The Hard Ground @ The Loft
Thu, May 07, 2015
IRISH ALT-POP band The Hard Ground have been winning the praises of Nialler9, The Last Mixed Tape, and GoldenPlec, and Galway will see what the fuss is about next week.
Read more ...Dr Sketchy’s take on A Clockwork Orange
Thu, May 07, 2015
STANLEY KUBRICK’S extraordinary, still controversial film version of Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange, is the inspiration for the next Dr Sketchy’s event.
Read more ...The Way Back Home
Thu, May 07, 2015
A BOY discovers a single-propeller aeroplane in his closet, which amazingly allows him fly into space, where he meets an alien who needs a friend and some help.
Read more ...Roesy to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 07, 2015
THE AUSTRALIAN based Irish singer-songwriter Roesy returns home thIS month for a nationwide tour, promoting his new album, Wolf Counsel.
Read more ...Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering
Thu, May 07, 2015
IRISH WRITERS Paul Perry, Anne Irwin, Rachael Hegarty, James O’Toole, and Australian poet Ross Donlon will read at the next Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering.
Read more ...Women buried alive in a tomb
Thu, May 07, 2015
CONDEMNED TO die with their emperor in his tomb, the concubines who have not produced any male children ponder their fate. This is the setting for Bryony Lavery’s play More Light.
Read more ...At Home With Yeats in Thoor Ballylee
Thu, May 07, 2015
GALWAY POETS and musicians will gather in Thoor Ballylee in south Galway, the one-time home of WB Yeats, for an evening of poetry, song, and story when The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society presents At Home With Yeats, on Poetry Ireland Day this eveing at 8pm
Read more ...A cello concert in Brigit’s Garden
Thu, May 07, 2015
‘UP TO My F Holes’ is not the kind of title you expect for a piece of classical music, but this composition by Judith Ring will be among those performed at the next Music For Galway concert.
Read more ...Concert in aid of MADRA and the Thai Animal Sanctuary
Thu, May 07, 2015
SINGER-SONGWRITER and artist Jim McKee, along with Ray O’Brien, Joyce Redmond, and James Gallagher will give in concert in aid of MADRA and the Thai Animal Sanctuary.
Read more ...Keb Darge to DJ @ SHUFFLE!
Thu, May 07, 2015
GALWAY’S PREMIER soul, funk, r’n’b, and ska night SHUFFLE! in the Róisín Dubh, will play host of one of the great Northern Soul DJs when Keb Darge hits the decks.
Read more ...The Berlin Philharmonic - live via The Eye
Thu, May 07, 2015
THE BERLIN Philharmonic, declared “the world’s greatest symphony orchestra” by The Guardian, will be in concert from the German capital this Sunday.
Read more ...The Kilkennys - live @ OMG
Thu, May 07, 2015
FOLK BALLADEERS The Kilkennys will perform a live set at OMG Zhivago, Shop Street, on Friday May 15 at 12 noon.
Read more ...Neev Kennedy launches new album
Thu, May 07, 2015
LOUGHREA SINGER-SONGWRITER Neev Kennedy has released her debut album From The Depths, which sees her returning to her folk roots after a number of years working in dance music.
Read more ...Puzzle returns to The Cellar
Thu, May 07, 2015
DUBSTEP, GLITCH-hop, neuro funk, and drum’n’bass will be the order of the night when Puzzle returns to The Cellar Bar this Saturday from 9pm.
Read more ...Ansome to DJ @ Factory
Thu, May 07, 2015
THE KINETIKA Clubnight celebrates its first birthday in Factory on Friday May 15 with a live set from English Techno aficionado Ansome.
Read more ...Bows, curtseys, Beethoven, and ConTempo
Wed, May 06, 2015
IN GERMAN-speaking countries, Beethoven’s Quartet No 2 in G major, Op 18, No 2, is called the Komplimentier-Quartett, “the quartet of bows and curtseys” and Galway will hear why this weekend.
Read more ...A new night for emerging songwriters
Tue, May 05, 2015
THE SONGWRITER’S Collective is the name of a new night which seeks to develop a strong knitted community of songwriters within Galway city, holds its first event downstairs in The Cellar Bar tomorrow [Wednesday May 6] from 9.30pm.
Read more ...GMIT film student to have short film screened at Cannes
Thu, Apr 30, 2015
A short film by a young Galway-based filmmaker, Luke Morgan, has been selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner. Morgan is a third year student on the BA (hons) in film and documentary at GMIT’s Centre for Creative Arts & Media (CCAM).
Read more ...‘It’s very exciting discovering characters with the audience’
Thu, Apr 30, 2015
THE OPENING show of this weekend’s Galway Theatre Festival is Suitcase, ‘an improvised theatrical experience’, presented by The Sky Babies at Nun’s Island Theatre, tomorrow and Saturday.
Read more ...‘The play is about power’ - Bernard Field discusses The Early Hours
Thu, Apr 30, 2015
FIVE YEARS after its premiere, Bernard Field’s tense psycho-drama, The Early Hours, returns to the Town Hall Studio next week in a new production from Field’s own Haw Theatre Company.
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