Cinema Review - UP

Thu, Nov 05, 2009

It’s never too late to take on the adventure of a lifetime and what an adventure recent widower Carl Fredrickson has in Pixar’s latest offering UP, a film which expertly mixes sentimentality, ever-lasting love, action, and of course plenty of laughs.

Regina Nathan to sing at Croí Christmas Cabaret

Thu, Nov 05, 2009

REGINA NATHAN, the internationally renowned Irish soprano, will perform at this year’s Croí Christmas Cabaret, which takes place in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Thursday December 10.

Regina has appeared in opera at Madrid’s Teatro Real, Brussels’ La Monnaie, the Hamburg Staatsoper, Opera de Geneve, Luzern Stadttheater, Israeili Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera de Nice, Opera de Nantes, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Opera Zuid, Stadttheater Glessen, as well as Opera Ireland.

Ancient war trumpets to sound in St Nicholas’

Thu, Nov 05, 2009

THE HORNS that raised the battlecry for ancient warriors will be played once again at a gala music concert at St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Friday November 13 at 8pm.

Ancient Music Ireland is hosting this concert - the first of its kind anywhere in the world - where a collection of Irish horns from the Bronze, Iron, and early Mediaeval eras will be played in great number together - some for the first time since 700 BC.

Listen to A Norwegian Vision

Thu, Nov 05, 2009

THE AWARD winning violinist Arve Tellefsen has declared Mari and Håkon Samuelsen to be “among the greatest string music talents in Norway”, and next week the duo will give a concert in Galway.

A tongue-in-cheek view of Galway for TULCA

Thu, Nov 05, 2009

GALWAY HAS inspired many songs, poems, and stories, all of which have been great for tourism and for romanticising the city and county. Now one American artist will examine this through a clever and quirky exhibition for TULCA.

Benefit night for the people of Abruzzo, Italy

Thu, Nov 05, 2009

ON APRIL 6 this year an earthquake struck the Abruzzo region of Italy, leaving many people homeless and uncertain of their future in towns like L’Aquila, and the surrounding villages.

An extraordinary tale of an ordinary childhood

Thu, Nov 05, 2009

PAT BORAN’S childhood memoir The Invisible Prison belies the now traditional ‘miserable Catholic childhood’ narrative which has become endemic in modern Irish writing and which found its epitome in Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes.

Junior Galway Film Fleadh

Thu, Nov 05, 2009

ACCLAIMED FRENCH and German films, Galway made shorts, and workshops in radio and digital animation are all part of this year’s Junior Galway Film Fleadh, which runs from Wednesday November 11 to Saturday 14 in the Town Hall Theatre.

One of the highlights of the programme is the awarding-winning French film The Class (2008), about a young teacher’s efforts to inspire a multiracial group of teenagers in an inner city Paris school.

Martin Toal - Irish blood, English heart

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

MARTIN TOAL, the popular and much acclaimed English tenor, is possibly Fabio Capello’s secret weapon - because when he sings ‘God Save The Queen’ before an England game, they win without conceding.

TULCA 2009 - challenging and provocative art in Galway

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

ANIMALS PERFORMING Aesop’s Fables, a film about shopkeepers, birds, and children, and the questions Arthur Miller and Bertolt Brecht faced from the House Committee of Un-American Activities, are just some of the things Galway can expect to see and hear at TULCA 09.

Warlords of Pez Hallowe’en Extravaganza @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

FROM DEEP galactic space, the Warlords of Pez are cybernetically advanced, sonically aggressive space aliens, whose music fuses deepspace death metal, low-light sex cabaret, and New Age electric bongo madness.

Rab Fulton’s ghoulishly funny take on Little Red Riding Hood

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

LITTLE RED Riding Hood, a sweet little girl or blood thirsty mass murderer? Wolfie, a monstrous beast or sensitive canine dude who eats grannies?

All will be revealed in Rab Fulton’s darkly comic exposé of Little Red Riding Hood – entitled The Bloody Tale of Little Red and Wolfie - which comes to the Town Hall next week.

Over The Rainbow – The Eva Cassidy Story

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

OVER THE Rainbow, the story of singer Eva Cassidy who died at only 33 from cancer, but whose music has touched millions, is coming to Galway.

Charley Pride is heading west

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

CHARLEY PRIDE, one of the best loved and most successful of all country and western singers, is coming back to Ireland and is heading west to play two concerts.

Jane’s Hero: a soldier’s tale

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

COMING NEXT week to the Town Hall is Jane’s Hero which relates the remarkable and at times hair-raising experiences of Galway’s Lt Col Eamon Colclough during his service overseas with the UN.

Mark Eitzel to play new solo songs in Galway

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

AMERICAN MUSIC Club’s Mark Eitzel, “America’s greatest living lyricist” according to The Guardian has just released a new solo album and will play Galway next month.

Lucia Evans’ new album and concert

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

GALWAY SOUL singer Lucia Evans has released her debut album Natural Woman and will play a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concert at the Radisson Live Lounge on Friday November 6 at 8pm.

On the night, Lucia will perform songs from Natural Woman (3VO Records) which features her interpretations of such classics as Aretha Franklin’s ‘(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman’, Julie London’s ‘Cry Me A River’, Ray Charles’ ‘Georgia On My Mind’, Bill Withers’ ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’, and The Eurythmics’ ‘Would I Lie To You’.

Gaelic doom metal abú

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

MAEL MÓRDHA, the creators of Gaelic doom metal, a style of music that mixes heavy metal with Irish trad, will play Deeper at The Cellar on Eglinton Street this Sunday.

Halloween Weekender at GPO

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

HARD DANCE sensation Ann Savage is coming to the GPO Nightclub as part of the venue’s Halloween Weekender events.

Gary King to launch poetry collection

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

PLUTO’S NOON Sky, the debut collection of poetry from Gary King, will be launched at 12 noon this Saturday in the Galway City Museum.

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