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.

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.

3 Kinds of Music - a one-day digital music festival

Thu, Dec 10, 2020

3 KINDS Of Music, Galway city's multi-genre concert series which treated audiences to classical, jazz, and folk/trad on Saturdays is back with a special online edition this weekend.

Taobh le Taobh - songs as Gaeilge

Thu, Dec 10, 2020

THE ROAD to Taobh le Taobh, the new EP from two stalwarts of the Galway music scene - Pádraic 'Joycey' Seoighe and Niall Teague - began somewhat by chance one day in 2018.

A Wiser Girl – new novel from Moya Roddy

Wed, Dec 09, 2020

IT IS 1975. Second Wave Feminism is in full flow and a young woman, escaping a failed relationship, travels to Italy to make her dream of becoming an artist a reality.

Film review: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Films Reviews Tue, Dec 08, 2020

THIS WEEK sees Netflix release another Oscar hopeful - a filmed version of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, with Viola Davis in the title role.

Cúirt Festival announces 2021 dates

Mon, Dec 07, 2020

GALWAY'S LITERARY festival, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature has announced the dates for its 2021 festival, which will take place between Wednesday April 21 and Sunday 25.

Fantasy, mediaeval France, and a skylark

Mon, Dec 07, 2020

NINA ORAM, the author of the young adult fiction trilogy, The Carrowkeel Series, will be among the featured readers at next week's Over The Edge: Open Reading.

New exhibition from Jin Yong

Thu, Dec 03, 2020

JIN YONG, the Galway based, Chinese artist, whose work is noted for its strong, and striking use of colour and imaginative depictions of animals, is currently exhibiting in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

‘It’s about keeping live music alive‘

Thu, Dec 03, 2020

VLADIMIR JABLOKOV’S 2020 captures many of the ups and downs, the obvious lows, and unexpected highs of this strange year, but above all, it encapsulates the sheer resilience of the arts in the face of the pandemic and lockdown.

Claddagh School of Music to hold live-streamed concert for Simon

Thu, Dec 03, 2020

The Claddagh School of Music is inviting people from across Ireland, and abroad, to join in a special live streamed Christmas concert which will raise funds for the Simon Community.

'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Dec 03, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sitting in a café or pub, reading a book, having a coffee, waiting for a friend to arrive.

Helen Hancock's charity classical concert for Simon

Thu, Dec 03, 2020

A VIRTUAL evening of opera, oratorio, chamber music, and festive favourites, in aid of Galway Simon Community, takes place this weekend in the company of Oranmore soprano Helen Hancock.

Lions Club to auction work by leading Galway artist

Thu, Dec 03, 2020

An atmospheric landscape by Joan Hogan, one of Galway’s leading artists, will be auctioned by the Lions Club tomorrow.

Rusted Rail releases new Songs of Green Pheasant album

Thu, Dec 03, 2020

WHEN THE Weather changes, the first new album in almost a decade from singer-songwriter Songs of Green Pheasant, is released tomorrow, Friday December 4, via the independent Galway label, Rusted Rail.

Film Review: Mank

Films Reviews Tue, Dec 01, 2020

NETFLIX HAS two big budget prestige films out this month - Hillbilly Elegy, traditional Oscar bait and frankly one of the worst films I have seen this year; and Mank, from director David Fincher, which is a Hollywood biopic, traditionally a genre that does well at award season.

Sean Keane - new single and Town Hall show

Mon, Nov 30, 2020

SEAN KEANE, one of Galway's finest, and best loved singers, this week released his new single, 'I'll Be There', ahead of his virtual Town Hall Theatre show later this month.

A darkly humorous look at surviving 2020

Thu, Nov 26, 2020

COME THE end of the year, the question will not be, "How was 2020 for you?", but rather "How did you get through 2020?" In his new book, Galway poet Kevin Higgins will provide his answer.

'Bare Feet on Grass' - The Raines release new single

Thu, Nov 26, 2020

'BARE FEET On Grass’, the new single from The Raines, the Galway folk 'supergroup' of Yvonne Tiernan, Ruth Dillon, and Juliana Erkkonen, is a poignant, yet hopeful song inspired by the Covid-19 lockdown.