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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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’.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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’.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...Explore the city in Moments Of Beauty
Thu, Jun 18, 2009
THE MOMENTS Of Beauty creative workshops in the Galway City Museum is now into its second series, ‘Power Of Place’, and will be held today, July 2, 9, 16, August 13, 20, and 27.
‘Power Of Place’ will explores people’s experience of their sense of self, how they belong in the city, and how they take their place in the city. This also involves working towards creative offering to share with others.
Read more ...Michael McIntyre second show added
Thu, Jun 18, 2009
With all but a few of the tickets now gone for his ‘Laughter Lounge presents...’ July 9 show at the Black Box Theatre, Michael McIntyre (pictured) has agreed to do a second show in Galway on Wednesday July 8. Tickets for the Wednesday July 8 show are €27 plus booking fee from the Town Hall (091 - 569777), Zhivago Shop Street, www.ticketmaster.ie, and €25 for members online at www.roisindubh.net
Read more ...Destination Tango in Black Box with Otros Aires Ensemble
Thu, Jun 18, 2009
INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED ‘neo-tango’ ensemble Otros Aires are in Galway’s Black Box next week where they will be joined by dancers Enrique Ringa and Marion Krauthaker of Caminos de Tango and other guests for what should be a spell-binding evening of tango music and dance.
Read more ...On the record
Thu, Jun 18, 2009
SINCE ARRIVING on the scene in 1999 with his debut album Eclectic Impressions, guitarist/songwriter Chaz De Paolo has exhibited a passion for the blues that set him apart from his contemporaries.
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