Female vocals groups to show the devil doesn’t have all the best music

Thu, May 27, 2010

GEORGE HARRISON sang “My sweet Lord”. St Augustine said: “To sing is to pray twice”, while Islamic Sufis and Native American holy men dance and sing themselves into trances, leading to religious ecstasy.

Core Theatre College: First professionally run theatre training in west of Ireland

Thu, May 27, 2010

This year, Galway is going to get its first professional part-time theatre school. Amazingly, Galway does not have such a school despite its international theatrical reputation. Core Theatre College offers a serious 10-week foundation course for actors with 20 hours training per week in core theatre subjects such as voice, movement and acting technique. There will also be masterclasses in skills like Commedia Dell’Arte, mask work, singing, directing and stage combat.

Keb Darge - spinning discs and doing flips

Thu, May 27, 2010

HAD KEB Darge not picked a fight with a kid in school he would never have discovered taikwando, which means he possibly would never have heard Northern soul, never searched out for the records, and never got a chance to DJ them.

Popular London Irish group play at The Crane

Thu, May 27, 2010

THE LONDON Lasses and Pete Quinn have made a significant contribution to the London Irish music scene and they are returning to Ireland to play a gig at the Crane on Tuesday. The internationally renowned traditional Irish band are touring Ireland on the occasion of their 10th anniversary.

The six piece band have built up a solid reputation in Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe, and the US in recent years and their popularity continues to grow. The band have thrived in London since mass emigration in the fifties and sixties and they are eagerly awaiting their first Irish tour in more than seven years. Two band members have family living in the Galway region so a warm welcome is most definitly assured.

WE HATE DJS

Thu, May 27, 2010

Catch the We Hate DJs experience in Massimos Bar this Saturday from 10pm. Expect a wide variety of electronic music including lots of left-field, electro, progressive house, techno and classics.

Perry plays Róisín Dubh before album release

Thu, May 27, 2010

EIGHT DAYS before he releases his new solo album, Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry will play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm. Perry’s new album ‘Ark’ is a definitive individual effort with the musical artist writing all lyrics, playing all instruments, and remaining the sole creative force across the eight tracks.

Aslan return to Monroes

Thu, May 27, 2010

VETERAN IRISH rockers Aslan are arguably Ireland’s hardest working live act and they return to Galway to play Monroe’s Live this evening.

John Walsh to launch new collection of poetry

Thu, May 27, 2010

CHOPPING WOOD With TS Eliot, the third collection of poems from John Walsh, will be launched in the Galway City Museum this Saturday at 1pm.

Printmaking Graduate Exhibition to be held this week

Thu, May 27, 2010

This year’s Printmaking Graduate Exhibition will be held in the Quadrangle Building Art Gallery, NUIG. The official opening is on May 28 at 8pm, doors will be open from 6pm. Siobhan Piercy artist and head of the printmaking department in the Cluain Mhuire campus of GMIT will be officially opening this year’s exhibition.

Baroque singers in Leisureland

Thu, May 27, 2010

ON THURSDAY June 10, the RTE Concert Orchestra will join Galway Baroque Singers for their annual concert in Leisureland at 8pm. This year’s programme is Durufle’s ‘Requiem’ and Puccini’s ‘Messa di Gloria’ that should prove very popular with the audience as it is full of contrasts, darkness and light, pathos and thrilling, exhilarating passages.

Lemon lounge @ The Warwick Hotel, Salthill

Thu, May 27, 2010

GALWAYS NEWEST clubbing experience, Lemon Lounge, is now open for business every Saturday night at the legendary Warwick Hotel in Salthill.

Winter in Wartime

Thu, May 27, 2010

A slow start but once Winter in Wartime really gets into its rhythm it is impossible to look away from the faultless filmmaking, impressive acting, and a plot with real meaning, that is of a teenaged boy who learns about the brutal realities of war.

FIRST FRIDAY COMEDY CLUB AT THE CO-OP

Thu, May 27, 2010

FOLLOWING THE spectacular launch in early May, the monthly 'First Friday' Comedy Club at the CO-OP Moycullen continues on the Bank Holiday weekend with another strong line-up on Friday June 4. Stand-up comic,voice over artist,writer and actor Joe Rooney has many strings to his huge and acomplished bow.

The Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 27, 2010

This Wednesday June 2 The Laughter Lounge presents Perrier Award winner Phil Nicol with Damon Blake, Biddy O'Loughlan and Paddy Courtney

Michael Mee headlining a new night of comedy

Thu, May 27, 2010

On Saturday May 29 John Donnellan and Danny Dowling will showcase a night of new jokes, spoofs, and sketches at the Comedy Comedy gig in the Róisín Dubh. Headlining will be Michael Mee who has been described by Time Out New York as ‘Woody Allen with a Cork brogue’. The Irish Times described his performance as simply ‘hilarious’.

The Saw Doctors to showcase new album at extra Kelly’s gigs

Thu, May 27, 2010

The Saw Doctors, who are just back in Ireland after sell-out shows in New York at Irving Plaza, and Boston at the House of Blues, have announced two more Galway concerts on Tuesday June 22 and Wednesday June 23, upstairs at Kelly's, to add to the previously announced Galway shows at the Bridge Street venue on June 1 and 2.

Keeping it simple with American bluesman Eric Bibb

Thu, May 20, 2010

ACOUSTIC BLUES singer-songwriter Eric Bibb was born in New York in 1951 and grew up surrounded by the Greenwich Village folk music and literary scene which included Bob Dylan, Dave Von Ronk, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Judy Collins, and Joan Baez.

Become Possessed at Galway Early Music Festival

Thu, May 20, 2010

AS PART of the Galway Early Music Festival, innovative Dublin-based early music Ensemble eX will perform Possessed, a unique staged and costumed concert exploring the theme of possession through the prism of early music.

The production is conceived by eX’s artistic directors, husband-and-wife duo Caitríona O’Leary and Eric Fraad (who directs the performance). It features internationally celebrated early music specialists soprano Caitríona O’Leary (Ireland), Clara Sanabras (Spain), Paulina van Laarhoven (Netherlands), Steven Player (Sweden), Harvey Brough (Britain), and Francesco Turrisi (Italy), all veterans of former eX productions and recordings.

Playing cards with the devil?

Thu, May 20, 2010

IF YOU played a game of cards with the devil, who do you think would win? The devil no doubt, as he would have no compulsion about cheating and pulling devious strokes.

A new day dawns for Lúnasa

Thu, May 20, 2010

IRISH TRAD ensemble Lúnasa have been touring for more than 14 years and are poised to release their seventh studio album Lá Nua through their own Lúnasa Records.

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