Piano workshops with ‘great grand pupil of Chopin’

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

JAMES LISNEY, the self-styled “great grand pupil of Chopin”, will visit Galway for a mini-residency during the NUI Galway Muscailt Festival in February.

Voices for Burma fundraiser

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

THE PORTRAITS will play upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Friday October 30 at 8pm at a show to raise funds for children in Burma.

Brill-iant

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

NEW YORKER Eddie Brill had originally intended to study science and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but after experiencing a family tragedy he discovered stand-up comedy.

Abbey Theatre brings Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus to Black Box

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

THE ABBEY Theatre is touring one of its most successful and critically-acclaimed plays of the last three years this autumn, Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus, which comes to Galway’s Black Box from November 4 to 7.

A picture show and a talk show at Galway Comedy Festival

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

TWO SHOWS, which could prove highlights of this year’s Galway Comedy Festival, could also be its most unusual - one is a slide show of photographs, the other a chat show.

Past the point of rescue and beyond with Hal Ketchum

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

“I NEVER meant to push or shove you/ Do you know how much I love you/ No you don’t, but I do/and I wonder if I’m past the point of rescue?”

A haunting in Galway

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

TRISTAN IS broken hearted and intends to leap to his doom from the Wolfe Tone Bridge into the River Corrib, but just before he jumps he meets the mysterious Ghostwriter.

Miss Paula Flynn

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

Miss Paula Flynn (pictured) the solo artist known for her chart topping cover of David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’ and for being the vocalist with agit-folk singer Jinx Lennon, plays the Town Hall on Tuesday October 127 at 8.30pm. Tickets are available from the Town Hall on 091 - 569777.

Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

THE GALWAY Theatre Festival takes place this week and there are numerous shows and events worth checking out in the Town Hall and the Nuns Island theatres.

Welcome the new soul of Mayer Hawthorne

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

DETROIT IS not just Motor City, it is the home of Motown, the label which had Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Smokey Robinson on it’s books. It is the epicentre of soul.

When the blues comes to The Crane

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

“CHAZ DE Paolo is a fretburner with strong, undistorted Stratocaster tone, chops, and a grip on dramatic dynamics that brings a level of interest to his blues-rock compositions and covers.”

Something different and outrageous at Kelly’s

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

KELLY’S PROMISES two very diverse acts this Bank Holiday weekend with shows by the outrageous and surreal The Rubberbandits and the acclaimed DJ duo The Nextmen.

Silent disco at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

AFTER THE Hypnotic Brass Ensemble play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tonight, the venue will host another of the increasingly popular silent discos.

For this silent disco, Gugai and SHAKE!’s Aran McMahon will go head to head. Expect a clash of the best indie/alternative against the finest and most furious funk’n’soul.

Goldie to play GPO

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

ON SUNDAY, the GPO on Eglinton Street will host a gig by drum‘n’bass legend Goldie - just one of a number of big events the venue has this month.

From Budapest to Vienna with Music For Galway

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

ONCE HUNGARY and Austria were among the most powerful countries in Europe - the days of the Viennese court, the Hapsburg family and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Leading German author to read in NUIG

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

LEADING GERMAN author Ulrich Peltzer will give a public reading in the Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI, Galway, today from 5pm to 6pm.

Charlie Byrne’s to host Great Irish Book Week event

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

Charlie Byrne’s will host a reading featuring many of Galway’s leading poets reading from a new book published by Salmon Poetry.

All-Ireland Poetry Slam Championship

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

THE NORTH Beach Poetry Nights will host the All-Ireland Poetry Slam Championship 2009 in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.

Romanian poet goes Over The Edge

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

ROMANIAN POET Denisa Mirena Piscu will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday October 29 at 6.30pm.

Japanese Film Festival comes to the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

JAPAN HAS one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world. Its first films were screened in 1897 - only two years after the Lumière brothers made their famous screenings in Paris. Today the country is currently the third largest feature film producer.

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