Charlie Adley’s Craft of Writing course

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

GALWAY WRITER Charlie Adley’s popular Craft of Writing Course returns in April and is open to anyone who wants to improve their writing skills, from beginners to published novelists.

Kris Drever and Julie Fowlis to play Clifden

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

TWO GIANTS of modern folk music, Kris Driver, called "a serious talent" by MOJO, and award winning Scots-Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, play Clifden to kick-starting a programme of events to mark 40 years of the Clifden Arts Festival.

James McMurtry - 'I get the stories from the characters'

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

STEPHEN KING has called him ‘the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation’, Rolling Stone hailed his most recent album, Complicated Game, as an "Americana masterpiece", while Voice of America declared he "writes songs filled with characters so real that you're sure they're going to climb out of the speakers and look you in the eyes."

Show Me The Funny - Heat 2

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

THE SECOND heat of Show Me The Funny takes place on Monday January 23 at 8pm in The King's Head with special guest John Colleary, best known for his work on Savage Eye.

Jazz, avant garde, and improvisation

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

THE PIANIST Izumi Kimura will be joined by the percussionist Gerry Hemingway for a concert of jazz, avant garde, and improvisational music entitled 'Thought Bubbles'.

Catch Baile an Salsa ahead of their US tour

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

BAILE AN Salsa, the Irish based international band who fuse Irish trad with the musics of Latin America, are about to embark on a tour of the USA which means their upcoming Galway show is the last chance to catch them for a while.

Sing with the St Nicholas Singers for Candlemas

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

DESPITE WHAT many think, January 6 is not the end of the Christmas season, its official close is February 2 and the often overlooked event of Candlemas - the Feast of the Purification, or Feast of the Presentation.

Something to Sing About Choir concert

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

GALWAY'S SOMETHING To Sing About Choir will host a concert this Saturday in the Salthill Hotel, with special guests Marc Roberts, Emma Langford, Richie Byrne, and Maria and Kenny Fahy.

Weekend gigs @ The Quays

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

THE QUAYS is hosting gigs by some of Galway and Ireland's most popular covers bands this weekend, and the venue is also running an offer of free entry to gigs on Fridays and Sundays.

John Jennings' Q.R.KEY exhibition

Wed, Jan 18, 2017

QR CODES - the little black and white boxes on the bottom of adverts and billboards - are a common sight, but while they are mostly an advertising tool, one Galway artist uses them for his art.

Therapy? - Live and...mellowed out?

Tue, Jan 17, 2017

THERAPY? THE Antrim trio who blazed a trail across the Irish and British music scenes with their loud, lively, and frantic punk/metal, often with a tasty dollop of melody, tour Ireland this year - but fans are going to see and hear the band in a very different context.

Simon Armitage to read at Cúirt 2017

Mon, Jan 16, 2017

SIMON ARMITAGE, one of England's leading and most popular poets, will read from his work at this year's Cúirt International Festival of Literature, which takes place from Sunday April 23 to Sunday 30.

'A great celebration of youth'

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

PRODIGY, THIS year’s Music for Galway midwinter festival, will feature amazing music by brilliant prodigies from history like Mozart, Mendelssohn, Mahler, and Prokofiev, as well as present-day wunderkind Alma Deutscher, who will be making her Irish debut.

Album review: The Flaming Lips

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 12, 2017

NEVER DID I think I would see the day that the show stealing track on a Flaming Lips album would be the one chiefly sung by Miley Cirus, but then Miley long stopped being predictable.

Otherkin - 'Straight in, no kissing'

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

"WE WANT our records to be punchy, lean, and blazing. Straight in, no kissing." So declare Dublin grunge-pop/garage rock band Otherkin who The Independent call "a big mass of energy...who write hugely infectious tracks".

NoRopes stages Irish premiere of Kate Tempest's Wasted

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

PERFORMANCE POET Kate Tempest has been one of the most exciting and acclaimed new voices to emerge in Britain over the past decade, and Galway’s NoRopes Theatre Company is about to present the Irish premiere of her high-octane play, Wasted, directed by Mairéad Folan.

Pokémon voice actor to attend Akumakon 2017

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

ERIC STUART, the voice of Brock and James from Pokémon, and Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh!, will be the special guest at Akumakon, Galway's annual festival of Japanese culture, anime, and manga, which takes place in NUI Galway next weekend.

Subtitle European Film Festival comes to Town Hall

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

WITH THE increasing popularity of Scandinavian, French, and German drama series among English speaking audiences, more and more people are open to and curious to check out films that are not in the English language.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh - Steve's last, for now

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

STEVE BENNETT will host his final Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh show - for the time being - tomorrow night [Friday January 13] , before he takes a trip 'down under' to perform at Australia's Perth and Adelaide comedy festivals.

Galway Music Centre - new education and support project launched

Thu, Jan 12, 2017

THE GALWAY Music Centre, a collaborative project to enhance music education and performance facilities and services, and to develop "coordinated and community-based supports" for music, was launched this week.

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