Bowie v Blondie for Haiti
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
THE SONGS of the Thin White Duke will go head to head with those of new wave’s blonde bombshell when the Róisín Dubh hosts the Hoot Night for Haiti on Easter Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...Kevin Barry - ‘criminal amounts of fun’
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
CÚIRT COMMENCES in just a few weeks and among the luminaries gracing this year’s festival is the much-praised Irish author Kevin Barry.
Read more ...Cúirt to celebrate forty years of Gallery Press
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
AS CÚIRT celebrates its 25th birthday, the festival programme is also hosting a 40th birthday celebration for Gallery Press, Ireland’s pre-eminent poetry publishing house.
Gallery authors Marina Carr, Nuala N Dhomhnaill, Tom Kilroy, Tom French, and Peter Sirr will join poet-publisher Peter Fallon in a reading at the Town Hall on April 24 to mark Gallery’s huge contribution to Irish literature over the past four decades.
Read more ...Cúirt to celebrate forty years of Gallery Press
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
AS CÚIRT celebrates its 25th birthday, the festival programme is also hosting a 40th birthday celebration for Gallery Press, Ireland’s pre-eminent poetry publishing house.
Read more ...Max Hafler’s acting workshop
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
THE ACTOR, writer, and director Max Halfler will host his Big Play Workshop on four Fridays from 10am to 4pm, beginning April 30.
The first workshops will be focusing on John Ford’s Jacobean tragedy of lust, honour, incest, and murder ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, working from the script and through exercises culminating in a short presentation of scenes
Read more ...Music at the Cúirt festival
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
CÚIRT IS a festival which celebrates prose, poetry, writers, and publications, but writing is not confined solely to novelists and poets, it can also include lyricists, wordsmiths, and songwriters.
Read more ...The return of The Butterfly Explosion
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
THE BUTTERFLY Explosion, just back from playing SXSW in Texas, undertake a tour of Ireland this month to promote their long awaited debut album Lost Trails.
Read more ...Leading DJ Krafty Kuts @ Kelly’s
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
KRAFTY KUTS, one of the world’s leading DJs, will be spinning the decks at Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Sunday at 10pm.
Read more ...Planet of sound
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
The Redneck Manifesto - Friendship (Richter Collective)
Read more ...Blame @ the GPO
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
DRUM’N’BASS legend Blame plays the GPO, Eglinton Street, tomorrow where he will perform a DJ set.
Blame has enjoyed hits with ‘Music Takes You’ and ‘Planet Neptune’ on the Moving Shadow label and he also mixed the second Logical Progression compilation series. He is also the founder of the 720 Degrees label.
Read more ...Classical music concert @ Town Hall
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Cologne’s Chamber Philharmonic Europe (pictured) will perform music by Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach, Purcell, Albinoni, and Grieg, in the Town Hall theatre on Tuesday April 6 at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Town Hall on 091 - 569777.
Read more ...See John Behan at work at The Kenny Gallery
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
JOHN BEHAN, one of Ireland’s greatest sculptors, will give a public demonstration of his working methods in The Kenny Gallery in the Liosban Estate this Saturday at 2pm.
Read more ...Merlin Park reminiscences
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
WE ARE Family, this year’s edition of The Cat’s Cradle, published by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust and launched at Cúirt later this month, borrows its title from an unlikely source.
Read more ...Celtic Tales returns
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
THE POPULAR Celtic Tales storytelling sessions return to The Cottage Bar, Lower Salthill, every Wednesday at 8pm from April 7 to September 29.
Read more ...Dive into the dense metal sounds of The Ocean
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
FIVE SILHOUETTES, their backlit bodies moving frenetically in front of the monstrous LED lighting rigs, the flashing lights synchronised to every little change in the music.
Read more ...Lorg Print makers spring classes
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
LORG PRINTMAKERS will hold a series of workshops in printmaking, photo-shop, animation, and etching in its premises at Unit 8 in the Ballybane Enterprise Centre.
Photo-shop with Edith Pieperhoff starts on Wednesday April 7 at 7pm. It is designed for people who are not sure of how to use this design tool, but are eager to learn. The cost is €160/130.
Read more ...Cinema Review - I love you Phillip Morris
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
This film about a God fearing ex-cop turned gay conman is full of surprises and lots of laughs with Jim Carrey giving one of his best performances.
Read more ...Monroe’s Easter gigs
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
FOR THE Easter weekend Monroe’s has plenty of live music gigs with shows from Raindance and Electric Lemon.
On Easter Saturday night Electric Lemon will be playing plenty of classic rock songs while on Easter Sunday Raindance will make their debut performance in the venue.
Read more ...Win tickets to The Spirit Of Pink Floyd
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
THE SPIRIT Of Pink Floyd show takes place on Friday April 9 at 8pm in The Black Box and the Galway Advertiser has three pairs of tickets to give away.
To be in with a chance to win just answer the following question: What was the title of Pink Floyd’s 1967 debut album?
Read more ...Seven Days to play Dáil Bar
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
SEVEN DAYS, the young Irish pop/soul/rock band, which wowed crowds at the New Bands Stage at Oxygen, will play The Dáil Bar on Sunday April 11 at 10pm.
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