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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Margaret Clayton exhibition in Renzo Café

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

INTO THE West, an exhibition of oil paintings by Margaret Clayton, is currently on show at the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Theatre review: Nora Barnacle – Signora Joyce

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jun 19, 2014

WHILE DUBLINERS were observing Bloomsday by donning Edwardian costumes and retracing Leopold Bloom’s feted journey around the capital, in Galway the day saw the opening of Ann Marie Horan’s very enjoyable one-woman play Nora Barnacle – Signora Joyce.

Choral concert from The Mornington Singers

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

THE AWARD winning Dublin choir, The Mornington Singers, will give a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church this Saturday at 8pm.

Over The Edge reading

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

THREE AMERICANS, a Canadian, and two Irish people will read at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in the Galway City Library, Thursday June 26 at 6.30pm.