Dutch trio to teach Galway about brass
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
Dutch brass trio De Jongen Driest will take up residency in Galway as part of the Galway Ensemble in Residence’s Autumn School Programme and treat the city to two concerts.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre Poetry Slam
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
THE GALWAY Arts Centre’s new season of Poetry Slams returns on Tuesday at 7pm in the centre on Dominick Street.
The guest performers will be Gary King; winner of the March Slam. His collection Pluto’s Noon Sky will be published in early November and inludes winners of the September Slam, James Caulfield and Pete Ryan. Winners on the night go forward to the Grand Slam for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature 2010.
Read more ...Australian poets to read in Gort
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
TWO OF Australia’s finest poets, Robert Gray and Alison Croggon, will read in the Gort Public Library on Friday October 23 at 8pm.
Read more ...Glass painting workshop
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
THE ART Essence Gallery in Liosbán will host a glass painting workshop on Saturday October 24 from 10.30am to 5.30pm.
Read more ...North Beach Nights
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
THE WRITERS Celeste Auge, Maureen Gallagher, Gerry Hanberry, and Hugo Kelly will read at North Beach Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.
Read more ...Galway Comedy Festival @ The Laughter Lounge
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
SIX LEADING Irish and international comedians will present six new shows at the Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh for this year’s Galway Comedy Festival
Read more ...Peter Doherty’s Galway gig postponed
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
PETE DOHERTY’S Heineken Green Spheres show in the Róisín Dubh has been postponed following the singer-songwriter’s admission to hospital yesterday.
Read more ...Flirt FM to tell the story of Belfast punk
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
NORTHERN IRELAND endured its worst period of violence in the 1970s but the arrival of punk music gave young Catholics and Protestants a reason to defy the sectarian divide.
Read more ...Frank Kelly - bringing Fr Jack Hackett to Galway
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
AS THE mad haired Ballymagash town councillor, the beleaguered Gobnait O’Lunacy, and the outrageous Fr Jack Hackett, Frank Kelly has played three of the most iconic and memorable characters in Irish comedy, and this month he is bringing one of them to Galway.
Read more ...Cahoots’ Pied Piper goes operatic
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
ONE OF the more intriguing shows at this year’s Baboró festival for children is The Musician from Northern Ireland’s Cahoots Theatre Company.
Read more ...Laughing ladies
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
“I’D MUCH rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.”
Read more ...Galway Theatre Festival unveils programme
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
GALWAY’S SECOND annual theatre festival takes place from October 20 to 25 and details of this year’s programme were announced at its press launch recently in Massimo’s Bar.
Read more ...McAleer and Capurro added to Galway Comedy Festival bill
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
KEVIN MCALEER and Scott Cappuro have been added to the line-up of the Galway Comedy Festival which takes place from October 21 to 25.
Read more ...Help Pio tell her story for Baboró
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
PIO IS determined to tell a story, she has it all in her imagination but finds it difficult to get it out of there. She needs the audience to help her tell her fabulous tale.
Read more ...Athenry Musical Society auditions
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
THE ATHENRY Musical Society is seeking actors, actresses, singers, dancers, volunteers, and helpers for its forthcoming production All Shook Up.
Read more ...Imelda May plays the ‘Róisín Dubh
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
Dublin’s queen of rockabilly Imelda May (pictured) plays a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ show at the Black Box Theatre on Wednesday October 28 at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and the Town Hall. She will also play the TF Royal Theatre Castlebar on Friday October 30 at 7.30pm. Tickets are available on www.ticketmaster.ie as well as from the Royal Theatre Box Office on 0818 300 000.
Read more ...Enter the world of Richmond Fontaine at Kelly’s
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
RICHMOND FONTAINE, the Portland, Oregon, Americana band led by vocalist, songwriter, and novelist Willy Vlautin, play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday October 16 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...The return of Jinx Lennon
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
JINX LENNON, the agit-folk singer-songwriter and social commentator, returns to the Róisín Dubh next Monday at 9pm, where he will be joined by solo singer Miss Paula Flynn.
Read more ...The Saw Doctors’ Hallowe’en concert
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
THE SAW Doctors will play the Warwick Hotel, Salthill, on Hallowe’en night, Saturday October 31 to promote the upcoming release of The Best of The Saw Doctors.
Read more ...Jonathan Richman and a silent disco
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
The legendary Jonathan Richman (pictured) will bring his world music influenced rock’n’roll to Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tonight at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago. Straight afterwards Gugai and the Gigantic DJs will host s silent disco. It’s free in to those who go to the show or €5 including pint of Bavaria to others.
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