SugarBeat festival close to selling out

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

DAMIEN DEMPSEY, KeyWest, and The Amazing Apples play the first SugarBeat festival which takes place in Tuam Stadium on Saturday August 23.

Mná Mná - women musicians on top

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

SINGERS EMILY Donoghue and Ria Czerniak and the band Mongoose play the Mná Mná Music night at The Cellar Bar on Thursday August 21 at 8pm.

Between The Lines @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

BETWEEN THE Lines are metal, but just what kind? Their sound straddles sub-genres as diverse as sludge, thrash, and even grunge.

Pop-up gallery showcases Athenry artists

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

A FORMER betting shop in Athenry is now the location for a new exhibition showcasing the diverse artistic talent of both the town and its surrounding area.

110th Street Late Summer Boat Party

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

JON AVERILL, the head of London based label Shock World Service, and Shock regular and Nightflight DJ Sol O’Carroll will be spinning the decks at the 110th Street Late Summer Boat Party.

The Last Friday Club @ Monroe’s

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

THE LAST Friday Club in Monroe’s Backstage Bar, the clubnight for anyone over 30, returns on Friday August 29 at 11pm.

Patricia Byrne’s new exhibition

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

AN EXHIBITION of limited edition prints by Galway artist Patricia Byrne is running at the Renzo’s Café, Eyre Street, throughout August.

The return of Highgrade Express

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

HIGHGRADE EXPRESS, the Galway band led by Jamaican-Irish brothers Howard and Brendan Evans, are returning to live performance.

The Dirty Circus comes to Salthill

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

MISS BURLESQUE Ireland and an award winning Cirque De Soleil performer will take to the stage of The Dirty Circus this Saturday from 9pm.

JOLT’s new developmental workshops and talks

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

FOLLOWING THE success of its artist mentoring programme, Volition, JOLT will present a new series of workshops and talks, aimed at the Galway arts community.

New book from Galway publisher Arlen House

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

THE NEGATIVE Cutter, a collection combining two very different novellas by Patrick Chapman, is out now from Galway publisher Arlen House.

Fiction writing courses

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

THE SHORT story writer and poet Susan Millar DuMars will give an eight week course in advanced fiction, starting on September 19.

Can you catch The Gingerbreadman?

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

“RUN, RUN as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbreadman.” You might not be able to catch him, but you will be able to see this mischievous fellow.

Album review: Field Mouse

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 14, 2014

INDIE MUSIC, in its ‘classic’ sense is the union of two seemingly disparate and incompatible forms into a whole that, in practice, ends up making perfect sense.

Album Review: Bear In Heaven

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 14, 2014

SOUTHERN BOYS they may be, but Bear In Heaven’s DNA is not Dixie, but the electronic art-pop of Britain and Germany in the 1980s.

Galway writer's play to be staged in New York

Wed, Aug 13, 2014

THE MCGOWAN Trilogy, a series of one-act plays by the award-winning Galway writer Seamus Scanlon will be performed as part of New York’s Annual Festival of Irish Theatre.

Tell your tall tale, fairy tale or true tale

Wed, Aug 13, 2014

‘LITTLE AND large’ is the theme for the next Moth & Butterfly storytelling and improvisation night at The Cottage Bar, Salthill, on Wednesday August 20 at 8pm.

Galway’s Fíbín to stage new play at Dublin Theatre Festival

Tue, Aug 12, 2014

GALWAY’S FÍBÍN Theatre Company will make its Dublin Theatre Festival debut next month with its production of Paul Mercier’s new play Réiltín.

Harlem Gospel Choir to play Galway in November

Tue, Aug 12, 2014

THE LEGENDARY Harlem Gospel Choir returns to Ireland in November for a nationwide tour which will take in Galway.

‘I’m kind of a Heinz 57’

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

GALWAY HAS long been a magnet for folk of an artistic bent; they arrive for a weekend or short stint in college and then find themselves setting down roots in the city.

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