The Academic return to the Big Top next summer

Mon, Dec 09, 2019

FOR THE second year running, The Academic will headline the Galway International Arts Festival's Heineken Big Top in the Fisheries Field, with a concert on Friday July 24.

Album review: The Flaming Lips

Music Reviews Thu, Dec 05, 2019

THE LIVE album is very much a 1970s creature. In a time when your favourite band was unlikely to come to your town, it allowed you the vicarious thrill of 'almost being there' once the needle hit the vinyl.

Steve Bennett to headline the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

STEVE BENNETT, resplendent in wildman beard, and armed with his trusty ukulele, will headline the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh Comedy on Tuesday December 10.

Druid 2020 - Chekhov and a Galway tour of Irish plays

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

CHEKHOV'S MASTERPIECE The Cherry Orchard, and a tour of Galway as part of the 2020 Capital of Culture events, featuring one-act plays by Lady Gregory and Seán O’Casey, make up Druid's programme of events for next year.

Daithi - full live show at Electric

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

DAITHÍ IS set to cap off another year of triumphant artistic evolution, which saw the release of his superb second album, L.O.S.S., with a show at Electric next week.

A Christmas Carol with the St Patrick's Brass Band

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

CHARLES DICKENS' A Christmas Carol has enjoyed countless adaptations for stage and screen, and been copied and re-imagined numerous times since it was first published in 1843.

Exhibition inspired by Salthill's Circle of Life garden

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

THE ARTIST Angeline Cooke will hold an exhibition of her latest paintings in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street, with proceeds from sales of the works going to the Strange Boat Donor Foundation.

'We've always instinctively explored new territory'

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

THIS FINAL month of 2019 is a time of looking back and looking forward, a period of trepidation, but also one of determined optimism, for And So I Watch You From Afar as they celebrate a milestone, and await the impending fall-out from Brexit.

Knives Out - a great whodunit in the Agatha Christie mould

Films Reviews Thu, Dec 05, 2019

DIRECTOR RHIAN Johnson has made some of my favourite films of recent years, but while his last film was a Star Wars, his best work has always been his own scripts, particularly his spin on film noir with 2005’s Brick.

Neil Delemare - End Of Watch

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

NEIL DELAMERE makes his annual New Year pilgrimage to Galway to performs his new show, End Of Watch, in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday January 16 at 8pm.

Branar's 'magical' ’Twas The Night Before Christmas'

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

"'TWAS THE night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there..."

Talos plays Róisín Dubh this month

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

TALOS - aka Corkonian Eoin French - can look back on the past 12 months with pride as they have seen him grow as a musician, while his popular and critical standing have reached new heights.

Ger Staunton - first Galway solo show

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

GER STAUNTON brings his deadpan, West of Ireland humour, to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night, for what will be his first Galway solo show.

Keith Barry - Insanity in January

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

INSANITY, BILLED as Keith Barry's "most daring and audacious show to date", is going on tour across Ireland, and will come to the Black Box Theatre on Friday January 3 and Saturday January 4.

Hear the harmony driven sound of The Raines

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

THEY ARE long standing members of Galway's folk music scene, but it is only recently, after a get together on Inis Óirr, that Yvonne Tiernan, Ruth Dillon, and Juliana Erkkonen have joined forces as The Raines.

Owen Colgan - On The Dry

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

OWEN COLGAN, the Irish cult comedy hero, best known for his role as Buzz McDonnell in Hardy Bucks, brings his new show, On The Dry, to Galway in the new year.

Corrib Dance Academy go Over The Rainbow

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

OVER THE Rainbow, a dance show inspired by the much loved classic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre by the Corrib Dance Academy.

Hermitage Green to play Black Box

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

AS 2019 draws to a close, and ahead of their new album, due to be released in 2020, Hermitage Green return to Galway to play the Black Box Theatre on Saturday December 14 at 7.30pm.

Galway Baroque Singers in concert

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers will present Let There Be Light, a concert of Christmas and classical music on Friday December 13 at 8pm in St Joseph’s Church, Presentation Road.

Christmas crooning at the Town Hall

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

CHRISTMAS CROONERS, a night of festive favourites and Christmas hits, made famous by Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra, will be heard at the Town Hall Theatre.

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