The Deans - new EP and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

THE DEANS, the acclaimed County Galway roots-rock trio, return to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday December 27 at 8pm, for a show that will include songs from their latest EP.

Be held Captive by Music For Galway

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

MUSIC INSPIRED by what it would be like to be an alien stranded on earth, music inspired by Oscar Wilde, and music that written in a WWII POW camp, will make up Captive, 2016's Music For Galway's mid-winter festival.

Kíla to play Monroe's Live

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

KÍLA, the Irish trad and world music fusion masters, make a welcome return to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Monday December 28 at 10pm.

Choral and classical concerts for Christmas

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

CHARITY CONCERTS from the Galway Gospel Choir and Cois Cladaigh are taking place this weekend, as is a concert from the ever wonderful Galway Youth Orchestra.

Citóg Records COPE Galway fundraising gig

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

STEVEN SHARPE & The Broke Straight Boys and Grounds For Invasion will take part in the Citóg Records fundraising show for COPE Galway this weekend.

Keane Brothers New Year concerts

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

SEAN KEANE and his brothers, known as both The Keane Brothers and Citizens Keane, give their annual New Year concerts at the Claregalway Hotel on Friday January 1 and Saturday 2 2016.

A concert for the children of Peru

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

MY FELLOW Sponges lead singer Donal McConnon, along with Brazilian and Galway musicians, will perform at the , concert this evening.

Monroe’s Live New Year’s Eve bash

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

THE LAKERS and DJ Macca will ring out 2015 and welcome in 2016 with the Monroe’s Live New Year’s Eve bash on Thursday December 31 from 9pm.

Thrash Hat - ASIWYFA man goes electro

Wed, Dec 16, 2015

AND SO I Watch You From Afar have, through the albums All Hail Bright Futures and Heirs, rewritten the rule book on post-rock, kicking the genre out of the clichéd strait-jacket it had fallen into, and thrusting it towards new possibilities.

DruidShakespeare documentary to be broadcast on RTÉ tonight

Tue, Dec 15, 2015

DRUID THEATRE Company's ambitious and hugely successful DruidShakespeare project will be the subject of a documentary which will be broadcast tonight [Tuesday December 15] at 10.15pm on RTÉ One.

Reginald D Hunter - back in Galway in 2016

Tue, Dec 15, 2015

PROVOCATIVE, CONTROVERSIAL, insightful, challenging, and blisteringly funny, Reginald D Hunter is coming back to Galway next year with his new show, The Aluminum Negro.

Listen to stream of new album by New Pope

Essential Playlist Tue, Dec 15, 2015

NEW POPE, the indie-folk solo project of singer-songwriter David Boland, has released a new album, Youth. All songs on the seven-track album were written by David. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Eoin Dolan at College Road, Galway. David was accompanied by Emma Lohan (accordion), David Shaughnessy (drums), G Tobin (backing vocals), and Eoin Dolan (synths/backing vocals).

Glór Na hAoise –Triple CD of music and words inspired by Shell to Sea

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

OVER THE past decade the Shell To Sea protest campaign against the Corrib Gas project in North Mayo has not only made headlines in Ireland but around the world. In that time numerous artists - musicians, authors and poets - have lent their support to the campaign with an array of songs and writings that tell the stories of the issues and personalities involved with great eloquence and power.

Karl Spain's Róisín Dubh Comedy Xmas party

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

A CHRISTMAS Karl, the Róisín Dubh Comedy's Christmas party, hosted by Limerick comedian Karl Spain, is set to get the festive season off to an hilarious and uproarious start, this Sunday from 8pm.

Christmas crooning by the fire

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

"Baby It’s Cold Outside" as the song goes. Recently it has also been wild, windy, and very wet, but Christmas is coming and what better way to get into the Yuletide mood, than with some crooners delivering classic festival songs.

Album review: Fleetwood Mac

Music Reviews Thu, Dec 10, 2015

HOW DO you follow an album like Rumours? You can't. Born of heartache, recrimination, love lost, and new love with your ex looking over your shoulder, it was a cathartic, emotionally raw, confessional, and all too real work.

New exhibition at Renzo Café

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

AND THEY Flew IV, the annual exhibition by students of Galway artist Denise Hogan, opens in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street, this Saturday at 7.30pm and runs until January 10.

Poet Kim Moore to give public reading

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

KIM MOORE, one of the leading new voices in British poetry, will read from her work at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday December 17 at 6.30pm.

Christmas In Connecticut

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

THE GALWAY Film Society's annual Christmas film screening family event will see a screening of the Christmas In Connecticut in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday at 3pm.

Bell X1 to headline arts festival Big Top

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

BELL X1 will headline the Absolut Festival Big Top on Saturday 16 July 2016 for a 'Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh presents...' concert, with tickets going on sale tomorrow.

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