Julie Feeney - dressed for the occasion

Thu, Jul 02, 2009

JULIE FEENEY will perform songs from her new album pages, with the ConTempo Quartet, in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Thursday July 16 at 8pm as part of this year’s Galway Arts Festival.

See Jonathan Gunning Clown Around Lesotho!

Thu, Jul 02, 2009

LESOTHO IS ravaged by AIDS, yet a bit of laughter and escape was brought into the lives of children there by Irish entertainers.

Galway Film Fleadh to celebrate its twenty-first birthday in style

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh is celebrating its 21st birthday this year and from Tuesday July 7 to Sunday 12, it will host world premieres, special tributes, Irish and international features, documentaries and shorts, with a prestigious array of actors, directors, and filmmakers in attendance.

A world of music from The Penguin Café

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

SIMON JEFFES was resting on a beach in the south of France in 1972, recovering from food poisoning, when he had a strange hallucination of a world devoid of joy or colour, except for a noisy, happy, place called The Penguin Café which had its own house band.

Jeffes, a composer and classically trained musician, was inspired to form a group that would be the house band to his imaginary café and thus the strange, wonderful, world of The Penguin Café Orchestra was born. From 1976 until Jeffes’ passing in 1997, the band released eight albums of beautifully eccentric music which mixed English classical, pop, prog, world, and avant garde.

Northern stars come to Galway

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

ANTRIM’S STUART Graham and Derry’s Judith Roddy are currently in the Nuns Island Theatre, rehearsing for the award winning play Blackbird by David Harrower, which is part of this year’s Galway Arts Festival.

Tom Murphy - conversations on The Gigli Concert

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

ONE OF the definite highlights of this year’s Galway Arts Festival sees the welcome reunion of playwright Tom Murphy with Druid Theatre for a new production of his great play The Gigli Concert, directed by Garry Hynes.

Laughter aplenty at the Galway Arts Festival

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

THE RISE of Irish comedy both nationally and internationally over the last 25 years has been truly inspirational. Galway has played an important part in the ascendancy of many Irish comedians by providing them with a platform to develop their craft. The city has also given many of them their first experience of a festival.

Michael Fassbender to give film fleadh’s actors’ masterclass

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

THE AWARD winning actor Michael Fassbender, who has starred in 300 and Hunger, will give this year’s Galway Film Fleadh Actors’ Masterclass on Saturday July 11.

Disconauts live @ Deeper

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

DISCONAUTS WILL deliver their first live show in Galway of 2009 in Deeper at The Cellar Bar on Saturday at 10.30pm.

Padraic and Keith will be joined by Steve Hamilton on saxophone and Mark Logan on percussion. Steve Hamilton has toured and played with the likes of Blur, Snowboy, Radiohead, and Beyoncé. The Disconauts’ live show will be at Electric Picnic in September.

Saw Doctors to play the Warwick Hotel

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

THE SAW Doctors are playing a one off Galway concert in the Warwick Hotel, Salthill, on Friday July 24 to promote the summer release of their new single ‘She Loves Me’.

Canada Indie Week comes to Galway

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

INDIE WEEK has been taking place in Toronto, Canada, since 2004 and now the organisers are bringing a taste of the festival to Ireland from Canada Day (July 1) to July 4.

See the best of Galway rock and indie @ The Cellar

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

DEEPER AT The Cellar will host its own ‘fringe music festival’ to the Galway Arts Festival next month, with gigs from the very best local indie, rock, electro, and folk-rock bands.

See the ‘world’s reigning male chorus’ in St Nicholas’

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO’S Chanticleer, “the world’s reigning male chorus,” according to the New Yorker, will make their debut Galway appearance in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Saturday July 4 at 8pm.

American choir to sing on Sunday

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

THE CANTUS Novus Singers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will perform two shows in Galway this Sunday.

The choir, under the direction of W Edward McCall, will participate in the 11am Mass at the Galway Cathedral and present a concert at St Patrick’s Church, Forster Street, at 8.30pm.

Laughter Lounge

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

The awesomely funny Canadian comic Pete Johannson (pictured) plays the Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday at 9pm. Support is from Galway’s John Donnellan and the MC is I Dare Ya’s Andrew Stanley. Adam Burke is on the open spot. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.

Go Over The Edge at Sheridan’s Wine Bar

Thu, Jun 25, 2009

THE POETS Ailbhe Darcy, John Corless, Tom Lavelle, Anthony Daly, and John Liddy will read at Sheridan’s Wine Bar on Friday July 3 at 8pm.

Ailbhe Darcy writes critically for a number of publications including The Stinging Fly and Verbal. She recently appeared as part of the prestigious Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, and has read at the London Irish Centre, Dublin’s Liberty Hall and Keats’ House.

The rise of Disconnect 4

Thu, Jun 18, 2009

DISCONNECT 4 stand, alongside The Kanyu Tree, as the band with the most potential to break out of Galway and onto a wider stage, a fact the quartet intend to prove when they launch their debut EP Modern Love tonight in Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh.

Come out for the Galway Film Fleadh

Thu, Jun 18, 2009

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh celebrates its 21st anniversary this year and to mark the occasion - and as a way of combating the gloom of the recession - this year’s theme is ‘uplifting films’.

NUIG Dramsoc presents She Stoops To Conquer

Thu, Jun 18, 2009

NUI, GALWAY Dramsoc will be staging their annual summer play from Monday June 22 to Saturday 27 at 8pm in the form of Oliver Goldsmith’s pioneering comic play She Stoops to Conquer.

Town Hall reveals new season line-up

Thu, Jun 18, 2009

THE TOWN Hall has unveiled details of its programme for the next three months and, as ever, there is a wide variety of music, theatre, dance and -film from both home and abroad - to tempt our fancy.

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