TULCA launches education programme

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

THE TULCA Festival of Visual Arts has launched a new education programme, T.Ed, looking at the changing environment, and so ties in with this year's festival theme of climate change.

'Pop-up' Galway Jazz Festival this Saturday

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

WHEN LEGENDARY jazz-fusion pianist Chick Corea calls anyone "a creative genius", it is a good reason to pay attention. Add a string of awards, rave reviews, and collaborations with leading jazz players, and suddenly Gwylim Simcocks becomes a 'must see' musician.

Cronin to play Monroe's Live

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

LEEDS-IRISH indie rock band Cronin have just released the video for the song ‘See This Man’, taken from the bands critically acclaimed Nelson Riddle EP, and are sure to play it at their show in Monroe's Live this Sunday at 9pm.

Shuffle! with Dave Barry & special guest DJ Phill Jupitus

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

PHILL JUPITUS, man of many talents and possessor of a musically encyclopedic brain joins his funk soul brother Dave Barry at Shuffle! in the Blue Note tomorrow, Friday October 23.

Steven Sharpe's Dubh Me Do

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

THE SECOND installment of Steven Sharpe's new gig nights upstairs at the Róisín Dubh, with each given the title of the famous song with the world 'Love' replaced by 'Dubh', is on Thursday October 29.

Aimee Banks makes Irish final of Junior Eurovision

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

AIMEE BANKS, a 13-year-old from Moycullen, has made the Irish final of Junior Eurovision 2016, winning the televised heat on Sunday of the song contest, which is being broadcast on TG4.

Guns'n'Roses tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

GUNS'N'ROSES tribute band, Abuse your Illusion, kick off Monroe's Live's Halloween party on Saturday October 31 at 9pm, with a set drawing from the classic albums as Appetite For Destruction, Lies, and Use Your Illusion I & II.

Greg Dulli to begin European tour in Galway

Tue, Oct 20, 2015

WHETHER WITH The Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers, The Gutter Twins with Mark Lanagan, or solo, Greg Dulli has earned a position of admiration as a first rate songwriter, a view that will be reinforced by his newly announced tour, which takes in Galway.

Hot Press Big Break winner Ciaran Lavery @ Monroe’s Live

Tue, Oct 20, 2015

CIARAN LAVERY, winner of the Hot Press Big Break competition, described as "easily in the top three greatest songsmiths in the country, if not the most naturally-gifted Northern Irish voices of his generation" by The Thin Air website, is coming to Galway.

Villagers announce Galway show - and new album

Mon, Oct 19, 2015

FRESH FROM their recent tour with Paul Weller and John Grant, Villagers, led by Conor O'Brien, one of the greatest singer-songwriters to emerge from Ireland in recent years, have announced a concert at the The Black Box Theatre on Friday January 29.

Mná Mná Music moves to Mondays

Mon, Oct 19, 2015

Mná Mná Music, the monthly event in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh has moved to Mondays, with the first installment taking place this evening at 8.30pm and featuring Stacey Nolan, Karen Alice Dunbar, and I Am Niamh!

The funny side of the political, the personal, and the social

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

GALLANT it was not. Neither was it dashing. Even less was it sophisticated, but in spite of all that, Tiffany Stevenson admits that Galway was where she was treated to "the best chat-up line I've ever heard".

The Claddagh inspires new Town Hall exhibition

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

TOMORROW NIGHT, the Town Hall Theatre bar hosts the opening of a fascinating new art exhibition, entitled Claddagh Images - Real & Imagined, by 6 Degrees West, a Galway-based collective whose members are graduates of the GMIT's art and design degree course.

The Suitcase Junket - a feet first kind of musician

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

THE SUITCASE Junket is Matt Lorenz, a Vermont musician who sings, strums, and plays up to four instruments with his feet at once. - one ofa number of remarkable things about this eccentric talent.

Silent Moves - a modern silent comedy film

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

SILENT MOVES, a film inspired by the silent comedies of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd, and starring actors with intellectual disabilities, will be shown in the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday October 20 at 8pm.

Fiddler On The Roof in Oranmore

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

THE STRUGGLES of a Russian Jewish family, and one of the most famous songs in musical history, 'If I Were A Rich Man', come together in Fiddler On The Roof, which will be performed by Calasanctius College Oranmore this month.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

COMEDIAN NEIL Hickey, "one of the most exciting newcomers to the Irish scene," according to the Irish Independent, headlines the next installment of the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh in the upstairs bar of the Dominick Street venue, tomorrow night.

Album review: Ork Records - the ground zero of indie rock

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 15, 2015

HOW TELEVISION ever were considered punk is bewildering, given they loved unleashing epic guitar solos, prided themselves on their technical prowess on the instrument, and thought nothing of stretching songs into 10 and 14 minute territory.

Welcome to the Zombie Beauty Salon

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

THE FIRST Zombie Beauty Salon to open in Galway will take place this month as part of a series of Halloweeen events and classes, including costume making and pumpkin carving, taking place at the Galway Arts Centre.

Public lecture on the Irish Citizen Army

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

'We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland,’ so ran the famous declaration of the Irish Citizen Army, formed by James Connolly, James Larkin, and Jack White, and which took part in the revolutionary events of 1913-23.

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