Brigid Power Ryce to launch debut EP with Róisín Dubh gig
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
THE INDIE film screenwriter Mary Case is well known for her phrase “No pressure, no diamonds.” It’s true. Sometimes you need a bit of pressure or stress to force you into action. One woman who can testify to this is Brigid Power Ryce .
Read more ...High voltage hoe-down with Hayseed Dixie
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
GET READY for a barn stormin’, hell raisin’, high falutin’ hoe down when Hayseed Dixie bring their adrenaline fuelled bluegrass take on classic rock to Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh.
Hayseed Dixie - John ‘Barley Scotch’ Wheeler (vocals/guitar/fiddle), Rev Don Wayne Reno (banjo/vocals), Deacon Dale Reno (mandolin/guitar/vocals), and Jake ‘Bakesnake’ Byers (bass/vocals) - play Strange Brew on Thursday February 18 at 8pm.
Read more ...‘Exceptional’ Congolese guitarist to play Galway
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
CONGOLESE MUSICIAN Niwel Tsumbu and his band Song Of The Nations are coming to Galway to play two dates - Friday February 19 in the Róisín Dubh and Aras Eanna Arts Centre, Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, on Saturday 20.
Read more ...Port O’Brien and Richard Hawley gigs
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
THE BRILLIANT American indie-rock band Port O’Brien make a welcome return to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh on Saturday April 10.
Read more ...2010 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
THE 2010 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition is seeking entries from poets and fiction writers and this year’s judge is James Martyn of The Talking Stick Writing Workshop.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
BRENDAN MURPHY, the 2007 All-Ireland Slam Champion will perform his poetry at the North Beach Poetry Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.
Read more ...French poet to read in Charlie Byrne’s
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
THE FRENCH poet Colette Wittorski will be reading in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, on Thursday February 18 at 6pm.
On the day Ms Wittorski will read from Northern Lights, a dual-language collection of her work, published by Lapwing Poetry, and translated by the Galway based critic, poet, and author by Fred Johnston.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire - Catherine Ní Ghuairim, RTÉ Nuacht
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A bottle of Pinot Grigio and a double episode of Family Guy.
‘Ballet is like a sport, you’re an athlete first and then you become an artist’
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
IRELAND’S LEADING ballerina, Monica Loughman, brings her Irish Youth Russian Ballet Company to Galway on Thursday February 18 at 8pm with its production of La Sylphide.
Read more ...‘I don’t feel truly normal’
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
IT’S NOT every musician who can say she has a friend and mentor in Tom Waits, or that she baby-sat for his children, but the American born, Manchester based singer, guitarist, and songwriter Jesca Hoop certainly can.
Read more ...Rich Hall to play The Laughter Lounge in March
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
THE GROUCHY, deadpan, comic genius Rich Hall, the Edinburgh fringe favourite and Perrier Award winner, is back on the road and will be coming back to Galway next month.
Read more ...‘Let us go then, you and I…’
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
INSPIRED BY TS Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, Waterdonkey Theatre’s new show, Love Song, receives its premiere at the Town Hall next week, running from February 10 to 13.
Read more ...The wizard gets funky
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
THE WIZ, a funk-soul retelling of The Wizard Of Oz, will be staged by the Galway University Musical Society as part of this year’s NUI, Galway Múscailt arts festival.
Read more ...Queen of ‘folkabilly’ Nanci Griffith returns to Galway
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
FOR MANY years Nanci Griffith has straddled the fine line between folk and country with a unique style of playing and singing she has christened ‘folkabilly’
Her confessional songwriting style and lilting vocal delivery has won over audiences on both side of the Atlantic and she has worked with Emmylou Harris, John Prine, Mary Black and The Chieftains.
Read more ...See Gogol’s The Government Inspector at Druid
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
KHLESTAKOV IS a lowly civil servant from Saint Petersburg. He could do with some money so imagine his luck when, in a small provincial town, he is mistaken for a high-ranking government inspector.
Read more ...Michael Jackson’s guitarist to play Campbell’s
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
WHEN MICHAEL Jackson performed his heavy-rock classic ‘Beat It’ in concert, the woman playing guitar for that incendiary solo was Jennifer Batten.
Read more ...Grooverider to hit the GPO
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
GROOVERIDER, THE godfather of the British drum’n’bass scene will be spinning the decks at the GPO on Friday February 12.
Read more ...Legendary piper Paddy Keenan @ The Crane
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
PADDY KEENAN, the great piper and former Bothy Band member, returns to The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Wednesday at 9pm.
Read more ...David Kitt @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
David Kitt (pictured), the Irish singer-songwriter who recently began working with Tindersticks, returns to the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 12 at 9pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.
Read more ...Win Youth In Revolt goodies
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
YOUTH IN Revolt, starring Michael Cera, Steve Buscemi, and Ray Liotta, opens in cinemas tomorrow, and we have three film tie-in goodie bags to give away.
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