Eleanor Shanley - Forever Young at An Taibhdhearc
Thu, Oct 29, 2015
ELEANOR SHANLEY has a new album, Forever Young, named after the great Bob Dylan song; she is about to start a tour of Ireland; and she recently moved to Galway, making the county her home.
Read more ...Wild Tales tonight in Indreabhán
Thu, Oct 29, 2015
ARGENTINIAN FILM Wild Tales, featuring six stories, both funny and scary, will be screened this evening at 8.15pm in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán.
Read more ...Halloween tales in Oranmore
Thu, Oct 29, 2015
A night of terror filled tales and scary stories of ghoulish sitings along the coast road into Oranmore and haunted happenings in Ardrahan, will be told around the fire in the front bar of Keane’s Pub, Oranmore, this evening at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Cian Finn to launch new album
Thu, Oct 29, 2015
IRISH REGGAE singer-songwriter Cian Finn launches his new album, This Applies, with a gig at The Commercial Boat Club, Woodquay, this Saturday, joined by Rootical Sound System, Ras Tinny, Revelation Sound, and Aminah Dastan.
Read more ...Tara Erraught to sing in at NUIG
Thu, Oct 29, 2015
TARA ERRAUGHT, the much acclaimed mezzo soprano, will perform songs by Dvorak, Brahms, Wolf, Copland, Mahler, and Britten, in NUI Galway's Aula Maxima on Wednesday November 4 at 8pm.
Read more ...Rory Gallagher tribute @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Oct 29, 2015
SINNERBOY, THE Rory Gallagher tribute band which has won the praise and admiration of Rory's brother and manager Donal, returns to the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 9pm.
Read more ...Choral concert in Ardrahan
Thu, Oct 29, 2015
A CONCERT celebrating song and the human voice will take place in the Ardrahan Church of Ireland church on Friday November 6 at 7.30pm.
Read more ...Black Pope - new single and Róisín Dubh show
Wed, Oct 28, 2015
FREAKY IRISH rock'n'roll band Black Pope are on their Halloween tour of Ireland this week, which takes in the Róisín Dubh tonight, and they have just released their debut single/music video, 'Atom Bomb'.
Read more ...The Waterboys - in concert in Salthill this Thursday
Tue, Oct 27, 2015
"PEOPLE SHOULD expect the unexpected from The Waterboys,” band leader Mike Scott declared recently. However as Stewart Lee recently noted at his comedy festival gig, the band can be expected to play 'Whole Of The Moon' as an encore.
Read more ...Accordionist Dermot Byrne to play Monroe's
Tue, Oct 27, 2015
DERMOT BYRNE, one of Ireland’s finest trad accordion players, will be joined by Australian Steve Cooney on guitar and Tyrone's Trevor Hutchinson on bass, for a night of Irish trad at Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday October 30.
Read more ...'Laughing is the common ground'
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
NO MATTER where you go, or who you meet, everyone loves to laugh, and if you can make them laugh, and tell them about life in a way that strikes them and makes them go 'That's exactly how it is', you can connect with anybody. It's what Shappi Khorsandi's comedy aspires to and achieves.
Read more ...The Dirty Circus Halloween party
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
THE DIRTY Circus burlesque and cabaret night returns for Halloween, adding a touch of gothic thrills and scares to its ever popular mixture of burlesque dance, song, and comedy with lashings of sauce and sexiness.
Read more ...Blue Raincoat’s ‘daring’ spin on Synge’s Playboy
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
THE PLAYBOY of the Western World is one of the iconic plays in the Irish theatrical repertoire, its classic status undiminished in the 108 years that have passed since its much-storied 1907 premiere.
Read more ...Spiegeltent - Galway's stylish laughter centre
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
AT THE centre of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway, and located in the centre of the city, the Spiegeltent ‘Jean Louis’ in Eyre Square, promises to be a centre of laughter, hosting many of the festival's flagship events.
Read more ...Daithí releases new song from new EP
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
DAITHÍ, THE Clare born, Galway based, violinist, producer, composer, electronica artist, and DJ releases the new track 'Mary Keane's Introduction' digitally on November 13.
Read more ...A film-maker's family problems
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
ITALIAN FILM Mi Madre, about a director struggling to make a new film while her family enters crises, will be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...John Behan - new exhibition at Kenny's
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
"SOME OF those who already know about John Behan would think of him as without question a Dubliner. For others, after forty years there, he is a fundamental part of Galway."
Read more ...The North Sea - new single and Monroe's Live show
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
"IF THERE'S a better band mining the rich seam of post-punk individualism we have yet to hear it,” declared The Irish Times about indie-alternative band The North Sea, who critics have also been comparing to Editors, Interpol, and early Killers.
Read more ...Chimera - where art and science meet
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
ART AND science - are they complementary disciplines or mutually exclusive? The possible meeting points between the two will be explored in The Chimera Art and Science programme and the exhibition, The Future is Here.
Read more ...The Irish Times' Kitty Holland to read in Galway
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
THE IRISH Times award winning social affairs correspondent Kitty Holland will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday October 29 at 6.30pm.
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