Galway Cathedral Recitals return next week
Thu, Jun 26, 2014
THE ANNUAL series of summer concerts in Galway Cathedral returns on Thursday July 3 with a performance by Australian-born organist and pianist Tristan Russcher.
Read more ...Fionnuala Flanagan to give Fleadh actor’s masterclass
Thu, Jun 26, 2014
FIONNUALA FLANAGAN, the only Irish actor to play guest roles on three different Star Trek series - The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Enterprise - will give the actor’s masterclass at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Diarmuid Scahill’s A Night Of Song
Thu, Jun 26, 2014
GALWAY SINGER Diarmuid Scahill has been offered a place at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s training academy, and is staging a concert tomorrow.
Read more ...We Banjo Three - The Essential Songs Playlist
Essential Playlist Wed, Jun 25, 2014
WE BANJO Three, a quartet made of two pairs of brothers, have become something of a phenomenon in the folk/trad world, especially these last six months, which has seen them nominated for an award and play Latin America.
Read more ...No Way Out for ThereisBear!
Tue, Jun 24, 2014
“HELL IS other people”. It is one of the most famous quotes by French existentialist philosopher, playwright, and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre and it comes from his play Huis Clos.
Read more ...Out On Film @ Galway Film Fleadh
Tue, Jun 24, 2014
MISMATCHED LESBIAN hookers, trailblazing senior citizens, courageous African gay rights activists, and gay rom-coms, all films to make you laugh, cry, think, and act. This is Out On Film.
Read more ...Pierre Bensusan - the master guitarist returns
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
PIERRE BENSUSAN, the genius guitarist, whose “playing [is] so far above average as to approach the supernatural”, according to the New York Times, returns to Galway.
Read more ...Midlake to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
ALTHOUGH THEY began as jazz students, Midlake eventually pioneered a kind of 1970s styled, west-coast Americana, paving the way for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver.
Read more ...ZhOra to bring the progressive-metal
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
TAKING THEIR name from a character in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, ZhOra play an original, heavy, aggressive, and progressive kind of metal.
Read more ...SugarBeat Music festival in August
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
GALWAY, AND Ireland’s, latest outdoor music festival SugarBeat, takes place in Tuam in August, with singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey headlining.
Read more ...Celebrate the life of Tony Small
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
CHRISTY MOORE, Dolores and Sean Keane, and Pauline Scanlon, are among those who will perform at the Tony Small tribute concert in The Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...See the light with Solas
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
INFLUENTIAL, ACCLAIMED, and playing The Galway Sessions festival is Irish-American folk/trad band Solas who take to the Monroe’s Live stage this evening at 8pm.
Read more ...Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
THE FOLK, soul, and blues husband and wife duo Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night.
Read more ...The National - mistaken for strangers
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
THE NATIONAL, the greatest band in the world right now, take to the stage in Galway in July. The centre of attention will be vocalist Matt Berninger, a charismatic storm of passion and masculine existential angst, his lyrics matched by the intensity of guitarists Aaron and Bryce Dessner, and the imaginative rhythms of drummer Bryan Devendorf, while calmly, authoritatively anchoring all this tension and release will be bassist Scott Devendorf.
Read more ...Metallica tribute @ Kelly’s
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
METALLICA TRIBUTE band Whiplash, named after the debut single from the LA’s band debut album Kill ‘Em All, play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Saturday.
Read more ...Author Brian Martin on his new play for Druid
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
DRUID THEATRE Company’s main contribution to this year’s Galway International Arts Festival is Be Infants In Evil, the professional debut of Dublin-born playwright Brian Martin.
Read more ...Welcome back Rich Hall
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
RICH HALL, widely believed to be the inspiration for The Simpson’s Moe Syzlak, makes a welcome return to Galway to play two nights at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Soul and blues @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
SOUL AND blues band Owen Brady & The Blue Shakes bring their vibrant mix of rhythm, horns, tasty guitar, and powerful vocals to Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Five Irish premieres for Galway Film Fleadh
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
NEXT MONTH’S Galway Film Fleadh will host the premieres of five new Irish films - Patrick’s Day, The Canal, Gold, A Nightingale Falling, and An Bronntanas.
Read more ...A History of Violence screenwriter to attend Galway Film Fleadh
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
Josh Olson, the scriptwriter of the 2005 film A History of Violence, directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen, is coming to the Galway Film Fleadh.
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