Andy White will play The Crane Bar
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Belfast singer-songwriter Andy White (pictured) will play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, this Saturday at 9pm. He is currently promoting his latest album Songwriter. For more information and tickets contact The Crane on 091 - 587419 or see www.thecranebar.com
Read more ...AVERAGE Arts Initiative holds first Galway exhibition
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
TO LET is the title of a new exhibition from the AVERAGE Arts Initiative which opens on Thursday March 4 at 7pm in 39 Atlantic House, Prospect Hill.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre events
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
AN ARTIST’S talk, a ‘make your own instrument’ event, and the last week of an exhibition are all happening today in the Galway Arts Centre on Dominick Street.
Read more ...Lunchtime theatre @ Kelly’s
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
LUNCHTIME THEATRE is making a return to Galway with the launch of Kelly’s Lunchtime Theatre in the Bridge Street venue on Thursday March 4 at 1pm.
Read more ...New venue for Story Night
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
GALWAY’S STORY Night is moving from The Spirit Centre, Nuns Island, to the bigger venue of Blue Teapot Theatre Company on Munster Avenue.
Story Night was conceived by local storyteller, Clare Muireann Murphy, to provide a place for people to tell tales or enjoy a good sceál. The nights have proven very popular and so a move to larger premises was needed. “Blue Teapot’s newly renovated theatre space is ideal as a new venue,” says Clare. “It has twice the amount of space and we have received a very warm welcome from the Teapots.”
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Beach house and pool, Lotto winning permitting.
Award winning Danish film Applause, to be screened by the Galway Film Society
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The award winning Danish film Applause (2009) will be screened by the Galway Film Society, in association with Dublin International Film Festival & Access Cinema, in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday at 8.15pm. It follows an actress making her stage comeback after battling addiction and her ongoing battle to regain the trust of her ex-husband and her son. Tickets are available from the Town Hall on 091 - 569777.
Read more ...Have a laugh when Tedfest comes to town
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
TEDFEST, THE annual celebration of all things Fr Ted, takes place each year on the Aran Islands, but this year some of the fun will also be happening in Galway city.
Read more ...Jarlath Regan @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
JARLATH REGAN, one of the most popular and successful new Irish comedians plays Comedy Comedy upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...A Cuban night out at the movies
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
THE BUENA Vista Social Club will be screened in the Eye Cinema on Monday at 7pm for the Access Music Project’s fund-raising Night at the Movies event.
The Buena Vista Social Club charts a group of legendary Cuban musicians, whose talents had been virtually forgotten by a world happy to impose punishing sanctions on Castro’s Cuba.
Read more ...The Irishman who saved comedy and returned home the all-conquering hero
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
LONG BEFORE David O’Doherty ever took to the stage he was a devoted student of comedy arts. He would regularly go to see his brother Mark perform at The Comedy Cellar in Dublin and watched the international explosion of Irish comedy in the late 1990s.
Read more ...Unlocking the Codes
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
IRISH INDIE electronic quartet Codes have been making waves on the domestic music scene ever since they first got together three years ago.
Read more ...Ken Bruen to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
THE INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed and award winning Galway crime writer Ken Bruen will be reading from his work at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading.
Read more ...KATS’ Hedda Gabler
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
IT’S SPRING time, and that means the KATS - the Knocknacarra Amateur Theatre Society - are on the prowl again! To start off a new decade, the award-winning drama group are taking something old (125 years old, in fact) and modernising it.
Read more ...The Head of Red O’Brien
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
THEATRE, MUSIC, art installation, and storytelling will combine in a new production of Mark O’Halloran’s The Head of Red O’Brien, which will be staged in Galway next month.
Read more ...Renaissance music and dance concert for children
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
SEODA, GALWAY Early Music’s ensemble, are promising Galway children a ‘Ye olde Merry time’, with a concert featuring Renaissance dances, historical instruments, and 15th and 16th century costumes.
Read more ...The Three Tenors to sing at Town Hall
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
The ever popular Three Tenors - Declan Kelly, David Martin, John Scott - return to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday February 27 at 8pm where they will perform a mixture of light opera, favourites from the musicals, and popular song. See www.threetenorsireland.com. Tickets are available from the Town Hall on 091 - 569777.
Read more ...The Mikado comes to Galway in March
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
THE GALWAY Patrician Musical Society will stage Gilbert & Sullivan’s marvellous operetta The Mikado next month, exactly 125 years after it was first performed.
Read more ...You ain’t heard it like this before
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
PORTICO QUARTET are four young East London musicians who sound like nothing you have ever heard before. “There isn’t a band that sounds remotely like them,” according to The Observer.
Read more ...Planet of sound
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
Los Campesinos! -
Romance Is Boring (Wichita Recordings)
