Galway teens sought for classical music competition

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

YOUNG GALWAY musicians are tuning up to win a €3,000 prize to develop their musical talent as the Fr Frank Maher Classical Music Awards seeks entries for 2014.

Major Irish singer-songwriters in concert for Gaza

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

DECLAN O’ROURKE, Paddy Casey, and Brian Kennedy play the Kinvara Community Centre in a special concert to raise funds the children of Gaza.

A night of Bach’s cantatas and arias

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

GERMAN SOPRANO Anja Pöche-Lipfert and the internationally acclaimed baroque ensemble Camerata Kilkenny are touring Ireland this month, taking in Galway next week.

Galway Percy French Society journal launch

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE GALWAY Percy French Society will launch its journal To The West, featuring prose, poetry, local history, folklore, traditions, reflections, and humour.

Irvine and Lunny on stage with Mozaik

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

IRISH FOLK legends Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny will bring their band Mozaik to the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8pm.

Wallis Bird @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE VIGOUR and energy Wallis Bird brings to her live shows has the power to “kick start an entire economy”, according to The Irish Times.

Emmet Scanlan - two Galway gigs

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

EMMET SCANLAN and his band What the Good Thought are coming home to play two gigs in Galway city this month.

Feast for reggae fans @ Áras na nGael tomorrow night

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

Fans of Jamaican music are in for a treat tomorrow night at Áras na nGael. The mighty Revelation Soundsystem make their Galway debut hot on the heels of their packed session at the Electric Picnic. Add to this another Electric Picnic performer Dave Barry on deck duty 'inna di yard' and this has the makings of an unforgettable night. Doors at 9pm. Admission is free until 10:30pm @4 after

SubVersion Seisiún @ Áras na nGael

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

TONIGHT FROM 9pm, the third SubVersion Seisiún at Áras na nGael takes place with Welfare and Destitute at the controls of their heavyweight sound system.

Theatre review: Defender Of The Faith

Theatre Reviews Wed, Oct 08, 2014

DECADENT THEATRE Company could hardly have timed its new staging of Stuart Carolan’s Defender Of The Faith any better, with its opening coming the night after the premiere of the latest series of Love/Hate, the TV show which Carolan created.

Girl Band - long songs, short songs, and a Galway gig

Wed, Oct 08, 2014

GIRL BAND despite their name, have no female members. Musically, these avant/noise-punks are very much a case of 'take risks but take no prisoners' with a sound that is as uncomprimising as it is aggressive. Galway audiences will be left in no doubt of any of this when they play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tomorrow (October 9) at 9pm.

New York jazz guitarists play Galway tomorrow

Tue, Oct 07, 2014

NEW YORK jazz guitar duo, Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo, perform the opening concert of the Galway Jazz Festival tomorrow at 8pm in the Nuns Island Theatre.

Win tickets to Love, Rosie special screening

Tue, Oct 07, 2014

LOVE, ROSIE, the film version of Cecelia Ahern’s novel, Where Rainbows End, will have a special preview screening at The Eye Cinema on Tuesday October 14 at 7pm.

Cinema review: Gone Girl

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 06, 2014

GILLIAN FLYNN’S 2012 best-seller Gone Girl was just waiting to be made into a movie. It is so well constructed with twists and revelations coming fast and frequent you could smell the popcorn popping with each chapter. The concern for book readers was, who is going to make a story of two unsympathetic, spoiled, and frankly unlikable, millennials into a mainstream Hollywood movie without losing its dark originality?

Everyone can be a Trickster

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

THE BLACK Box Theatre will boom with all kinds of dark and surprising sounds that will make for an awe-inspiring musical experience when Trickster is performed there next weekend.

Ciarán Walsh - going Beyond Other Voices

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

GALWAY ARTS Centre will hold the first major Irish exhibition of the work of Ciarán Walsh, Beyond Other Voices, an exploration into personal and collective memory, the uncanny, and allegorical science-fiction.

ROCKtoberfest - the new Galway music festival

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

GERMANY’S OKTOBERFEST celebrates beer, but Galway’s latest addition to the festival calendar - ROCKtoberfest - will celebrate music.

The Gombeens - reliving stories of ‘Little Brazil’

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

FOR A number of years Gort in south Galway, was known as ‘Little Brazil’ due to the numbers of Brazilians who were living there - and their stories are set to be retold in Stories Of A Yellow Town.