Ballet from the tutu and beyond

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

TUTUS & BEYOND, a show featuring classical and contemporary ballet, comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Friday April 17 at 8pm. Performed by Ballet Ireland, the show will feature new work created for the company by Royal Ballet dancer-turned-choreographer, Ludovic Ondiviela.

Cathy Belton revelling in her role on Red Rock

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

Cathy Belton has excelled at playing a a slightly scary TV character in the form of Red Rock’s Patricia Hennessy so one could be forgiven for thinking the Galway woman might resemble the ice-queen in real life. However the charming, softly spoken, actress could not be more different to the villainous Hennessy matriarch.

Galway Theatre Festival programme launch tonight

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

THE GALWAY Theatre Festival holds its Programme Launch this evening at 6.30pm in Biteclub, Electric Garden, Abbeygate Street, with the great Little John Nee as guest speaker.

Enter the Labyrinth with Dr Sketchy’s

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

DR SKETCHY’S life drawing class/cabaret/burlesque event will focus on the much loved cult film Labyrinth, when it comes to Monroe’s Live this Saturday from 5pm to 8pm.

Love Street to play Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

LOVE STREET, declared “the English Eagles” by BBC Radio Sheffield, and by UK Country Radio as “an amazing new act from Cornwall”, play Galway next week.

Peter Doran to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

FOLLOWING THE release of his fourth album Outlines, Peter Doran plays Monroe’s Live on Sunday April 19 as part of his current Irish tour.

Tree planting to mark thirty years of Cúirt

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and one of the events to mark this milestone will be a tree planting ceremony.

Puzzle to celebrate first birthday

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

THE PUZZLE drum’n’bass clubnight celebrates one year in existence by holding a birthday bash in The Loft, headlined by German DJ Misanthrop.

Get funky with The Good Hustle

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

THE FUNK, the whole funk, and nothing but the funk, will be the order of business when Galway review band The Good Hustle play The Loft @ Seven.

Traid Phicnic 2015 - ceol agus craic in July

Wed, Apr 08, 2015

LIAM Ó MAONLAÍ and TG4 Musician of year 2014 Harry Bradley will be among the musicians coming to An Spidéal from Friday July 3 to Sunday 5 for the village’s fourth annual Traid Phicnic festival.

Leo and Anto start their biggest US tour tomorrow night

Wed, Apr 08, 2015

FOLLOWING THEIR headlining spot at the 2014 Vancouver Folk Festival, Leo Moran and Anthony Thistlethwaite begin their biggest North American tour to date tomorrow evening.

Japanese Film Festival - movies for the cherry blossom season

Tue, Apr 07, 2015

FROM ANIME to historical comedies, stories of financial corruption to all kinds of romance, the seventh annual Japanese Film Festival promises a programme of acclaimed new Japanese cinema from some of the country’s leading directors and actors.

Award winning songwriter Jenn Grant to play Galway

Tue, Apr 07, 2015

JUNO NOMINATED singer-songwriter Jenn Grant will begin her Irish tour with a show upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on tomorrow night from 9pm. Her set is liekly to be dominated by songs from her new album Compostela, which was released last week.

‘We’re not afraid to experiment and shake things up’

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

AN ARCHITECT, a university lecturer, and a fine artist hardly sounds like a combination that could create thrilling, high energy, indie-electro dance music, but these are the day jobs of Belfast’s Not Squares, and that is the kind of music they make when they are together.

The Assassination of Brian Boru

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

THE BATTLE of Clontarf is both a landmark event in Irish history and a fabled story passed down the generations, right up to our present day, 1,001 years after its occurrence. The famous battle provides the backdrop for an acclaimed new play, The Assassination of Brian Boru, by Lauren-Shannon Jones, which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday April 13 at 8pm.

IMC Galway to screen Cobain: Montage Of Heck

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

COBAIN: MONTAGE Of Heck, the new film on Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, will be screened in the IMC Cinema, Headford Road on Friday April 10 at 8.30pm.

Stand-up comedy about the quality of our food

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

COMEDIAN TOMIE James used to eat whatever he wanted and laughed at people on diets. Then he was diagnosed with a food allergy.

HamsandwicH - new album and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

HAMSANDWICH RELEASE their third album, Stories From The Surface, on Friday April 17, and before that play the Róisín Dubh on Friday April 10 at 9pm.

Exhibition inspired by Marconi’s transmitter

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

A FIELD trip to the Marconi radio station in Derrigimlagh, Clifden, has inspired a new exhibition, You Are Here, which opens this evening [Thursday April 2] in the Galway Arts Centre.

Naomi Shihab Nye: Palestine and poetry meet at Cúirt

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

NAOMI SHIHAB Nye has had both the good fortune, and the bad luck, to have lived in interesting times and places. Born in St Louis, Missouri in 1952 to a Palestinian father and an American mother; she grew up in (the now notorious) St Louis suburb of Ferguson, in Jerusalem, and in San Antonio, Texas, where she currently resides.

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