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.

Sonya Kelly's Furniture for Druid Debuts

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

FURNITURE, A new play by Sonya Kelly, has been announced as one of two titles for the Druid Debut series of staged readings at the 2017 Galway International Arts Festival.

Furbo Art 2017

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

THE SECOND annual Furbo Art exhibition returns to the meeting hall of the Furbo Baptist Church, displaying work by 17 professional artists, drawn from the Na Forbacha area and the Baptist congregation.

AGU - Fringe Fest gig @ The Quays

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

SHE HAS been called "one of the most remarkable new singer-songwriters in the Czech Republic" by Milan Tesar in Magazin UNI. Today she is baed in Galway and about to play the Galway Fringe Festival.

Art, Yeah? asks Kinvara

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

ART, YEAH? is an exhibition of work, using a variety of media and exploring a rage of themes, by County Galway artists aged between 16 and 19, opens next week in The Courthouse, Kinvara.

Aimee Banks to sing at Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

AIMEE BANKS, the 15-year-old soprano who shot to fame representing Ireland at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Bulgaria, will give a concert at the Augustinian Church as part of the 2017 Galway Fringe Festival.

GIAF exhibition inspired by Voyager Golden Records

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

GOLDEN RECORD - it can mean the LP included on the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 or an album which has sold more than 500,000 copies in the United States. Both are documents or recorded music, preserved for posterity.

What you might see on the streets

Wed, Jul 12, 2017

FOR ALL the shows taking place in theatres, venues, bars, and even the Big Top, if no events and happenings are taking place on the streets of the city during the arts festival, then it just isn't the arts festival.

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