Inishbofin summer concerts

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

MICK FLANNERY, Wallis Bird, and Declan O’Rourke are among the leading Irish singer-songwriters who will be making their way to Inisbofin, for the Connemara island's 21st series of summer concerts.

Silence, storytelling, and Stano

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

THE GROUNDBREAKING Irish composer Stano, brings his latest work, 'In Between Silence’, described by New York reviewer Rosie Vaughn as “a masterclass in storytelling”, to the Galway International Arts Festival.

GIAF 17 DJ nights @ Electric

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

BILL BREWSTER, the DJ extraordinaire and human music–encyclopedia, and the enigmatic, Berlin based DJ, Privacy, will be spinning the decks at the Electric Garden & Theatre, as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Get back into acting with Acting 101

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

GALWEGIANS INTERESTED in trying their hand at acting and learning what is involved should check out a new course from the Galway Actors Workshop.

Dermot Kennedy announces Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

DERMOT KENNEDY, the Dublin singer-songwriter Clash magazine called "something special", this week announced dates for a new European tour, which includes a Galway show in October.

GTI creative writing classes

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

THE POETS Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will host a series of creative wiring classes in the Galway Technical Institute, Fr Griffin Road, starting in October.

Arnocorps - Swarzenegger punk

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

THEY BASE all their songs on Arnold Swarzenegger movies and describe their sound as "Action adventure hardcore rock and roll". They are San Francisco metal/punk band Arnocorps.

Rodney Owl - two Galway gigs

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

RODNEY CROWELL is a Grammy award winning Texan country music singer-songwriter, but Rodney Owl is an entirely different proposition altogether as Galway will see at two gigs this month.

Whitewater to play The Quays

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

WHITEWATER, regarded as one of Ireland’s top cover bands, performing at major events, festivals, and venues throughout Ireland and Britain, play The Quays Live tomorrow night.

Tom O'Mahony - firing Buckshot in the Róisín

Tue, Jul 18, 2017

SINCE STARRING in the hit TV comedy series Damo & Ivor as the intolerable toff Tarquin, Tom OMahony has become one of the busiest acts in Ireland. Now he brings his new stand-up show Buckshot, to Galway.

Take a Long Strange Trip with the Grateful Dead

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

THE GRATEFUL Dead's music "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists," said Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye; while Allmusic.com called them, "the ultimate cult band, creating a self-styled universe all their own".

Galway Hearts Festival

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

GALWAY HAS no shortage of festivals, especially in July, and another has just been added to the bill - the Galway Hearts Festival, celebrating the city's original music scene - past and present.

Theatre shows at the Galway Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

AMONG THE many plays worth catching at the fringe is Head Above Water Theatre Company's production of Conor Duffy’s Hound's Hotel, which runs from July 20 to 22 at Seven in Bridgestreet, at 7pm.

Gearoid Farrelly @ Róísín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

HIS COMEDY career began when he entered the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? competition, and took off when he reached the finals. Today he is one of Irish comedy’s most popular acts.

And They Flew V - Fringe exhibition

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

AND THEY Flew V, the annual exhibition by the students of the award-winning artists and teachers Denise Hogan and Gill Christie will be held in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street, as part of the 2017 Galway Fringe Festival.

'I try to create a situation where the onlooker has to ask questions'

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

ONE OF the major visual art shows in this year’s GIAF is Dark Night Of The Soul by Ana Maria Pacheco. A powerful sculptural installation comprising 19 over-life size painted wooden figures, it reworks the story of the fourth century Christian martyr Saint Sebastian to set it in a modern context.

LOAH - GIAF17 gig @ Róísín Dubh

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

SHE IS "a unique talent, a magnetising performer, and any time you see her sing, there’s a palpable sense of a musician on the rise.” So said Nialler9 about Loah, who plays the Róisín Dubh as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Design Island Galway exhibition

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

THE FOURTH Design Island Galway exhibition will present furniture pieces, lighting design, stone sculpture, ceramics, glass, artwork, and fine metalwork, designed and hand built in Ireland.

Meet Fred - the tiny prejudice fighting firebrand

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

FRED IS an anarchic two-foot-tall cloth puppet; a social activist, angry about the injustices he sees in society; and burning with determination to fight prejudice wherever he finds it.

Overhead, The Albatross - GIAF 17 concert

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

THE FIRST three words of the opening lines of Pink Floyd's 'Echoes' are also the moniker for one of Ireland's most ambitious bands, whose music, like the Floyd's, is wide screen, cinematic in scope, heavily atmospheric, and epic.

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