Blur tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

THEY ARE the only Blur tribute act in the world endorsed by the band themselves. They headlined Hyde Park on the closing night of the 2012 Olympics. Now they are coming to Monroe's Live.

Calling all young and aspiring Galway documentary makers

Wed, Jun 21, 2017

DIG WHERE You Stand, a new funding scheme for young documentary filmmakers in Galway city and county, operated by the Galway Film Centre, is seeking applicants to create short films set in Galway.

First wave of acts announced for Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway 2017

Tue, Jun 20, 2017

JON RICHARDSON, Al Porter, Katy Brand, and Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Patton Oswalt - on their own that would be an impressive array of headline comedy acts, but they are only the first wave of performers announced for the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway 2017.

Sex, wire, wood, junk and jollity

Art Reviews Tue, Jun 20, 2017

SCULPTURE AND sex, wire and wood, junk and jollity, all combine to lively and pleasurable effect in the Town Hall bar’s art exhibition by Margaret Nolan and James Fleming.

The 2017 Galway Garden Festival - 1st and 2nd July at Claregalway Castle with, Music, Street Theatre, Food, Craft and a Medieval Tournament.

Mon, Jun 19, 2017

The 2017 Galway Garden Festival will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd July, at Claregalway Castle. This will be the 8th year of an uniquely charming garden event which caters for specialist and eclectic tastes.

'It’s a huge thrill for myself and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to go to Galway'

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

AMONG THE array of exciting gigs at the Absolut Big Top during the Galway International Arts Festival is A Night At The Proms with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Entitled Viva America!, the programme offers a pan-American celebration of some of the finest and most colourful orchestral music from that continent.

The 48 Hour Challenge for film

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

THE LITTLE Cinema and Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge takes place tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday with filmmakers coming to the city to write, shoot, and edit their films in just 48 hours.

Galway music and musicians @ GIAF 2017

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

SOME of Galway's best comedians, singer-songwriters, electro bands, and DJs will share the stage with headline acts at this summer's Galway International Arts Festival.

Album review: Can

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 15, 2017

TWO MEMBERS studied under avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen; another was a jazz drummer who loved Stax soul; their youngest member was a gifted guitarist and violinist; their vocalist was a free spirit from Japan.

Three people walk into a Comedy Clubh...

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

"A NIGERIAN, a Corkonian, and a Human Woman walk into a bar..." This is not the start of a joke. It is a partial description of who is playing the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow.

Galway Fringe Festival reveals line-up

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

THE GALWAY Fringe Festival has revealed its programme for this year’s event which runs from July 15 to 30. The Fringe is celebrating its sixth birthday and is set to be the largest the city has seen yet, with more than 100 events, including theatre, visual art, poetry, music, comedy, street spectacles, spoken word, and children’s events, across 18 venues.

We need more women in electronic music

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

GALWAY WOMEN, female identifying, and the LGBTQ community are encouraged to take part in this weekend's DJ and production workshops n the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street.

SAD13 - a night of Feminist indie-rock

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

"IT'S VERY strange that most of the music we funnel into little girls’ ears - even music written by former little girls - is about how women are petty, pretty garbage, whose only valuable function is to hold perfectly still in men’s boudoirs and wait for intercourse."

Colm Tóibín - a classic menagerie

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 15, 2017

THE OPENING paragraph of Colm Tóibín’s new novel House Of Names is a surprise: “I have been acquainted with the smell of death...So much has slipped away, but the smell of death lingers. Maybe the smell has entered my body and been welcomed there like an old friend come to visit. The smell of fear and panic."

The Clockworks - live in the city

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

THE CLOCKWORKS, one of the most impressive young Galway bands on the scene today, who have released a number of promising singles, play The Cellar this weekend.

Creative writing course for young people

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

DANI GILL, author of the poetry collection After Love, and the former director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, is to host a creative writing seminar for teenagers.

Rising Appalachia - two sisters and a world of folk music

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

BORN AND raised in Atlanta, Georgia, with a soul and sound yearning for the mountains and music of Appalachia, and the hard work put in on the streets of New Orleans - this is Rising Appalachia.

Galway International Arts Festival seeks volunteers

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

GALWAY INTERNATIONAL Arts Festival is recruiting volunteers for its 2017 programme of events, running from July 17 to 30, to help with venue invigilation, production, marketing, stewarding, crowd management, administration, and information services.

US choir and orchestra to play two Galway concerts

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT Hill Academy Youth Choral and Orchestral Ensemble from Philadelphia will play two concerts - one in Galway city and the other in Connemara.

The Club Workout @ HALO

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

CLUBBING NEEDS music to dance to. Fitness classes need music for rhythm and routine. So why not have the fun of the former and the fitness inducing of the latter in one place at the same time?

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