Get your gladrags on for The Famous Five

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

KARMA CLUB and The Skeff Bar have joined forces for their new venture The Famous Five which will take place on Friday and Saturday nights.

If you are a customer of The Skeff and have the gladrags on then you could be in with the chance to be picked as its ‘famous five’, a title for the most stylish group present on the night.

Villagers - stripping down and spreading wings

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

THERE IS an endearing group of musicians doing the circuit at the moment. All wonderfully talented, creative, and in love with what they do. Watching them perform is always a pleasure.

Cinema Review - State Of Play

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

Murder, government conspiracies, love triangles, and oh so many twisting plots, all in a day’s work for brash newspaper reporter Cal McAffrey who uncovers it all; if only the life of an everyday hack was this thrilling. This film is certainly intriguing to watch as the suspense is well paced keeping the audience enthralled throughout.

Amit Mediratta’s new website

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

GALWAY BASED artist Amit Mediratta has launched a new website www.amit-mediratta.com.

An Taobh Tuathail to celebrate tenth birthday in the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

SINCE IT began broadcasting on Raidió na Gaeltachta in May 1999, An Taobh Tuathail has become essential listening if you want to keep abreast of innovative trends in rock, dance, electronic, and world music.

Olaf Tyaransen to read at Sheridan’s

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

THE JOURNALIST, author, and poet Olaf Tyaransen will read from his work, at an Over The Edge event, at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Yard Street, on Friday May 8 at 8pm.

Celebrating music in Headford

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

THE HEADFORD region will come alive to the sound of rock, folk, and classical music this weekend when Campbell’s Tavern and the Music Department of the Presentation College, Headford, host a series of shows this May Bank Holiday Weekend.

This event will celebrate 15 years of diverse and inventive music making in the area with input from more than 100 of the school’s past pupils.

Dave Phelan Lost Chord

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Censored.

Galway Artists’ Exhibition call for submissions

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

A MAJOR exhibition of Galway city and county based artists work - Ealaíon At Lúnasa - will take please over three venues from July 30.

Artists’ professional development and training workshops

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

SOME PLACES are still available on the four professional development and training workshops for artists, which are being hosted by the Galway Arts Centre, the Galway County Council, and Visual Artists Ireland, in May and June.

Free Comic Book Day

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

COMIC BOOK fans of all ages in Galway will be looking forward to Free Comic Book Day which takes place this Saturday.

The foreign adventures of Louis de Bernières

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

CÚIRT 2009 is now in full swing and one of the highlights still to look forward to is the reading, this Saturday in the Town Hall Theatre at 1pm, by Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Adrian Crowley’s musical season sparks into life with new album

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

“MUSIC WAS always there in some form but only gradually asserted itself on me.” So says Galway born singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley as he prepares to release his fifth album Season Of The Sparks and plays a homecoming concert at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh tonight at 9pm.

Leaving his Barna home in the early 1990s, Crowley moved to Dublin and worked for an eccentric art dealer with a penchant for Bonaparte memorabilia. Slowly but surely music began to play a larger role in his life and just over a decade ago he recorded his debut album A Strange Kind in a small Rathmines bedsit.

The crossroads leading Máirtín O’Connor to the Town Hall

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

MÁIRTÍN O’CONNOR, one of Ireland’s finest accordion players and one of Irish trad’s most fertile and creative minds, will play the Town Hall on Monday May 4 at 8pm.

Juan Carlos Mestre - poetry is freedom

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

Where did the ancestors of the Irish come from? It is a question that has occupied the minds of historians and generated numerous myths and folktales. The most famous of these is that we are the descendants of the Milesians who originally sailed for Ireland from northwest Spain.

Singin’ In The Rain at the Town Hall

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

GET OUT your umbrella and your dancing shoes as the much loved musical Singin’ In The Rain will be performed by the Galway Musical Society in the Town Hall Theatre.

Atlantis Collective surface for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

MURDER, DRINK, pornography, and dodgy footwear - just some of the elements which make up Town Of Fiction, the debut collection of short stories by the Galway-based Atlantis Collective.

Matt Keane in concert

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

THE SINGER Matt Keane will headline a concert of traditional Irish music in the Oranmore Lodge Hotel on Saturday at 9pm.

Master guitarist Pierre Bensusan returns

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

WHENEVER THE name ‘Pierre Bensusan’ is mentioned to a guitarist, guitar fan, or anyone seriously into music, their response is always one of awe, reverence, and enchanted bewilderment at the man’s unparalleled dexterity and creativity on acoustic guitar.

Party the Croatian way with the Disconauts

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

THE AIRBOUND music festival in Croatia takes place from July 31 to August 2 and Irish promoters Bodytonic and Nightflight will be presenting a host of Irish acts during that weekend.

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