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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...‘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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...'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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
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