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.

To help the people of L’Aquila, a benefit night concert has been organised and will be held in the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday at 8pm.

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.

Travelling through the motions of hard house and trance tracks Ann combines old school knowledge with an ear for fresh music. Ann is on the decks tomorrow where she will be joined by Mark Kavanagh. Doors are from 11pm. Tickets are €10 on the door.

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.

Gary won the 2008 North Beach Poetry Nights Grand Slam and the new collection includes his winning poem After Disco Lights. The book is published by Doire Press.

Reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson to play Kelly’s

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

LINTON KWESI Johnson describes himself as a “reggae artist who is also a poet” and his commitment to reggae and radical politics is as strong now as when he began in the late 1970s.

Handel’s Alcina at Town Hall

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

“THE GREATEST composer who ever lived. I would bare my head and kneel at his grave.” So said no less a composer than Ludwig van Beethoven about the great Georg Friedrich Handel.

Handel (1685 - 1759) was a success at any style of music he turned his hand to - operas, oratorios, concerti grossi, string quartets, and guitar pieces. Now one of his most famous operas is coming to Galway.

Galway Jazz Festival 2009

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

THE 2009 Galway Jazz Festival takes place from Thursday November 19 to Sunday 22 and will feature acts from Norway, The US, Germany, Britain, Italy, and Ireland.

Dance classes at Woodquay

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

THE CHOREOGRAPHER Carol Langstaff of the award winning Flock Dance Company will hold dance classes at the Galway Rowing Club, Woodquay.

Singin’ & Dancin for children ages six to 13 will focus on the Dalcroze method of learning music through movement. Organic Dance for adults will focus on contemporary, classical, soul, and traditional dance.