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.

IGNITE Gospel Choir Christmas concert

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

THE IGNITE Gospel Choir holds its annual Christmas concert in St Josephs' Church, Presentation Road, on Friday December 22 at 8pm and Saturday 23 at 4pm, and will raise funds for the ME/CFS Association.

Lighting up Galways Westend!!

Tue, Nov 28, 2017

City neighbourhood turns on Christmas lights this Friday!

Album review: Morrissey

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 23, 2017

MOZZER HAS never been afraid to speak his mind, but recent pronouncements on Brexit, UKIP, and Harvey Weinstein, have, to put it mildly, left many fans (including this one) shaking their heads at the lack of wisdom on display.

Declan O'Rourke - Famine songs at the Black Box

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

IT IS A project 15 years in the making, and the realisation of a long held ambition, to chronicle in song the devastating disaster of The Great Famine, and its impact on the lives of those who experienced it.

Peter Kennedy to launch new children's books

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

PETER KENNEDY, the Belfastman who has been playing the Renmore Panto's pantomime dame for the past 14 years, and writing its scripts for 12 years, is about to launch his latest venture - children's books.

David O’Doherty hits the Big Time

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

DAVID O'DOHERTY – the Ryanair Enya, the Aldi Bublé – returns to Galway with his show Big Time, an hour of talking, songs, and high good humour.

Fran McCann is Almost There!

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

FRAN MCCANN'S ART might owe more to Myles Davis or John Coltrane than to any visual artist. It can be seen in his subject matter, and in his method - a painter's equivalent of a jazz's spontaneous riffs and improvised chords.

Snámh na Saoirse

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

AN TAIBHDHEARC is set to host Snámh na Saoirse, an imaginative play by Róisín Sheehy, which fuses dance, drama, and music. This is Sheehy’s debut work for theatre and is a poetic re-telling of a tragic drowning which occurred off the Great Blasket Island in 1909.

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