‘Where I grew up they didn’t teach soul violin, so I combined my two loves’

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE STORY is well known - but only to an extent. Before she became Joan As Policewoman, she was a member of The Dambuilders, Black Beetle, and then Antony and The Johnsons. What is less remarked on, yet perhaps more crucial to her development as an artist and musician, was her time as a classical violinist.

Album review: Jesca Hoop

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2019

IT WAS often said of The Cure's 1982 album Pornography, that after beginning with the words, "It doesn't matter if we all die", it proceeded to get bleaker from there.

Yesterday - imagine if Black Mirror was upbeat and fun

Films Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2019

YESTERDAY IS a kind of a positive feature length episode of Black Mirror - a pretty basic surreal concept but some pretty exciting talent behind the camera in director Danny Boyle, and writer Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill).

Mikaela Davis - the harp, but not as you know it

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

“A LOT of these songs came from feeling stuck and also like people were pulling me in a bunch of different directions. I wanted to say, ‘Just wait for me. I’ll figure it out.’”

An Criú - Macnas artists exhibit on Inis Oírr

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

A GROUP of Macnas artists will hold their second visual art exhibition on Inis Oírr, with An Criú, a "theme-less, aim-less, point-less cross-disciplinary" show of sculpture, painting, video, and sound.

Fíbín appoints new artistic director

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

PHILIP DOHERTY has been appointed artistic director of Fíbín, the theatre group based in Indreabháin, Connemara, which is the country's only Irish language touring drama company.

A film about Big Tom's statue

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

A FILM about the creation of the statue to the late, legendary, Irish country singer, Big Tom, will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh, and it is a documentary with Galway connections.

Galway Fringe Festival 2019

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE 2019 Galway Fringe Festival, which this year celebrates it's ninth anniversary, runs from July 15 to 28, and will host more than 50 events in 15 venues across Galway city.

Finky - a redemptive tale ‘with chainsaws and motorcycles’

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

A SURE-FIRE highlight of the Galway Film Fleadh will be Finky, the locally-made debut feature from writer/director Dathaí Keane, creator of the award-winning series An Klondike.

A jazz night with the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE HISTORY of New Orleans jazz is, in many respects, the early history and origins of jazz itself, and The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys style is resolutely that of The Big Easy.

Enter Éadaín's Enchanted Forest

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE ENCHANTED Forest, an exhibition of oil paintings on canvas by Galway artist Éadaín, is currently running in the Ballybane Public Library, Castlepark Road.

The Big Geraniums - back in Galway

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

AFTER A 21-year hiatus, folk-pop band The Big Geraniums have reformed - with all the original members - to play two special, one-off shows, in Dublin and Galway this month.

Cellists wanted for exhibition

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

GALWAY CELLISTS are being sought to take part in what will be a photographic exhibition that will run in April 2020 as part of Music For Galway new Cellissimo festival, celebrating all things cello.

Grammy winning Pacific Boychoir Academy's debut Galway show

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THREE-TIME Grammy winning US choir, the Pacific Boychoir Academy, are making their debut tour to Ireland, and on the itinerary is a concert in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church this Saturday, July 6.

Galway hosts its first HeartFest during the International Food & Craft Festival

Mon, Jul 01, 2019

Galway will host its first HeartFest in July this year as part of the Galway International Food & Craft Festival. The food festival takes place on 5,6, & 7th July in Salthill Park Galway in a large marquee tent and will feature celebrity chefs such as Nevin Maguire, Rachel Allen and Kevin Dundon.

Kevin Gildea to headline the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

ALONGSIDE BARRY Murphy and Ardal O'Hanlon, Kevin Gildea is one of the godfathers of modern Irish comedy, through their founding of the comedy sketch group Mr Trellis, and Dublin's longest-running comedy club, The Comedy Cellar.

see night - melodic, dreamy, and like the Pixies

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

"CAPTIVATING, SUBTLY gripping, delicately engrossing...Listen closely and you can pick out some shoegaze, a dash of psychedelia, traces of Sonic Youth angst...and melodic sensibilities worthy of the Pixies."

Escaping East Germany in a balloon?

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

IN THE summer of 1979, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families want to escape East Germany to defect to the West, and they plan to do so via a self-constructed hot air balloon.

Brú Theatre's Cleite in Connemara

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

CLEITE, THE site-specific theatre piece which fuses sean nós; the Basel masks of French theatre director Jacques Lecoq, and west of Ireland folklore, will be performed in Connemara next week.

A print exhibition in Oughterard

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

IMPRINT, THE first exhibition of the uachtarARTS Summer Arts Programme for 2019, opens tomorrow, Friday June 28, at 7pm in the Oughterard Courthouse.

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