s Poor But Happy Tour
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
A VAUDEVILLE show featuring “songs of seaweed and dancing molecules” will take to the stage of the Town Hall Studio next week.
Read more ...Beauty and The Beast in Loughrea
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
BEAUTY AND The Beast, the much loved French fairytale about an ugly creature whose gentle manners wins the heart of a beautiful girl, will be performed in Loughrea.
Loughrea Youth Theatre will stage the Disney musical version of the story, in The Temperance Hall, Loughrea from this Saturday to Monday; Saturday July 24 to Monday 26; and from Saturday 31 to Monday August 2 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Do I Look Fat In These Fig Leaves?
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
ADAM AND Eve get the blame for a lot of things - sin, death, pain, hard work, sexism - and to add insult to injury, for centuries artists have depicted the couple as having nothing but fig leaves to hide their modesty.
Read more ...Only Fumes & Corpses launch new album
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
GALWAY HARDCORE punk band Only Fumes & Corpses launch their new album Who Really Cares, What Really Lasts, at Aras Na Gael, Dominick Street, on Thursday July 22.
Read more ...Wiggle to play Cuba*Live
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
WIGGLE, THE Cork electro dub wizards, return to Galway tomorrow to play Cuba*Live at 11pm.
The band began in 1999 after a jam session in a small sushi restaurant in Cork. Wiggle can be seen performing at many underground festivals, parties, and gatherings from the hills of west Cork, to the mountains of Kerry, to a field in Roscommon or a beach in Mayo.
Read more ...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.
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”.
So bring a bucket of water and damp cloth to cool yourself with while watching the acclaimed British chamber group, when they play the Galway Arts Festival next week.
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.
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