Metal, alternative rock, Dimebag Darrell, and Josh Homme

Wed, Oct 14, 2015

TWO TRIBUTE bands, both celebrating outfits whose music is firmly located at the heavy end of the spectrum, albeit in different ways, come to Monroe's Live this month, for shows that will surely appeal to metal heads and alternative rockers alike.

Sibling harmony to sound at lunchtime concert

Tue, Oct 13, 2015

AN UNCONVENTIONAL musical journey from Russian composer Alexander Borodin to American jazz singer Billy Holliday can be expected at a forthcoming concert from musical siblings Naomi and Matthew Berrill.

Home-grown thrills and terrors in CarnEvil

Tue, Oct 13, 2015

HALLOWEEN FAST approaches, that time of year when ghouls, ghosts and goblins, witches and warlocks, fiends and fright-mongers, of all shapes and sizes emerge to fill mere mortals with dread and horror...and Galway is not immune from their baleful presence.

Baboró children's festival starts today

Mon, Oct 12, 2015

TODAY SEES the opening of the 19th Baboró International Arts Festival for Children opens in Galway, and for the next seven days, children and families can enjoy a creative extravaganza of theatre, puppetry, dance, music, animation, exhibitions and workshops.

Paul Mercier to give actor and directors' classes in Galway

Mon, Oct 12, 2015

PAUL MERCIER, the award winning Irish director and writer, whose debut feature film, Pursuit, premiered at the 2015 Galway Film Fleadh, will give a workshop for actors and film-makers next month.

CoisCéim - dancing with wolves at Baboró

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE BABORÓ International Children's Festival swings into action next week and a must-see highlight will be the world premiere of CoisCéim’s The Wolf and Peter, an exciting new dance interpretation of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, one of the most popular pieces of music ever written.

The Minutes play Strange Brew tonight

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

DUBLIN GARAGE and blues-rock trio The Minutes, who, according to DJ Rob Smith are "one of, if not then the finest rock & roll band to have ever come out of Ireland", play Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh tonight at 10.30pm.

Quirky Acts for the comedy carnival

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

A WOMAN only 3’ 6” tall, who calls herself, the Ferrari of comedy, "low to the ground and kinda racy"; a man known as the 'Whisky Comedian'; and The Two Johns, a duo of the extraordinary Terry Alderton and musician Johnny Spurling - Galway better get ready for them all.

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn - the Irishman who loved Japan

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

PATRICK LAFCADIO Hearn is the most famous Irishman you have never heard of, but for people in Japan he is an Irish writer whose stature is rivaled only by WB Yeats and James Joyce - and Galway is about to become aware of him through a celebration of his life and work in the city.

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

TALKING HEADS: Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme's classic in-concert film, capturing the power of te pioneering alternative-rock quartet, and featuring David Byrne in an oversized suit leading idyosyncratic dance routines, is to get a special screening.

Ceramic art exhibition

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

DUALITY OF Function, an exhibition featuring porcelain clay, or 'white gold' as it is also known, and three artists who work in this medium, opens in the Galway Arts Centre tomorrow.

Ways of looking with author Colum McCann

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

COLUM MCCANN, one of Ireland’s finest writers, will read from his new book, Thirteen Ways Of Looking, at an event tomorrow evening [Friday October 9], organised by Cúirt International Festival of Literature and An Taibhdhearc Theatre.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

AIDAN STRANGEMAN, the 2014 So You Think You’re Funny Award winner - an award previously won by Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan and David O’ Doherty - will headline the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh, in the venue's upstairs bar, tomorrow at 8.30pm.

The Bolshoi’s Giselle - live at The Eye Cinema

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE BOLSHOI Ballet's production of the classic ballet Giselle, directed by Yuri Grigorovich and featuring music by Adolphe Adam, will be broadcast live in HD from Moscow to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Sunday at 4pm.

Zion Train to deliver the dub reggae

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

GOING STRONG for more than a quarter of a century, Zion Train have consistently delivered quality dub reggae, electronica, world, and dance music, as Galway will hear when they play the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm.

Over The Edge Fiction Slam

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

SLAM EVENTS provide an opportunity for poets to read their work in public are plenty, but there are fewer opportunities for fiction writers, so the seventh annual Over The Edge Fiction Slam is a welcome event.

Little Hours to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

LITTLE HOURS, the Donegal folk-pop duo who have impressed with the single 'It's Still Love', and whose music has been called "epic and infectious" by Breaking Tunes, play the Róisín Dubh on Saturday October 17 at 9pm.

See Italian film The Wonders

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE WONDERS, the Italian film which won the 2014 Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival, will be screened by the Galway Film Society this Sunday at 8pm in the Town Hall Theatre.

Creative writing classes for young people

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE VARIATIONS Of The Compass: A World Without Maps, is a creative writing course for young people aged between 13 and 17, hosted by Dani Gill, director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Classical guitarist in concert at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

PAT COLDRICK, the Irish classical guitarist plays Monroe's Live on Thursday October 15 at 9pm, where he will perform his own arrangements of works in the classical repertoire, as well as original compositions.

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