Final year GMIT art students exhibition

Thu, May 31, 2018

FIFTY-FIVE students of the Centre for Creative Arts and Media at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, are about to host their final year exhibition, featuring ceramics, sculpture, textiles, print, and painting.

Deirdre does A Line Of O'Kane

Thu, May 31, 2018

FOOTLOOSE FROM her turn on Dancing With The Stars, and revelling in her return to stand-up, Deirdre O'Kane, who also enjoyed acclaim for her roles in Nobel and Moone Boy, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre.

UB40 to headline Fever Pitch music festival

Thu, May 31, 2018

UB40, THE long running British reggae band, best known for the songs 'Red, Red, Wine' and 'Breakfast In Bed', headline the Fever Pitch music festival on Sunday, with Rudimental headlining on Saturday.

Tory Irvine gets set to T H R I V E

Thu, May 31, 2018

T H R I V E, an exhibition by the abstract artist Tory Irvine, whose work focusses on emotional health, will open next week in the Arts Corridor at University Hospital Galway.

The ‘delicate nastiness’ of James Joyce’s Furey

Thu, May 31, 2018

AHEAD OF Bloomsday, County Galway publishing house Doire Press will hold the launch of a new poetry collection, Furey, by James Joyce. The Joyce in question is not the author of Ulysses but Galway’s own James Martyn Joyce, and the collection revolves around the vivid, memorable, persona of Furey.

Ryan Vail plays Strange Brew tonight

Thu, May 31, 2018

RYAN VAIL, twice nominated for the Northern Ireland Music Prize, will bring his acclaimed fusion of electronica and modern classical music to Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tonight at 9pm.

Pat Flannery's solo Discovery

Thu, May 31, 2018

DISCOVERY, THE new exhibition by Galway artist Pat Flannery, fearturing works concentrating on nature, particularly the animal and floral world, opens tomorrow in The Renzo Gallery Café on Eyre Street.

Rob Wade to play Monroe's Live

Thu, May 31, 2018

ROB WADE, the award-winning Galway singer-songwriter, with a distinctly urban sound, who recently released the new single ‘Living In The Moment’, plays Monroe's in June.

Life Buoy - an exhibition in Kinvara

Thu, May 31, 2018

LIFE BUOY, an exhibition by the experimental artist Kristy Verenga, featuring works in oil and encaustic, as well as sculpture, photomontage, and photographs, is about to open in KAVA.

Seán Keane contines An Taibhdhearc residency

Thu, May 31, 2018

SEÁN KEANE, one of Ireland's finest and most admired folk singers, continues his Monday night residency at An Taibhdhearc, with shows taking place across June and August.

'Mitch presents...' Javi Frias

Thu, May 31, 2018

JAVI FRIAS, passionate record collector, selector, and one of the most respected DJs and producers in the underground disco scene, is coming to Electric to headline the latest 'Mitch presents...' night.

Seo Linn - young, high energy, Irish trad

Thu, May 31, 2018

CROKE PARK, The 3Arena, Aviva Stadium, Board Gáis Energy Theatre, headlining Vicar Street, 32 million views on YouTube and, gigs in New York, Melbourne, Boston, London, Paris, Edinburgh, and Uganda - Seo Linn have done it all.

Úna Keane - Galway gig

Thu, May 31, 2018

ÚNA KEANE, whose minimalist piano music, incorporating live visuals, field recordings, and soundscapes, is coming back to Galway to play the Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street.

Music and snow in June?

Thu, May 31, 2018

DESPITE THE weather having improved notably over recent days, Galway can expect a touch of snow in the first week of June, at the next Galway Music Residency's Music & Musings concert.

Dott release new single 'Bleached Blonde'

Wed, May 30, 2018

DOTT, ONE of Galway's most exciting bands are back with a new single, 'Bleached Blonde', the follow-up to their powerful Repeal the Eighth anthem 'Got A Girl', featuring a wonderful new video about a young girl realising her ambitions.

Three women go Over The Edge

Wed, May 30, 2018

THE WRITERS Anne Walsh Donnelly, Jessamine O’Connor, and Jacqueline Saphra, will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading, which will also see the launch of issue 10 of poetry paper Skylight 47.

'We as women artists assert our rights...'

Tue, May 29, 2018

FOLLOWING THE emphatic victory of the Yes side in last weekend's referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment, a new exhibition will explore female corporeality, autonomy, strength, and vulnerability.

Javi Frias plays Mitch Presents @ The Garden, Electric - June 2nd!

Tue, May 29, 2018

Javi Frias is one of the most respected DJ and producer in the underground disco scene. He began to buy and play records at the end of the nineties in Madrid, his hometown, and since then he has not stopped traveling with his bag through many venues all around his country and Europe, being part festivals like Baltic Soul Weekender in Germany, Contre-Temps in France, Electrosplash, Heineken Jazzaldia, Imagina Funk or Veranos de la Villa in Spain, and usually performing in clubs and events in cities like Barcelona, Paris, Hamburg, Bilbao, Antwerp, Palma de Mallorca, Milan, Granada or Basel.

'Songs are a wonderful way to deliver intimate emotions'

Thu, May 24, 2018

STEEPED IN the culture of his native Middle East, Israeli lutenist Ziv Braha is also a man very much at home with English Renaissance music. He is about to make his Galway debut, playing the Galway Early Music Festival this weekend, but his journey to classical and early music began in a most unexpected way.

Two world premieres, two new plays, from Druid

Thu, May 24, 2018

THE MICK Lally Theatre on Druid Lane will be a hub for new work during the Galway International Arts Festival, presenting new plays, featuring leading actors, in several daily performances over 17 days.

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