Galway festivals seek volunteers

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

THE GALWAY International Arts Festival is encouraging people to volunteer with the festival. Volunteer co-ordinators Sheila Quinn and Cian McCarthy will do their utmost to match people’s preferences with their available time. Once people have joined up, the festival will have an informal 10-minute interview and an induction evening before starting. Volunteers will be able to work as Festival Ambassadors; invigilators in the Festival galleries; stewards in the Big Top, as part of on the street teams, etc.

Hermitage Green to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

HERMITAGE GREEN, the Irish folk-rock band who have won over audiences across the globe for their incendiary live performances, return to Galway this Saturday to play the Róisín Dubh at 9pm.

Argentinean guitarist to give concert in the city

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

ARGENTINEAN GUITARIST and composer Carlos Pavan will give a free concert in the Galway City Museum on Wednesday June 17 at 1pm.

Preparations underway for Culture Night 2015

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

CULTURE NIGHT does not take place until Friday September 18 but preparations are already underway in the city and county to host street performances, music and dance events, exhibitions, film screenings, and cultural trails.

Electric @ Body & Soul festival

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

ELECTRIC WILL be prominently involved in this year's Body & Soul festival, which runs from June 19 to 21 in County Westmeath, and to celebrate, the Abbeygate Street venue is hosting a party for those heading up to it.

Tee Cardaci to DJ in Galway

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

AMERICAN DJ Tee Cardaci, whose musical philosophy is "funk is a universal language", will be spinning the decks in Arus na nGael, Dominick Street tomorrow from 9pm.

Eddie Moloney Memorial Concert

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

EDDIE MOLONEY a traditional Irish musician extraordinaire, considered to be the best traditional flute player of his time and a formidable violinist, will be celebrated at this year's Galway Sessions Festival.

House music night @ The Loft

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

A NIGHT of nothing but the best original and influential house music from across the decades will be heard at Back To Basics with DJs Baker and Grifter in The Loft @ Seven, tomorrow from 11pm.

We Banjo 3 - new album and Galway concert

Wed, Jun 10, 2015

WE BANJO 3, the Galway roots/trad/bluegrass phenomenon have just released their new album Live In Galway and later this month they play a show at the Town Hall Theatre.

Oscar nominated cartoon film to premiere at Galway Film Fleadh

Tue, Jun 09, 2015

THE OSCAR nominated cartoon film, Song Of The Sea, will receive its Irish premiere at the Galway Film Fealdh when it is screened, as part of a gala event, at the at the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday July 9 at 6pm.

Cinema review: Spy

Films Reviews Mon, Jun 08, 2015

IN 2011 Bridesmaids was the sleeper hit studios dream of. It cost $30 million went on to gross nearly $300 million. It made Kristen Wiig a star and finally gave Paul Feig the hit he had coming. He had a stellar TV career - Freaks and Geeks, The Office - but he fumbled his first two attempts at the big screen.

From Market Street to a brave new world…..and back

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 04, 2015

SINCE 1900 Galway has produced a number of quality children’s authors, beginning with Pádraic Ó Conaire on his M'Asal Beag Dubh, and continuing with Eilis Dillon's The Lost Island and Island of the Horses; Walter Macken's Flight of the Doves and The Island of the Great Yellow Ox, and, of course, Pat O’Shea from Bohermore, with her now classic The Hounds of The Morrigan.

Charolais: murderous female rivalry with a bovine twist

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

CHAROLAIS IS an age-old tale of female rivalry with a new twist: the other ‘woman’ is a purebred Charolais heifer. A farmer devotes considerable attention to his prize heifer at the expense of his very pregnant girlfriend Siobhan, who in turn has developed a homicidal jealousy for this Charolais and is feeling equally murderous towards her snobbish soon-to-be mother-in-law.

Galway Sessions festival - a taste of Connemara

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE GALWAY Sessions festival, the annual celebration of Irish folk, trad, and dance, returns from Monday June 15 to Sunday 21, with a special focus on Connemara's many and magnificent musicians, singers, and dancers.

Jason Byrne returns to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

JASON BYRNE makes a welcome return to Galway on Friday June 19 at 8.30pm when he brings his new show There's A Grand Stretch In The Evenings to the Róisín Dubh.

Venus Sleeps - psychedelic doom metal @ The Cellar

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

VENUS SLEEPS, the Dublin psychedelic doom metal band will launch their new album Dead Sun Worship with a show in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, this Saturday from 8.30pm.

La Bohème at the IMC Cinema

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

PUCCINI'S LA Bohème, one of opera's greatest romances is being staged by Britain's Royal Opera, and Galway will be able to see it when it is broadcast live to the IMC Galway Cinema on Wednesday June 10 at 7.15pm.

Buskers, beggars, and degenerates of every persuasion

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 04, 2015

IT HAS been said elsewhere, but bears repeating, that Galway city is probably the most important character in Máire T Robinson’s debut novel Skin Paper Stone, published by New Island.

Arthur’s Dig – a play for our times

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

WHEN THE house you are building is falling down around your ears, when all you have worked for is taken away, what will run out first: your money or your wife? Arthur’s Dig is a 21st century drama, exploring the blurred lines that define what it is to be a man in contemporary Ireland.

SOAK - Derry songwriter to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

SOAK, THE Derry singer-songwriter whose music has been called "a vivid portrait of teenage deep-thinking," by The Guardian, and as having "snippets of Cat Power and the delicacy of Lykke Li" by the Noisey blog, is coming to Galway.

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