Liam Lawton to play Croí Christmas Cabaret
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
LIAM LAWTON, the Roman Catholic priest, vocalist, and internationally acclaimed songwriter and performer will play this year’s Croí Christmas Cabaret at the Radisson SAS Hotel on Wednesday December 3 at 7pm.
This year’s cabaret will be different from previous years in that Fr Lawton’s show will be a full concert with supporting acts. The night will begin with hymns and carols from the Galway Chamber Choir under director Mark Keane; music from the Guinness Dance Band, and tango dancing from Marion and Enrique of Caminos de Dance. Then Fr Lawton and his band will take to the stage for the main part of the concert.
Read more ...Liam Lawton to play Croí Christmas Cabaret
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
LIAM LAWTON, the Roman Catholic priest, vocalist, and internationally acclaimed songwriter and performer will play this year’s Croí Christmas Cabaret at the Radisson SAS Hotel on Wednesday December 3 at 7pm.
Read more ...Egyptian family fun in Tóraíocht an Yummy Mummy
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
DR STANLEY and his friend Ollie are on the cusp of discovering the lost tomb of Hatchetsoup, but an evil priest, a man eater, and a pharaoh’s curse stand in their way. What will they do? What will happen?
This is Tóraíocht an Yummy Mummy, this year’s An Taibhdhearc pantomime. It will be staged in the Black Box Theatre from Wednesday November 26 to Sunday 30 at 8pm with matinees on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 at 1pm.
Read more ...Rock for Jesus with the Harlem Gospel Choir
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
IF YOU are going to get an endorsement, a presidential endorsement is the one to get - or at least from the man who went on to become president.
Read more ...Galway Stagecoach to take part in record breaking attempt
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
POPULAR BRITISH TV presenter Phillip Schofield is helping launch Stagecoach Theatre Arts’ bid to beat its own Guinness World Record.
Read more ...No bling - just hip hop brilliance from Dälek
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
LET’S BE honest, hip hop has gone stale these last couple of years...very stale. With the return of indie guitar bands, hip hop has retreated to the margins in a mind numbing orgy of bling and clichéd beats.
Read more ...Cuba* launches new night with Does It Offend You Yeah? DJ set
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
BRITISH PUNK, funk, indie, and electro band Does It Offend You, Yeah? will launch The Alternative Disco, the new clubnight at Cuba*, Eyre Square, this Saturday at 11pm.
Read more ...Norman J @ Gigantic
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
Norman J (pictured), one of the world’s most respected and influential DJs - who in 2002 was included on the British Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours List with the recommendation that he be appointed an MBE for “DJing and services to music” - will be spinning the decks at Gigantic in De Burgo’s this Saturday. Admission is €15. Tickets are on sale in advance from De Burgo’s on 091 - 562188.
Read more ...Erik Mongrain @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
“Erik Mongrain is a self-taught French-Canadian guitar player that absolutely shreds. It’s like Van Halen meets James Taylor; furious but soothing,” said the Boston Herald about the Quebecois guitarist (pictured) who plays the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 9pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.
Read more ...Celebrate St Andrew’s Day
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
ST ANDREW was a Jew and member of the 12 Apostles but this Israeli is honoured by Christians as the patron saint of Scotland and his feast day is a ‘day of mischief’ in Poland.
The Granary Learning Centre and the Galway Irish Polish Association will host an Andrzejki (St Andrew’s Day celebration) event for Galway on Sunday November 30 at the Granary Learning Centre, 58 Dominick Street.
Read more ...Obama election victory party on Sunday
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
THE ELECTION of African-American Barack Obama as the 44th president of the USA has been welcomed the world over, but especially by black populations.
Galway’s African community will celebrate president-elect Obama’s victory at the Obama 2008 Victory - Yes We Can! -Party in Coyotes Late Bar & Club, Forster Street, this Sunday.
Read more ...Tulca review: Jun Nguyen-Hatshushiba
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
AMONG THE featured international artists at this year’s Tulca is Jun Nguyen -Hatsushiba, who was born in Tokyo, raised in the US, and now lives in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City.
Read more ...Jazz music to take over Co Galway
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
GALWAY city and county will be going jazz mad this weekend with the Galway Jazz Festival in the city and the David Lyttle Trio in Clifden, while next week there will be the Red Hot Jazz Joint in Salthill.
Read more ...Galway to host world premiere of new Saw Doctors film
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
THE WORLD premiere of the new Saw Doctors documentary film - Clare Island to Cape Cod - will take place in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday at 5.30pm.
Read more ...Zack and Miri make... a good team and a hit film
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
Zack and Miri are lifelong friends and flatmates who live together in a run-down apartment in Pittsburgh where they work at dull, low-level jobs. As cash-flow problems begin to mount, and their water and electricity gets cut off, they decide (during their high school reunion) to make an adult film as a way of solving their financial problems. As they attempt to keep their personal life and their new professional life separate, however, they discover they might have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.
Read more ...See ET and The Princess Bride in Campbell’s
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
STEVEN SPIELBERG’S classic film ET and the family comedy The Princess Bride will be screened by the Solstice Arts Group at Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, Headford, this Sunday.
In ET, Eliot has an absentee father and a mother who works, leaving him in an empty house. Then he meets an alien who has crashlanded to earth, and Eliot’s life changes forever as he and his alien friend begin an extraordinary journey. ET will be screened at 4pm
Read more ...Movie table quiz night
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
A MOVIE quiz night will take place in The Western House Hotel tomorrow at 9pm to raise funds for the Galway feature film Blood, Sweat and Wars.
Read more ...The Coyote Factor starts tonight
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
THE COYOTE Factor, the new talent contest for Galway city, with €10,000 at stake takes place in Coyotes, Forster Street, tonight at 9pm.
Read more ...Win Declan O’Rourke CDs
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
DECLAN O’ROURKE has released his new album Live and the Galway Advertiser has five copies to give away.
Read more ...You havin’ a laugh?
Thu, Nov 20, 2008
Jarlath Regan, the new face of RTÉ’s The Panel and the fastest rising star of Irish comedy, plays The Comedy Club at Cuba* tomorrow. The Irish Times has called him a “comic genius”. Support is from Bob Hennigan and Marty D. Gerry Mallon is the MC. Tickets are available in advance at Bar 903, The Cellar Bar, and at the door which opens at 8.30pm.
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