Two by Two: Overboard! - Galway animated film proves a big hit
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
TWO BY Two: Overboard!, produced by Galway animation company Moetion Films, and featuring a new song from Galway composer Eimear Noone, is in cinemas now.
Read more ...Galway Advertiser's Galway Musicians of the Year 2020
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
THIS YEAR has, as Stephen Fry noted at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, been "a very dark time for the performing arts". A sector so reliant on human interaction; the gathering together of people; and which lives on the shared experience, remains one of the most profoundly affected, and curtailed, areas of life and activity.
Read more ...New Year online creative writing classes
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
IT IS said everyone has a book in them, or perhaps a poem, or a short story. Whichever it may be, if getting it onto paper is your ambition for 2021, then a new series of classes will help.
Read more ...A gig every evening from the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
MARY COUGHLAN, Tracy Bruen, Daithí, and John Conneely Inc, are just some of the singers and musicians Galway will be able to enjoy this Christmas in a series of streamed gigs from the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Baboró unveils plans for 2021 festival
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
This year is not yet over, and 2021 is likely to remain a time of uncertainty, but with all things arts and culture, "the show must go on", and the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children has already unveiled plans for its next festival.
Read more ...The worker's voice in prose
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
“THE COOKS, the cleaners, the porters: unsung heroes on the frontline” was one of the most memorable headlines to appear in an Irish newspaper this year - and perhaps the most pointedly accurate.
Read more ...Livefeed youth music project to stream Christmas concert
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
A LIVE music concert, featuring young musicians from Galway, Gort, Kinvara, Headford, Tuam, and Loughrea, will be broadcast from Nuns Island Theatre this month.
Read more ...The Curly Organ to play Hibernacle Online Festival
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
DONAL MCCONNON, of Galway prog-folk band My Fellow Sponges and the solo act, The Curly Organ, will join Lisa Hannigan, Paul Noonan, Saint Sister, and others at the Hibernacle festival.
Read more ...The Nutcracker - live from the Town Hall
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
THE NUTCRACKER, one of Tchaikovsky’s great compositions, featuring some of classical music's most popular and loved scores, will be presented as a family concert this weekend.
Read more ...A rock'n'roll Christmas family show
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
CLEAR SOME space in the living room and get ready to rock around the Christmas tree as Galway's Branar Téatar do Pháistí present Rockin' Christmas Rhymes.
Read more ...We Banjo 3 - live online across Ireland and the US
Tue, Dec 15, 2020
A WINTER Wonderful, a Christmas show hosted by We Banjo 3, the Galway bluegrass/folk sensation, takes place this Saturday, December 18, broadcasting at 1pm Irish time and 8pm in the USA.
Read more ...Galway's Danny Darcy releases new single
Tue, Dec 15, 2020
DANNY DARCY, the Galway born singer-songwriter, has this week released his new single, 'Jerusalem Is Calling', and his third album is in the works as well.
Read more ...Joe Rooney and a Christmas comedy cabaret
Mon, Dec 14, 2020
LAUGHTER AND craic in the (socially distanced) company of other people awaits on Tuesday, December 15, when Joe Rooney of Father Ted and Kilnascully fame, performs at Massimo.
Read more ...Padraig Jack - live from An Taibhdhearc
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
PADRAIG JACK, described by Hot Press as "one of Ireland’s most exciting emerging folk artists", will play a special live streamed concert from An Taibhdhearc this Sunday, December 13, at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Why are theatres still closed, while cinemas and galleries re-open?
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
LAST WEEK, as retailers, restaurateurs, beauty, health and fitness businesses began to resume at the new Level 3, theatre spaces around Ireland remained closed, causing confusion and dismay among the arts sector.
Read more ...EP review: Shygirl
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 10, 2020
OSCAR WILDE noted that if you wanted someone to tell you the truth, let them wear a mask, the creation of an alter-ego allowing them a confidence they may otherwise not have.
Read more ...‘We’re continuing Gilgamesh, making it work in a different way’
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
“SHE’S SOME woman for one woman” is a phrase that can very easily be applied to Macnas artistic director Noeline Kavanagh, who also embodies that old adage, “The show must go on.”
Read more ...'Getting To Know...'
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A delicious dinner and a few drinks with my partner and friends, before a gig in Róisín Dubh. Maybe next year.
Rhiannon Giddens to join Galway Early Music Festival's online birthday celebrations
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
RHIANNON GIDDENS, one of the most significant forces in contemporary American folk and traditional music, will be among those appearing in Galway Early Music Festival's Drive The Cold Winter Away event.
Read more ...The Opacas release new single - 'We Won’t Look Back'
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
'WE WON'T Look Back’ a sweeping power-ballad about resilience, and getting back on the right path after a setback, is the third single from Galway/Leeds virtual band The Opacas.
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