Galway Early Music Festival to celebrate 20th Birthday

Tue, Feb 17, 2015

A ROMP originally performed by teenage French choir members in the Middle Ages will be one of the central shows at this year’s Galway Early Music Festival which runs from Thursday May 14 to Sunday 17 and celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis to play Galway in May

Mon, Feb 16, 2015

BEFORE THE Strypes, even before Imelda May became a star in Ireland and Britain, three London based teenagers were paving the way for a serious rock’n’roll and blues revival. Their names? Kitty, Daisy & Lewis.

Connemara students to feature in new experimental film-festival

Mon, Feb 16, 2015

A FILM by transition year students from Scoil Chuimsitheach Chiaráin in An Cheathrú Rua, is to be screened alongside work by such visionary directors as Werner Herzog and the late Derek Jarman at Wild-Screen.

Jape - electronic tales from a Malmö resident

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

MALMÖ LIES at the very southwestern tip of Sweden’s Øresund strait. The nation’s third largest city, it is connected to the Danish capital Copenhagen via the massive, five mile long, Øresund Bridge. It is also home to many immigrant communities, mostly Middle Eastern and Eastern European, but among them is an Irishman, Richie Egan, better known as Jape.

Hudson Taylor play Black Box next week

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

AS PART of their largest Irish tour to date, and following the release of their debut album, folk-pop brothers Hudson Taylor play the Black Box Theatre on Monday February 23 at 8pm.

Galway bands to feature in Patrick’s Day parade

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

THE 2015 St Patrick’s Day Parade will showcase the wealth of talented and imaginative bands, musicians, and community music groups, at work in the city.

Bondage? S&M? It has to be Fifty Shades of Grey

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

THE CONTROVERSIAL, best-selling erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey finally hits cinema screens and will be shown in The Eye Cinema on Friday February 13.

Show Me The Funny

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

THE SIXTH and final heat of Show Me The Funny is on this Monday at The King’s Head, High Street, with the last eight comics battling for a place in the grand final.

Exhibition to examine affect of direct provision system

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

ASYLUM ARCHIVE, a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre, will examine the Direct Provision system in Ireland and the effect on the people who go through it.

Compántas Lir bring The Memory of Water to An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

CARNMORE/CLAREGALWAY group, Compántas Lir grace the stage of Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe this month with its production of Shelagh Stephenson’s award-winning comedy, The Memory of Water. Galway audiences will have two opportunities to see this production, Sunday February 22 and again in March, FROM Wednesday 25-Friday 27.

13 Hours, 11 songs, one rollicking, rootsy feast

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

DEVOTEES OF American roots and rockabilly should check out 13 Hours, the latest release from Joe Fury & The Hayride, which is guaranteed to get juke joints jumping, shebeens swinging, and honky-tonks hopping.

I’m a boy but my mom won’t admit it

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

IS HE masculine? Is he feminine? Is he straight or is he gay? He’s not sure, and it’s hard when his mother wants to treat her growing boy as a little girl.

Soulful Slow Club for Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

SLOW CLUB have been called “Sheffield’s very own two person take on The Commitments” by the NME, and their soul-influenced sound is coming to Galway to play Strange Brew at the Róisín on Thursday February 19 at 9pm.

Pete Kennedy @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

NASHVILLE BASED country singer-songwriter Pete Kennedy plays Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 8pm as part of his I Am The One world tour.

We Banjo 3 to record new album in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

GALWAY FANS of the great We Banjo 3, who want to cheer on the band and have themselves recorded while doing so, should get down to the Róisín Dubh next weekend.

Saturday is classical music day

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FEBRUARY’S REMAINING Saturdays will, through a new series of concerts, hear the variety of instruments and musical styles that make up the broad world of classical music.

Tchaikovsky and Bluebeard @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FIRST LOVE and erotic, violent, love are the stuff of the operas Iolanta and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, which will be screened at The Eye for Valentine’s Day this Saturday.