Enter the electronic soundscapes of Tailor Birds

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

TAILOR BIRDS are an electronic neo-folk band whose members hail from the Netherlands and Australia and tonight they play Galway.

DeFeKT to make Galway debut @ Factory

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

IRISH ELECTRO powerhouse DeFeKT will make his Galway debut at the Get Boogie night in Factory tomorrow.

Cruinniu na mBad trad singing event

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

JOHNNY MOYNIHAN, formerly of Sweeney’s Men and a titan of Irish folk music, will take to the stage as part of An t-Amhran Beo this weekend.

Dave Barry @ Massimo tomorrow night

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

DJ Dave Barry (Shuffle!) will take people from Studio 1 to Studio 54, the barrios of New York to the the soul clubs of Detroit with a packed box of 7” vinyl and Lps.

Indie disco @ Blue Note

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

PANIC! THE indie disco, returns to The Blue Note, William Street, tomorrow night at 9pm.

Free classical music concert

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

THE CONTEMPO Quartet will give a lunchtime concert in the Hardiman Building at NUI Galway on Friday August 8 at 1pm.

Arctic Monkeys tribute night @ Monroe’s

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

ARCTIC MONKEYS’ fans in Galway are in for a treat when tribute act Favourite Worst Nightmare play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night.

Galway to go Ska and blues mad tomorrow night

Wed, Aug 06, 2014

SKA WILL be the order of the day when seven-piece outfit Big Jelly take to the stage of Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, tomorrow [Thursday August 7] for the next Musical Soup night.

Beth Nielsen Chapman - the Essential Songs Playlist

Essential Playlist Wed, Aug 06, 2014

BETH NIELSEN Chapman, the twice Grammy-nominated Nashville singer-songwriter, is a woman of many talents, commitments, and achievements.

Weed Priest’s new EP reviewed and streamed

Music Reviews Tue, Aug 05, 2014

IF THERE was a musical sound to denote heavy, dense, flows of molten lava, slowly burning everything under its wake, then the opening riff to Weed Priest’s ‘Possessed’ would be it.

The timeless magic of Peter Pan

Thu, Jul 31, 2014

THE CLASSIC Broadway musical Peter Pan is set to light up the Town Hall Theatre ’s August programme and captivate Galway audiences in a new staging from Twin Productions.

‘The nooks and crannies of the human condition’

Thu, Jul 31, 2014

WHERE DO you start when representing the human figure? This is the question six artists explore in a new exhibitionin the Galway Arts Centre.

Beth Nielsen Chapman to play Galway

Thu, Jul 31, 2014

BETH NIELSEN Chapman, the twice Grammy-nominated Nashville singer-songwriter, who has written songs for Willie Nelson, Bette Midler, and Faith Hill, is coming to Galway.

Setting sail with My Fellow Sponges

Thu, Jul 31, 2014

ON FRIDAY August 1 at 9pm, My Fellow Sponges take to the stage at the Róisín Dubh for a gig which should get the weekend off to a perfect start.

The Ollam - a prog/trad/ jazz fusion

Thu, Jul 31, 2014

“NEO-ACOUSTIC Celtic post-rock” and “progressive traditional” are two of the terms which have been used to try to capture the sound and style of The Olllam.