Artist Fiona Concannon to hit this years Christmas market!

Wed, Dec 06, 2017

FIONA CONCANNON, a professional artist from Spiddal, Is currently working on a series of Watercolour Paintings which capture the beauty of the West of Ireland.

Award winning writers announced to read at Cúirt

Wed, Dec 06, 2017

Winter’s Bone author and acclaimed American ‘country noir’ novelist, Daniel Woodrell; Pulitzer Prize-Winning American poet, Jorie Graham; and award winning Irish author Bernard MacLaverty, will all read at next year's Cúirt festival.

The Best Galway Songs of 2017

Essential Playlist Tue, Dec 05, 2017

THE PAST 12 months have been among the most fertile, creative, and exciting in Galway music for many years. The wealth of talent both produced by Galway city and county has been witnessed by the numerous albums, singles, and EP Galway acts have released in 2017 - much of it of very high quality.

'This music is beyond nostalgic'

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

IN THE 1960s they were a British blues-rock band who pointed the way towards heavy metal. In the 1970s they were an Anglo-American supergroup, part of the cocaine rock set, creating multi-million selling albums; in the 1980s they were mum and dad rock for sophisticated older listeners.

Baboró to host Wide Eyes festival for babies and young children

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

More than 100 arts professionals from 15 European countries will arrive in Galway this coming February for Wide Eyes, a four day festival of theatre and dance shows for babies and young children.

Galway City Art Gallery's winter arts fair

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

THE HARBOUR Winter Arts fair, a showcase of contemporary art by Irish and international artists, hosted by The Galway City Gallery, officially opens on Fridau December 1.

Alan McMonagle and Moya Roddy in conversation

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

THE WRITERS Alan McMonagle and Moya Roddy will speak about their work and discuss 'What is imagination?', at Scrutable, a literary event taking place in The Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street.

Dirtbirds - internet sensation on stage in Galway

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

DIRTBIRDS, THE Irish sketch comedy duo and internet sensation, are coming out from behind the cameras, the laptops, and smartphones, and are hitting the stages around Ireland.

Album review: Neil Young + Promise Of The Real

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 30, 2017

LIKE 2006's Living With War, this is Shakey's immediate response to current events. Whereas the latter album was about the Bush presidency and the 'War On Terror', The Visitor centres on Trump's first year in office.

Rusangano Family - Róisín Dubh and all-ages show

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

WHAT A year it has been for the Rusangano Family - winning the Choice Music Prize for Best Album with their debut, Let the Dead Bury The Dead; playing the Luminato, Shambala, and Electric Picnic festivals; and releasing the singles ‘I Know You Know’ and ‘Tea In A Pot’.

Ros na Rún’s Ann Marie Horan set to release debut album

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

WHAT HAPPENS when an actress hits a mid-life crisis and things start to unravel? Does she buy a Harley-Davidson and join a gang of burly bikers burning up Route 66? Or does she get a part in a TV drama series and go instead on an inner adventure that yields up unexpected treasures?

Music business course in Galway

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

THOSE INTERESTED in developing a career in the music industry should check out the new music business course coming to Galway in the New Year.

A Christmas Carol at The Mick Lally Theatre

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

ONE OF the greatest stories ever written about Christmas, and also one of the most influential, reinterpreted, and best loved, is Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a new production of which will be staged in Galway.

Cinderella is this year's Limerick panto

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

MAGIC, ROMANCE, a feisty heroine, a handsome prince, dubious sisters in need of a beauty blogger boot camp, chart hits, and hilarity will combine in Cinderella, this year's SPAR Panto at the University Concert Hall, Limerick.

Handel's Messiah in Galway Cathedral

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

HANDEL'S MESSIAH will forever have a place in the hearts and minds of Irish classical music enthusiasts as the work was premiered in Ireland, being performed as a charity fundraiser in Fishamble Street Hall, Dublin, in April 1742.

First Galway Dimebag Darrell Anniversary Show

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

DIMEBAG DARRELL, co-founder of Panthera, the Texan band who kept the metal flag flying in the 1990s when others in the genre appeared to have lost their way - and one of metal's most admired guitarists, will be remembered in Galway next week.

Elvana - Elvis fronting Nirvana

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

A JUMP suited, bearded, Elvis impersonator, fronting a band of dickie bow wearing musicians, playing Nirvana's music in the style of Las Vegas era Elvis Presley! As an idea, it is beyond bizarre.

Citóg fundraiser for Galway Simon

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

CITÓG RECORDS, home to some of the most creative and exciting bands and solo artists in Galway, and a key player in the revival of the city's music scene, host a fundraising concert for the Galway Simon Community.

Damien Dempsey - Galway concert in December

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

DAMIEN DEMPSEY, described by The Guardian as "one of Ireland’s great singer-songwriters" and by The Daily Express as "one astonishingly gifted individual", returns to Galway in December.

Phil Coulter returns to the Town Hall

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

PHIL COULTER - who has written songs for Van Morrison, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, and Luke Kelly - makes a welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 8pm.

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