'The Lake' - Derek Ellard releases new single
Thu, Mar 04, 2021
'THE LAKE', the fifth single in the past 12 months from Galway based singer-songwriter, Derek Ellard, is released on Friday March 5.
Read more ...Manchán Magan and Galway 2020 give new lease of life for forgotten Irish words
Thu, Mar 04, 2021
MANCHÁN MAGAN is best known as a globe trotting adventurer and travel writer, but with the Covid-19 pandemic keeping us all grounded and close to home, Manchán has embarked on a different kind of journey.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' John Patrick McHugh
Wed, Mar 03, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Snug in Tigh Neachtain's with friends and we’re all packed in like sardines.
Young Galway songwriters live and online
Wed, Mar 03, 2021
YOUNG GALWAY singer-songwriters Siobhan Kelleher, Eoin Hardiman, Uisce Jones, and Sorcha Carrick will perform an online gig tomorrow, Friday March 5 at 8pm.
Read more ...‘The sound of the cello, it seems as if it’s coming up from the earth’
Wed, Mar 03, 2021
“THE CELLO can be bass, soprano or alto. Its endpin strikes the ground and it seems as if its power and deep sound are coming up from the earth. When played it lies between the musicians legs and they have to embrace it. It’s a very physical thing, it almost becomes part of their body.”
Read more ...All-star Galway line-up on new Dave Clancy album
Tue, Mar 02, 2021
A HOST of Galway's leading folk and roots musicians are featured on The Path, the debut album from Galway born, Clare based, folk musician, Dave Clancy.
Read more ...Album review: Arab Strap
Music Reviews Tue, Mar 02, 2021
IT OPENS with a song about trying to connect - even if it is not the wisest course of action - with all the odds stacked against you: “Let’s move now before we’re back below.”
Read more ...A swan, a river, and a new lease of life for Kevin Neary
Mon, Mar 01, 2021
IT WAS in the cold, dark, early, hours of a winter morning. He ventured to the waters of the Dublin's River Liffey, "in search of his purpose in life", and there he was "approached and consoled by a friend".
Read more ...A virtual musical trip to Estonia
Mon, Mar 01, 2021
ESTONIA WILL be the next stop on the ConTempo Quartet’s journey through the classical music of the 27 EU member states, as part of its From Europe with Love concert series.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Máire Éilís Ní Fhlatharta
Thu, Feb 25, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Chilling in the sun.
Pure Gold - strangeness and familiarity off the Mayo coast
Thu, Feb 25, 2021
"ABOVE WAS streaked blue, so divinely blue you’d believe in angels, so bright you couldn’t glance at it and not shudder...and amongst this hazy backdrop, I could hear the distant shearing of every make of lawn on the Island."
Read more ...How bogland became portraits of two Connemara icons
Thu, Feb 25, 2021
PORTRÁIDÍ CRIATHRAIGH/Bog Portraits, a film about the creation of landscape installation artwork, where bogland at Ros Muc, is transformed into the faces of two iconic Connemara natives, premiers on Monday March 1.
Read more ...NUI Galway Law Society to celebrate 100th birthday
Thu, Feb 25, 2021
The Student Law Society of NUI Galway will mark the society’s 100th anniversary with a series of virtual events featuring some of the most respected legal minds in Ireland.
Read more ...Galway 2020 secures April extension
Thu, Feb 25, 2021
GALWAY 2020 has secured an extension to allow some events to move into April after Level 5 Government restrictions impacted on cultural events in January and February.
Read more ...Six movies to check out on the new Disney Channel
Wed, Feb 24, 2021
LAUNCHING THIS week on Disney+ is a new channel, simply entitled Disney Channel, which has been hard to miss with the advertising bombardment surrounding it.
Read more ...Glenn Gibson - the ‘accidental artist’
Wed, Feb 24, 2021
IT ALL began in the most unexpected fashion - an artistic career formed by paperclips and enduring long business meetings in the USA.
Read more ...New Galway music - Walk Out
Tue, Feb 23, 2021
WALK OUT, the post-hardcore trio featuring members from Galway and Long Island, has released four new songs across all digital platforms, and is also working on an EP.
Read more ...N.O.A.H release new single with Booka Brass Band
Tue, Feb 23, 2021
'DARKEST HOUR' the new single from the exciting Irish rock band N.O.A.H, and featuring the acclaimed Booka Brass Band, is out now.
Read more ...Jason Byrne headlines as Comedy KARLnival takes a big step forward
Mon, Feb 22, 2021
JASON BYRNE, the man The Times calls "the outright king of live comedy" will headline the next Róisín Dubh online Comedy KARLnival as the show which has kept us laughing through the lockdown, takes a bold step into the future, becoming an online comedy club and a kind of TV show in one.
Read more ...Cellissimo - a music festival for the senses
Mon, Feb 22, 2021
THE SOUND of the cello, a pleasure for the ear and appealing to the heart as the instrument many believe is closest in sound to the human voice, will be at the centre of a new festival for Galway.
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